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This was not about politics.

This was not about religion.

This was about truth.

Does truth matter? Jesus sure thought it did.

Before we go any further, we must…

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How did they do it? 

No money.

No buildings.

No Bibles.

No sound systems.

No books or handouts.

Add to that, persecution at the hands…

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People are looking for God, looking for answers, looking for hope.

While they do not necessarily know it, they are looking for truth. While the culture seems to promise pleasure, it has a brief shelf life and the happiness is…

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Sometimes it seems like God takes it on the chin.  

Think of it--in many respects, God is painted as a bit of a weakling, hoping people will consider he is real, hoping they will recognize he is powerful and can do all things.  It is strange to think how this could ever be thought true, but it is--

In today's world, God is oft cast in a weak…

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ou hold one very powerful key in your hand.

Do you use it?

Or wait--perhaps you do not even know such a thing is in your possession or it may have fallen down next to your console in your car, and you have forgotten…

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He walked in, looked from left to right, took the pulse in the room, and was blown away by the grace of God.1

I am riveted by the statement - even more so, when I think of just how the grace of God really impacts life.…

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Words have power. Power to heal and power to destroy.

Power to build up and also tear down.

There are a few powerful words in the last verses of Acts chapter 11 that speak volumes, and make me wish I…

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Every once in a while, it is good to stop and find the arrow that says 'you are here' on the map. This is such a time.

We are walking through the New Testament book of Acts which comes right after the gospels. Like the gospel of Luke,…

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The storm is coming – it is right offshore.  How should you prepare?

Yesterday at the gym, I looked up at the television monitors above, as our North Carolina governor was speaking about…

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Do you ever stop to think how you will be known?  

If folks sum up your life in a sentence, what will it be?  

If they remember you by a single word, what might it…

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Tom Petty, theologian?

>What’s the reason some seasons seem so long, days marked with uncertainty?

>What’s the reason God's timing seems to take forever?…

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Compelled by one provocative sentence, I am.

But first, remember that Saul (who we know as Paul) has just rolled into town in a most unconventional manner. But his method of arrival and its…

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If God spoke to you, would you know it was Him? hmmm.

Full of fury and armed with authority, Saul was in hot pursuit of the Jesus followers--as they posed a threat to the Judaism he esteemed more than life itself. As they fled the…

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I have met them, so have you ... know it alls.

Sometimes people are so committed to how they see things, so convinced they are right, it takes something very dramatic for them to see things as they really are--for them to know and acknowledge…

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For such a time as this ... you.

Acts #23. Acts 8.4-25

For such a moment as this, you were born.

It is no accident where you live, to whom you are related, and with whom you are…

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Just imagine the pen is in your hand, and you are having to deliver this news--'I'm sorry to tell you, but your son is dead.'

But first--

this is drawn from Acts 6 and 7, where we…

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Having said my favorite conversations with strangers revolve around faith, there are several 'objections to faith' I often hear, but chief among them is, "I want nothing to do with organized religion." In conversations of…

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I'm afraid they will reject me.

Maybe they will ask me something, and I won't know the answer . . .

I won't know what to say.…