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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.…

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Before we rejoin Peter and John in old Jerusalem, let's finish our look at rucksacks. Most folks know of them from the military, like G.I. Joe Tom (last Morning Briefing-rucksacks--what is and what isn't meant to be in yours? …

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Have you ever determined to be happy 

  or to be positive, 

    to stop worrying . . . 

      to live in a state of gratitude

        or possibly to be…

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Scripture is rich.

Talking with people, near and far, they want to know about the Bible, they want to know more about God, but they have had it with 'the Church'.

Today, we look at all three--the Bible, God and the Church. I am…

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Eureka! When you find it, you know. Why, this is like the Jerusalem church! Anxious to talk more about that great gathering, I must first speak of one verse.

You will remember that when Peter and John went back to their…

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"THESE are the times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine wrote during the American Revolution some 249 years ago.1 But how many times throughout history…

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The book we are reading is called Acts, and this is why.

The lights come up on the set of Acts chapter 3, where we witness two passionate scenes in the temple courts in Jerusalem. The first when the crippled beggar asks for…

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Here is an invitation to Pray BOLDLY!

We have shored up some good and right thinking about trusting God with all of life in the last week,

[…

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The Trust Plan ~ how to trust God more

"I've been listening to your podcast over and over" she wrote.

And another, "I'm drawn to your podcast yesterday: May the God of hope fill me with all joy and peace as I trust in him, so that I may…