Consider this: Is there overlap between how Scripture wants to be taught and how teens want to learn? Good question. Let’s explore. First, how does Scripture want to be taught? The words used throughout Scripture to describe how to engage God’s Word drip with radical intentionality—earnestly seek, heed, meditate, … [Read more...]
Finding Courage in Acts 4
Every time I’m in the first few chapters of the book of Acts I find myself saying: “I want what they had.” Believers were living in an atmosphere of awe and encouragement, even with the social and political tide flowing against them. In Acts 4 we’re given as close as you can get to a “formula” for experiencing what they … [Read more...]
Finding Courage
In Acts 1 Jesus told the apostles to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to show up. In Acts 2, the Holy Spirit showed up. In Acts 3, the apostles began to do things that Jesus did, chiefly, they healed a man crippled since birth. Because they healed the man “in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth” they stoked the ire of the … [Read more...]
Can Jesus’ Prayer in John 17 Help Us?
Can Jesus' Prayer in John 17 Help Us? What was the unity for which Jesus was praying in John 17 and can it help today? If we believers could get our unity act together in our little world, could we change our bigger world? The thing is, would we know what Jesus-grade unity is if we saw it? We tend to focus on … [Read more...]
Making Sense of Suffering
The disciples asked the question for us: Why did this happen? In John 9 Jesus and his disciples passed by a man blind since birth. His disciples asked Jesus, ““Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” It was actually a legitimate question in that Jewish tradition taught at the time that … [Read more...]
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