The unleashing of the power of the Spirit was not limited to a fire and wind event at Pentecost. That was just the announcement of His arrival. What followed were…
Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit the church expanded daily. The many Jews joining the number, plus the number of non-Jews, meant that the former belief systems represented were…
Jesus ascended to the Father. The Holy Spirit came. The first Gospel message preached, ushered 3 000 souls into the newborn Church of Jesus Christ. The eleven remaining disciples became…
God loves the unexpected, the element of surprise. He provided Abram with a ram for the sacrifice. He opened the Red Sea for a safe and dry escape from Egypt.…
The final forty days of the disciples’ journey to Jesus’ cross were a potent mix of commitment and dread. The three days following his crucifixion plunged them into the most…
Jesus’ public ministry constantly raised eyebrows. For common folk, including his disciples, it was their surprise and delight at what they were seeing and hearing. For the religious elite, it…
As If his resurrection weren’t the ultimate gift, Jesus kept gifting his best friends with more; more of his presence, his love, his over-the-top proofs, his repeated teachings, his promises,…
Despite his heaven-bestowed power, Jesus willingly submitted himself to the ultimate humiliation and inhumane suffering of the cross. This display of unfathomable love left his disciples at a loss to…
What Jesus chose to do on the day he rose from the dead tells us a lot about the Kingdom-sized work he was leaving in the hands of his disciples.…
Jesus, post-Resurrection, chose to delay his return to the Father to reassure his disciples of his unchanged, and unchangeable, love for them as he had promised before the upheaval of…