Peter continues to seize the opportunity to speak to his audience, who have just witnessed a miraculous healing. After confronting them about their role in Jesus’ death, he takes a more conciliatory t...  Read More

What just happened that Peter saw his opportunity? If you remember from yesterday, he gave the beggar at the Temple what he truly needed instead of silver and gold—he healed the man in the name of Jes...  Read More

The book of Acts is appropriately named, for we see the mission of Jesus continuing through the apostles. The Holy Spirit, as promised, is working through them, performing signs and wonders, and this ...  Read More

This is what community looks like—the way God intended it. How few of us truly experience this. How do we grow a church? The answer is right here. We are to devote ourselves to the apostles’ teaching,...  Read More

Powerful words coming from Peter—the one who denied Jesus three times. The Lord restored Peter after He was raised from the dead, yet here we see him, bold as a lion, proclaiming the truth. What happe...  Read More

As we spoke yesterday, an amazing thing has taken place. The Holy Spirit has arrived on the scene in a spectacular “suddenly” moment, and between the loud sound the city heard and these 120 or so peop...  Read More

The Holy Spirit didn’t just discreetly fill the upper room. The Scriptures say that a loud sound from heaven came rushing into the house where the believers were meeting. So loud was this sound that i...  Read More

The Apostles were still thinking that Jesus was going to deliver them from Rome, yet Jesus told them that those events and times are set by the Father and are not for them to know. Instead, He redirec...  Read More

Luke, the beloved physician, wrote his detailed account based on extensive interviews and careful research after the resurrection of Christ. It is here that we see Jesus presenting “Himself alive” wit...  Read More

Known as the Great Commission, these are our marching orders from our Lord, our Savior, and our King. Life without the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ has no true purpose—or, dare I say, fun...  Read More

The last few days, I have been pondering a statement Jesus made in Matthew 11:27:“My Father has entrusted everything to me. No one truly knows the Son except the Father, and no one truly knows the Fat...  Read More

Silent Saturday: Living Between the Promise and the FulfillmentSaturday is a solemn day for the disciples and is often called “Silent Saturday.” It is Passover, yet the religious leaders felt it neces...  Read More