Jul 7, 2017 | Word Among Us
It is interesting that when the risen Jesus told the disciples to preach the gospel to the whole world, he did not specify exactly what the “gospel” was. Neither did he tell them how they were to proclaim it. Of course, the apostles knew what the...
Jul 5, 2017 | Word Among Us
Peter filled with the Holy Spirit answered them. Everyone knows that if you place a tea bag in a cup of hot water, that water will be transformed. It is no longer just water, but a cup of tea with a distinct color and flavor. Once they are combined, it is no small...
Jul 3, 2017 | Word Among Us
As the crippled man who had been cured clung to Peter and John, all the people hurried in amazement toward them. Whatever happened to the man who was healed by Peter? The Book of Acts does not say. Maybe the small detail that he “clung” to Peter and John...
Jun 30, 2017 | Word Among Us
What I do have I give you, in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk. Imagine that you are cleaning junk out of an old relative’s house and you discover a dusty painting that turns out to be a valuable work of Renoir! You have pushed it aside...
Jun 28, 2017 | Word Among Us
Peter’s words, shook his listeners deeply. Jesus, the carpenter from Nazareth, was Israel’s long awaited Messiah – and they had crucified him? What have we done? What is going to happen to us now? That was Peter’s opening. Once he explained...
Jun 26, 2017 | Word Among Us
Christ is Risen! This is the kinds of thoughts that come to us when we think of Easter Sunday. But put yourself in the disciples’ place as they woke up that morning. Jesus of Nazareth, their teacher and friend, had just endured an agonizing death at the hands...
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