Message:  In Acts 13 the Holy Spirit instructed the church to send out Paul & Barnabas so they fasted, prayed and laid hands on them to go. After sailing to Cyprus and ministering all over the island they came across... Continue reading →

Thinking about this I looked back to raising my kids. We had a basic set of rules because although children are innocent in their understanding, they are born as tiny little narcissistic sociopaths. They want what they want when they... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 12 persecution was bad. Herod had just had James executed and it was clearly a political move because when he saw this pleased the Jews he had Peter imprisoned and scheduled for execution as well. Peter was... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 11 word had gotten back to the Jews that Peter was eating unlawful food and eating with Gentiles. Peter was back in Jerusalem explaining the vision God had given him about the unclean animals being made clean.... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 10 a man named Cornelius had a vision and so did Peter. The visions they each had were connected to each other and for each of them it required a step of faith. Peter was walking in... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 9 Saul was full throttle at destroying the church. He had papers in hand giving him permission to take any man or woman who was part of the church and imprison them. On his way through he... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 8 Saul who would later become Paul was fiercely persecuting the church. This persecution caused the believers to scatter but this didn’t slow the spread of the gospel. It actually promoted it. When the believers spread out... Continue reading →

Message:  In 2 Samuel 6 King David was building and establishing his kingdom when he remembered the ark of the covenant and decided to bring it home to the City of David. David, with good intentions decided to bring it... Continue reading →

Message:  Acts chapter 6 shows us that the church exploded with growth to the point that there were complaints coming up among the Jews that their widows weren’t being financially cared for. As I processed through this it reminded me... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 5 Peter & John were on trial once again for preaching, teaching and healing in the name of Jesus. It seemed the problem was not so much that people were healed, it was that they were continuing... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 4 Peter and John were confronted by the priests, the temple guards and the Sadducees because what they were teaching provoked them. The next day they stood before the high priest, priestly family, rulers, elders and scribes... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 3 Peter and John were headed to the temple for the hour of prayer when they came across the lame man who always sat there begging for alms. The man reached for a hand-out and instead received... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 2 the disciples obediently sat in that upper room waiting for the promise. Jesus had ascended and the only promise they were thinking about was the promise that the Messiah would come and take back Jerusalem. They... Continue reading →

Message:  In Acts 1 Jesus gathered his disciples before ascending to heaven and he instructed them not to leave Jerusalem. They were to wait there for the promise. To them the promise was the Messiah so they asked Jesus if... Continue reading →

Message:  In 1 Samuel 30 had been sent back home to where he was staying in Ziglag with the Philistines. He was in Ziglag because he had fled from Saul’s pursuit, but now the Philistines were going to battle with... Continue reading →

Message:  In 1 Samuel 28 Saul found himself at war with the Philistines again. This time the Philistines had recruited David to fight with them since he had been living among them in his escape from Saul’s pursuit of him.... Continue reading →

Message:  In John 18 Judas led the soldiers to the garden to arrest Jesus. Jesus already knew what they were there for, but he asked them who they were looking for. When they told him they were looking for Jesus... Continue reading →

Message:  In 1 Samuel 26 Saul came after David once again even after he repented the last time and promise he wouldn’t. I doubt this surprised David at all because he had been living through this cycle over and over... Continue reading →

Message:  In 1 Samuel 25 David went from sparing Saul’s life to almost slaughtering  a man along with his family and servants to avenge himself because he was hangry. Fortunately, one of the servants reported to the man’s wife and... Continue reading →

Message:  In 1 Samuel 24 Saul had learned of David’s location again so he took 3,000 of his best warriors and went looking for David and his men. Last we had read, David only had about 400 men with him... Continue reading →