A Power In Your Weakness
On Sunday, we pressed into the reality of “A Renewed Heart,” focusing on the beautiful picture of the Holy Spirit…
A Clear Conscience
On an examination paper, the professor required his students to sign a form stating they had received no outside assistance. Unsure of whether …
Jesus’ own Spirit, inside of us
Last Sunday we considered God the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ own Spirit, inside of us now through faith. An incredible spot, scary and comforting…
Finding a Way to Believe
As we traverse through our Bestowed series (studying the work of the Holy Spirit among us through giving spiritual gifts and shaping our stories), last Sunday we bounded down an uncommon trail in the modern Church’s conversation surrounding spiritual gifts. A conversation about the Supernatural. As we learned, the modern list of spiritual gifts is actually a conglomeration of…
Shipwrecks, Storms, & a Holy Ghost
Are you ready for an epic adventure? The end of Acts reads like a synopsis of a blockbuster film: riots, beatings, starvation, storms, shipwrecks, pagan islands, and more. As we finish our Summer in the Spirit series, we’re also finishing the journey with the Apostle Paul. And in the midst of this, we’re considering staying mindful the activity of the Holy Spirit in the midst of our uncertain journeys.
Invisible Person
As we continue on in our “Summer in the Spirit” series I want to make sure we don’t miss the most basic and the most important truth—the Holy Spirit is a person (not human, but a distinct entity). The Holy Spirit is…
Begin with Waiting
Last Sunday we looked at Acts 1, in our sermon series “Summer in the Spirit”. We found that even though Jesus gave clear directives to spread the Good News locally and globally, His followers were first told to wait…their focus wasn’t on the doing, it was on the waiting…
Holy Outreach
We’re spending the whole Summer focusing on God, the Holy Spirit, as the divine person we can know and be changed by through the scriptures and through His presence in our daily lives. I had the joy of teaching on…
Seasons of the Spirit
Since last Sunday’s Sermon on the Emmaus Road (Luke 24) , I’ve had a handful of conversations. Some folks resonated with the experience of the Hiddenness of God. God can sometimes be hard to find. I’ve also connected with others who long for…