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You know when you go grocery shopping and you get that cart with the bad wheel in the front? The one that sticks, or lumps along, or pulls your cart to one side? Sucks, right? Imagine pushing that cart down the road as you leave town with everything you could find while scrounging through dumpsters. …
I drew this while covering a study hall. I needed to express what I felt when being with Lars, what he must feel, and I wanted to engage the students in conversation. This is actually my third attempt at this drawing, all in the same class. The first two were too disproportionate. I wanted the …
Jesus packs a lot into one sentence. John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." That's thick: Do we know the gift of …
When my son was five I gave him a Swiss Army pocket knife for Christmas. He did not ask me, "What's this for?" I'm sure he didn't understand all that could be done with a pocket knife, but he was keen to get started. I sat him down and gave him a less than ten …
Did you bake Moses a birthday cake? Because he's about to make this awesome wish in this story and God is willing to grant it... on our behalf!!! We're picking up mid-stream, where God says... Numbers 11 Say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat; for you have wept in …
There's no way the Acts 2 story was a total shocker for the disciples. They might not have expected the wind or the vision of fire or speaking in unknown tongues, but they did have this story that hinted that they'd prophesy. "Thanks, Moses. You're a pal." Numbers 11:4 The rabble who were among them …
Over and over, while I grew up, I was told the Holy Spirit was a gentleman. He wouldn't force Himself upon you. He'd come only if you invited Him. This may have been experience talking. I don't remember the disciples "inviting" the Holy Spirit in Acts 2... but Jesus had promised He would come, so …
God takes such a long time telling His story--lifetimes and generations really--that Peter's sermon is like reading an exclamation point. It takes longer to blink. But the emphasis, the conclusions drawn, and the witness of God's Holy Spirit accompanying Peter's words are powerful and they convict the listeners to the point that they understand they …
The net has been cast. The people have come. The rushing sound from heaven, the praises given to God in a miraculous way--the people themselves are becoming witnesses of these things. And when Peter explains that this is what the prophet Joel foretold, that the Scriptures are being fulfilled and the day of the Lord …
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If I were to make a movie on the Acts of the Apostles, I'd skip the first chapter (save it for flash-back) and spend the opening five minutes (that first gripping moment) on the next two sentences: Acts 2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly …
