Ananias sent to Straight Street to lay hands on the man who came to arrest him. Saul is named a chosen instrument before he has done anything to deserve it.
Romans 12:3-7 on spiritual gifts approached from an unusual angle: not what you can accomplish, but the fact that you are a beloved child who was never going alone.
Romans 12:1-2 opens a series on what you are built for. We are human beings, not human doings — and nobody is traded on a spiritual commodity market.
A megachurch lobby with a Keurig station and flat screens set against a Thai church with instant coffee and one faded picture of Jesus — and the tangible peace that…
John 18 and the arrest in the garden. Jesus returns to the scene of the crime — a garden — and begins to redeem what was lost in one.
Proverbs 6, opening with a pastor's account of a week spent identifying the lies an enemy builds on — and of recognising how often he had been living out of…