Peter says “I now realise,” which means he previously did not — the whole episode exists to move him. Greg Ehlert preaches it as evangelism, and the scripture is read…
Joe Brandi starts where Acts does, with persecution scattering the church. The evangelism here is a by-product of displacement — and Philip opens with a question rather than a pitch,…
The Commission spends its verbs on what happens after conversion — baptising, teaching, obeying — which is long, repetitive and unreportable. The promise attached is proportionate: a commitment to accompany…
A rich man climbs a tree to see over a crowd, and Jesus invites himself to dinner — reversing the direction of the invitation. What follows is restitution nobody demanded,…
Jesus says follow me to a tax collector, and Matthew’s first act as a disciple is to fill his house with his own circle. Nobody was cleaned up first —…
A reign ends, and that is when the vision comes. Dr. James Smith III preaches Isaiah 6 on a sequence the year-end usually reverses: seeing, then undoing, then cleansing, and…