This week, we see the story of the church take a major turn, one that we should be immensely grateful for. In Acts 13-14, Paul and Barnabas take the first recorded church missions trip. Thus, the final step of the formula Jesus gave to follow in Acts 1:8 began in earnest. The gospel was being taken to the ends...

I don’t understand how a 7-800,000 pound Boeing 747 can lift off the ground and fly. I don’t understand how a 200,000 ton cruise ship can float. I don’t understand how the MacBook Air I am using right now does what it does. I don’t even understand (fully) how my Toyota gets me to the grocery store and back....

I’m afraid of heights, although I would choose to rephrase that as I have a healthy respect of why God did not give people wings. I have a fear of being hit by a train when I drive across railroad tracks. Yeah, my family finds that one rather silly too. Just recently, I learned that my daughter and I...

When I was a kid playing baseball with my friends, one of the favorite things for us to do was to copy the batting stances of some our favorite professional players. If you aren’t very familiar with baseball, often players will have rather unique stances when they are up to bat and also when they swing. We loved mimicking...

We aren’t exactly sure of who wrote the Book of Hebrews and the context of why it was written. Common views of authorship include Luke, Clement, Barnabas, Apollos, Timothy, Peter, Silas, Jude, and of course Paul. Yeah, pretty long list of candidates. While the specific context is not known either, fewer suggestions than those of authorship are offered. One...

Consider all of the difficulties the young church had been through to this point in its history: Peter and John’s arrest (Acts 4)Ananias and Sapphira’s deception (Acts 5)The apostles on trial (Acts 5)The dispute between the Hebraic and Hellenistic Jews (Acts 6)Stephen’s martyrdom (Acts 7)Severe persecution and scattering (Acts 8) Yes, the church had also experienced great joys, but...