Tag: Peter

• Careful with Open Doors and Straight Paths

  Tuesday Re-mix: Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.  Acts 16:26 I’m intrigued by this story in Acts 16, not only because Paul and Silas did not leave through the open door of their jail cell, but…

  Blake

  November 26, 2013

  Acts 15, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership, prayer, strategic planning

  Acts 16, chains, church, discernment, earthquake, escape, jail, leadership, miracle, pastor, Paul, Peter, prison, Silas, strategy, will

• [GULP!] …I Might Have Been a Judaizer

  Tuesday Re-mix: The apostles and elders met to consider this question. After much discussion, Peter got up and addressed them: “Brothers, you know that some time ago God made a choice among you that the Gentiles might hear from my lips the message of the gospel and believe. God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them…

  Blake

  November 19, 2013

  Acts 15, Church Unity, conflict, Discerning God’s Will Together, leadership

  Acts 15, baptism, Barnabas, church, circumcision, council, evidence, Gentile, Hebrew, James, Jerusalem, Judaizer, lawyer, Paul, Peter, proof, scripture

• A Timely Haunting

  Tuesday Re-mix: Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of people believed and turned to the Lord.  Acts 11:20-21 In his book, Deep and Wide, Andy Stanley asks a question that has…

  Blake

  November 5, 2013

  Books that Changed Me, missional, strategic planning, The Church’s Influence

  Acts 11, Andy Stanley, Antioch, Barnabas, broken, church, Deep & Wide, evangelism, haunting, lost, missional, Paul, Peter