In Acts 8 great persecution scatters the believers and moves the mission forward.
November 5
It is a hard turn to go from a familiar course and make a radical change. In my mind the word radical sounds, well, radical! The dictionary definition says radical means an action that affects the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough. So should we all pursue radical change? How helpful is it to change something part-way but not fully? Or […]
When You Experience Rejection
You will experience rejection when you share the gospel.
October 29
My local grocery store has security guards. Maybe they’ve always been there but now they are uniformed and obvious and I don’t mind a bit. I recently spent some time in a few airports where I felt entirely safe, in part because there was an obvious security presence. Then I wandered a bit through downtown Seattle […]
Believers Refused to be Bullied
Don’t be bullied into not sharing the gospel.
October 22
Craft. Connect. Uplift. It’s a slogan attached to a coffee company. It makes me smile every time I see it. I appreciate company names or slogans that make you think. Like X-Spurts Plumbing. Loved that one every time I saw it as a kid riding in the back seat through Spokane. If you were selecting a slogan or name to describe […]
The Church is Tested
The believers’ witness was only as good as their integrity.
October 15
Have you ever had such a full heart of self-pity, self-doubt, self-recrimination that there wasn’t room for anything else? I can remember the place I was sitting, in a woman’s home, and the woman who was sitting beside me the first time I heard the life-giving words of Isaiah 55. It was the invitation and the […]