Be With Me: 7 Minutes of Biblical Wonder

Saul, like lots of people, thinks Jesus is definitely dead and definitely NOT resurrected.  His actions of murderous threats, accessory to murder, probable murder, murderous consent, imprisoning, and…

1. The first thing to KNOW is that Jesus is in every Old Testament Book.
2. The first thing to LEARN is about the Good News of Jesus.
3. The first thing to OBEY is to be BAPTIZED. 

If you BEG FOR IT, yo…

Real belief usually starts with real questions.  If the physical world we live in has crashed into the spiritual world, you'll likely have some questions.  If God really really really has come down, …

If you read the book of Isaiah, you likely will get to a few sections where the writer refers to a person not HISTORICALLY, but in a future PROPHETICALLY.  He wrote this stuff down in 740BC that was …

A man is on an 8 month pilgrimage to Jerusalem.  It is where His people live.  It is where His temple is.  It is incredibly important for Jews and for devout, God-fearing gentiles.

How'd you like to h…

Simon, a brand new believer, messes up. This is pretty much like every new believer that I have ever met, so don't be discouraged.  He gets a rebuke from Peter that is incredibly thorough.  So, THEN …

The gospel eventually has to "go on the road from Jerusalem."  It first goes with Philip to Samaria.  It is there where we find what happens when "self-greatness" gets swallowed up by REAL GREATNESS.

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Today we move from the 1st martyr (Stephen), to the 1st persecution of the Church.  It is called a RAVAGING.  It is the 1st Ravaging.  It results in the 1st Scattering and the 1st geographically disp…

With the stoning of Stephen everything changes.  It becomes OK to persecute the FOLLOWERS of Jesus unto DEATH.  This gets everybody's attention in Jerusalem to the point that they are scattered to th…

Between the moment you DECIDE to have a ROCK throwing event, and you actually THROW a rock, some stuff has got to happen.  You have to FIND GOOD ROCKS.  You have to change locations and position.  Yo…

I'm 60% sure it was DL Moody who when finding out he was terminal said, "Gather my children about me and I will teach them how to die." Stephen gives us a crash course in Acts 7.  The people around h…

Stephen gets CANCELLED in 33AD. They STOP THEIR EARS.  They stick their fingers in their ears and loudly say, "Nanny nanny poo poo, I'm not listening, I'M NOT LISTENING!" The marketplace of ideas is …

"Luke, I AM your father." It is one of the great revelation moments in the Star Wars epic.  The problem is, it is DARTH VADER who is speaking.  Luke finds out that his heritage is one of ongoing, uns…

Stephen is summarizing 2000 years of mankind's response to the call of God.  It is not a pretty picture.  Repeatedly, they cry out: "You are NOT THE BOSS OF ME."  

All along, we see a history of God t…

Stephen goes from being a FREE man, to a SEIZED man, to a STONED man in a very short window of time.  Watch as God is with him in a way so real that even the bad guys around him note that he has a fa…

There is a newly formed, giant BALLOON of believers forming in Jerusalem.  In it are all the devout Jewish people from all over the world who have chosen to return to Jerusalem to follow the One true…

Has your church failed you?  Do you have complaints against your church? If so, you are not the first.  It is on the first page of book of the church (Acts). It is also here in Chapter 6.  But here i…

Matthais has been an Apostle for just a few days.  He immediately gets arrested, imprisoned, interrogated, detained strongly, and then here today BEATEN.  What a ride.  Rather than be discouraged, he…

Peter and the other arrestees are  un-arrested.  Those who arrested the apostles are now arrested themselves by favor of the people.  They cannot do what they want.  The people have turned enough to …

The work of an angel charmed me today.  He worked UNBEKNOWNST to person, place or thing.  A guard was there and did not notice.  He was standing in the (likely) exact place of the angelic activity.  …