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Peter concludes his message with a final word of encouragement: Jesus is coming back!

There are a lot of spiritual options out there, but not all of them are for our good. In this passage Peter lays out several “warning signs” to help us identify dangerous teachings and false paths in a world of multitudinous options.

The last conversation that we have between Jesus and Peter takes place shortly after the Resurrection. Jesus takes Peter aside and restores him to his calling by reminding him of what it truly means to love Him; it means serving and caring for His people. Our love for Jesus is meant to overflow into how we love and serve others. This is the mark of a truly Christian life; we love the way Christ first loved us.

Too often we look for comfort in the physical pleasures and pursuits of this world, but Peter is pretty clear that this is a road to nowhere.

The church has always had a sticky relationship with politics. To those outside the church, it often appears like Christians are just the tools of a political party, adding holy sound bites to someone else’s political agenda. On the flip side, there are many inside the church who have taken an increasingly adversarial posture toward government and politics. So which is it?

Being a Christian is not about joining some kind of holy huddle, separated from the world. God’s grace is not given to us only for our good, but for the good of others. “Through Jesus, God is building a community of believers who will bring glory to His name.”

A lot is made of identity these days. We are told to be who we are. But who are we really?

In the opening lines of his first letter Peter addresses Christians as “elect exiles” two terms which, by worldly standards, seem to be at odds.

Following Jesus means embracing an entirely different way of living; one in which we turn our backs on the ways of the world and embrace the ways of His kingdom. But what does that look like?

The book of Acts ends in a rather abrupt way: with an ending that really isn’t an ending. Paul is in Rome continuing to preach. What does this mean? Why is it here? The answer is quite simple: the mission goes on.

Sadly, we often have a hard time seeing the mission beyond our own walls or communities, preferring our own narrow spheres to the culture-crossing, boundary-breaking mission of the Kingdom of God. But God’s grace is not bound. He leads us, by His Spirit, to bring Good News to everyone,

The members of the early church were animated by the very Spirit of God as they pursued the mission of God together. And this shaped every aspect of their common life. Just as they had received God’s power, God’s presence, and God’s grace, so they extended grace and gave the gift of presence to others. Their story was one in which each person saw themselves as a part of a much larger community, extending God’s grace in tangible acts of generosity, service, and visible acts of witness to the...

The first thing that we see about the early church is that they were called and empowered by God to be a part of a much Bigger STORY!

Easter is Just the Beginning

On Palm Sunday we celebrate Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem; the irony being that this man who was hailed a King is executed by the very same people just a few short days later. Why? To answer that question, we have to look at another encounter that Jesus had with them in John 8