Tag: peter

  • We are Beggars in the House of God

    Begging for Blessing You may have had a beggar at your door recently. My new neighbor asked me if he should expect any ‘trick or treaters’ invading our neighborhood. Probably not, I responded. We generally have sweets here for ourselves that I could give away to a beggar, I assured. But he thought it might…

    man sitting on ground by wall with another man reaching down to put something in the cup this beggar holds out
  • Building a New Synagogue of Simon – שִׁמְעוֹן

    (I know you’re thinking ‘church’ and not ‘synagogue’ and Christians always think like a gentile only calling the Apostle Peter, but today we need to look at ACTS through first century eyes, having ears to hear Simon Peter preach the Person of Christ Jesus who he knew and loved personally.) Today’s look at ACTS OF…

    pictured Hurva Synagoge in Jerusalem ~1948 verse from Acts 2:5 Hebrew Names Version
  • The Heart-piercing POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT!

    The POWER of the Holy Spirit in ACTS What have we observed most in Luke’s early accounts of Acts? Clearly, the further power of the Holy Spirit, which Luke also notes in his Gospel as having descended on Jesus. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a…

    I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH ACTS 2:17 picture of flames