For prayer to become the backstory of my life, my family, my church, my community, this world—it must become the front story of my life.
Critical minds exude curiosity. Critical spirits exercise suspicion.
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you.
Cornelius was a bona fide layperson who took his faith seriously. He was a man of prayer and a generous giver—an apt description for “ordinary” saints.
True greatness comes from a humble life of simple obedience—always doing the next good, right, God thing.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you.
PRAYER OF CONSECRATION Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you. Jesus, I belong to you. I lift up my heart to you. I set my mind on you.
Sometimes God wants to take a good vision and turn it into a God-sized vision.
This is how Jesus builds his church—through the collective acts of disciples who say what he said and do what he did.
A transformed life is like a sign and wonder that keeps on going.
Jesus, the risen and ascended Lord, is the Great Actor. We are the supporting cast.
