It’s difficult to read Acts 2:42–47 and not feel both inspired and impossibly challenged. The early church’s radical devotion—learning together, sharing everything, praying with fiery expectancy—often feels like an unreachable ideal, especially...

What made the early Church so powerful and world-changing. The answer is detailed in Acts 2:42-47: their stubborn devotion to teaching, radical generosity, prayer, and the breaking of bread. These weren’t just boxes to check, but the core convi...

It’s been just over a month since we launched our Acts series, so perhaps a quick recap is in order.We started by tracing our spiritual genealogy, looking back at the early church and asking what they believed about Jesus and themselves....

It is perhaps easy, in looking at the events of Pentecost in Acts 2, to reduce the Spirit’s arrival to spectacle—wind, tongues of fire, languages spoken and understood as if by magic. We tend to ask, “What were the signs?” But let's look deeper...

It’s been a few weeks since we started our walk through Acts, and perhaps a brief reflection is in order.We’ve traced the Church’s story from confusion and fear, stumbling through the aftermath of Jesus' ascension, to the radical transfo...