The Town

Luke records for us in Acts 2 that the church met together with four main purposes. They devoted themselves to apostolic teaching, fellowship, eating together, and prayer. What was the result? It went beyond just being a close-knit group of believers or even having felt needs met. It was much more! These first community groups rocked their community. No church member went without having his/her ne...

The resurrection screams out that God cares about this world and His people. We know that God wants to save His people from sin, but we also must realize that God is saving us TO something. We have to live in the reality and power of the resurrection. Many Christians only focus on avoiding sin but miss the whole picture of how God is moving. Our God desires us to trade our old life for resurrectio...

Peter's audience were suffering for the cause of their mission. This isn't the case for most American churches. When we do suffer, many Christians view the trial as a punishment or inconvenience. Yet Peter tells us to neither be surprised nor hurt by suffering, but rather joyful. The early church members were no strangers to suffering, and neither should our local congregation be strangers. They w...