Once again we see God simultaneously moving in two different people to change them both.  Cornelius and Peter were both prepared by God.  Cornelius was prepared to receive Christ while Peter was prepared to deliver Christ.

In Acts 9 Luke tells us that Ananias is a key player in Saul’s conversion.   Can you imagine the courage required for Ananias to go visit this guy who was breathing out murderous threats against anyone who claimed to follow Christ.  There is no doubt that he was nervous about the visit.

For those of you who didn’t catch this last week we are reading and discussing Acts this month.  This morning as I read chapter 8 I prayed that I would live like Philip.  He was so in tune with the Holy Spirit that he was receiving step by step guidance. 

There is so much incredible stuff happening in Acts chapter five that I have never caught verse 12-14.   The believers were gathering but no one else dared to join them even though they were highly regarded.

Acts 4 says so much to me personally about my own life that its hard to choose one thing to write about.  But I love verses 13 & 20.  13When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these [...]

People have often asked me how I have been able to keep my fire.  There are a number of things that help me maintain my zeo and one of them is found in Acts 3.

I see a collision in Acts 2 that produced a passionate sermon where 3000 people became followers of Christ.  Think about the time you made your decision for Christ and experienced the joy of the Lord.  Now multiply that by 3000 and you can begin to imagine what happened on this special day in the [...]

Acts chapter one is packed with good stuff but here is what stuck our to me as I read it today.  Verse 15 says Peter stood up among the believers (a group numbering about a hundred and twenty). This is the first church, 120 people in a room waiting for the first visit from the [...]

This month we are exploring Our DNA at Harrah Church.  One of our core values is passion so we are reading one chapter of Acts a day to stoke our passion.  I’ll be blogging on a different chapter each day this month and I hope you will join the discussion.