Morning Briefings

Acts, #16 in the series Every Thursday I teach a Bible lesson via livestream on Facebook.1 This past Thursday when I went on THRIVEOC...

Driving down a newly-familiar road, I reached the intersection at Main Street where I needed to turn right to head toward downtown Wake...

Acts, #15. Acts 3.1-11 Desperately wanting to meet people and make friends, when I was asked for dinner at my next-door neighbor’s house...

Acts 3.1­-11, Acts, #14 in the series “Alms. Alms for the poor.”1 The Jews got it. The guy had no other way to make a living, so he asked...

Acts 2.42-47, Acts #13 in the series. The new ones came, The old ones came . . . Seems they couldn’t get enough of this thing that was...

Acts #12 in the series Don’t look now, but you’ve been robbed -- in small ways and in big ways. The end result is that we can’t even...

Acts, #11 in the series. In the old church basement where I led a prayer meeting for the homeless, hurting and outcasts of Long Beach--a...

Acts 2.14-41. Acts, #10 in the series. This is the flop to the flip, the yang to the ying and so on. A few days ago we spoke of...

Acts, 9 in the series. by the way, this is a great one to listen to! Click the "Listen to the podcast" link above! It was noisy, there...

Never have I ever . . . seen such division as today. But then, God. Acts, #8. So many incendiary comments bandied about on social media,...

Acts, #7 in the series Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which people are unfair to each other and hurt...