October 28, 2015
For a celebration like Pentecost, Jerusalem might swell to as many as 500,000 pilgrims. I don’t know how many came running up to us, but there was a huge crowd, too many to count. They were from all over the […]
October 21, 2015
I want to tell you what that first day on Pentecost was like. The day the Spirit showed up. As John was finishing his talk that morning the air around me suddenly felt heavy. I don’t know how to describe […]
October 8, 2015
As we returned to Jerusalem we went upstairs to the room where we had been staying. It was Mary’s house, Mark’s mother. You know Mark, my faithful companion, friend, and sometimes secretary. He was just a young man then. As […]
September 24, 2015
Yes, I am Simon Peter, the apostle, but I am just a man. An ordinary man. Like you. But I am not like you. I have learned to live with the power of the Holy Spirit. Of course this does […]