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There are verses in Scripture that are easy to confess and harder to inhabit.Acts 2:38 has become one of those verses for me. “Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” I don’t struggle
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It’s funny to imagine myself on my ship in a lounge with the Holy Spirit, discussing what martyrdom looks like for me in honor of the King—pipe in hand, coffee on the table—like we’re planning some noble saga together. It doesn’t feel enough to suffer as I am—not that I would wish disaster, disease, cancer,
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Whether you see it or not, we are sitting in fire. Everything around us is caught in a flame, yet… it is not consumed. As I look around the space I occupy—this laptop, desk, the chair I sit in, my coffee, the books to my right, a lamp, and a small monument on my desk
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Who are you? As you and I see each other off in the distance, who are you? I say to myself as I process a series of decisions on whether our encounter will be… friendly. There you are — from across the expanse — on the vessel of your soul. A stranger. But not just
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“For in this way the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be abundantly supplied to you.”— 2 Peter 1:11 (NASB 1995) As I consider where my life stands today, and as I peer out into the distance of what lies ahead, this verse confronts me—not as reassurance, but
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I’ve sat down—hands to board, fingers to keys—only to meet silence. Not the kind that invites stillness, but the kind that resists movement. I suppose it’s obvious by now: there’s been no post. I have the framework for continuing in Acts. It’s solid. Structured. Faithful. And I still plan to use it. But right now,
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An invitation to see Jesus not as the political liberator we expected, but as the risen Lord who inaugurates His kingdom through Spirit‑empowered witness. Acts 1:6–8 So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”And He said to them, “It is not
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TIME FOR PROVIDENCE 