The abundant supernatural work God does through humans is attested to in the early church’s ministry. The Book of Acts is full of all kinds of crazy stories and we have to be incredibly ignorant to miss them. It’s there we find Christians that speak in foreign tongues (2:4, 10:46, 19:6), perform signs and wonders…
Category: Christianity
Pentecost Before Acts
The church is so used to associating the outpouring of the Holy Spirit with Pentecost that we often forget that Pentecost was a holiday before this moment. With this in mind, we shouldn’t think that God sent the Holy Spirit on a day that just-so-happened to be Pentecost, but rather that He intentionally chose this…
God and the Servant
Abraham decides it’s time to get Isaac a wife and sends a servant out to find her. Along the way, the servant comes in contact with God’s providence in ways that seem to astonish him. Check out this podcast episode on 1208GREENWOOD’s webpage or simply subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify, or Google Play.
The Supernatural Beginnings to Methodism
I often tell the church I serve that we wouldn’t be around today if the Holy Spirit hadn’t shown up in the incredible supernatural ways He did in John Wesley’s ministry. As Free Methodists, we come out of the Methodist stream which Wesley kickstarted and his ministry was full of the supernatural. It took John…
Jesus Opens Up the Priesthood to All
While only those of the Levite clan could serve as priests in the Old Testament, things change in the New Testament when God takes the non-levitical Jesus and makes Him a king/priest forever. As Hebrews says, Jesus “has become a priest, not on the basis of a legal requirement concerning bodily descent, but by the…
