Stephen’s speech is a watershed moment in the history of the church of God! The word “Watershed” has taken on the meaning of a big change in how people do or think about something. I am only going to look at one aspect of this today. I will concentrate on the Temple rather than he […]

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Acts 6 – Submitted and Seized

After being chosen as one of the seven, Stephen continues to declare the good news. Stephen is a man Submitted to God in every way. As a result, he is Seized and then Slandered. We see how so much depends on eth words that Stephen speaks that are twisted. Despite the opposition and persecution, lives […]

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What Jesus is saying is that a right relationship with God will not be dependent on a something physical. It will not be necessary to go to a location or a special building to find a right relationship with God. Thus, cathedrals, temples, church buildings can never to declared holy. This building is only important […]

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The phrase, “Beauty in the eye of the beholder” is something that we see particularly when it comes to our perspective of the church and God’s perspective of the church. From our perspective, we see a lot of faults and problems. We look at ourselves or the church and we see failure, we see division, […]

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