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No Small Miracles

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus (Acts 4:29-30). There is a phrase that you don’t really find in the Bible. That phrase is “small miracle.” The very idea is preposterous. A miracle is God’s Kingdom overcoming the broken universe and making it run…

Clay in the Hands of a Loving God

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long;     we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us (Rom 8:35-37). There was a man named Bob, an artist who made sculpture from the finest porcelain clay. But…

Confess!

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working (James 5:15-16). For many people—especially ex-Catholics—the idea that confession may be an integral part of the Christian life carries a lot…