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All the Gospel to ALL the People

Posted by Jesse Pingenot in Student

Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:26-27). So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him (Acts 10:34-36). I always find it funny when people say to me something like, “You’re so…

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…