Worship

A storm clears over open water, and for a moment the surface holds nothing but light — no ripple of what just passed through it, no memory of the wind. If you stood at the shore and watched only that stillness, you’d never guess a storm had been there at all. That kind of clean,…

Most of us picture the evidence of God as something faint — a whisper we have to quiet ourselves to catch, a private nudge reserved for people with a particular kind of spiritual sensitivity. It’s a picture that makes God’s presence feel rare and effortful to detect. Scripture describes something closer to the opposite. Before…

Peter stood in a room he had spent his whole life being taught to avoid. Cornelius was a Roman centurion — a Gentile, a soldier, everything Peter’s upbringing had filed under “outside.” Three days earlier, a vision of unclean animals lowered on a sheet had left him arguing with God about what could and couldn’t…