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Acts 2:1-12 Go Go Go! Aren’t we always on the run and super busy! Pastor John Mark Comer even wrote a telling book dealing with busy-ness in our Christian life – The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry. It’s a good read. Yet, even the Gospel writers tell us to Go! At the end of the books of Matthew and Mark, we are urged to Go: preach the gospel, make disciples, baptize, teach them all that Jesus taught. Whew! It’s like we’ve been appointed to a job, commissioned to a sacred task

John 20:24-29 I have some friends who are pranksters, practical jokers, and sometimes downright trolls. If I walked into a room and they started telling me the impossible had happened – you won the lottery! So-n-so celebrity just walked by and wanted to meet you! (Your best friend and mentor was just resurrected from the dead!) I guarantee I would be skeptical at best, and downright dismissive on a bad day! Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples, gets me! In John 20, after Jesus h

Luke 24, Mark 16, Matthew 28 If you know me, you probably know that I love to read. From fantasy and science fiction to mysteries and non-fiction, I’m into it, but one of my favorite things is a good plot twist! Honestly, I think God loves them too. Throughout scripture God is constantly flipping expectations upside-down, choosing the unlikely, the overlooked, and undervalued to reveal his greatest truths. That’s one of the reasons the story of the women at the tomb is one

by Dwight Hartman Psalm 22 My wife Terri and I have a funny ritual we do when we leave each other – for work, shopping, anything. We kiss. Now, don’t give me one of those Hallmark movie moments and say “ahhh!” I’m not that much of a romantic. But I think it’s rooted in the idea that if we don’t see each other again, at least we parted with a kiss. The last things we do or say with the ones we love is important. My dad’s story comes to mind. Near the end of his life, he bro