Then Saul---also known as Paul---was filled with the Holy Spirit; he looked straight at the magician
-Acts 13:9

Have you ever been stared at by the Holy Spirit? It is an experience not soon forgotten. The dividing edge of the Holy Spirit's gaze comes from grandmothers, spouses, preachers, children, the rich, the poor and whomever God chooses. In such a swath of holiness will be found no guile and no element of falsehood whatsoever. Read more

With a loud cry the Council members covered their ears with their hands. Then they all rushed at him at once,
threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses left their cloaks in the care of a young man named Saul.
-Acts 7:57-58Read more

His father was sick in bed, suffering from fever and dysentery. Paul went in to see him and, after prayer, placed his hands on him and healed him. When this had happened, the rest of the sick on the island came and were cured.
-Acts 28: 8-9Read more

God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. For in him we live and move and have our being.
-Acts 17:27-28Read more

They arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail and brought them out. "Go, stand in the temple courts," he said, "and tell the people the full message of this new life."
At daybreak they entered the temple courts, as they had been told, and began to teach the people.
-Acts 5: 18-21Read more

It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
-Acts 12:1-2

I am intensely interested in the story of Peter, James and John. The more I delve into the rich drama that unfolded during their walk with Jesus, the more I begin to see the various layers of complexity and meaning woven into the scriptures about who they were and their relationship to the King. Read more