Posts Tagged as ‘Parable of the Good Samaritan’

March 1, 2009

The Pastor and the IRS Agent

I’ve been teaching through the book of Acts with our youth group.  And, I’ve been paying special attention to instances of mercy (both God to person and person to person) to bring out Luke’s Parable of the Good Samaritan vision.  This is an ethic set within the larger context of an overwhelmingly evangelistic overall theme. [...]

February 18, 2009

What Drives the Gospel?

The good news both moves the church and is what the church uses to move others.  It is both petrol and Porsche…so to speak.  Now, where do we see the church test driving its power to evangelize?  The book of Acts.
What is Acts?  Its basically a book about what the apostles did—mostly Peter and Paul. [...]