Tag: Holy Spirit
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Spiritual Directions (Acts 2:42-47)
Acts 2 gives us spiritual directions for the church: upward in worship, inward in community, outward in generosity, and forward with the gospel. The Spirit-empowered church is not organized around comfort and consumption, but around devotion to God, one another, the hurting, and the mission of Jesus Christ.
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Day 128: “Our Soul Waits” in Psalm 33:20
“Our soul waits for the Lord.” Shouldn’t it say “our souls wait?” But the Psalmist’s strange wording is intentional: a picture of God’s people united with one soul and one heart before the Lord.
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Day 122: Unity That Sanctifies (Psalm 133)
When believers are united in the gospel, we are not just getting along—we are being prepared for the work of God together.
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Day 346: Sanctified Shrewdness (Acts 20-23)
Acts 20–23 offers a surprising portrait of the apostle Paul—one that shows wisdom, discernment, and even shrewdness pressed into kingdom service. Rather than erasing Paul’s past, the Holy Spirit redeems every part of his story for the sake of the gospel.
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Day 327: A Gentile, a Slave, and a Woman Walk into a Church… (Acts 16)
Paul grew up praying a Jewish blessing thanking God he’s not a Gentile, slave, or woman—then the Spirit sends him to Philippi to meet exactly those three. God has a sense of humor.
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Day 325: Calling Out the Called (Acts 13:2)
Hundreds of Alabama churches are searching for pastors, and the average age of ministers keeps rising. Acts 13 reminds us that the Holy Spirit is the ultimate Caller—but the church must become the kind of community where calling can be heard, nurtured, supplied, and sent.