Wednesday – Change It – Pioneer Prodigy
This week we’re learning how Jesus interrupted the life of a man named Saul, a notorious attacker of Christians, and turned it right around. He did it by throwing him off his horse on a Christian hunting trip, blinding him, and leaving him blind and thirsty for three days. Not just a private hallucination, the […]
Tuesday – Study It – Pioneer Prodigy
This week we’re talking about how a prodigy can suddenly be transformed by God. This week we’ll study a story from Acts that shows God can work with even the most vicious young opponent of Christianity and transform them into his greatest promoter. But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of […]
Monday – A New Idea – Pioneer Prodigy
In university I picked an engineering major that was really challenging, at least for me, and I was always in awe of those who seemed to have no trouble at all. There were some really smart people, who always seemed to have the answers, or know how to find them. I relied on people like […]
Group Study Guide – Pioneer Prodigy
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: Why do you think some highly successful people suddenly change and go into religious work or other caring professions? Do you know someone like this? Reading: […]
Friday – Reflect – Pioneer Progress
We pray and reflect about our topic. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Thursday – Act On It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’ve been studying a story that illustrated nicely the growth and rapid progress of the Christian movement 2000 years ago. What started as a local upstart religious group in Judaism grew slowly, but then suddenly exploded. The story we explored this week, of Philip sharing the good news of Jesus with an African […]
Wednesday – Change It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’re studying Pioneer Progress – how the early Christian movement suddenly reached a tipping point and started to grow beyond religious, ethnic and national boundaries. We’re particularly looking at the story of Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch this week. Yesterday we read the beginning of the story, where Philip ran after the chariot […]
Tuesday – Study It – Pioneer Progress
This week we’re talking about Pioneer Progress – how the Christian movement reached a tipping point that allowed it to reach beyond its Jewish roots and go viral and go global. [25] Now when they had testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel to many villages of the […]
Monday – A New Idea – Pioneer Progress
A few years ago now, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book that transformed the way people think. He wrong Tipping Point, all about how movements can starts slowly, grow slowly, and build to a critical mass, the tipping point, and suddenly see explosive and viral growth. I remember when I knew a handful of people with […]
Group Study Guide – Pioneer Progress
Are you meeting regularly with a discussion group? If you meet just once a week, you can find all of this week’s discussion questions in one place right here. Question: What have you seen that started slow, but then grew quickly? What was the tipping point? Reading: [25] Now when they had testified and spoken the word […]
Friday – Reflect – Pioneer Players
We pray and reflect about this week’s topic. Meeting with a Group? Your discussion questions are in this week’s Group Study Guide [permalink append=”#comments”]Discuss the Challenge[/permalink]
Thursday – Act On It – Pioneer Players
We’ve been studying the story of Simon, a magician who becomes a Christian, then tries to pay for the power of the Holy Spirit, perhaps to bolster his magic act. Here’s what Peter, one of the apostles (early Christian leaders) said to him: …your heart is not right before God. [22] Repent, therefore, of this wickedness […]
Wednesday – Change It – Pioneer Players
Yesterday we learned about a man named Simon, who became a Christian and was baptized. He’d been a magician before that, and people called him the Great One. He amazed people all the time, but today he was amazed himself by Philip, who was preaching the good news about Jesus, and decided to join Philip’s […]
Tuesday – Study It – Pioneer Players
In today’s reading from the Bible, we find the Christian message continuing to change lives in every city it touches. Philip, one of the new leaders appointed to help share the apostles’ workload, has been preaching, healing people and there is great joy in the city. But there’s also one shady character: [9] But there was […]
Monday – A New Idea – Pioneer Players
Some big news just two weeks ago was that the new Roman Catholic Pope had excommunicated the Mafia. This is serious business in the Roman Catholic Church, meaning someone can’t receive communion, a central part of their way of life and worship. To many this seems like a no-brainer, of course a member of an […]