Today’s message comes from Acts 17, where Paul visits Athens and sees the Altar to an Unknown God. This text was always preached to Ken as a “gotcha” moment, but…
We want simple stories - here’s the hero, here’s the bad guy. We simplify. Scripture does the same thing. It wants to prove something, it wants to show something. This…
There are many challenges we face in life that we are not educated to know how to navigate. We are figuring it out with faith as we move. You are…
As we look at the story of a Gentile church in crisis in Acts, Lance talks about the way political differences have divided the church in the wake of Covid.…
We are called as a church to see others as our brothers and sisters. That’s not easy. God does the work. But it only comes about when we first seek…
Lance talks about a time he ended up in Vegas and made a tentative attempt at gambling at a slot machine, which ended poorly. But prayer, he reminds us, is…
Lance takes a look at a church in Acts that where people were coming from everywhere and all walks of life - and asks what we can do to create…
Ken dives into the lessons from a far-flung church in the 11th chapter of Acts. “So many times, we focus on WHAT a thing is. But every so often, we…
First Methodist Houston is the oldest Methodist church in Houston, Texas. We continue to evolve through the years and have been serving the communities of Downtown Houston, Texas and Westchase…
Ken’s message today is on the time, as Ken puts it, “God showed Peter a bunch of animals in a blanket.” This was a period of time where Jewish people…
In the book of Acts, Peter is given a vision from heaven of every type of food, letting the Jewish people that he has declared everything clean. But the picture…
When Paul first began preaching in the streets, it was clear immediately that something incredible was happening. People’s lives were being transformed. When the Holy Spirit is doing something, he…