Good morning folks. Have you ever wondered what happens when you grow so fast that you begin to get too big for your britches? Every new adventure eventually gets to this point, and the early church community found themselves dealing with such an issue. The community had gotten very large, and they weren’t all from the same background. As usual, when you have more than one person in a room, you have the potential for problems. This week, we see how wonderfully and clearly the leaders dealt with an issue that potentially could have destroyed the church. Instead, it served to launch them forward into success.

This week we begin our adventures in the book of Acts. We are going to rest here for a few weeks as we look to understand the joys and trials of establishing a brand-new community. We will see what we would call revival as 3,000 people are added to the community in one day, and how they began to build the foundation of good practices within this infant church. 

This message begins a month of Sundays where we'll be looking at the local church. What is our calling in this world and how do we live out the commands of God in an increasingly hostile time? I think we can take some practical tips from Daniel, Paul and an encounter Jesus had with a lawyer.

As we wrap up the series Daniel - Brave By Faith, we explore chapter 12 which gives us a nice conclusion of everything that we've unpacked to this point...

King Solomon said, and The Byrds sang, 'There is a time and a season for everything under heaven'. I think that is a very good thing to frame out what we are looking at this week. This interpretation given to Daniel tells us again of kings and kingdoms, yet also hints at the victory of God’s people at the end of all things.

Have you ever read, watched or seen something and thought, “Why does that sound so familiar?” Daniel gives us his view of an event he sees in his dream that looks very much like an event that happened 500 years later.  Cryptic, confusing and causing curiosity, let's get together this Sunday to figure out just what he saw and why it matters to us today.