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The Wall Is Coming Down Issue 6 of The Monthly Word | Acts 10:34 Series — Final Instalment When Peter returned to Jerusalem after the events at Cornelius’s house, the other believers did not gather to celebrate his breakthrough. They gathered to accuse him. “Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them” […]

God Did Not Change. Peter Did. Issue 5 of The Monthly Word | Acts 10:34 Series Read Acts 10 quickly, and you can walk away believing that God did something new that day in Caesarea. He widened the circle. He updated the rules. He decided, at last, to include the people He had previously kept

When He Opened His Mouth: Why the Bible Slows Down Before a Big Moment Issue 2 of The Monthly Word | Acts 10:34 Series The first three words of Acts 10:34 should not, by ordinary grammatical standards, be there. Luke writes that Peter “opened his mouth and said.” Strip the surplus and the verse still

  Some of what you believe about God did not come from God. You did not choose it. You inherited it. A quiet web of assumptions about who is welcome at the table and who is left waiting at the gate, about which people heaven takes seriously and which ones it walks past, about what

There is a reason your restlessness never goes away, no matter how many boxes you tick or how stable your life looks on paper. That nagging sense that you were built for something specific is not a personality flaw. It is, according to Promise in this final instalment of the Matthew 11:12 series, the Kingdom

Most Christians would never admit it, but the people living out the Kingdom of God with the most force and focus might not be sitting in any church pew. That is not a provocation. It is a conclusion drawn directly from the Greek text of Matthew 11:12, and Promise follows the thread with unflinching honesty

You have read Matthew 11:12 a hundred times, and a hundred times it told you the same story: a kingdom under siege, violent men battering down its gates, and you somewhere in the middle trying to defend something fragile. But what if the Greek text has been saying the exact opposite all along? What if

Most of us grew up picturing the Kingdom of Heaven as a place somewhere beyond the clouds, a destination we would finally reach after death if we lived well enough. It is one of the most deeply embedded assumptions in Christian thinking, and it is almost entirely wrong. What Jesus actually meant when He spoke

Matthew 11:12 may be one of the most quoted verses in the New Testament, and one of the most persistently misunderstood. For generations, Christians have heard it as a warning, a picture of the Kingdom of God under violent pressure, a fragile realm needing constant defence against hostile forces. That reading has shaped sermons, prayer