The Courage of the Cowardly
So I have not blogged in quite awhile, yet the Lord impressed on me something that needs to be journaled. As I was preparing for my Sunday evening sermon, I was struck by some very thought provoking ideas that seemed to jump of the page to me. I was reading Acts 4:1-31, which is the account of Peter and John before the religious elite of their day. They were there because they had healed a 40+ year old cripple beggar. These religious leaders demanded to know what name (or better yet "by whose authority") did they heal this man. They courageously declared that it was by the authority of Jesus that this man was healed. So what exactly jumped off the page? It was the thought that this was the same group of men that Peter acted like a coward in front of just months earlier. How does one go from being a coward who denied the Lord three times to being a man of courage proclaiming the Name of Jesus as the only one possessing the authority to save? Well, verse eight clues us