How to Help People (Pt. IV)

How to Help People (Pt. IV)

Acts 3:3 reads, “Who, seeing Peter and John…asked for alms.”   Peter and John were willing to let the lame man at the temple gate interrupt their plans, and maybe make them late for “the hour of prayer” – which raises an important...
How to Help People (Pt. IV)

How to Help People (Pt. III)

Acts 3:5 reads, “He gave them his attention, expecting to receive.”   You can’t help someone until they’re ready. That calls for knowing the difference between those who are looking for solutions, and those who may just be looking for sympathy....
How to Help People (Pt. IV)

How to Help People (Pt. II)

Acts 3:6 reads, “What I do have, I give you.”   Notice two things in this story. First: It’s important to know what you have and don’t have. “Peter said, ‘Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you.'” You...
How to Help People (Pt. IV)

How to Help People

Acts 3:1 reads, “Peter…went up…to the temple at the hour of prayer.”   The Bible says, “Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer…And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they...
How to Help People (Pt. IV)

Show Grace Because You’ll Need It Yourself

Galatians 2:21 reads, “If a…relationship with God could come by rule-keeping…Christ died unnecessarily.”   While grace doesn’t give anyone a license to live as they please, the judgmentalism that comes from insisting that other people...
How to Help People (Pt. IV)

Obedience Training

Psalm 40:8 reads, “I delight to do Your will.”   Billy Graham’s wife, Ruth, wrote: “Tonight I sit on the porch, our old German Shepherd dog lying at my feet. Thunder rumbles in the distance. As the storm nears he tears into the front yard to...