Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
"The Spirit is never hindered by our wounds or our waiting or our anxieties or our uncertainties. If anything, the Spirit does some of the most astonishing work in places we think are the most constrained. Paul cannot go to the world anymore—but the world comes to Paul. His prison becomes a parish. His confinement becomes a classroom. His cell becomes a sanctuary in the belly of the beast, in the capital of the empire. Because you can be in-between, and still in the flow of the Spirit’s work. Theologian Willie Jennings notes something quite astounding as he looks back on the whole book of Acts: “Almost no one is doing what they want to do. The Spirit of God is pressing every disciple to do precisely what God wants done and not what they might envision.”
Excerpt from "Acts of the Spirit: Unhindered" | November 23, 2025. Full sermon available on our YouTube channel.
"The Spirit is never hindered by our wounds or our waiting or our anxieties or our uncertainties. If anything, the Spirit does some of the most astonishing work in places we think are the most constrained. Paul cannot go to the world anymore—but the world comes to Paul. His prison becomes a parish. His confinement becomes a classroom. His cell becomes a sanctuary in the belly of the beast, in the capital of the empire. Because you can be in-between, and still in the flow of the Spirit’s work. Theologian Willie Jennings notes something quite astounding as he looks back on the whole book of Acts: “Almost no one is doing what they want to do. The Spirit of God is pressing every disciple to do precisely what God wants done and not what they might envision.”
Excerpt from "Acts of the Spirit: Unhindered" | November 23, 2025. Full sermon available on our YouTube channel.
