A watch-night service in Kansas launched a doctrine: salvation first, Spirit baptism second, tongues as evidence. Paul answered the question in one sentence, writing to the most gift-obsessed church he knew.

You learned to talk about the Spirit like weather: something that falls, fills a room, moves when conditions are right. The night before the cross, Jesus introduced Him another way entirely.

You apologized and you meant it, and three weeks later you were doing it again. The problem was never your sincerity, but a definition of repentance that no one could ever finish satisfying.

In many churches today the deacon board is the group that governs. The word behind the office, though, means something humbler and far more surprising: a servant who waits on tables.

The word "pastor" barely appears in the New Testament, yet the office it points to is clearly defined. It simply goes by another name, and in Scripture that name is almost always plural.

You believe Jesus died for you, but someone told you that you weren’t really saved until you went under the water. So now there’s a small crack in your confidence. Does baptism actually save you? The answer is freer than the question.