Getting Covid on vacation: Zack reflects on whether "looking at the positives" is biblical.

A friend runs with a backpack (with surprising results); Charles Barkley gets it wrong; Seneca gets it right: Zack wrestles with Paul's repeated exhortation to imitate him.

What is a sermon?; the Law of Conservation of Mass; the many raisings from the dead in Scripture: Zack meditates upon what it means that God is a God of Life.

The basis of the global economy; modern-day gladiators?; an 18th anniversary: Zack explores the way that economic practices in Acts often elicit extreme persecution and struggles with potential modern-day analogies.

Lapping water like dogs; having your son order a burrito for you; not joining a monastery: Zack offers suggestions for why Paul moved in next door to the synagogue in Corinth.

The best verse in "Amazing Grace"; the exodus of Philistines and Arameans?; courage in a small Albanian village: Zack talks about how Paul's Areopagus speech in Acts 17 challenges us to speak the gospel in new ways and to hear the gospel in unexpected places.

Our precedented times; agreements between the Right and Left; the psychology of despair: Zack finds a way toward hope in Philippians 4.

The humble beginnings of a great church: Zack sees the story of the church at Philippi as a story of hope for Covenant Church.

Zack considers 2.5 ways that the Holy Spirits speaks in Acts 13 (and today): through other people, through circumstances, through not speaking but allowing us freedom to act and be corrected. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.

Why is Peter delivered and James killed? Why shouldn't we preach Acts simply as a series of miracles? What is a miracle? Zack wrestles with Acts 12. For supplemental notes and reading suggestions, visit www.covmin.org/sermons.