Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Acts, Apologetics, Life Application

Acts Wednesday: Chapter 2, Babel Reversed

This sign was a reversal of God’s judgment at the Tower of Babel. God’s judgment scattered and separated those people then, now He was uniting His people in the Spirit. At Babel no one could understand anyone else, but at Pentecost everyone could understand and hear God’s praises.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1, 2, 3 John

1 John 4: Agape First and Last

There is a quality to agape that is unlike the other loves, for it comes from a place of fullness, a place of depth and peace, it is an overflowing kind of love that does not need a response to exist.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1, 2, 3 John

1 John 4: We Have the Mind of Christ

The Apostle John was convinced those who know God listen to those who have written the scriptures, and that listening makes us capable of discerning between the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer 1 and 2 Peter (With Jude)

1 Peter 3: Do Not Fear?

The ink in Peter's quill was metaphorically drawn from his own suffering and sacrifice. He wrote about fear and courage because he was face-to-face with it.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Gospel of John

Gospel of John: Revelation to Martha

Or are we living in active faith that Jesus is powerfully at work within our inward beings, transforming us, and is also at work in our physical world, bring shalom to all those around us, including the earth itself?

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Gospel of John

Gospel of John: A Better Covenant

The giving of the Holy Spirit in a new, never-before way was to be inaugurated by another never-before event.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Gospel of John

Gospel of John: Life-Giving Feast

Jesus had delivered possibly the most offensive sermon ever given in his time, a message so viscerally horrifying, so unspeakably grotesque, that many must have been left actually speechless.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Minor Prophets

Minor Prophets: Joel and the Holy Spirit

This was the word from the Lord they had been longing to hear. After their sackcloth and ashes, their weeping and mourning, weakened from their fasts, and sacrifices, and prayers, they longed with every fiber of their being to hear some token of God’s love and mercy towards them.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Acts, Apologetics

Acts Wednesday: Chapter 18, Apollos

Apollos had everything you could possibly want to be effective: he had education, talent, skill and experience. But until Apollos had the Holy Spirit, his ministry was not effective.