Miracles in the Ordinary — Acts 3
April 16, 2026
This Sunday's message walked through Acts 3, where Peter and John head up to the temple at the hour of prayer — an ordinary errand — and God turns it into something extraordinary. At the gate they meet a man who has been lame from birth, well over forty years old, carried there every day to beg. Peter looks at him and says, "I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk." The man does.
The power of being available
Peter wasn't on a special assignment. He was simply there — present, walking with God, ready. That's the invitation: God's biggest moves often find people in their most routine ones. We don't have to engineer the miracle; we have to be available for it.
Still happening now
The message didn't leave this in the first century. We heard a personal account of healing — carpal tunnel numbness in the hands that simply faded over the course of a couple of days after prayer. The point wasn't the method; it's that the same God who acted at the temple gate is still acting today.
Why we needed Jesus at all
And there's a deeper lameness underneath the physical one. The man sat outside the temple, dependent on others, unable to walk in on his own — a picture of all of us before Christ. Our sin keeps us at the gate of a holy God. The healing in Acts 3 points past itself to the One who doesn't just get us to the door but carries us through it.