Maybe Yes, Maybe No: Empowered, Not Enabled — Acts 12

Working through Acts 12, this Sunday's message walks through Herod's persecution of the church, James being put to the sword, and Peter sleeping between two soldiers the night before his execution until an angel walks him out of prison. The central tension is why God lets James die yet delivers Peter — and the reminder that God doesn't enable us, He empowers us, asking us to do what we can while He handles what only He can. The call is to pray earnestly and with expectation, use the reason God gave us, and trust the God who sees the whole picture even when we only see earth.