Making the Impossible Possible

Does God still perform miracles?

“But God…” — Ephesians 2:4a

As we survey the biblical record, we discover one primary purpose of signs and wonders was to authenticate God’s messengers and to confirm the authority of God’s message. Therefore, it should not surprise us that after the Bible was complete with the death of the final apostle near the end of the first century AD, dense constellations of miraculous activity would become less common, if not unnecessary. [1]

If we define a miracle as an act God accomplishes that is naturally impossible, we will admit miracles still take place every day. We just have to know where to look. In Ephesians 2:1–5, the apostle Paul shows us by revealing facet of grace. In theology, we call it regeneration. Jesus referred to it as being “born again.”

1And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience — 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the…