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We were in New York City a couple of weeks ago, and at one point I was riding a bus from LaGuardia airport to our hotel in Queens. As a Jesus follower, I want to consider others better than myself, and make room for others, so I went to the back of the bus, took a window seat, and piled my bags on my…

Is God worth my time? How much of my time am I willing to give to God? Once a week? Once a day? All day? Every moment of the day? What if we were to be challenged to focus on God all day? Before and during every conversation, or decision? Often times we say that we don’t see the things of God, but how…

Connecting the Dots When things are not easy to reconcile in our minds. Read 1 “You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. 2 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his…

Mission - be witnesses (martyrs) Method - Prayer & Proclamation Means - Holy Spirit Opposition Attacks from without Attacks from within Prejudice Mahatma Gandhi shares in his autobiography that in his student days in England he was deeply touched by reading the Gospels and seriously considered becoming…

A. The Rapport for the Time Who may be saved? Two weeks ago, Last week Correcting vision. What does your salvation mean to you. We have come our of a week of thanksgiving to get to the text this morning and ask ourselves what does our salvation mean to us? B. The Reading of the Text C. The Review of…

A. The Rapport for the Time I love this time of year don’t you! Thanksgiving and Christmas have some huge traditions that are different for each household. You grow up with things being a certain way and you expect that certain way because it is what you have always done. And if it is changed, WOW, we…

Believing in the transformative power of the Gospel, we must NEVER hesitate to share it with others!

We've come to the end of Acts and we summarised it from the perspective that it's a Spirit-empowered, boundary-crossing GROWTH story. It encourages us in our faith journey of growth, and as we boldly share the gospel.

When I was a kid, my dad built me a wooden house on stilts. Kind of like a treehouse but not in a tree; it was on stilts and had two entrances, one with a slide and the other a ladder, and two windows. There was a sign over the entrance at the ladder that my mom made for me. “Boys Club - Boys Allowed…

“I do not write this for attention, so that I may become your ‘project’.” On pastor tells about a message he received from a young man in his congregation whom he had only met a couple of times… He was writing to share a part of his story… He had grown up in and out of the church… He told the pastor…

Nothing Significant Happens Without Prayer is a pretty strong statement and it is one I believe to be true. And today I want us to understand why this is and be challenged to pray. Let’s start with a story from history as told by Galli and Olsen in 131 Christians everyone should know by Broadman and…

Volume Overview Who is the Holy Spirit? But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things! Galatians 5:22–23 22 But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit…

Acts 29 We spent the last 37 weeks traveling through the book of Acts. It has been a joy and a journey for me and I’m sure for you as well. What I want to do this morning is highlight some key insights into the book and then I want to give you all the opportunity to speak up and out about how we can…

Order of Service Welcome 27 Turn away from evil and do good; so shall you dwell forever. 28 For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land and dwell upon it forever. Hymn…

Who was Cornelius? A Roman Centurion of the Italian Regiment (100 men) Devout, God-fearing, uncircumcised Gentile Gave generously to those in need and prayed to God regularly His family was known to be like him Two Visions, and a Divine Appointment Cornelius was praying about three in the afternoon and…

Sometimes we feel like some people are beyond saving. See how God taught Peter that anyone can be saved as we look through Acts 10.

On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” But you will receive power when…

History of the church. A Tale of two Cities A tale of two Pastors. A tale of two Cities (Edinburgh) Hand of God working through His people.

Grace for All For the last couple of weeks we have learned about Saul. We talked about his Conversion and subsequent persecution. Luke is going to take a step back from Paul for a minute and highlight an important turning point in the mission of Christ. Remember when we started this journey through Acts…

In Jesus' final instructions, he set the stage for what we are doing as believers. Hear what we are called to do as we follow God's plan in God's power as we surrender to his schedule.

Acts 8-10 This morning we come to the final message in our series on INVITE! Last week we talked about what it would take to reach all of NWA with the Gospel—which seems an ambitious goal (and it is), but we do so because of the commands of Jesus! Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Our characters, our setting God’s way, God’s timing, God’s instruments all work for God’s good and for our good in turn. Tonight we continue to look at the set up and the conversion of Cornelius. Place: Caesarea, Joppa, Joppa to Caesarea Cornelius is located in Caesarea, Peter is located in Joppa, and…

God’s perfect plan continues God’s promise, God’s covenant with Abraham (Gen12:3, 15:5) we have seen the seed and the blessing to the Jews, the Samaritans and this evening we will see it carry to the Gentiles fulfilling the promise. 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I…

Religion means nothing. 1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. 43 To Him all the prophets witness that,…