In Jesus Name
Acts 3:1-10 We’re going to pick up where Pastor Brandon left off last week. He highlighted last week the New Testament church devotion was: 1. Devoted to the apostles teaching 2. Devoted to the fellowship 3. Devoted to prayer This week were going to see how this devotion leads to belief in Christ through physical healing. Summary – Peter and John – temple for prayer, lame man healed, praise and wonderment Today we’ll see Peter and John enter the temple…
The Devoted Church
The Princess Bride: Adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, sword fighting, revenge, and true love. Our text this morning is a lot like that… It has so many wonderful truths contained within its few verses. Within 7 verses we find: Salvation, Baptism, Revival, Corporate Worship, Preaching, Fellowship, Potlucks, Prayer, Miracles, Sacrifice, Finances, Generosity, Worship, Evangelism, Small Groups, Gratitude. This is like the princess bride of Passages. I am really excited for it, but as you can imagine, we don’t have a…
The Last Days
Introduction Try to imagine that you were a bystander, an eyewitness, to the events that transpired in Jerusalem when God opened the heavens and poured out the Spirit on His church. Where God, through the Holy Spirit, enabled the Apostles to speak in languages in which they were unskilled, so that people from all over the world could hear their proclamation in their native tongue. Acts 2:14-41 Context/Story first recorded sermon from one of the disciples. Never before have they…
The Long Awaited Spirit
This morning we are going to look at one of the 3 most important moments in the history of the world. Creation. John Calvin – “God created the world to function as a theater of His glory in the drama of redemption.” Death and Resurrection of Christ – Implications throughout all of human history. Both before AND after the event. Pentecost – Pentecost was that moment in redemptive history when God unlocked the power of the Holy Spirit and gave…
Know Your Calling
Introduction If you have been a Christian for any serious amount of time, you perhaps have considered leadership within the church. Whether Pastoral Ministry, Missionary, Eldership, Deacon, Ministry leader, Some may have dismissed the idea without much thought, while others may have felt such a calling to something greater for many years. Regardless, all of us must consider leadership seriously. We must know what makes a good leader. Not only for ourselves but for others whom we choose to place…
To The End of the Earth
Acts 1:6-11 Starting a new series in the book of Acts! (week 2) Luke – In the secular, scholarly world, Luke has been esteemed as the most accurate historian of the ancient world. He enjoys a higher reputation than Heroditus, Tacitus, Pliny, Josephus, or any of the rest. His work has been checked more carefully than anybody else’s. Last week… Jesus is back on the scene giving marching orders to the disciples and His fledgling church. We talked about…
The Book of Acts: For You You are going to love this book. This book is for you if… If you are not a Jew: Luke and Acts are our only writings from a Gentile (a non-Jew, just like you and me) in the whole Bible. It is the story of how Christianity spread beyond the Jews to the entire world. To people from every nation, tribe and tongue. Without the events in this book, you and I wouldn’t be…
Gomer Williams – Missionary
The Mission Fields of Africa
Welcome to Celebration in the Park!
The Armor of God Ephesians 6:10-24 Context/Story In the last two chapters Paul teaches us how to act in the church, how to act towards other believers and how to act in the family. Now he comes to how to act towards the evil influences and satanic forces in the world. And I think we can pull from our text 4 types of soldiers that Paul is warning us not to become. The Distracted Soldier The Distracted Soldier gets caught…
Submission and Authority
Submission and Authority This is a Bible, We like the Bible, right? We believe the Bible, right? How many of you have read the Bible and hit certain points where you think, “I have no idea what to do with that. I know it’s true, but that is a tough one for me. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with that part of the Bible”? Have you ever had that? Today we are talking about Submission and Authority…
The Purpose of Marriage
The Purpose of Marriage Bright eyed New couple, Excited to take on the world together. The future is full of possibilities! 5 Years, Passion for the future has turned to passionate arguments against one another You have realized that you both have very different ideas of what life should or could look like. 10 years, weighed down by the burdens of life (begin to eat at one another) Resentment grows, Thoughts are invading your head, they are not pulling their…
Be Imitators of God
Be Imitators of God Introduction The first 3 chapters – Doctrine, The last 3 chapters – Duty. Antinomianism – those who preach sex, drugs, and rock and roll—what you find in the book of Corinthians – Christ came, God forgive all sin, The spirit has sealed us. We are secure in Jesus. So now we can live as a prodigal. We should never forget that God’s ultimate goal for us is holiness. (1:4 – chose us before the foundation of…