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Acts 12 – The Grace of God in Prayer
When a case is put into God’s hands, he will certainly manage it well, and he will interfere in sufficient time to bring his servants out of their distress. Peter’s case was put into God’s hands. The company that met at the house of Mary, the mother of Mark, were appealing to the great […]
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Acts 11:19-30 God Uses Church Planting To Accomplish His Purposes
If you could cut the heart of God, you would find that God bleeds church planting. Let me explain. God’s passion is that His kingdom will spread to all peoples. His plan is that His kingdom increase through church planting. Fred Herron makes this case following a careful study of the Word of God. […]
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Acts 11:1-18 The Significance of the Gospel For All Men
If our text tells us anything it is that the gospel has priority. The gospel also has profound implications. If the gospel is God’s promise and God’s possession, then it is His to give, to whomever He chooses. The gospel was for sinners, Jew or Gentile. The gospel was God’s means of providing salvation […]
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Acts 10 – Peter’s Change of Heart
The ancient Greeks divided up the human race into two categories: Greeks and arbarians. The barbarian was literally a man who could not speak Greek, and so his words sounded to the Greek ear like “bar bar.” One Greek historian asked rhetorically, “How can men who can only bark ever rule the world?” Prejudice is […]
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Acts 9:19-43 God Is Doing Extraordinary Things With Ordinary People
Imagine yourself in that early church with no legal protection and all the power structures are indifferent or hostile to you. Would you not be tempted to murmur and feel fatalistic. The Romans (like Pilate) are against us, the Jewish council (the Sanhedrin) is against us, the priests are against us and they even […]
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Acts 9:1-19 The Sovereign Grace of God in Conversion
There isn’t a greater illustration of electing grace than the Apostle Paul. He is on his way to Damascus, Acts 9, to kill Christians. He is stopped dead in his tracks. He is redeemed and he is called to the apostate all by the sovereign intervention of Christ Himself. So we could say he’s […]
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The Importance of Disciple Making in the Mission of the Church
All of us when it comes to talking about making disciples, it’s not about individual followers, just on their own, lone rangers making disciples. It’s about being a part of a body and together making disciples. So when it comes to those central practices that are involved in disciple-marking: sharing the gospel, showing the […]
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Where are We Going As A Church? Sermon Series – Part 1
By dying upon the cross for our sin and by rising from the dead in victory over sin, Jesus fully activated the good news. We can now be reconciled to God and live forever in unbroken fellowship with God. We can begin already to experience the new creation, even as we wait for the […]
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Good Gospel Questions
In Galatians 2, Paul irons the issue out. You are justified by faith. Salvation comes through both dying to the propensity to trust in moral efforts under the law & actively trusting in the finished work of Christ. For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God (Gal 2:19). The […]
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Acts 8:26-40 The Gospel Continue to Go Foward
Luke seems to have regarded Stephen and Philip as a pair. Luke saw the ministry of both men as helping to pave the way for the Gentile mission. Stephen’s contribution lay in his teaching about the temple, the law, and the Christ, and in the effects of his martyrdom, while Philip’s lay in his […]
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