Acts

Getting Through the Difficult Times in Life (Acts 27–28)

Title: Getting Through the Difficult Times in Life

Text: Acts 27–28 

Satan always shoves you; God leads you. We are simply too interested in getting to Rome. God is interested in who we will be when we get there. Do not buy into the lie that you need a perfect life to share the gospel...share from your storm!

Discover How to Find and Cultivate Awesome Friendships (ACTS 21-22)

Title: Discover How to Find and Cultivate Awesome Friendships

Text: ACTS 21–22

 

You were made for Christian friendships. One of the implications of being made in the Image of God (Imago Dei) is that we are meant for community. Friends, let yourself need people.... You do not want to live isolated! You never loved them you loved how they made you feel about yourself.

A Word to the Exhausted, Discouraged, and Depressed (ACTS 18)

Text: A Word to the Exhausted, Discouraged, and Depressed

Title: ACTS 18

There has never been an easy place to live for Christ. There is never a time when you will not benefit from friends of like spiritual passion. There has never been a great opportunity without great opposition. There is never a moment that you will not have to guard against worry and fear.

 

 

Gospel–Centered Problem Solving (Acts 15)

Title: Gospel-Centered Problem Solving 

Text: Acts 15

If you're a Skeptic toward Christ - please here me Christianity is not about putting chains on; it's about chains falling off. The whole point of the law of Moses was to lead you to Jesus. The law could save no man. There are no insignificant doctrines but where God is silent we should not be loud.

Paul's Map & Our Map: When God Sends you on a Journey (Acts 13-14)

Title: Paul's Map & Our Map: When God Sends you on a Journey

Text: Acts 13-14 

In adversity, we get to advertise the greatness of the Gospel We're not trying to be innovative...we're striving to be biblical! Plurality is not only biblical, but it's also incredibly practical and wise. If you're full of the devil that's one thing. A DEMON can be cast out.

The Story of a Good Father and Two Very Different Prodigal Sons (Luke 15)

Title: The Story of a Good Father and Two Very Different Prodigal Sons

Text: Luke 15

If you're not a GENUINELY hospitable person it is evidence that the gospel has not worked itself deeply into your heart. There are two ways to run from God, but there is only one-way home. There ain't no party like a Jesus party, because a Jesus party don't stop.

9 Pillars to Sustain you in your Darkest Hour (Acts 13)

Title: 9 Pillars to Sustain you in your Darkest Hour

Text: Acts 13 

The point of this story is the point of every story in the Bible - To put on display the power of God. If you oppose Jesus, you lose. Nobody wins who fights against God, be he king or pauper. God wins. In the midst of impossible circumstances, it is possible to be content.

The Antioch Model is Our Model (Acts 11:19–30)

Title: The Antioch Model is Our Model

Text: Acts 11:19-30

Relationships within the Body come to be flavored by the gospel. Our church should be one of God's gardens. He can pick people and plant them wherever he chooses. God doesn't just allow suffering among his people; He ordains it! We are not attempting to be new and innovative.

Do Not Underestimate the Reach of God's Grace

Title: Do Not Underestimate the Reach of God's Grace 

Text: Acts 9:1–31

You can tell you've been converted by the moral and spiritual reversal that has demonstrated itself in your life. Saul was on his way to arrest Christians; he was arrested by Christ. You cannot go back and rewrite the first chapters of your life, but you can start now, to begin writing a new ending.

 

 

A Gospel that Can't Fail, and a Faith that Can (Text: Acts 8:4–25)

Title: A Gospel that Can't Fail, and a Faith that Can.

Text: Acts 8:4–25

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We believe once you see this Christ ... you will find him irresistible. What we know not-teach us. What we have not -give us. What we are not-make us. Without this Gospel Heat -people will simply snap. Putting pressure on their will may temporarily alter their behavior but never changes their heart.

Growing Pains: Overcoming Challenges to Church Growth

Title: Growing Pains: Overcoming Challenges to Church Growth 

Text: Acts 6:1–7

The great red dragon will stop at nothing to destroy a growing church! When you care about something you appoint people to care for it. Don't bring me the problem without bringing me a solution. Anyone can point out problems. No spiritual gift required for that.

Christ-Centered Ministries Lead to Christ-Centered Lives (Acts 5:12–42)

Title: Christ-Centered Ministries Lead to Christ-Centered Lives

Text: Acts 5:12–42 

A Christ-Centered Ministry Enriches the Poor in Spirit. Miracles are not really an intrusion into the natural order, but a restoration of the natural order. A Christ-Ministry Enrages the Prideful Jesus is not the first Christian. He is Christianity.

Embracing the "Messy" Church (Acts 4:32–5:11)

Title: Embracing the "Messy" Church

Text: Acts 4:32–5:11

God can transform your life. God is taking messy lives and renovating them We WERE NOT good people needing to turn over a new leaf, but we were dead people who NEEDED TO be made alive by a new power. ARE YOU SOMEONE who walks through church thinking more about your glory than God's?

Spirit–Empowered, World–Evangelizing, Christ–Centered Ninjas (Acts 2:1–41)

Title: Spirit–Empowered, World–Evangelizing, Christ–Centered Ninjas

Text: Acts 2:1–41

I am not smart enough to teach anything other than the Bible, and I am too smart to teach anything but the Bible. You can have all the facts you want, but you still lack something. You lack POWER! Peter's sermon (at Pentecost) is pretty simple...The tomb is empty the throne is occupied...Jesus will not stay dead....repent and believe.