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There’s no doubt if you’re looking to understand what real Christianity is, the book of Acts is the place you should start. Nothing shows us what authentic Christianity is more than the earliest years | -- | -- | January 18, 2021 | 35:30s | |||||||||
Our passage from Acts 2 is about the birth of the Christian church. We’re going to look at how the birth of the church is intimately related to the birth of Christ: Christmas. In many ways, what happe | -- | -- | April 12, 2021 | 21:04s | |||||||||
In Acts 16 there are three case studies that show how Jesus and the gospel can really change your life: Lydia, the slave girl, and the Philippian jailer. All of these show the incredible accessibility | -- | -- | January 25, 2021 | 42:05s | |||||||||
Even after the rise of Rome, Athens was still the intellectual capital of the Greco-Roman world in the first century. For those of us who are English speakers, Athens was like all of the Ivy League sc | -- | -- | January 27, 2021 | 41:51s | |||||||||
What we have here is Paul on trial. He had been charged with sedition, causing a riot, undermining the public peace. He had been charged with heresy. At the very top of chapter 26, Paul gives a defe | -- | -- | April 26, 2021 | 43:08s | |||||||||
The last chapters of the book of Acts could all be called “The Sufferings of Paul,” because it’s just one bad thing happening to Paul after another. He is caught in a storm on his way to Rome. He has | -- | -- | April 28, 2021 | 39:35s | |||||||||
We come to perhaps the most famous conversion story in the history of the world: the conversion of Saul (who becomes Paul). This is the man who sought to do the most harm to the earliest Christians, b | -- | -- | January 8, 2021 | 43:07s | |||||||||
Acts 15 is not a chapter that is commonly used for sermons. It usually is not something we spend time on because it’s a long theological debate. But this debate teaches us at least four incredibly imp | -- | -- | January 20, 2021 | 38:32s | |||||||||
The book of Acts is about the history of the early church. For the first seven chapters, we only see the gospel in Jerusalem and Judea, but because of the execution of Stephen and then the persecution | -- | -- | January 4, 2021 | 37:53s | |||||||||
Our passage today is on the first miracle the apostles perform after the resurrection of Jesus, which is at the very beginning of the Christian church. If you want to learn about the topic of sufferin | -- | -- | April 14, 2021 | 37:03s | |||||||||
Our passage comes from Acts 22 where Paul is facing a hostile audience and one life-threatening situation after another. In a way, there’s one overall theme, which is God can bring good out of evil an | -- | -- | April 23, 2021 | 39:08s | |||||||||
Acts is about the origins of Christianity. Whenever you go to the origins, you learn something about what genuine Christianity is — authentic, original, real Christianity. That is important because ma | -- | -- | April 16, 2021 | 41:18s | |||||||||
The book of Acts is all about the earliest Christianity. It shows us something about the character of the earliest Christianity, especially about where the church got its power. The book of Acts, but | -- | -- | January 6, 2021 | 38:58s | |||||||||
What we see in the book of Acts is that the church was born in a pluralistic society — a society with many different beliefs in various gods. Christians made absolute truth claims about the one true G | -- | -- | January 1, 2021 | 39:31s | |||||||||
Our passage comes from Acts chapter 5 where things begin to look dim for the followers of Christ. Beginning around this time and spanning to around AD 300, the history of the early church is filled wi | -- | -- | April 19, 2021 | 36:24s | |||||||||
When Paul got to Rome for his trial, he was not put in a dungeon, but he was put under house arrest. He was in a rented home, and therefore, he was able to have guests and have people come and go. The | -- | -- | April 30, 2021 | 46:45s | |||||||||
Our passage is the first Christian sermon given by Peter on the day of Pentecost. It’s important that we consider the entire sermon for the context, but we’re going to focus our time on the last four | -- | -- | April 9, 2021 | 33:54s | |||||||||
The heart of Acts chapter 16 are three wonderful case studies of how God changes three very different people. There’s a woman, there’s a girl, and there’s a man. They are three marvelous examples of h | -- | -- | January 22, 2021 | 45:56s | |||||||||
In our passage today, Paul, after having ministered in tremendous ways in Ephesus for three years, is now taking leave to go to Jerusalem. He assembles the elders, who are the leaders of the church, t | -- | -- | April 21, 2021 | 48:17s | |||||||||
We’re going to look at a very famous episode in the book of Acts today, the day of Pentecost. What makes this unique is the descent of the Holy Spirit. There’s a sense in which the Old Testament peopl | -- | -- | April 7, 2021 | 40:22s | |||||||||
The book of Acts is about how the earliest church was essentially launched into a cosmopolitan and urban setting just like ours today. Our church has never been here just for convinced, believing Chri | -- | -- | April 5, 2021 | 38:32s | |||||||||
Today both Christians and skeptics of Christianity can struggle to figure out what is real Christianity. Skeptics struggle with certain aspects of what has become known as Christianity, but also, Chri | -- | -- | January 29, 2021 | 40:30s | |||||||||
The first recorded sermon by Saint Paul is found in Acts 13. It’s dominated by the subject of Christ’s resurrection. Elsewhere Paul says that without the resurrection of Christ, “our preaching is usel | -- | -- | January 15, 2021 | 27:08s | |||||||||
The church of Antioch was one of the most important churches in early Christianity. It teaches us many things about Christian outreach, cultural diversity, prayer, discipleship, and caring for people | -- | -- | January 13, 2021 | 34:10s | |||||||||
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