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Jesus, Why Do You Seek a Sinner’s Baptism? Some called Jesus baptism his ordination into his mission as savior of the world. The Manger story, the arrival of the wise men, the 12 year old in the temple are all prologue. Now the hour for his ministry had come, and on the schedule of God's timetable he…

1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable…

Your circle Your Circle Your Witness Your Disciple Your Family Pray Book of Acts Recap: Jesus ascends The disciples receive the Holy Spirit The Gospel is preached and 3,000 are saved The church grows and the Gospel spreads The church has a problem Godly men, including Stephen and Philip are chosen to…

1 My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. 2 For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, 3 and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say,…

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…

A. Rapport for the time B. Reading of the text C. Review of the text Looking at it last week we saw a problem arise in the early church with the question of what we must do to be saved. The early church D. Relevance of the text I. Peter Explains God’s Work 6 The apostles and the elders were gathered…

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…

Why are we baptized in water after salvation? Because it draws out for us a vivid, memorable picture for us of our union with Jesus Christ in His death, burial, and resurrection. Because it confesses that new union we have with Jesus Christ as a declaration to other believers. Because it demonstrates our commitment to being obedient to our Lord and Savior.

Welcome Prayer Introduction: Last week we looked at Acts 10:1-35 and saw how God opened Peter’s thinking to understand that the Gospel wasn’t just for the Jews, and, we applied it to ask ourselves who, in our lives, do we treat like Peter and the early Church treated the Gentiles. Additionally, we pondered…

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…

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…

This is the last message in a brief three=part series on themes in the book of Acts. We have already looked at the theme of the church being reborn as a new community of believers, and we have looked at the theme of the church being recommissioned with a purpose to be witnesses of Jesus. Today we wrap…

In Acts 10 the essence of the new Christian faith is revealed to the apostle Peter. This revelation has shaken our world down to the present day. What did Peter discover? How has it transformed our lives? Join us as we explore this pivotal event in history.

We are reminded that the Holy Spirit gathers us into faith in the Father who created us and sent the Son to redeem us. We are encouraged to understand the Trinity more seriously than we do.

When we left off last week, Saul, the persecutor of the church, met Jesus on the road to Damascus. He was struck blind and instructed to go to the city and wait for a man named Ananias who would come and restore his eyesight. The Lord tells Ananias to go and face Saul to restore his eyesight, which would…

Verses 24-26 You remember who else is in Caesarea? 40 But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. We don’t know if Peter calls for him to come for this but it is interesting to note that he is there because we wonder why God didn’t just…

Matthew 17:22-18:14 GOAT This is an acronym you will likely see often during the run up to the SuperBowl. It isn’t an insult. The letters represent: GREATEST OF ALL TIME I have my opinions as to who is the GOAT when it comes to football, but we aren’t here this morning to rank football players! Distressed…

When going to bible school, one of the first things you learn is when we interpret scripture we must remember not to come to scripture believing that we already know what the bible means, for then we are projecting our assumptions and interpretations onto the bible. We must come to scripture asking God…

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…

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…

Finding God’s Favor 19 If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land; God’s Favorite? 11 For God does not show favoritism. 34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism God shows no favoritism or partiality 3 Now Israel loved…