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INTRODUCTION Last lesson in our series “Understanding Salvation” The Objectives of our lesson “Salvation and the Great Commission” Understand the significance of the Great Commission in the context of Salvation Review a Biblical Example of Sharing the Gospel 1. Significance of the Great Commission in…

Let me encourage you to finish reading chapter 9. I want to skip down to chapter 10 and look at a story that is very important to all of us Gentiles. As we study the gospel message of Jesus Christ, it is important that we understand that this message is for all people. The story of Cornelius is a very…

Review Saul and Peter were two men who learned to bloom wherever God planted them. They each had their time of preparation. They each learned to be content where God had them in that moment. They each learned valuable lessons as they prepared for the next step that God had in their lives. While Saul…

Easter and Christmas are probably the most significant days in the Christian faith. The birth of Jesus and His resurrection, major components of the gospel. Instead of spending just one week focusing on the Easter event, I wanted us to spend a few weeks after Easter reflecting on the resurrection and…

Welcome Good morning everyone. Today in the Gospel Story sermon series we are going to see in important step in the process of spreading the gospel, the message of Jesus, to the entire world. Up to this point in the book of Acts, we have largely seen the disciples ministering to other Jewish people.…

Prayer is coming into communication with the living and active God... Prayers moves us from the: Physical to the Spiritual Temporal to the Eternal From self-focus to God-focus This week we are going to look at the NT How Not to Pray 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to…

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…

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…

“I do not write this for attention, so that I may become your ‘project’.” On pastor tells about a message he received from a young man in his congregation whom he had only met a couple of times… He was writing to share a part of his story… He had grown up in and out of the church… He told the pastor…

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…

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.

History of the church. A Tale of two Cities A tale of two Pastors. A tale of two Cities (Edinburgh) Hand of God working through His people.

Grace for All For the last couple of weeks we have learned about Saul. We talked about his Conversion and subsequent persecution. Luke is going to take a step back from Paul for a minute and highlight an important turning point in the mission of Christ. Remember when we started this journey through Acts…

In Jesus' final instructions, he set the stage for what we are doing as believers. Hear what we are called to do as we follow God's plan in God's power as we surrender to his schedule.

Acts 8-10 This morning we come to the final message in our series on INVITE! Last week we talked about what it would take to reach all of NWA with the Gospel—which seems an ambitious goal (and it is), but we do so because of the commands of Jesus! Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing…

NOTE: This is a manuscript, and not a transcript of this message. The actual presentation of the message differed from the manuscript through the leading of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, it is possible, and even likely that there is material in this manuscript that was not included in the live presentation…

Our characters, our setting God’s way, God’s timing, God’s instruments all work for God’s good and for our good in turn. Tonight we continue to look at the set up and the conversion of Cornelius. Place: Caesarea, Joppa, Joppa to Caesarea Cornelius is located in Caesarea, Peter is located in Joppa, and…

Religion means nothing. 1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, 2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. 43 To Him all the prophets witness that,…