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Many years ago, there were some soldiers who were fighting a forest fire. They were fighting it but had become surrounded by flames. Just then a plane flew over them flying very low to the ground and dropped notes that were weighted down onto the area where the soldiers were located. The note stated…

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…

Knowing what it is we here at Hickory Corners Bible Church believe and how it is we operate is important. HCBC Basics is a condensed class to look at our statement of faith, and how it is we apply what we believe to our church life. This session will focus on the principle doctrines related to the place and purpose of the church.

Acts 11:12–18 (ESV) — 12 And the Spirit told me to go with them, making no distinction. These six brothers also accompanied me, and we entered the man’s house. 13 And he told us how he had seen the angel stand in his house and say, ‘Send to Joppa and bring Simon who is called Peter; 14 he will declare…

Why do we do things that we know aren’t good for us? I eat too much bread. I put too much sugar in my coffee. I don’t eat fruits and vegetables like I should. Those things I do but rarely feel conviction about them. But over the last few weeks I’ve noticed that I watch and read too much news. It’s not…

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…

Acts 11:19-30

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.

Have we reached a final age for Christianity, a post-Christian age? Or have we never been in a Christian age at all? The last verses of Acts reveal a startling reality about how Christianity interacts with the surrounding cultures which just might turn our ideas about our nation and its history on their heads.

Peter on the roof He stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” He answered, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. Now send men to Joppa for a certain Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging with Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside.” About noon the…

Our world is full of conflict. We see this in almost every area of life: relational, political, geographical, and even spiritual. Our world is more polarized. Here is what I mean: there is very little room for middle ground. We have become an either/or society. We have a choice! We are never powerless.…

Selfless Love Marches Victorious over Self-glorification GOAL: Understand the surprising value of Love as God bestows it, and practice it. MALADY: We emotionalize love, which makes it subject to our unreliable feelings. MEANS: The means to the goal is the carefully considered understanding of the fullness…

What’s the problem here? Contagious Holiness We still things through the lens of “clean” and “unclean” There’s a problem for us, on the inside: “The voice spoke from heaven a second time, ‘Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.’ From Jews and Gentiles to us and them What other us and them…

Welcome... Introduce self... Pray... And the Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I have put in your power. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. What is a hard heart? Biblical idea of heart: Described the entirety…

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…

Acts 11 This class continues with the expansion of the early church. In the wake of Cornelius’ conversion, early Christians (who are mostly converted Jews or converted Jewish proselytes) are learning that the gospel is meant for Gentiles as well. This episode focuses on why that was news, how the book…

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.

Today we will jump back into our trek through the book of Ephesians. It’s been a few weeks now since we were last in it’s pages... But if we remember... Paul, in chapter 2 of Ephesians - really HIGHLIGHTED what it meant to be - IN CHRIST... Paul has been pointing to this relationship between Jew and…

Adelphos (adelphoi) – is the word for brother (brethren). It occurs some 346 times in the New Testament. 1. A brother - born of the same two parents, or only of the same father or the same mother. While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother,…

I. The Biblical Purposes of Tongues A. Share the Gospel in Many Languages Acts 2:11 11 Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. This was fulfillment to the prophecy of Joel. 16 But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; 17 And it shall come to…

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…

Introduction Have you ever heard that someone came to know Christ and wondered how did they receive Christ? Thieves, Tattooed people, Murders, Prostitutes Republicans, Democrats Peter was the leader of the Disciples - Jewish men A Rule of Three A three fold testimony was crucial in Israel to establishing…

Filled With The Spirit Holy Spirit — God, person, putting yourself under the control of the Holy Spirit Paul gave us a command to be always allow the Holy spirit to control us And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit, is the same as Let the word of Christ dwell…