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Introduction: If you have your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to the book of Acts chapter 14. If you don’t have a copy of God’s word just slip up your hand and one of our church members will be coming down the aisle now with extra Bibles. The Apostle Paul's first missionary journey covered…

Review Acts chapter thirteen revealed that it is God’s owner’s manual on local church reproduction. It showed us that God’s heart is for people to believe on Jesus Christ for salvation and for more Bible-preaching churches to be planted. That is exactly the methodology that Paul and Barnabas used as…

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…

Introduction While I was preparing this sermon I came to realise that God had been doing a work in me not only during my Christian life, nor in the period just before I was reborn, nor during adolescence, nor during my childhood but even before my birth. And do you know what? It’s true for you too! As…

If our goal is to better understand the value of the local church and church membership, we need to take some time to see what it looks like. “I can be a Christian without going to church.” How do you feel about that statement? First: simply going to church is part of what guides that statement. If I…

Good Morning, I am so glad that you are here to worship with us this morning. Grab your Bibles and turn with me to Ephesians chapter 2. We are in a series on the foundations of our faith, and the verses that I want us to look at here in Ephesians chapter 2 explain so much of what we are going to look…

Hebrews 10 Good morning church! Glad you all made it here this morning. We are thankful that we have power and a roof over our heads to be able to gather and worship our God together. I hope many of you read ahead this week. There is some repetition from where we have been, so reading ahead helps us…

A. Rapport for the time Adding something to an item that is already finished. After the item is finished being worked on. B. Reading of the text C. Review of the text We are moving along in Acts and have come to the end of Paul’s first missionary journey with Barnabas. They have spent the time going…

Persistent in Pursuit A. Rapport for the time B. Reading of the text 19 But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. 20 But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city,…

Exodus 18:1-20:23 In our last Torah Portion Beshalach - When Set forth Send 8938 שָׁלַח ( šā·lǎḥ ): v.; ≡ Str 7971; TWOT 2394— 1. LN 15.34–15.74 (qal) send out , The Torah is the manual how to serve God- gives a sense of direction, like a compass W/o direction you do not know where you are going or what…

Introduce Self... Pray... Kids... Can you imagine what it would be like if your legs didn’t work? In this story, there is a man whose legs don’t work. He’s an adult man and it’s been this way since he was born. Paul comes to this man fixes his legs! When we’re born, we’re spiritually broken. We don’t…

19 Then Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there; and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. 20 However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city. And the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.…

1 Now it happened in Iconium that they went together to the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of the Jews and of the Greeks believed. 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brethren. 3 Therefore they stayed there a long time,…

reign missions is not easy, but it is essential!

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.

5 This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you— 6 if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination. 7 For an overseer,…

The Challenge of the Church Acts 14: 1-28 As we continue our study this morning, I want to remind us again of our text verse: Acts 17:6 And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither…

VII.THE CHURCH: We believe in the one true Church, the body and bride of Christ ( Eph.1:22-23 ; 5:25-32 ), composed of all true believers of the present age ( 1 Cor. 12:12-13 ); and the organization of its members in local churches for worship, for edification of believers, and for world-wide gospel…

Verse 19 The same angry mob in Iconium from verses 5-6 make the journey of more than 100 miles that Paul and Barnabas just did to persuade/win over the multitudes to join in their hate and violence. It wasn’t enough for them to kick Paul and Barnabas out of their region, they wanted to make sure everyone…

How many of us today have heard the word “LENT” talked about or even explained? Maybe, you have heard some discussion about it this week. No, I am not talking about this, (your dryer lent, that you get from the clothes) I am talking about the season of lent. This past Wednesday many people took part…

Last week we saw God miraculously deliver Peter from execution by helping him escape from prison. After this, Saul and Barnabas return to Antioch, where the Lord calls them out as missionaries. The church fasts and prays for them and commissions them out on their journey. They travel from Antioch to…

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…

Pastor James takes us through 1st Timothy 2-3.

Pat's Sport & Avenger's Analogies

On the Move, Part 2: Perseverance Last week we talked about the first missionary journey of Paul. We saw the conversion of a Roman Governor, Sergius Paulus. We witness Paul preaching a Sermon about Christ in the Synagogue and many coming to know the Lord, especially the Gentiles. He also made some more…