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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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Home Church Today, we are going to see Paul and Barnabas return to their home church after their first missionary journey. This journey took anywhere from one to two years and covered travel of over 1,000 miles. What would it be like to come home after such a long trip? Let’s consider just a few things…

Patterns/Examples There are patterns you can see in scriptures, some show sin, judgment, repentance, return to obedience, others examples for us to follow (i.e. salvation’s path; Jesus examples, etc.) Tonight we are looking at Paul’s mission team example, what procedures did he put in place, in what…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Reflecting back to last week, we as the church are now: Out of the stands, no longer spectators… RIGHT!? We have come together today to prepare ourselves for ACTION!!! It’s time to HUDDLE and prepare and be equipped for the work of the Gospel... There is an obligation given in the great commission Matthew…

At 4:30 pm today, an event will occur called the Super Bowl. Over 100 Million people will tune in to watched 22 men fight for, run, throw, and kick a piece of leather. Two teams consisting of no more than 53 players on each team, along with some coaches working… striving… giving their all, while 100…

Seven Qualities the Spirit Uses to advance the Godpel 1. Spirit Controlled (1) 1 In Iconium they entered the synagogue of the Jews together, and spoke in such a manner that a large number of people believed, both of Jews and of Greeks. In Such a Manner: 17 For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to…

In Iconium they entered the Jewish synagogue, as usual, and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and poisoned their minds against the brothers. So they stayed there a long time and spoke boldly for the Lord, who testified…

Bro Justin's message to the South Texas Missionary Baptist Association meeting.

Coming to the end of Paul's first missionary journey the brethren are strengthened and Paul and Barnabas return to Antioch the beginning of their journey.

God has already provided the resource you will need when you encounter denial, opposition, persecution, and doubt.

People often ask, and if we are honest, we all want to be able to know the Will of God. One of the problems is that, we, our culture, think we are smart. If you think about it. I have seen Nuclear Bombs detonated when they were tested. I remember when we first sent a person into space and then landed…