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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…

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 Bible just slip up your hand and one of our church members would be glad to bring you one. We are following the footsteps of Paul and Barnabas as they continue their first missionary…

A. Rapport for the time I love a good story don’t you? If you are like me you began life with your grandfather telling the most intersecting stories about how they grew up. It moved on to my Dad who would tell all kinds of crazy stories which you would find out B. Reading of the text Paul on the Island…

How does God speak? 1. Creation 18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of…

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…

We are studying Acts 14:1-20 … Dr. Luke, the author, gives us a great picture of staying focused on our mission in spite of difficulty… you can say perseverance in the face of persecution. But before we get there I want to tell you how I found this message. So I was riding my horse the other day around…

Introduction: We’ve been looking for several weeks now at how we can know the will of God for our lives. Over the last few weeks we’ve talked about what we mean by the will of God and we’ve also looked at some of the unbiblical ways that the pagans sought to know the will of their gods. Tonight, we are…

A. Rapport for the time There is not doubt that Mom’s have a huge influence over our lives as children and adults. They have many messages of wisdom they share with us. Children say things like—My elbow hurts when I move it like this, and mom’s respond with: don’t move it like that son A young man heading…

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,…

a. Rapport for the time B. Reading of the text C. Review of the text D. Relevance of the text I. Paul’s pattern for ministry 1 Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed. If you are like me you picture Paul…

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.

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…

1 Praise the Lord ! Praise the Lord , O my soul! 2 I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans…

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…

A Proper Perspective Good morning church! It is so good to be back home with our church family, yet it was with some sadness that we left the state of Florida, to return to Maine, because we have family there too, brothers and sisters in the Lord. For those of you that don’t know, we didn’t just sneak…

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…

27 “But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, Love your enemies- understood as having genuine concern for someone regardless of their outward beauty or likelihood of reciprocating towards you. 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. You’ll note that…

11 Again I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, or the battle to the strong, or bread to the wise, or riches to the discerning, or favor to the skillful; rather, time and chance happen to all of them. 12 For certainly no one knows his time: like fish caught in a cruel net or like birds…

The providence of God is His almighty and everywhere present power, whereby as it were by hand, He upholds and governs heaven, earth and all creatures; so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, and all things come,…

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…