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Review For approximately two years, Paul ministered in the needy city of Corinth. He had a fruitful ministry there but eventually he moved on to a short visit in Ephesus and then completed his missionary journey by returning to Antioch. After several years he began a third missionary journey, but Luke’s…

This morning we are discussing my favorite gift to study and talk about. 17 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18 they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at…

Acts 19:1-41 Introduction— A saying in leadership: “When you’re tired of saying people are just starting to hear it” Statement about the value of repetition especially of things that are important Often I come back to a sermon, passage or topic - not because it was a good sermon but because it’s important…

Lord’s Supper Reminder: when the men bring the plate around, if you wish to participate, you’ll need to take from the plate. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from…

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…

John the Baptist passed the baton to Jesus after he correctly identifies him as the Messiah, God With Us. We finished up Matthew Chapter 3 in our Series on The Gospel of Matthew.

2 Peter 2 Good morning church! Happy Lord’s Day to you all. If you are joining us on line this morning welcome to you. We have some church family business to take care of before we get into our study this morning, and rather than do it after our service, or in the prayer room, or in my office, we want…

Ball one: Stephen’s defense, defending himself against the accusation of denying their history - telling the history - from a Jewish Christian POV Ball two: That’s ball two - sharing the gospel - he is evangelizing the Sanhedrin Ball three: For us to apply the Gospel Lessons from Stephen’s teaching that…

Logan 1 Title: How Well Do You Know the Holy Spirit? Paul’s Third Missionary Journey As we come to Acts chapter 19, Paul is well on his way in his third missionary journey. In verse one we read that Paul arrives back in Ephesus while also being told that Apollos - whom we learned about last Sunday -…

Title: Who Was Apollos? What if the only thing that you knew about Christmas, about Jesus Christ, etc. was what you learned from Linus’ reading of the Christmas story from Luke chapter 2 in Charlie Brown’s Christmas? Do you think that you would have a complete picture of the Gospel? Do you think that…

Title: Life Lessons Paul’s Second Missionary Journey As we come to the end of Acts chapter 18, we also come to the end of Paul’s second missionary journey and the beginning of his third missionary journey. After Paul leaves Corinth, he sails across the Aegean Sea and stops in Ephesus. Even though the…

this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord , the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him. And there went up also to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king, some of…

Question: Why is the issue of male and female roles so important? We’re not just talking about what guys and girls do in terms of hobbies or general behavior differences, but also about what it means to be a man or a woman. It’s important to understand this from a biblical perspective because confusion…

Mission Control “This is Paul, I’m ready to go again.” Paul has returned to Antioch after this trip, just as he had his first missionary trip. Between trip one and trip two a two year interval passed, but a trip to Jerusalem did happen for Jerusalem counsel Paul did spend sometime, but not long in Antioch…

Celebrate Baptism Video What is baptism? Who should be baptized? Why should one be baptized? In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one…

A. Rapport for the time B. Reading of the text C. Review of the text Paul has spent some 18 months in Corinth last week and he was given a vision from the Lord. 9 And the Lord said to Paul one night in a vision, “Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent, 10 for I am with you, and no…

A sermon on what Baptism at our church is and is not.

The book of Acts moves fairly quickly from one place to the next and it is easy to get the impression that all the events happened in a very short period of time. But in reality this book covers a span of 32 years from the ascention of Jesus to Paul’s imprisonment in Rome in about AD 62. And his third…

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus: Author: Paul Type of literature: Epistle or Prison Epistle Audience: Believers in Ephesus Possibly other churches in Asia Minor. This is called a “circular letter” view. Some of…

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. You hear the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven talked about. Do you know what it is? Can you define it? Do you know what the Bible says about it? It was is a popular topic in the New Testament.…

Today we will be seeing a few different groups of people in the city of Ephesus—grouped by their response to the good news of Jesus Christ. These people could be representative of groups of people today. Background Journey Ephesus third largest city, about 250,000 residents. Important port city would…

Paul was on mission, And he used God’s Methods. Mission - Be witnesses Methods: Prayer & Proclamation But he faced a lot of opposition along the way. Antioch to Galatia/Tarsus - Psidian Antioch - Jews Jealous and contradicted, then persecuted and expelled from region Iconium - Jews and some Gentiles…

49 “Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you are endued with power from on high.” 11 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and…

Repent... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poa_adqidPg Repentance in Mark The Gospel of Mark says repent three times in description of the messages preached by John the Baptist, Jesus and the disciples when they were sent out by Jesus. 4 John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism…

23 After he had spent some time there, he departed and went over the region of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. 11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of…