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Review In Acts chapter 22, Paul experienced a Touch And Go Situation as he attempted to speak to a Jewish audience. He acknowledged that they had a zeal or a passion for God, but it was misplaced. They were trying to please God by their own righteousness, but to meet God’s standard, they desperately…

We went on ahead to the ship and sailed for Assos, where we were going to take Paul aboard. He had made this arrangement because he was going there on foot. When he met us at Assos, we took him aboard and went on to Mitylene. The next day we set sail from there and arrived off Chios. The day after that…

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…

1. Understanding how we got where we are . A. Why do churches have Sunday School ? It started as a literary school for the poor. Began in 1780 during the industrial revolution in Britain. Kids were working in factories and couldn’t go to school. Thus they couldn’t read and advance themselves. The work…

Serving as Pastor Is a calling, privilege, opportunity, blessing and block of history that I have had opportunity to work out in several locations. Rainier, Oregon, my home congregation: Where I was brought up since age 9 through Sunday School and Youth Class, taught by Clyde Wemmer, Orville Harrison,…

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…

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…

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…

Acts 20:19–21 , 25-27 , 28-30 I. THE PROFITABLE Acts 20:19–21 (ESV) — 19 serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials that happened to me through the plots of the Jews; 20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from…

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…

Review Acts chapter nineteen focused entirely on Paul’s three year ministry in the city of Ephesus. He saw God put His stamp of divine approval upon some new converts in the city - 12 men who were disciples of John the Baptist. God did not treat them as second class citizens in His kingdom. Paul observed…

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…

“Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.” -Thomas Watson Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”…

Today was intended to be a time back in the book of Daniel, but Jim was scheduled to preach it. Sadly, he fell ill this weekend and thus is unable to preach, and I am not going to preach his notes. So today I’ve dusted off notes of something I’ve taught in the past, although it was before we were meeting…

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…

This lesson examines themes of controversy that Paul stirred in Ephesus and to the Epehsian christians.