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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…

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…

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…

Message: Keep on the Firing Line Paul’s Second Missionary Journey In Acts chapter 18, the Apostle Paul comes to Corinth where… He cultivated a relationship with Aquila and Priscilla and… In an effort to support himself, began to work and… to witness. Acts 18:5 (KJV 1900) And when Silas and Timotheus…

Welcome to Corinth Paul’s second missionary journey Affluence , business, tradition, manufacturing central position in trade routes of the isthmus worship of many gods, including Aphrodite (love and beauty) Temple of Aphrodite 1000 temple prostitutes rampant sexual immorality and pressure to approve…

Introduction Romans = Doctrine. This is the notion in the Christian world when they hear about the book of Romans. In other words, the belief in the Church today is that the book of Romans is full of doctrine. It is true that Romans teach us about doctrine. But it is not a book about doctrine itself.…

Introduction We come today to gather before the truth of God’s word, to hear his voice an his will in our lives. Let us Pray If you would open you bible to 1 Timothy chapter 1. While you are turning there after a little introduction. Today we start to explore what is commonly know as one of the Pastoral…

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord…

This Week’s Theme: The Effectiveness of the Gospel Word for the Week is Trust: It is reliance on and confidence in a person. Scripture affirms the total trustworthiness of God, especially in relation to his promises to his people. Christian faith is, essentially, trust in the person and character of…

Isaiah 40:27-41:16 Review We continue with the new cycle of Halftarah readings The Halfarah are supplementary scriptures that go alone with the Torah Portions The third reading from the book of Genesis is named Lech Lecha. It means "go forth." The first verse says, "Now the LORD said to Abram, 'Go forth…

Big Idea: Jesus has other sheep to bring into his fold. The Proclaimer of the Gospel: Must not be fearful Must go on speaking Must trust the result to Christ This morning I am continuing on the topic of evangelism. I am thankful so many of you have committed to pray for the lost that are in your lives,…

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. Rapport for the time “Whether he lives, or whether he dies, whether he has health, or whatever he has sickness, whether he is rich, or whether he is poor, whether he pleases man, or whether he give offence, whether he is thought wise, or whether he is thought foolish, whether he gets blame, or whether…

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

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…

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…

18 So Paul still remained a good while. Then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria, and Priscilla and Aquila were with him. He had his hair cut off at Cenchrea, for he had taken a vow. 19 And he came to Ephesus, and left them there; but he himself entered the synagogue and reasoned with…

Doing the Gospel Paul’s Way had worked for a while. At first, when he was converted on the road to Damascus, he was knocked down from his high horse and spent some days at the mercy of God’s spirit in the home of a believer. He then started to tell the Jews in the synagogue that he had been wrong about…

The Gospel no only changes the afterlife, it transforms the NowLife

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.

Introduction This is the last of our focus on the Book of Acts. I hope that this dip into this book has brought some issues to light for you and your walk with God. This morning we are going to focus in just for a short while on the ministry of Paul. For most of the book we have been looking at the Beginning…

Everyone's on a journey, so we should try to help each other

Good morning, welcome to Dishman Baptist Church. Please take your Bibles and open them with me to Ephesians 3 , Ephesians 3 Are you tired? Are you care worn? Self-admission - I am. Covid - Mask or no mask, vaccine or no vaccine. Should we gather or should we remain apart? I can’t cough in the grocery…