Just because the world might put labels on you and say, "You're done, you're disqualified. You're too old, you're too young. You're not the right person. You didn't graduate from the right school. You don't [...]

If you got a Bible, go to Acts chapter one. Yes, we are starting a new series this weekend on the book of Acts. And I'm so pumped about it. This book has changed my life. It's the first book after the gospels, it's page 991 in case [...]

It's an honor to be with you today. We're gonna conclude our lesson on Acts chapter 2 and the 21st century. Some of you will know Acts chapter 2 is the day of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit is poured out and Peter stands up and addresses the [...]

The point of reading our Bibles and studying Scripture is not to accumulate information about the past. Our goal is not to be experts on the culture of the 1st century or 10th century BCE. Our objective is to understand what it means to be the [...]

Father, we want to thank you for this incredible journey we've been able to take in this first historical book of the early church, one that has been rendered for us in holy scripture. So we're able to see the devotion and the dedication [...]

I have a couple of friends who absolutely love the weather. You know, a lot of people say, well, what's the weather like? It's like the weather, that's like such a shallow topic. But to them, it's like their favorite topic. In [...]

Father, it's going to be 30 weeks that we will have been in the Book of Acts by next week. And we have seen how the gospel has gone from, as Jesus said and promised, Jerusalem, all Judea, Samaria, then to the utmost or uttermost parts of the [...]

Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for your Holy Spirit who has not just the word of God to break to us corporately, but You're able to take a promise, a warning, an anthem, and You're able to take that and just deliver that [...]

So we're in the book of Acts, chapter 24 before we take the Lord's supper together. There was a family that moved to a town, and a local pastor in that town invited them to church. And the husband, the head of the family said, well, I [...]

Turn in your bibles to Acts chapter 23. We're in the book of Acts. We're in chapter 23. We're going to pray together, then we're going to jump in. Father, we pause to thank you for your faithfulness. Your track record is [...]

I was thinking today what it would be like, what it could have been like to be on Paul the Apostle's missionary team. And though it sounds at first exciting, I think it would have been tough to be around Paul. It would seem looking into the [...]

Father, we feel it important to pause and to address the author of scripture itself, the divine author. Yes, we know that Luke penned this book. John wrote other books, as did Paul, as did Peter, and so many others. 66 different books, so many [...]

We are in chapter 19 of the book of Acts. If you would turn to Acts chapter 19, we didn't quite finish it last week, little surprise. Can we pray together first? Father, we know that tomorrow is a National Day of Prayer, and though we pray [...]

Father, thank you for just the incredible moments we've already shared, pouring out praise to you. Those are the words. We pour out our praise to you only because you're worthy. And some of us so far this week have had a difficult time. [...]

Could you turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Acts, Chapter 18, the Book of Acts, Chapter 18. We're going to jump into the scriptures and we're going to finish the chapter. And then we're going to take the Lord's Supper [...]

Book of Acts, Chapter 18, and displayed behind me is the wonderful panorama of this city that we're going to be studying in this chapter tonight, the city of Corinth. And I'll be explaining a little bit about this city that's behind [...]

Father, we deliberately still our hearts before you. We just want to, in prayer, take a breath, so to speak. And we're inviting you to be in charge, be in control, be the teacher, the divine instructor behind the human, flawed instructor. We [...]

Every time I travel I think of Paul the Apostle. Why? Because it's estimated that Paul the Apostle, in his lifetime, traveled 13,400 miles. He didn't get on an airplane, didn't have a hotel room. He usually went from prison to prison, [...]

A brother showed me before the service started a bulletin from 1987. We had been in this building about a year, and I was just looking at the design, the front cover of the design, just where we've come from and what it took to design something [...]

Father, now we deliberately calm and still our hearts, pushing away any device or any thought that would distract us from you. And I think of the words that this book of acts begins with. The former treatise that I wrote to you oh, Theophilus, of [...]

Now, in the 13th chapter of the book of Acts as you turn there, we're in a new section. There's been a transition. I just want you to know what that is. Beginning in chapter 13, to the end of the book, it has been sometimes referred to as [...]

Father, we just now calm our hearts. We just push everything aside, making ourselves aware that, not only do we have open Bibles, but that all things are naked and open before the One with whom we have to do. As the writer of Hebrews reminds us [...]

Lord, You know the events of our day. You know the thoughts of our mind, those distractions or legitimate good thoughts that we've had, and how we process them. You know how we feel about You, about people around us. You know the kind of depth [...]

I hope you brought a Bible, or, did you bring one? Let's see it. Raise that up. Ah. That's such a sweet picture. So how many of you, and if you don't, I don't care. It's OK. But you don't carry a leather Bible, but you [...]

You know, it's always amazing to me to come to an end of another year, because we all say it every year, and you say it more often the older you get, but boy did this year fly by. Right? It just goes so quickly. So in a few days you will have [...]

Father, we settle our hearts before you and this prayer is not formality. It's an intentional way of inviting you to speak to us, every single one of us. We pray that your Holy Spirit would have something special for each of us that we would [...]

In the last time we were together, we saw a young man, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, on fire, very articulate, very knowledgeable in scripture, who had been a deacon, a servant, in the Church of Jerusalem. His name was Stephen. And he stood [...]

You know, there was a little boy who was in the foyer of his church, and he noticed a board on the wall with stars and names under the stars. He asked his parents, what is that for? What are these names and stars? They said, these are the people who [...]

Father, we thank you for the word of God that does the work of God in the hearts of the people of God by the Holy Spirit of God. Father, we are here asking you, as the good physician, the great physician, to do surgery on our hearts, to work in our [...]

I'm just looking around to see who would whether the rain and come out. Interesting choice of a worship song, Holy Spirit Rain Falling Like a Flood. I thought it was particularly appropriate for tonight. Whenever it rains like this, and [...]

Father, we do want to speak to You in prayer. And though I'm doing the praying here, my brothers and sisters I believe are in agreement when we say we need You and we need to hear from You. We need Your instruction. We need Your encouragement. [...]

And so Father, we commit the evening to you, the time that we're together, these next several minutes. We also want to understand truth and how it applies to our hearts, our lives, our future, our present, our relationships, where we go to [...]

Father, we come before you as living sacrifices, and we present our bodies to you. And we know that's our spiritual act of worship, that's our reasonable service. That is the smartest thing we could do in light of and in view of all the [...]

So turn in your Bibles to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 1 and we'll get started. Yeah, all right. Let's pray and we'll get started. Father, thank you for the word of God that does the work of God in the hearts of the people of God. [...]