Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
As I was thinking about how to approach this chapter, I had to snicker just a little bit. At first I considered just a verse by verse study rather than using a homiletical approach. And I even thought about skipping right over the first thirteen verses, because there...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Last Wednesday, when we looked at the first part of this chapter, I pointed out that I don’t hold the Day of Pentecost with the same reverence that most of our Protestant neighbors do. Acts 2 was not the day that the church of Christ originated. Neither was the...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
We have had several people visit our church, who had been members of very good Baptist churches in other parts of the country. In several cases those people agreed with our doctrine 95 to 100 percent, And yet those people are not attending our church. In fact they...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Some of the most important scriptures have the word “faith” at their core. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” “But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
As most of you are well aware, I am calling this series “A THEOLOGICAL Study of the Book of Acts.” We’ve looked at the resurrection and then the ascension of Christ; Two things which are at the very heart of our faith. We’ve had messages on the Kingdom of...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
There are quite a few proprietary words that we use in Bible-believing Baptist churches. By “proprietary” I mean that they are words that are basically the property of those churches. They are words that are used in very few places other than...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Before we move on, we need to agree on a common definition of a very important Bible term. Twice in Peter’s sermon he referred to “hell.” Fundamental Baptists have been often called “hell and brimstone” preachers. You are a member of a...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
We live in a very intellectually-confused world. I’m not talking about the THINGS about which we think, but rather the WAY in which we think. But I say that not as someone who professes to be superior. I fear that I follow the crowd almost as much as everybody else....
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
The title to tonight’s message is: “Cause and Effect.” The effect, as we see here, was that many people were pricked in their hearts at the preaching of Peter. You might think that the cause was Peter’s preaching. Many egotistical pastors think that...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
I need you to remember the general theme of this series of messages: Most people read the Book of Acts as merely the history of the second phase of the Lord’s first church. Jerusalem was the site of the Lord’s first church. And the first era of the history of that...
