Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I hope that you forgive me, but I have a cartoon-like image of Israel during her 40 years in the wilderness. The nation had sinned against God by not believing and following His direction to claim the Promised Land. So the Lord added the promise that the entire adult...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As I said this morning, I don’t know how Paul and Barnabas knew that it was time to bring this missionary journey to a close. Perhaps the Lord came to one of them in a dream. Maybe God sent an angel with detailed instructions. Or perhaps during prayer the Holy Spirit...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
There is no way of knowing for sure how long this First Missionary Journey took. I don’t know why they say it, but a lot of scholars declare that Acts 12 ended in about 44 AD. And then most of them say that Acts 15 took place in the year 51, although I read where one...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I need to correct a mistake that I made last Wednesday. I said THAT would be our last message from Acts 14. But, here in verse 27 we find a vein of ore too rich not to be mined for a few minutes more. Paul and Barnabas had returned to their home church in Antioch,...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The message tonight is called: “The Galatian Problem.” I’m not sure that this is the most appropriate time to tackle this subject, but if we don’t do it now, I’m not sure that we’ll find a better time. Actually, this message shouldn’t be “The...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I don’t think that Satan will ever destroy Calvary Independent Baptist Church. It’s not because we have the promise of God any more than did the churches at Ephesus or Antioch. And it’s not because we are a better church than any of those of which we read in the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Elijah, the Tishbite, was going through a very interesting period in his life and service for the Lord. He had been commissioned to announce to the King of Israel that there was a 3½ year famine coming. That famine fell on the land like a prairie wild-fire. But the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
“Come, we that love the Lord, and let our joys be known; Join in a song with sweet accord, join in a song with sweet accord And thus surround the throne, and thus surround the throne. We’re marching to Zion, beautiful, beautiful Zion; We’re marching...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Generally speaking, people take their religion seriously. No one likes to be told that they are heretics, anti-social or stupid. But even in the pluralism of the 21st century, When we are brainwashed to think that every idea is as true as any other conflicting idea,...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
There is an infamous cult of quasi-Christians living in the hills of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Every once in a while they pull out their stash of rattlesnakes and play with them in their church services. They pet them, they carry them, they even hold them...
