Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
I would like to pick up a couple of Biblical themes from Acts 18 before we move on. I thought seriously about a message on “the way of God” – verse 26, but I preached on that theme a year ago, when we first came to it in Acts 9, so we’ll skip it this time....
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
Baptist churches have, for about 2,000 years, made use of the “church letter.” I have two little books here: “A Baptist Church Manual” by J. M. Pendleton, And “The New Directory for Baptist Churches” by Edward Hiscox. Pendleton was...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
In these two verses, we begin to see Paul’s Third Missionary Journey. So I thought that it might be a good time to review his first two evangelistic trips. And then we’ll close with a dozen or so general observations. Ideally, you should be able to anticipate just...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
There was a little, three-year-old boy who had been sick for a week with a cold and a cough. The cough was persistent and little guy was getting obviously weaker, so his mother took him to the doctor. The little fella was brought into a strange examining room, filled...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
We’ve used a number of different teaching and preaching styles thus far in our studies in Acts. We’ve had three-point gospel sermons and five-point sermons on various aspects on Christian living We’ve had Biblical expositions. We’ve had historical and geographical...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
If we can use the length of time that Paul spent in various cities as a judge of the importance the mission work there, then Ephesus was one of the most important places of his entire ministry. At least as far as what took place in his three missionary journeys, Paul...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
Years ago, while I was still in Calgary, I had a pastor-friend who I was trying to encourage in Baptist doctrine. We heard about a Baptist church over British Columbia’s Okanagan valley which was having a fellowship meeting, and my friend said that he would like to...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
As I said last week, I think that this passage of scripture is the most mysterious and controversial in Acts. There is very intriguing material for the Christian to study, but then there isn’t enough information to enable us to be really dogmatic. HOWEVER, dogmatism...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
When Judy and I first moved to Calgary, it was to work with Missionary Ken Johnson and his wife. A mission had already been started in the city, and it was then meeting in its second location. Both Brother Johnson and I received criticism from people who didn’t...
Jan 20, 2015 | Acts
The other day, Judy told me that she had been looking at our church web-site, and she spotted a mis-spelling. On the opening page, which has been floating around cyberspace for several years; In the left column, where people can click to other pages, I had mis-spelled...
