Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Are you one of those people who think that it would be a wonderful thing to know the future? I’m not so sure that it would be a great idea. Although in some specific cases it might be helpful. For example, we need to replace our church sign, but we need to get a...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I’d like you to use your imagination this morning to picture the worst possible criminal that you can. Perhaps he’s something like this: Although he was raised by a poor but godly Christian mother, he became the playground bully, killing neighborhood pets, and...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Wednesday, I brought up Ananais’ statement that Paul had been chosen by God with the purpose that he should know the Lord’s will. By the study of these words alone, it’s impossible to determine exactly what it was that he meant. Certainly, it didn’t mean that God was...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
When someone asks me what our church believes, I find myself choosing my words as carefully as possible. If I know anything about that person, I will even try to make my answer as palatable to his taste as I can. The other day, I got a call from a woman who talked...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Have you ever been reading a book or an article and suddenly you came across a comment with which you totally disagreed, so you put the book down and didn’t pick it up again? Or maybe you were listening to someone, and the speaker said something to which you disagreed...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
We will finish our look at chapter 22 this evening. I wasn’t struck with any outstanding theology in these verses, so we won’t have six or eight messages. And even though there is some interesting biographical material, we’ve looked at some of it already. For the sake...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I have in my hand here a $10 bill. If I gave this $10 dollars to a 6-month-old child, what do you think that he’d do with it? He’d probably try to eat it, wouldn’t he? If I gave this money to a 3-year-old, he might treasure & save it place because it was a gift...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
One of the problems that we have as Christians is getting the world to hear what we have to say. Obviously, Paul had the same problem when he stood before this Jewish Sanhedrin. It is the nature of man to reject, ignore and hate any revelation of the one True and...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
I wish I could say that I know exactly what Paul was trying to accomplish when he cried out, “Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.” It could be that he was using the old...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
We all know that Christendom is divided into hundreds and hundreds of denominations, sects and cults. This is one of the problems that true believers have to face: The diversity of opinion within Christendom is one of the excuses that the lost man throws at us when we...
