Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
A couple years ago I arrived here at the building about 30 minutes before the service, and as I usually do, I checked our telephone answering machine. On this occasion there was a message from a trucker who had stopped for the night, staying at one of the motels over...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Perhaps you have all heard various versions of the “human life / tapestry” illustration. One of them goes something like this: A man was visiting a museum or a shop of some kind and his eyes fell on a large piece of fabric, which apparently was being...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
This is one of the many Scriptures about which I really wish that we had a lot more information. There can be little doubt that Philip was a great man of God, whose biography would be a great inspiration to everyone who loves the Lord. In a couple earlier messages,...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Years after God’s sovereign call of Abraham and that man’s decision to follow the Lord, God gave him a son. Abraham and Sarah had waited many, many years to have a child. But when they were old God fulfilled His promise and Isaac was born. So while some of their...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Do you ever wonder if you’d really enjoy the company of some of God’s great servants? I think that I’d probably really like Joshua; the man with the assistant-pastor mentality. And the Apostle John would probably be a wonderful friend, but John the Baptist? – Maybe...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
Generally speaking, I don’t like to leave things hanging in the air. And even less do I like anyone thinking that I might have been trying to mislead people. As I’ve often said, I don’t mind telling you, “I don’t really know what this scripture means.” I...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
The first large set of Christian books that I ever bought was the 17 volume, “Expositions of the Holy Scriptures” by the English Baptist preacher Alexander MacLaren. MacLaren pastored in Manchester at about the same time that C.H. Spurgeon was preaching in...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
We’ve been very serious in our Bible studies for the last few weeks. So this evening, let’s lighten up and have some fun with verse 15 (while still making a spiritual application). What do you picture Paul and his group doing when they “took up their...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
In my estimation this is the saddest part of the entire Book of Acts. It is sadder than any of Paul’s imprisonments, or any of the other persecutions that he endured. It is sadder than the martyrdom of Stephen or of that of James. There is nothing which comes as close...
Jan 19, 2015 | Acts
With just about seven days left on the vow that the four members of the church had made, Paul agreed to join them and to pay their expenses. Before he could enter the inner grounds of the Temple, it was necessary that he offer a sacrifice of purification, which he...
