Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Earlier this week I read a pretty good article about the art of preaching. One of the things that it said was that preaching is not the purpose of preaching. Gospel preaching cannot accomplish anything in and of itself. Even when everything declared during the course...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
One of my top ten favorite movies is the 1981 British film called “Chariots of Fire.” It’s based on the true story of two sprinters training and competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Both Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams were driven by an inner fire to be...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As I’ve mentioned before, there are very few events in and around our Lord’s life which are recorded in all four gospels. The Gospel of John is particularly unique. John seemed to go out of his way not to rehash material that the others had adequately detailed. That...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I heard a clever radio commercial recently, trying to tell me to switch insurance companies. The thrust of the commercial was that only this company makes understanding policies simple. And the way that idea was conveyed was really ear-catching. The ad-writer typed...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Last Wednesday we looked at our Lord’s shoe latchet from John’s point of view. Tonight let’s turn that around and think about it from the standpoint of the Lord Jesus. And let’s use John chapter 1 for the basis of our study. John was in the eye of an hurricane for a...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
“And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.” Let’s say that the Lord has given you the opportunity to talk to a good friend about salvation. This is someone with whom you are very...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I’d like you to remember the initial title that we gave to this series of messages over a year ago: It was, and still is, “A DOCTRINAL Study of the Book of Acts.” It has been my desire to use the history of the first churches of Christ as an opportunity to...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Let’s begin by turning to Habakkuk chapter 1. This message might be more appropriate for Sunday morning, but it’s just not working out that way. It’s not that it’s not appropriate for a small gaggle of Christians, But if it was kept in its context, it would be...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I’d like to begin this morning with an old, old story, some form of which you may have heard several times. A man, while on vacation, couldn’t sleep one night and decided to go for a moonless, mid-night walk. Although he carried a good flashlight, he couldn’t see the...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
In Matthew 10 the Lord Jesus gave some encouragement and a warning to His disciples: He said, “And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Are not two sparrows...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The things that make us smile, reveal the kind of hearts that we have. If we laugh at dirty jokes, then it means that our hearts have some dirty corners. We have a choice about the kinds of things that we enjoy. And as Proverbs 13:20 says, “He that walketh with...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The things that make us smile, reveal the kind of hearts that we have. If we laugh at dirty jokes, then it means that our hearts have some dirty corners. We have a choice about the kinds of things that we enjoy. And as Proverbs 13:20 says, “He that walketh with...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
In Jesus’s parable of the soils, the seed of the Word was scattered across the top of various conditions of dirt. Some of the seed fell on hard and stony ground where it either couldn’t germinate or if it did there wasn’t enough nourishment to let it grow. And then...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
We are going to finish our study of Acts 13 by expanding our thoughts from last Sunday night. The idea for this outline came from a message by Spurgeon, but his theme went in a different direction. Spurgeon was far more bold and daring than I am. I can’t tell you if...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Thus far in this first missionary journey, Paul and Barnabas have traveled from Antioch to Seleucia, Syria, From whence they sailed to Salamis on the Island of Cyprus. We have no idea how long it took them to evangelize Cyprus, but eventually they made it from the...
