Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
“Congenital talipes equinovarus” is the medical term for something commonly known as “club foot.” In about 1 out every 1,000 lives births, a baby comes into this world with one or both feet pointed down and curling in. About two-thirds of these...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
Let’s say that you’ve been having a certain pain for several weeks and that it has been intensifying. So you break down and agree to go to the doctor. He makes a quick evaluation and determines that you have an incurable and fatal disease. There are no known cures for...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
I don’t think that when Paul went to Lystra it was with the intention of becoming known as a faith-healer. He and Barnabas were on a mission to spread the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel is about salvation through Christ, not making the world easier or...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As king of the reunited country of Israel, Herod Agrippa, the grandson of Herod the Great was feeling his oats. He had stretched forth his hand to please the Jewish leadership and vexed the church of Christ. He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword, and...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
As Joshua led Israel across the Jordan river there were 12 men chosen for a special two-tiered task. While the river bed was dry, they were to find 12 large rocks to stack into a pile in the middle of the river. Then they were to find another 12 rocks that they were...
Jan 21, 2015 | Acts
The only comment that Jamieson, Fausset and Brown makes on Paul’ return into Lystra after his stoning is very terse: It said: “Noble intrepidity.” To be INTREPID is to be RESOLUTELY COURAGEOUS, to be FEARLESS. Besides the fact that Paul probably had no...
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,...
