Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
After years of investigation and $ billions, man does not yet know how many stars there are in the heavens. A nice round number that I have often heard is: a hundred million billion. On a clear winter’s night, when the sky isn’t disrupted with clouds or those...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Let me begin this morning by telling a story on my wife – a good story. Judy went into a store a couple weeks ago and bought several things, including six of one particular item. They were kind of delicate and the clerk had to individually wrap them so that they...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
September 11, 2001 has often been compared to December 7, 1941. Both were sneak attacks which brought the United States into war, and both were acts of terrorism. “Terrorism” is the word most often associated with 9/11, and it is certainly appropriate. But...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Do you remember when Peter was accosted by a young lady in the courtyard at the High Priest’s palace? This was not long after he took a sword and tried to cut off a man’s head. When this woman accused him of being a disciple of Christ, he lied and denied. That was the...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
When I was in Bible School there was a very popular Christian Trio visiting church after church. They came to the church where Judy and I were members, and the building was packed with more than 2,000 people. In those days, before they moved into the current...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Please turn to Matthew 21:12. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, And overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Let’s picture an award-winning astronomer – He has wild hair, red eyes, disheveled lab coat; ten pens stuck in the plastic protector in his breast pocket. This man has discovered things that no man has ever seen before. He has a constellation named for him and three...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
When Peter refered to “the stone what was set at nought,” which had “become the head of the corner,” He may have been referring back to any number of different sources. Originally, this theme came from the Psalm which we read earlier. The Lord...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
In the world of higher education there has developed a numbering system used to identify levels of instruction within each subject. For example: There may be a requirement for freshmen to pass a first level Biology class. In the school catalogue that very first class...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Spurgeon, said that it was the reformer Melanchthon who first told the parable about a war between the wolves and the dogs. The wolves were greatly afraid of going to war with the dogs, because they were vastly outnumbered. The leader of the wolves (the alpha male???)...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
From what I read in the Bible, I think that Barnabas would be someone with whom I could really get along. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean that he’d get along with me very well. Like computer dating services, just because there appears to be compatibility, that...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
As I was thinking about this passage of Scripture, it occurred to me that it is quite theologically significant. The story is interesting and should be well-known to every child of God. It’s a part of the history of the early church, and so it’s a part of our early...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
Let’s say that you are observing the trial of a man accused of theft. The prosecutor has one of the employees of the accused on the witness stand. He strides up to the witness box and asks him, “Why do you think that your boss ordered you to deliberately...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
This scripture divides somewhat unnaturally into two sections. One is a positive statement and the other is a parenthesis in the midst of that statement. I’d like to use that division as the two points to our thoughts this evening. And those thoughts are basically...
Jan 22, 2015 | Acts
What do you think will be the likelihood of you ever meeting an angel in this life? I think, that although it is not impossible, it is not very likely. At least it’s not very likely that you would KNOW that you’ve met an angel. But did the Apostles know that there was...
