https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOX2-ImtkEI The Demonstration of God’s Power In our text today we see the power of God on full display, and if I were to ask you to describe for me what it is, what would your answer be? There are probably some here that would draw our attention to Jesus’ ability to orchestrate the meeting …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHAnHzhB2U Embracing the Beauty of our Text By the end of this study, I hope we are all able to see that there are many beautiful things before us in this text as Luke recounts for us the conversion of a young man of Tarsus, named Saul, who was on the road to Damascus with …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gms1N9kWbeE Christ’s Commission to His Church Within our portion of Scripture this morning we see Jesus Christ’s commission to His church being carried out. As nearly all of us are aware, the commission is for Christians to go into all the world “and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c5qyAGhLzw Seeing the Beauty in this Verse This is one of those verses where it is very easy for us to quickly pass over without giving much consideration to its implications and, therefore, miss the beauty of it entirely. What often happens is that we swiftly move on to Philip’s interaction with the Ethiopian Eunuch …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1Ql7keWsk Celebration of His Love and Life He is risen! He is risen indeed! As Isaiah’s prophecy foretold, His days were prolonged! My prayer today is that the living God would we adored for who He is and what He has done in His Son, Jesus Christ, for all those who have turned from themselves …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efEk3gSPlYs&t=1517s The Gospel Enters Samaria Within our previous text, we saw how hell sought to overpower the church. After the stoning of Stephen, great persecution arose against the church at the hands of Saul who was ravaging Christ’s bride in an attempt to annihilate her from the face of the earth.[1] He had made it …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1_h8nvDM4&t=187s A Suffering Church Last week we found ourselves within a portion of Scripture recounting a man named Stephen suffering for living a godly life in Christ Jesus.[1] In our text today we see that suffering for Christ spreads far past the stoning of this man. Like a pack of savage beasts, these men got …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdBFtMM86CM Contemplating the Location of the Christ May we begin our time this morning with the question, where is Jesus Christ as we speak? Where do we know the God-man to be? What is the location of the Christ? We should all understand that after He emptied Himself by taking on the form of a …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCvDFAk5CQM Understanding Stephen’s Sermon Today we will be giving closer consideration to Stephen’s defense of the Christian faith. As was mentioned last week, there are some who describe Stephen’s sermon as a recitation of insignificant historical facts with no theological point. Others have referred to it as an irrelevant speech that fails to address the …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KsNXRGm4I0 Always Ready to Give a Defense Before us is a beautiful picture of someone who was not intimated by men, but one who had sanctified Christ as Lord in their heart, and was ready, with great gentleness and reverence, to give a defense to anyone who asked them for the hope that is within …
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