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When Controversy Comes to Church
Passage: Acts 15:1-19 Our country is cracking. A house divided cannot stand. Just in the past year we have been confronted with three major, contentious, dividing issues: racial tensions, Covid restrictions, and a presidential election. Three huge battles waged in our country in just the past year. And the battles haven’t stayed out there in […]
Becoming a Berean
Passage: Acts 17:10-13 When I was just a little tike in first and second grade we lived down in Newport, Oregon and my parents attended First Baptist church. And they were good Baptists, they did what all good Baptists did. They carried their Bibles to church every week. They encouraged Scripture memory. In Sunday School […]
They Prayed
Passage: Verses from Acts on Prayer You will recall we have been working our way through the book of Acts off and on over the past couple of years. This morning I am going to preach through the entire book of Acts. Sounds daunting, sounds overwhelming, sounds crazy, sounds really long. I am going to […]
The Mouth of the Lord has Spoken
Passage: Isaiah 40:3-5 Well, as we start to take down our Christmas decorations, though probably not just yet, we begin to set our eyes forward to the New Year, to 2021. Hard to believe, right? With 2020 being the kind of year that it was, undoubtedly one none of us will soon forget, many have […]
What Child Is This? Joseph and Mary’s Son, Jesus
Passage: Luke 1:26-38 People who study history talk about the year 1809 as a bumper crop year for babies who would influence and change the world. 1809 was the year of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, William Gladstone prime minister of England; biologist Charles Darwin; three famous writers, English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, and American […]
What Child Is This? Zechariah and Elizabeth’s Son, John the Baptist
Passage: Luke 1:5-25 We turn this morning from the OT to the NT, and specifically to the Gospel of Jesus Christ as it is told by Dr. Luke. Luke sets out to tell us the story of Jesus. But he does it in a unique way among the four Gospels. He doesn’t start with Jesus’ […]