Today we celebrate the greatest series of events in all of human history. Greater than the American Revolution, the Reformation, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of World War 2, greater than all these combined were the events of Jesus’ sinless life, His death on the cross for everyone who would believe in […]
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Did you know there is a cosmic conspiracy trying to lull us to spiritual sleep? The world is designed by Satan to lull us to spiritual apathy and dullness – he is determined to keep us from being spiritually alert and awake. So how do we stay spiritually awake when everything works against it? Mark
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Shaping Theme in Acts: Unity. Think about the people in your life – the relationships you have. Try to picture the people that you are connected to, that are connected to you. Is it a lot of people? Is it just a couple people? Try to line them up on a scale from “most connected”
Shaping Theme in Acts: Scripture. Imagine that you were one of Jesus’ early disciples – you devoted your entire self to Him and had followed Him sometime during His three years of earthly ministry. Then He was arrested, publicly mocked, and crucified and buried in a tomb. But now, you’re hearing reports that people have
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Shaping Theme in Acts: Expansion by Communication We are studying the book of Acts – the history of the beginning of the church – with open eyes, open minds, and open hearts to see what it says about being Christians together. A lot of what we do together is human tradition – many of which can be good.
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The book of Ephesians is mainly about the good news of Jesus Christ, and one of the applications of that is peace. In one of it’s first verses, Paul writes, “Grace to you and peace . . .” (1:2). You get the sense that the Holy Spirit, while inspiring Paul to write this, is trying to