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
Shaping Theme in Acts: Signs and Wonders One Bible dictionary defines signs and wonders as “events which unmistakably involve the immediate and powerful action of God.” These two words are nearly synonymous and are almost always seen together in both the Old and New Testaments. They do have shades of meaning that are a little different: signs identify
We have been, as a church, coming before the Lord from the book of Acts. And we have been asking the question: What does it mean for Dulin’s Grove, or any local church, to be the church in 2018? Essentially, what we’re trying to do is get ourselves onto God’s interstate highway and merge into
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Shaping Theme in Acts: The Holy Spirit Is for All God’s People Have you ever sensed a powerful darkness in our culture, in our society? You don’t always notice it when you’re going about your everyday lives, but sometimes it hits you. There is powerful evil and darkness in this world. We see it all
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