At a synagogue service, Paul and Barnabas were asked to share a word of encouragement with those in attendance. In his sermon, Paul tells his hearers and us today to know our history and how God is at the center of it, to know Jesus and what He has done, and to know forgiveness by repenting of our sins and trusting in Jesus. The question is: Will we believe this message of salvation, or will we scoff at it?

The story of Acts is about all that the risen Lord Jesus continued to do, through the witness of His people, in the power of the Holy Spirit. In this passage, we look at how the church is to be a community that not only believes the gospel of Jesus Christ but is committed to seeing the gospel of Jesus Christ proclaimed to all nations. As you can expect, this is going to come with both success and opposition. But the good news is that God has equipped us with everything we need to accomplish His mission.

In this passage, we look at the martyrdom of James, the deliverance of Peter and the death of Herod. What these stories reveal to us is that God is sovereign in life and in death, and that the gospel of Jesus Christ will advance even in adversity.

In this passage, we see a church that believed the gospel of Jesus Christ, that was motivated by God’s grace and not by works, that visibly displayed the power of God, that taught the Word of God, and that gave generously and trusted God to meet their needs. While many churches are interested only in their own ministry, we are encouraged to look beyond ourselves to the one church of Jesus Christ and to praise God for what we see Him doing.

There have been many walls that have come down in history, but there is a significant wall that came down, nearly two thousand years ago, between Jew and Gentile, that has implications for us, today. In this passage, we discover that God broke down the dividing wall of hostility between us and Him and between us and one another.

As we look at the sainthood of believers and the healing of Aeneas and the raising of Tabitha, it's easy for the extraordinary to become mundane. In this sermon, we look at how our lives ought to be shaped by the awe of God.

By the grace of God, Saul – who was a violent opponent of the Church – came to believe in Jesus as the Christ, the Son of God. In this passage, we see that conversion not only results in God awakening our spiritually dead hearts to believe in Jesus, but that all those who are saved by grace through faith in Jesus are enabled to preach about Jesus and to endure suffering for His name.

Throughout the book of Acts, Luke includes several accounts of sinners being converted to the risen Lord Jesus. The most famous conversion is that of Saul of Tarsus. In this passage, we look at how God can turn a persecutor of Jesus into a follower of Jesus, and how there is no one beyond the sovereign grace of God.

Under the Old Covenant, eunuchs were separated from God and from God’s people, not because eunuchs were evil, but because God is holy. In this passage of Scripture, Philip had the opportunity to share the good news that Jesus came to reconcile sinners to God. And we discover that sometimes God puts us in places we do not plan to further His work.

The persecuted church has been scattered throughout Judea and Samaria, preaching the Word as they went. Some will respond with true, saving faith, but some will respond with a counterfeit faith. In this sermon, we look at the faith of a Samaritan magician who reveals to us that anyone can claim to be a Christian, but true, saving faith involves a transformed heart.