The most important question anyone can ask is, “How can we be good with God?” Every religion and cult answers this question by performing certain “works,” but the gospel of Jesus Christ says that we are saved by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone to the glory of God alone according to the Scriptures alone. In Acts 15, we look at a church fight over this definition of salvation, but it is a fight that is worth it.

As Paul and Barnabas come to the end of their missionary journey, we learn that the follower of Jesus Christ is to be committed to building up the church and committed to declaring the glory of God. When all is said and done, will it be said of us that we fulfilled what God set out for us to do?

In this passage, we learn that, to be a faithful witness to Jesus Christ, we will experiences challenges. “But take heart,” Jesus says, “I have overcome the world.” To combat the resistance of the kingdom of Satan, we are to be bold and clear and persistent in our presentation of the gospel.

In this passage, we look at three responses to the word of grace proclaimed by Paul. And we see that, while we are the ones responsible for rejecting the gospel, God is the One responsible for our saving faith and is deserving of all our praise.

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.