Anderson Sermons

God loves the Church. And through the Holy Spirit, God dwells in the Church. Because of His love and because of His holiness, God will keep the Church purified through discipline when necessary in order to protect us from the consequences of sin and to preserve the power of our witness.

Will you allow God to use your most difficult struggles, and your most triumphant successes, to glorify Himself and build His Church? He can do exceeding abundantly beyond all we can imagine in us and through us when we surrender our lives entirely to Him.

Faith + or faith alone? Acts 2:38, when taken out of context, is often misunderstood and misapplied. Peter's call to “repent and be baptized” does not represent additional steps a person must do to receive forgiveness of sins and the free gift of eternal life. His call to “repent and be baptized” is a challenge to turn away from stubborn self-righteousness and rejection of Jesus, and to turn toward God through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone.

When God's people allow God's Spirit to speak God's message to them and through them, miraculous things occur. It is the presence and power of the Holy Spirit that sets us apart. Will you allow God Spirit to speak to you and through you today?

Acts is a story that has not ended. Acts lays the foundation for our story, as God invites each of us to find eternal significance and supernatural strength through participation in His Kingdom program through the Church.

The world around us intends to shape our understanding of reality – truth, goodness, identity, meaning, purpose. Its pressures are sometimes obvious, more often subtle, but always deceiving and destructive. Be aware; resist; and actively allow your maker to mold your life to conform you in every way into His image.