Speaker: Guest

Passage: Acts 12

God's ultimate end is to glorify himself through the progress of the gospel.

Speaker: Guest

Passage: Acts 11

Outline:

Introduction: 'Going global'.

1. Recap: God builds his church in miraculous and unmistakable ways.

2. Closing the loop: the Church in Antioch.

3. Application: Adopting Barnabas' example.

Speaker: Russell Smidt

Passage: Acts 10

Outline:

1. And they all lived...

2. The ripples of Easter.

3. The wind of the gospel.

Speaker: Russell Smidt

Passage: Acts 4:12

Outline:

1. Post-truth: Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.

2. Is Christianity a post-truth movement?

3. Fact, emotion and personal belief.

Speaker: Brock Johnston

Passage: Acts 9

Outline:

Life exposed

Saul encounters Jesus. (vv. 1-9)

Ananias encounters Jesus. (vv. 10-16)

Saul is changed. (vv. 17-18)

Unexpected, undeserved, God-powered change.

Speaker: Russell Smidt

Passage: Acts 8

Outline:

God's heart is for the lost and brings about the interseaction of evangelist and seeker.

Who is the greatest evangelist ever?

Philip the evangelist.

God the evangelist.

Speaker: Russell Smidt

Passage: Acts 6:8-8:4

Outline:

God's plans are perfectly consistent - dynamic, merciful and triumphant.

The accused accuses.

The false charge against Stephen. (6:8-15)

The truce charge against the Sanhedrin. (7:1-53)

The verdict. (7:54-8:4)

Martyr or maniac?

Speaker: Russell Smidt

Passage: Acts 6:1-7

Outline:

1. Raise a glass for 200 years of the Bible Society.

2. The Word spreads (Acts 19:20) - superstitious fakery does not.

3. The Word spreads (Acts 12:24) - political ambition does not.

4. The Word spreads (Acts 6:1-7) - grumbling disunity does not.

5. The main thing is that the main thing remains the main thing.

Speaker: Guest speaker

Passage: Acts 4:1-31

Outline:

The arrest. (vs. 1-4)

The next day. (5-12)

The Sadducees withdraw. (13-22)

The prayer meeting. (23-31)

What does the church overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit look like?

It's evangelistic. (12)

It's courageous. (19-20)

It's prayerful. (23, 31)

Speaker: Derek Bullen

Passage: Acts 3:1-26

Outline:

The Man

The Jews forgot what God had told them: Deuteronomy 15:4, 7-8.

By contrast, the Christians: Acts 2:45.

The Miracle

Largely a repetition of what Jesus had done. Luke 5:22-26.

The Message

Whenever opportunity knocks, we should open the door and grab it!

Peter, the main human source for Mark's Gospel, would have remembered Jesus' saying, when people sought Him out. Mark 1:38

The sermon Peter preached was on the same theme as that on the Day of Pentecost: Acts 2:37-39.

Brothers and sisters, what are we to do?