Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

Chapter 12 of the Book of Acts wraps up with Herod dying, Saul and Barnabus completing their mission in Jerusalem and heading back to Antioch.  Luke divides Acts into two parts and Chapter 12 is the end of the first portion.  The good news of Jesus Christ dying and being raised from the dead as the ultimate sacrifice for sin has been proclaimed in Jerusalem and beyond, primarily through the leadership of Peter.  The second portion of Acts will highlight Paul's missionary endeavors. As we recap the first 12 chapters to see how God has worked through His people, we see that the Word of God has increased and multiplied in 4 ways - the spoken word, the written word, the silent word, and the Living Word.  It's as vital and vibrant today as it was for the early church.  How can we as individuals and corporately continue to see God's word increase and multiply?

Acts 12:20-25

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Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

Acts 12:1-19 raises a natural question. The church prayed for both James and Peter, but James was killed by the sword, while Peter was miraculously delivered. Why did these two apostles receive such different outcomes when the same group of people were praying for them. These types of questions in our own lives can make it difficult to pray. We can feel discouraged. We can grow cynical. We can grow resigned to the fact that, God’s going to do what God’s going to do. Yet, even with the inevitable disappointment with James, the early church continues to fervently seek God in prayer. They pray for Peter. One of the things we learn from the early church was that prayer was so baked into their regular rhythms, that it wasn’t something that was contingent upon them getting the answer they wanted. While this didn’t necessarily make it easy when their prayers seemed to go unanswered, these rhythms did keep them in regular communion with God where they were constantly seeing answers to prayer. 

Acts 12:1-19

Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

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Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

Persecution of Christians became the catalyst by which God’s Word spread, missionally minded churches were formed, and unity was realized.

Acts 11:19-30

Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

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Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

God has worked in unmistakable ways to offer salvation for the Gentiles; therefore, the Church must follow suit. The Church doesn’t write the script; they follow the script. They Church doesn’t draw up the play; they run the play. When the church decides to become the scriptwriter rather than the script-follower, bad things happen.  

Acts 11:1-18

Pastor Dave Pack, Senior Pastor

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Pastor Matthew McCleary, Associate Pastor

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This week we look at Acts 10, in which God uses two divine visions to reach a Gentile man and, in doing this, he bursts the doors of the church open to a whole new group of people! 

Acts 10:1-48

Pastor Matthew McCleary, Associate Pastor