NotesVerses{Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world. God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God...

*Technical Note: We had issues with our audio for the Christmas Eve Service so sorry for the poor quality.

NotesVerses{Finally, all the elders of Israel met at Ramah to discuss the matter with Samuel. “Look,” they told him, “you are now old, and your sons are not like you. Give us a king to judge us like all the other nations have.”Samuel was displeased...

NotesVerses{The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" John 1:29 NLT}{For it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins… And so, dear brothers...

NotesVerses{In the beginning God… Genesis 1:1 NLT}{In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male...

NotesVerses{And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled...

NotesVerses{About that time King Herod Agrippa began to persecute some believers in the church. He had the apostle James (John’s brother) killed with a sword. When Herod saw how much this pleased the Jewish people, he also arrested Peter. (This took...

NotesVerses{However, some of the believers who went to Antioch from Cyprus and Cyrene began preaching to the Gentiles about the Lord Jesus. The power of the Lord was with them, and a large number of these Gentiles believed and turned to the Lord. When...

NotesVerses{Always be full of joy in the Lord. I say it again—rejoice! Philippians 4:4 NLT}{Meanwhile, the believers who had been scattered during the persecution after Stephen’s death traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch of Syria. They...

NotesVerses{Soon the news reached the apostles and other believers in Judea that the Gentiles had received the word of God. But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him. “You entered the home of Gentiles and even ate...