Knowing Jesus produces a counter-cultural, single-minded passion to know Him more. This is at the heart of the Lenten season. 

It is commitment Sunday at Grace Community Bible Church. The church is refreshing and renewing the commitments they made a year ago, financial commitments that are going towards 27 acres of property the church purchased to be the future home of the church. In this sermon Tony answers the question, “why should I commit and what keeps me motivated to commit?”

After the ascension of Jesus, back to His Father in heaven, Luke tells us that this little band of believers, 120 of them, were of “one accord.” What a beautiful and fascinating description of the people of God.

In this sermon Tony focuses on Jesus’ words in Acts 1:8, specifically “comes upon you.” Jesus told His apostles that the Holy Spirit was coming upon them. What does this mean? It means so much more than we appreciate.

Tony continues, in this sermon, looking at what Jesus said and did during his last 40 days on earth before ascending to His Father. In this sermon he leads us to look closely at Acts 1:8 and the Holy Spirit’s role in our lives in general, as well as our witness.

Jesus ushered in the era of witness when He ascended to heaven. The apostles were witnesses like no one else could, but we too are called to witness for Him.

Tony pauses in his series in Acts to preach this sermon on waiting for the Lord. He made some comments about this in last week’s sermon and got so much feedback that he felt led to spend a week on the subject - God has many of His people in the waiting room, it is so hard, but it is the way the Lord deepens His people. 

Acts 1:1-11 represents a summary of Jesus’ 40 days, post-resurrection, with His apostles. There are some important, interesting things to see in Luke’s account and Tony begins to point a few of these out in this sermon.

Tony is beginning a new series in the book of Acts. In this introduction he helps us understand the book of Acts as a whole and lays the groundwork for beginning our journey through Luke’s second volume! 

We all live out of our hearts. So, how do we keep them?