Herod the King has killed James and imprisoned Peter. What will become of the Gospel? Will it be muted or will it miraculously multiply? In this dramatic chapter we see that God will be glorified by advancing his Gospel and that all who oppose his Gospel, seeking their own glory, will ultimately fail.

It's easy to idealize the early church, but Acts 11 shatters all our idealism as we see Jewish Christians struggling to understand the true nature of the Gospel and salvation by sheer grace. The struggle will continue throughout the book of Acts. Indeed, the struggle to understand salvation by sheer grace is ongoing for all of us.

This message continues to explore the encounter between Peter and Cornelius in Acts 10, as the Gospel crosses the Jewish cultural boundary and begins to multiply among the Gentiles.

We are living the book of Acts! That's the reminder for Grace Central Coast in this message as we connect the sending of Paul & Barnabas in Acts 13 to our sending of Pastor Jeff Jennings to serve as the Lead Pastor of Bethany Church in Canby, Oregon.

As we continue our MULTIPLY study of the book of Acts, we’ll see that after an absence of three chapters, the Apostle Peter takes the stage again to serve as a vital link to the emerging Gospel outreach to the Gentiles.

As we've been studying the book of Acts, it seemed fitting to look at one of the many resurrection messages in Acts for Easter this year. Acts 26 is the record of the Apostle Paul's compelling proclamation of the resurrection of Jesus before King Agrippa. All that Paul shares is timelessly relevant for our world today.

While Saul's conversion was dramatic and almost immediate, his growth in grace and ministry was not. The ingredients of Saul's growth are instructive for us at Grace Central Coast as we seek to make disciples who make disciples among our staff, adults, youth and kids.

In this message we look at the sermon of Stephen, the longest message recorded for us in the book of Acts. Stephen's sermon is an answer to the accusation that he been speaking words against the temple and the law.

Here we meet Stephen, the first martyr of the Christian church. He's a disciple of Jesus who gives himself for the mission of Jesus. What was he like and how was he used by God in life and death? We explore these questions in this next message of our Multiply! study of the book of Acts.

Are you a "church idealist"? A "church pessimist"? Or a "church realist"? Acts 6:1-7 reminds us that the church has been flawed, broken and imperfect from the very beginning. Here we discover realities that are true of early church, our church and every local church as we continue our "Multiply!" study of the book of Acts.