Iowa Falls Evangelical Free Church Sermon Podcast

What does a growing church need? As God continued to work and the church in 1st Century Antioch continued to grow, what did they need? As God continues to work in our day and our church continues to grow, what do we need? This Sunday, we will finish up Acts 11 where we’ll see God continue to work in and provide for His church.

It's easy to be critical isn't it? We like it when people do things our way and we can be quick to criticize when things are done differently.

In Acts 11:1-18, the church will have an opportunity to respond to God's work being done in a new way. Will they criticize or will they celebrate? Will the church remain united as they move forward in the mission given to them by Jesus?

Do you ever think of how one seemingly small decision can change the course of history? Today we will complete Acts 10 in which we’ll see that God gives Peter a vision. Peter’s response to that vision and the invitation to Caesarea that quickly follows will, in many ways, change the course of history.

All throughout the gospels and the book of Acts, we see that Jesus’ work seems to turn things upside-down. In today’s passage, we will see Jesus’ work continue through His disciples as things are turned upside-down, people turn to Jesus, and an angel’s visit to a Gentile pushes us to anticipate a major turn in the life of the church.

This week, we welcome our associate pastor candidate, Nick Dykema. In addition to leading the worship team, Nick will also be preaching from Colossians 1:15​-23.

We would love to have you join us in person but trust that this livestream will be helpful for those who are unable to be with us.

There is a seemingly endless supply of topics to study, things to see, tastes to savor, and tidbits to share. Today we will follow last week’s Easter message by looking at the next passage in Luke 24 which takes place on that resurrection Sunday. As we see Jesus Himself interact with 2 disciples, we pray that God will help us notice how it’s all about Jesus so that we might study Scripture and see, savor, and share Him.

Jesus Lives.

The women who came to the tomb early on a Sunday morning expected to apply spices to the dead body of Jesus.

Instead, they heard the really good news: "He is not here, but has risen!"

Jesus lives.

This really happened. And this really matters.

Peace. We want it but how do we get it? We want everything to fit together, to be whole, to make sense, to be right. But everything seems so broken. On Palm Sunday, we will look together at Luke’s account of Jesus’ approach to Jerusalem, riding in as King on the colt of a donkey. While the people hail Him as King and proclaim peace, Jesus will weep because they don’t know how peace comes.

At the beginning of Acts 9 we saw that God really can save anyone. He saved Saul and gave him a new family and a new mission.

Today we continue in Acts 9 to see what the first days of Saul's job looked like as we work our way toward a beautiful summary of God's work in building up and multiplying the church.