The first group of Christians are no different from us. They have the same worries and pressures and fears that you do. Their culture is not easier or harder than ours.

They were doing the same church things as we do. But they got filled with the Holy Spirit, and the rest of the book of Acts tells the story of the results. We are meant to ask ourselves the same question they will ask: Are we filled with the Holy Spirit?

The followers of Jesus did not do anything special to cajole the Holy Spirit into coming. At the same time, they had been given an assignment by Jesus to bear witness about him to the entire world. So He tells the disciples to wait.

We cannot have Christ, without the Spirit and the Spirit is doing the work of Christ. They are perfectly unified, and you cannot have one without the other.

Living surrendered to God’s lordship over our lives is meant to be a blessing, not a burden. But how do we truly experience that?

In Week 3 of our sermon series on parenting, we explore how gody discipline can properly shape our children and ourselves.

God isn’t interested in your competency nearly as much as He is interested in your sanctification. In fact, God is equally as interested in your maturity as He is your children’s.

We live in a time when children are seen as a burden on the world and the environment, and an unnecessary inconvenience on parents’ lives. But parenting is God’s end game, whether it’s in our natural families or our spiritual family.

Message from Israel Rios on July 28, 2024

This is a very timely story about what happened when God formally introduced Himself to His people.

We are closing our series through Romans this week with the final verses, and then a recap of the entire letter.

Paul, very cleverly, bookends the letter with the same concept of the gospel being revealed like a mystery being solved after a long anticipation.