Mayflower Church Sermons

Big Idea: Turn from empty idols to the living God.

1. The Sign the Crowd Misread (vv. 8-13)
2. The Servants Who Refused the Glory (vv. 14-15a)
3. The God Who Left a Witness (vv. 15b-18)

Big Idea: The Lord backs the word He sends.

1. Grace Opens Some Hearts and Hardens Others (vv. 1-2)
2. The Lord Backs the Word He Sends (vv. 3-4)
3. The Word Runs On (vv. 5-7)

In Acts 13:13-52, in a synagogue in Antioch of Pisidia, Paul stood up among people who had the holiest, truest document in the world, the law of Moses, and told them plainly what that good law could never do. It could read them their sentence. It could not lift it. By the end of his sermon the room had split down the middle: some begged to hear more, and some folded their arms and walked away. The whole thing turned on two verses, 38 and 39, where Paul says that everyone who believes is freed from everything the law of Moses could never free them from.

Big Idea: The Spirit who sends the gospel also defends it.

1. The Word Goes Out (vv. 4-5)
2. The Serpent Resists (vv. 6-8)
3. The Word Wins (vv. 9-12)

Big Idea: The risen Christ sends His church by His Spirit.

1. The Church God Gathered (v. 1)
2. The Spirit Who Calls (v. 2)
3. The Church That Let Go (v. 3)

Big Idea: God will not give His glory to another.

1. The Hunger Behind the Flattery (vv. 20-22)
2. The Glory God Will Not Share (v. 23)
3. The Word That Outlives the King (vv. 24-25)

Big Idea: When the Church prays, God's answer is already at the gate, and much greater than it dares to expect.

1. The Rescue in the Night (vv. 6-11)
2. The Answer at the Door (vv. 12-17)
3. The Morning After (vv. 18-19)

BIG IDEA: When trouble grips the church, the church prays, because the God who saved us at the cross still rules and still hears.

Point 1: The King’s Hand (vv. 1–2)
Point 2: The Passover Frame (vv. 3–4)
Point 3: The Church’s Hand (v. 5)

When the hand of the Lord is with ordinary believers, grace becomes visible — it spreads, it shows, and it gives.

1. Grace That Spreads (vv. 19–21)
2. Grace That Shows (vv. 22–26)
3. Grace That Gives (vv. 27–30)

Big Idea: When God grants repentance, the church's calling is to confess what He has done and welcome whom He has welcomed.

1. The Church Takes Issue (vv. 1-3)
2. The Apostle Recounts What God Did (vv. 4-17)
3. The Church Falls Silent, Then Glorifies God (v. 18)