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We've all encountered someone in our lives who impressed us with their talent, charm and charisma, making it easy to want to align ourselves with them. We'll see an incident in our text that Paul and Barnabas encountered that demonstrates how ill-advised it is to idolize a human person, and instead shows us the need to keep Christ on the throne of our hearts.

The Messiah was prophesied and promised long ago, and Paul’s speech in Acts 13 has one purpose: to demonstrate to the Jews how the promises of God to them were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The ultimate proof? That Christ rose from the dead. We'll see that because Christ has risen, He is therefore worthy of honor and praise. Will you crown Him King today?

The "Gospel" is the good news of Jesus Christ, the Redeemer, sent to be the Savior of the World. Some will receive it and others will reject it, and regardless of the results, the Gospel is always worthy of being preached. To everyone, everywhere, laden with love and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit.

We live in a world that caters to our every desire, designed to make our lives easier. The calling God places on our lives is often anything but comfortable. We'll look at how God is glorified when we remain faithful to Him and how we can draw strength from Him to commit to that high calling He ordained for us.

Our God is a loving and gracious God, and one of the reasons we know this to be true is that He is adamantly protective of His glory. This Sunday, we'll see a couple scenarios in our text where people set themselves up against what God is doing, and how God intervenes. We'll see how the actions God takes are meant to protect His church and the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Ever pray for something so big that only God could accomplish it? Do we trust God enough to pray for the impossible? Maybe we call on God to work in a miraculous way. Maybe we need deliverance from something that imprisons us. Our first move as a believer must be prayer, and we'll talk about how and why this Sunday.

Ever wonder what it means to be "full of the Holy Spirit?" What power is available to the believers when they entrust their lives to Christ? There is a reason God gives this gift to Christians, and we'll see how we can put this fullness of the Holy Spirit to use in our lives for God's glory.

As the Gospel of Jesus spreads outside ethnic and social lines, God makes it clear that all are welcome and invited before the throne of grace. The table of fellowship has seats for both Jews and Gentiles. This has significant and far-reaching implications for the fledgling church.  

The second half of Acts 10 shows us the amazing grace of God as salvation through Jesus Christ crosses ethnic lines and the good news spreads from Judea and Samaria into the Gentile world. In this story, the Apostle Peter is given the privilege of preaching the good news of Jesus to Cornelius, a Roman Centurion whom God had been preparing to hear the message of salvation. Come this Sunday and see how this "Gentile Pentecost" unfolds.  

While God chose the nation of Israel to accomplish His will on Earth, it became easy for the people to fall into the trap of superiority, thinking they were simply better because of it. God reveals the sin of prejudice in the early church, showing them through Christ that the Gospel is for all people, regardless of ethnicity.