Ordinary Church :: Team

Acts 16:1-15

By Robert Krumrey

The road to a healthy movement of church planting churches is an exciting and difficult one. Acts is the story of gospel proclamation that leads to new churches that lead to the planting of more churches. The burden and the blessing of all of this new work is shared by people functioning in teams. Find out where one of these teams comes from, what they go through to accomplish their mission, and how you can participate in this ongoing movement in 2023.

Ordinary Church :: Go

Acts 11:19-26; 13:1-3

By Robert Krumrey

As persecution continues to increase so does the witness of the church. Christians end up in places they’ve never been talking to people they never dreamed of speaking to. A few decide to cross culture and share the message of Jesus. The result is an extraordinary work of God among ordinary people that becomes the most influential church in the book of Acts - The Church of Antioch. Find out more in this sermon about Antioch’s “start-up story” and what we can learn from them.

Ordinary Church :: Providence

Acts 12:1-25

By James Torrey

Bad things happen to the church and they happen at the hands of those who are supposed to be protecting the people under their authority. While Luke (the writer of Acts) pulls no punches describing the terror of state-sponsored persecution, he also reveals to the reader that God’s power is unrivaled. Find out more in this sermon about what Christians call “providence” and how we see this in the unfolding story of God’s people in Acts and today.

Ordinary Church :: Other

Acts 10:34-48

By Robert Krumrey

While Peter is still musing on God’s invite to a non-Kosher dinner, he gets a knock on the door from some non-Kosher people. He winds up telling them the gospel and witnesses a group he never dreamed he’d be in the same room with become his brothers and sisters in Christ. The experience is mind blowing for Peter and his posse and sets the stage for the evangelization of the many “ethnes” of the Roman empire. Find out in this sermon what we can learn from Peter’s experience regarding how Christians move toward the “other”.

Ordinary Church :: Eat

Acts 10:1-33

By Christian Hogan

The people of God are branching out from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria to who knows where else. It’s an exciting time, but not without a few growing pains. Jewish laws about food and sabbath had kept God’s people set apart from all others for millenia. Now a people that once showed God’s glory and goodness with a come and see approach were now being told to go and tell. Find out more in this sermon how the gospel frees God’s people to be both separate and sent.

Ordinary Church :: Saul

Acts 9:1-22

By Robert Krumrey

In one of the darkest moments in the book of Acts, we read of wide-scale, state-sponsored persecution that’s being spearheaded by a man named Saul. This darkest of experiences gives way to a dawning of light that turns out to be a pivotal story in the book of Acts. Learn more in this sermon about how one man’s darkness is flooded by gospel light resulting in a flood of gospel witness to the ends of the earth.

Acts 8:1-8; 8:26-40

By Robert Krumrey

Persecution continues to increase and the church scatters. Ordinary Christians encounter people in their path who have never heard the good news about Jesus. What will these recently converted Christ followers do? Philip, one of the seven who were asked to feed widows back in Acts 6, tells the gospel to anyone who will listen - including Samaritans and an Ethiopian Eunuch. Find out more in this sermon about what we can learn from Philip’s life and how we should respond to Philip’s example.

Ordinary Church :: Stephen

Acts 6:8-15; 7:54-8:3

By Robert Krumrey

Persecution of the church in Acts is heating up. Leaders are being taken into custody and flogged. Then the unthinkable happens. A treasured church member, and one of the first deacons, is dragged into court, falsely accused, and stoned to death. What happens after the tragedy of the first Christian martyr is one of the most important events in Christian history. Find out in this sermon what that is and how this story helps us set our own expectations about the expansion of gospel ministry throughout the world and in our own backyard.

Ordinary Church :: Problem

Acts 6:1-7

By Robert Krumrey

The church of Acts is growing and experiencing growing pains. Certain widows are being overlooked in the church food distribution and it looks like some kind of preferential treatment toward widows who are culturally Jewish. In this sermon we look at one of the first congregational problems faced by church leadership, how the problem was solved, and what the results were after the fact.

Ordinary Church :: Holy

Acts 4:32-5:11

By James Torrey

The newly birthed church in Acts is not without its problems - persecution from some outside the church and self-promotion by some inside the church. Ananias and Sapphira see an opportunity to look like religious rock stars without all the sacrifice that many in the church were embracing. They lie to church leaders and to God and drop dead in a heartbeat. Find out in this sermon what happens, why it happens, and what it might teach our church in the 21st century.