The greatest Christmas miracle is the Miracle of the Incarnation when Divinity put on flesh! Let's just put it out there, WE DON'T KNOW how a baby's heart starts beating OR how the infinite creator of the universe became a single cell that became the promised Savior of the world! It is another mind-boggling topic that causes us to worship our huge GLORIOUS God!

This week we see Peter miraculously freed from prison to keep the Gospel spreading and the church growing in numbers. Christians today can also experience miraculous freedom. Freedom found only in Christ, and that enables the believer to be a mighty witness of God's grace and impacting the growth of the local church.

This week in Acts 11 we encounter the word "Christian" for the first time. This is a name that has been tarnished over the ages, listen as we are reminded through God's word what it really means to be a Christian and how we can redeem that name and even carry it with pride!

This week we see how both, Peter and the Roman Centurion Cornelius took steps of risky faith and how that faith ultimately proved to be the very thing that God used to make the Gospel accessible to the gentiles.

Gratitude is the emotion that fuels Generosity and gratitude is fueled by Grace. Everything we have is from God including the grace that helps us obey Gods command to give thanks in everything and trust Him to supply all of our needs in Christ Jesus. Be grateful and generous!

Who would you never expect to be saved? Saul was a well educated, religious fanatic, who persecuted Christians and was opposed Jesus. But his condition before Christ was no worse than yours and your conversion is just as miraculous.

This Sunday we spent some time looking at Acts 8 and in particular Philips's encounter with, Simon the Magician & The Ethiopian Eunuch.

"The Blood of the Martyr is the seed of the Church" - Tertullian

This week in Acts we learn some key lessons from the first Martyr, Stephen and how what in the natural seems to be a tragedy turns out to be a triumph for the Gospel.

When the Holy Spirit is working in the church there will be great power, grace, generosity, fear, and joy!

This week we look at how despite numerous reasons to give up, the early church continued to Persist in their Faith and through that, how we as children of God need to Faithfully Persist no matter the circumstances we face.