Synopsis: Ever questioned God’s movements or his timing? Ever found it difficult to extend forgiveness to another? Ever found yourself disoriented and maybe even anxious in waiting? This message is for you!

God’s Kingdom reaches EVERYONE! Journey with Jesus’s movement through the young church and glean the ways God is still calling ordinary disciples to do extraordinary things.

A young man named Saul becomes the pivot point, not just for the book of Acts, but for the expansion of the Gospel worldwide. While the enemy intended to snuff out the expansion of the church, Jesus in turn begins his surprising pursuit of the church’s greatest enemy – and of you and me!

Right in the very midst of massive church expansion is a serious cost in people’s lives. If it was true with Jesus, if it was true with the early church, if it’s taught throughout the New Testament, why would we think it would be any different for us? Is our faith worth dying for? How about living for?

In this message Pastor Mackenzie Matthews explores the power of living “All-in” as we see it in Acts chapter 4 and 5. We unpack the shocking moment of dishonesty with Ananias and Sapphira, and how we approach knowing ourselves honestly before God.

When God desires to do a fresh thing in us and through us, his Spirit enlarges our capacity and empowers us. The more we recognize and live in this sort of filling the more boldly we will live. But for lives that may already feel (or truly be) full, how much more ‘full’ can we get? How full is full?

On the day of the birth of the Church, we see the Spirit of God working in both high-drama and faithful obedience spaces. The very same God is in power and at work in our seasons of high drama/intensity and also steady seasons of faithfulness.

Acts chapter 1 begins the hinge-point, transition-point between Luke's Gospel of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and the accounts Acts of the Apostles. Postured in awe and amazement with everything they have seen and experienced from Jesus, the final words of Jesus calls his people to wait upon him to enter into what he has for them next.

Join us as Pastor Brent brings us the final stand alone message of the summer as we lead into our fall series on The Book of Acts next week.

Because our souls so often need a refresh and perspective away from ourselves, Pastor John leads us on a journey of overviewing the book of Revelation for this week’s stand-alone sermon.