Acts 24 – Fight or Flight Faith

When you’re walking life with Jesus and everything is seemingly “perfect,” it is such a pleasant walk… but what happens when things feel less “perfect?”  What do you do when Jesus starts asking things of you that go against what you would want?  Do you run?  Do you fight?  Do you yield in submission?  As […]

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Acts 23 – (Not so Much) Law & Order

Who doesn’t love a great courtroom drama?  Yet despite all the episodes of Law & Order they have made over the years, none of them perhaps come close to the drama-filled courtroom scene that Paul encounters in the first half of Acts 23!  This action-packed “episode” brings Paul, and each of us, face-to-face with our […]

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Acts 22 – With One Word

Words have power. Most of us have heard this since we were young children. But how much power does a single word actually have?  Today in Acts 22, we see Paul speaking a simple, everyday word… and yet it is powerful enough to seal his fate.  Yet this isn’t outside of God’s plan that been […]

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Acts 21- Going to Jerusalem

Paul is going to Jerusalem… but he knows that it is not going to be an all-together positive experience.  So why does he go?  Because he has properly discerned the call of the Holy Spirit.  As we journey through Acts 21 today, we experience Paul’s wrestling with hearing God’s voice and learn how we too […]

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Acts 20 – Falling Asleep in Church

Have you ever fallen asleep in church?  Of course you have… we all have!  But thankfully none of us have fallen asleep like Eutychus in Acts 20.  He not only fell asleep in church (during perhaps the longest recorded sermon of all time!) but he also fell out a three story window to his (short-lived) […]

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Acts 18 – When God Provides

Acts 17 was a hard season for Paul.   City after city of trouble and persecution.  So when Paul arrives in Corinth and chapter 18, things are looking unsure for him.  Yet God always knows what we need when we need it.  As God blesses Paul with gift after gift, grace after grace, we too can […]

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Acts 17 – A Return on Your Investment

If you’re up to speed on financial language, you will be familiar with the term ROI – Return on Investment.  When we put money into our 401Ks, we expect (hope for) a good ROI so we can retire one day.  When we go to work each day, we expect a good ROI on our time […]

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Acts 16 – Plunging My Rights into the Water

Life is easy when God and I agree on things.  I do what I want because it is what God wants.  But what happens when what I think is best is not what the Spirit of God says is best?  What do you do when suddenly you want to do one thing while God is […]

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Acts 14 – Giving Glory and Growing

Acts 14 brings us to an over-the-top kind of story where Paul and Barnabas are assumed to be gods.  It’s easy to kind of laugh the story off as an extreme event in the 1st century based on misunderstandings of myths and legends.  But what if there was more to it than that?  What if, […]

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