Sermons on Acts
Kiss the Son
Acts 4; Psalm 2 Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Psalm chapter two, Psalm number two. Last week, we looked at Psalm 1, and I mentioned that the Psalms are arranged in some semblance of order. They’re not just a mishmash of 150 Psalms just thrown together in a book. There’s five books of the Psalms. There’s doxologies at the end of each of the five books. There’s an arrangement of themes and all kinds of things.…
Lord’s Day 18: Here and There
Acts 1; Colossians 1-2 Amen. Turn to Jeremiah 23 and then we have Colossians 2 and 3 and then Acts chapter 1. As you know, we want to think about the ascension of the Lord Jesus and how it benefits us, but also a few quirky things about the two natures of Christ and his presence here, here and there. So in Jeremiah chapter 23, you have the prophet declaring that God can be where he wants and see what…
Ministry on Malta
Acts 28:1-11 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 28. It can be found in the pew Bibles on page 937. Our reading today will be verses one through 10 and then just the tip of verse 11 that speaks of the timeframe. The apostle and his traveling companions were on the island. Next week, next Sunday will be our last Sunday in the book of acts. And then what we’ll…
A Hop, a Skip, and a Jump
Acts 28:11-31 Please turn in your copy of God’s Word one last time to the book of Acts, at least one last time for this series. We’ll perhaps go there again some other day, but Acts 28 verses 11 to 31 will be our passage. You’ll notice in the middle of our scripture today, it says, Rome at last. And some of you are probably saying, Acts at last, it’s over with. So I believe four years ago, we went…
Ship’s Chaplain
Acts 27 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 27. Our reading today will be the whole chapter. You can find it in the Pew Bible on page 936. After chapter 27 comes, guess what, chapter 28, the last one. So we’ll have two sermons on chapter 28, and after two years in Acts and two years in Luke, we will have studied everything that Luke compiled for Theophilus, his benefactor, who…
Feeding the 5,000
Acts 25-26 You can be seated and please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 25. Our reading today will be Acts 25 and 26, and you can find that in the pew Bible on page 934. We come to Paul’s last defense of the Christian faith. Remember, to defend the faith is often called an apologia or we get the study of apologetics. Paul has appeared before the Jewish mob in Jerusalem. He’s appeared before the…
Whole Gospel Witness
Acts 24:22-27 Acts chapter 24, verses 22 through 27. Some of you are probably beginning to think that the end of Acts is like watching court TV. It’s the same thing over and over. But we do remember God’s calling to the apostle Paul in the earlier chapter of Acts, the Lord Jesus, when he met Saul on the road to Damascus. said, you will suffer for my name and you will speak to Gentiles and their kings. And so…
The Roman to Rome
Acts 22:22-23:11 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 22, verse 22, and our reading will take us into chapter 23, verse 11. If you’re using the pew Bible, it’s found on page 932. While you’re making your way there, we saw last week that Paul is now a prisoner of Rome and he made his first appearance or his first defense apology of the Christian faith before the mob in the Jewish…
The Plot Thickens
Acts 23:11-24:21 So let’s hear God’s word together. Ezra chapter eight, beginning at verse one. These are the heads of their father’s houses. And this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylonia in the reign of Artaxerxes, the king. of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom, of the sons of Ithmar, Daniel, of the sons of David, Hathush, of the sons of Shechaniah, who was of the sons of Parash, Zechariah, with whom were registered 150…
Paul the Apologist
Acts 21:17-22:21 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 21. Acts chapter 21, we’ll read today from verse 17 all the way through chapter 22, verse 21. We are entering into a section of Acts, the narrative that Luke who also wrote the Gospel of Luke, writes to Theophilus, his benefactor, his person who paid for his time and effort to write this letter. He wanted to give an orderly account of…
Jerusalem Bound
Acts 21:1-16 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 21. Today, we’ll be looking at verses one through 16. As you’re making your way there, you can find it in the pew Bible on page 930. But we are on the last leg of Paul’s third missionary journey. Some believe that Paul will get out of the Roman prison, go on a fourth missionary journey, but we don’t we don’t hold…
Paul’s First Epistle to the Ephesians
Acts 20:13-38 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 20. Our passage today will be Acts chapter 20, verses 13 to 38. You can find this in the Pew Bible on page 929. Acts chapter 20 verses 13 to 38. This is Paul’s farewell address to the Ephesian elders. Remember, we’ve talked in recent weeks about his end to his third missionary journey. He’s been in Ephesus for about three years and…