Sermons on Acts (Page 2)

Acts 20:1-12 Please turn in your copy of God’s word to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 19. We’re going to backtrack just a couple of verses, 20 to 22. And then our main passage today will be chapter 20 verses one through 12. So 21 through 12 will be our main passage, but we want to take a quick peek backwards. A few things that the apostle Paul mentions about his life and ministry. Just so you will understand…

Acts 19:21-41 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 19, verses 21 through 41. Acts chapter 19, 21 through 41. The beginning of this passage, verses 21 and 22, gives a little insight into Paul’s travel plans. He will be Ending his third missionary journey, he’s going to swing back through a couple of places on his way to Jerusalem. When he gets to Jerusalem, he will upset the Jewish population. He…

Acts 19:11-20 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 19 verses 11 through 20. We are going to think today about the power of God, God’s power at work in Ephesus through Paul’s ministry, through his miracles, but also through his ministry of the word. We want to see that God’s power suppresses the power of men and demons. And so as we prepare to hear God’s word, let’s look to him…

Acts 19:1-10 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 19. Today, we’ll be looking at verses one through 10. As you’re finding your way there, remember that Paul has begun his third missionary journey. He’s resolute on getting to Ephesus where he’ll minister for about three years. He’s member promised to return back to the Jewish synagogue, and we’ll find today that he returns to that Jewish synagogue to do ministry. And then…

Acts 18:24-28 Amen. This is the word of the living God. There’s a wonderful picture in the history of the ancient Near East, and it’s a picture of a king going off to war. This king goes off to war and he stays away many months on a campaign to defend his realm. to protect his realm or to add more land, which he conquers to his kingdom, to his realm. And after months of being away, perhaps even years…

Acts 18:23 You may be seated. And turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 18. Today, just one verse, verse 23. We wanna talk about strengthening the church, strengthening the disciples. As you’re making your way there, I guess we took a break last week from Acts, but we considered Paul’s view of the resurrection from Corinthians where When we last left off, Paul was leaving Corinth and headed back to Jerusalem to keep a vow. On…

Acts 18:2-23 You may be seated. Please turn in your copy of the scriptures to Acts chapter 18 today. Verses 18 through 23 will be our passage. As you make your way there, I’ll point out a couple things to be thinking of as we prepare to read. One is, this is the sort of subtle ending of Paul’s second missionary journey. You’ll see at the end of our passage, verse 23, it speaks of him departing Antioch in Syria…

Acts 18:9-17 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 18. Our passage today is verses 12 through 17 that will back up to verse nine and be sure to connect ourselves to the wonderful vision that our Lord gave to Paul, a vision of encouragement. So our whole passage will be Acts chapter 18 verses nine through 17. And let’s look to God one more time in prayer. Lord, unless you shine the…

Acts 18:1-11 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of the scripture to Acts chapter 18. Today we’ll be considering verses one through 11. Acts chapter 18, one through 11. You’ll remember this section of scripture is Paul’s second missionary journey. He left Antioch in Syria. He sailed on his first missionary journey through the early Eastern part of, I guess, Asia Minor, that area, came back, gave a report, Jerusalem Council. Now, second missionary journey, they’ve left and…

Acts 17:16-34 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 17, verses 16 to 34. This is the same passage we read last week, though we zeroed in on a couple of the verses in the latter portion and considered the providence of God. Today, we want to look at the whole section, the whole context. Paul ministering at Athens among the learned people of the Roman empire. And so we want to…

Acts 17:24-28 If you would please turn in your copy of God’s Word, it’s listed in the bulletin, Acts 17, in a whole bunch of verses. But we’re going to read verses 24, I believe through verse 28. So Acts chapter 17, verses 24 through 28. In a few moments, we’ll read before we read, we want to pray, but let me mention next week. We’ll look at the whole passage, the whole context of Paul making his way to…

Acts 17:10-15 Okay.