Sermons on Acts (Page 3)

Acts 17:1-9 You may be seated. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 17. Today we will be looking at verses one through nine. Paul and Silas are making their way from Philippi to Thessalonica. It is believed that they left Luke. the physician, the writer of Acts, and Timothy, the young disciple of Paul, back at Philippi to continue to strengthen the church. And so as we pick up in 17, Paul and Silas are on…

Acts 16:16-40 Before we read God’s word, let’s pray together. Our Father, we thank you that you show us how mighty you are in the scriptures. Lord, we’re so filled with things from this world, we’re sometimes unimpressed. And so let your word do its work. Show us your mighty power, your great love, and what we ought to be and do in light of what you have done for us. Hear us and help us now as we Turn…

Acts 16:11-15 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 16, verses six through 10. As you’re making your way there, I believe this is our maybe our second or third Sunday back in the book of Acts. And there’s always this dilemma that preachers face. Do I preach little sections and uncover more or big sections and get through it faster? And so I’ve been burdened with that lately. I think…

Acts 16:6-10 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 16, verses six through 10. As you’re making your way there, I believe this is our maybe our second or third Sunday back in the book of Acts. And there’s always this dilemma that preachers face. Do I preach little sections and uncover more or big sections and get through it faster? And so I’ve been burdened with that lately. I think…

Acts 16:1-5 Amen. You can be seated. Our reading from the New Testament today is Acts chapter 16, verses one through five. And if you’d like to turn there, we’ll read in just a moment. We have not been in the book of Acts maybe since the middle of November. So we’re returning to our study of the the acts of the risen Lord, the ascended, risen and ascended Christ is building his church through the work of the apostles,…

Acts 15:36-41 Please turn in your copy of God’s Word to Acts chapter 15. Acts chapter 15, verses 36 through 41. This passage will be our last in the Book of Acts, probably until maybe January 8th or so. We’ll look next Sunday at a Thanksgiving psalm, and then after the 20th, the 27th, I believe, through Christmas, we’ll be looking at some of the major characters of Christmas and look for insight from God’s Word on how we can…

Acts 15:1-35 Amen, you can be seated. Turn in your Bibles to Acts chapter 15. Today we’ll be reading and considering verses one to 35. This is perhaps one of the most important chapters in the book of Acts. You could say in one way that the early church is making it up as they go. They have good folks like Paul who know the Old Testament backwards and forwards. They have apostles and prophets and evangelists and teachers. And…

Acts 14:21-28 Amen. You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to the book of Acts. Acts chapter 14 verses 21 to 28 will be our passage for the day. Some of you have already taken a sneak peek ahead and think we did a few of these verses already. There’s a method to the madness, you know, there always is. So last week, I think we looked at maybe 19 through 22-ish, something like that.…

Acts 14:19-23 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to the book of Acts. Acts chapter 14 verses 19 through 23 will be our passage for today. We’ve taken a couple of weeks break to look at God’s covenant with his people, God’s covenant with families. We’ve had a couple of baptisms. So now we’re back in Acts, we’ll be here for a couple of weeks and then around Thanksgiving, we’ll look at a Psalm…

Acts 14:8-18 Before we read God’s word, let’s look to him in prayer together. Do you pray with me? Almighty and gracious Father, our whole salvation depends on our true understanding of your holy word. So we ask now that you would give to each of our hearts a freedom from worldly affairs so that we might hear, that we might understand your holy word with all diligence and with all faith, so that we might rightly discern your gracious…

Acts 14:1-7 Amen. You can be seated and turn in your copies of God’s word, if you will, to Acts chapter 14 verses one through seven. As you’re making your way there, I just remind you that Paul and Barnabas are on what’s typically called the first missionary journey. Um, most of your Bibles in the back have maps and have little color coded arrows that show the routes that, um, Paul took. That’s a helpful tool for understanding where…

Acts 13:13-52 Amen. You can be seated, turning your copy of God’s word to Acts chapter 13. Today we’ll be reading verses 13 to 52. Acts chapter 13, verses 13 to 52, and let’s ask for God’s blessing on the reading and preaching of his word. Pray with me. Lord, we remember that holy men of old were carried along by your spirit to put down onto paper your holy will, your divine will, so that your truth would carry…