Your Response to Threats (Acts 4:23-31)
Every threat you receive has a unique power to reveal the truth about your secret faith. We mark the characteristics of the early church's response.
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A Defiant Gospel, Acts 4:12-22
The missing note in much of our preaching: Defiance of powers
Acts 4:1-12, First Conflict With Government
The Sanhedrin assembles to address the Gospel problem at the temple.
Acts 3:11-26, Rabbit trail on God's dealing with Ignorance
Peter says that the ignorance of his hearers is a mitigating factor in God's willingness to forgive their sin. We take a moment to chase that down in the Scripture a bit.
Acts 3:1-10, Why you leaping?
Sometimes you just gotta preach good news
12 Marks of a Healthy Church. Acts 2:42-47
Let's devote ourselves to the right things
Baptized to be Forgiven? Acts 2:37-40
More time than I wanted to spend on the misuse of Acts 2:38, but many found it convicting.
Peter Preaches Resurrection and Exaltation, Acts 2:22-36
Peter's explanation of the phenomenon of Acts 2 covers some interesting ground and ends with a stinging indictment. Miracles, sovereignty, and Scripture as the bedrock of truth.
On Peter's Use of Joel, and our use of Scripture (Acts 2:14-21)
Peter brings forth older prophecy to explain present events, in ways that might surprise us, but ought to inform our own attempts at the same thing.
A More Expansive Vision of Spirit Baptism, Acts 2:1-13
Seeking to move beyond the common Pentecostal emphasis on personal experience, and think in terms of larger Biblical themes.
4 Big Ideas that Hang on the Ascension
The 4: 2nd Coming Spirit presence Dominion Security
Kingdom Expectation and the Spirit
On the Dumb Question that Wasn't