Easter Empowers Us!
The Sixth Sunday of Easter May 6, 2018 Acts 11:19-26 Easter Empowers Us! Now those who had been scattered by the persecution in connection with Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, telling the message only to Jews. Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus. The Lord’s hand was with them, and a great number of…
Easter Empowers the Means of Grace!
The Fifth Sunday of Easter April 29, 2018 Acts 4:26-40 Easter Empowers the Means of Grace Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home…
Easter Unites Us!
The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 22, 2018 Acts 4:23-33 Easter Unites Us! On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them. You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of…
Easter is Our Confidence!
The Third Sunday of Easter April 15, 2018 Acts 4:8-13 Easter is Our Confidence! Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom…
Easter is Our Inheritance!
The Second Sunday of Easter April 8, 2018 Acts 3:11-25 Easter is Our Inheritance! While the beggar held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s colonnade. When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Men of Israel, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham,…
Experience the Truth of Easter!
Easter Sunday April 1, 2018 John 20:1-18 Experience the Truth of Easter! Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” So Peter…
God’s Word is THE Source of Encouragement!
Palm Sunday March 25, 2018 Mark 11:1-10 God’s Word is The Source of Encouragement! As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you doing this?’…
Jesus is Encouraged by the Scope of His Mission
The Fifth Sunday in Lent March 18, 2018 John 12:20-33 Jesus Is Encouraged by the Scope of His Work Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the Feast. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus. Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of…
Jesus Confronts Confusion
The Fourth Sunday in Lent March 11, 2018 John 3:14-21 Jesus Confronts Confusion Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to…
Jesus Confronts the Destruction of God’s Temple
The Third Sunday in Lent March 4, 2018 John 2:13-22 Jesus Confronts the Destruction of God’s Temple When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem. In the temple courts he found men selling cattle, sheep and doves, and others sitting at tables exchanging money. So he made a whip out of cords, and drove all from the temple area, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned…