Church Family, This past Sunday, in our anticipation of Christmas, we spent our time in the first eighteen verses of the Gospel of John. While this book does eventually get into the ground-level narrative details of Jesus' life on earth, these first eighteen verses...

Church Family, This past Sunday we stepped away from Acts for just a few weeks to start our series on advent -  looking forward to the celebration of Christ's coming on Christmas. Turning to Luke's account of Jesus' birth we find a recurring theme: God blesses and...

Church Family, This past Sunday we tackled a rather large portion of the narrative of Acts in which we saw Paul's powerful sermon in Antioch and the response of the locals who heard him. Paul's sermon laid out the history of Israel, how that whole history points to...

Church Family, This past Sunday in our series in Acts we came to the start of Paul's first missionary journey. The Holy Spirit spoke in the midst of prayer and worship and, seemingly with no hesitation, both Paul and Barnabas set out in obedience to the Spirit. Upon...

Church Family, This past Sunday in our series through Acts we encountered a tremendous outburst of persecution against the early church. King Herod (of the lineage of other infamous King Herods) had a handful of Christians killed. When he found it increased his...