It has often been said that the only problem with a new marriage is the husband and the wife! Unfortunately, many of us have personally witnessed a marriage destruct and seen or even experienced the deep pain of conflict that has grown from a flame to an uncontrollable wildfire. Solomon is going to dedicate 25% of this book to effectively handling conflict. In this message we will watch hurt arise from an unmet expectation, but we will see this husband and wife intentionally and humbly run to God with their own issues and ultimately resolve a potential wildfire in their relationship.
We will all have to deal with the storms of life, but Paul had a little bit of a different perspective on it than most people do.
What an amazing story we have in the middle section of the Book of Acts about Paul and the church at Ephesus! The story documents a body of believers who experience the spread of the Gospel in what would seem to us as an unusual way. They have a reverence for who God is, a culture of confession, and a pursuit of identifying the idols in their lives. But a mere 40 years later we see their lampstand put out and we hear nothing else from this church. But why? This we will seek to answer!
Often times we take a good thing, turn it into a God thing, which is a bad thing.
What does God consistently use to accomplish His purposes? As we look at the life of Paul through the lens of his relationship with Barnabas, we'll consider 3 critical elements. We'll see a pattern for those that want to minister for God, that is consistent for both Barnabas and Paul, as well as others. Dig into Acts with us as we mine for these elements that we all need to be conscious of.
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The Road to Damascus, the place of one of history’s most remarkable transformations! One who looked more like a terrorist when he left Jerusalem, is saved by the grace of Jesus and arrives at Damascus looking like a Follower of the Way. What a great picture of the Gospel that saves, but let us not forget the same Gospel continues to transform. For salvation happens in an instance, but life transformation in Christ takes place over a life time. In this sermon we will look at what probed Saul to the grandness of the salvation offered in the Gospel and the depths of transformation offered by the same Gospel!
Without fail, each time I read the stories of Paul’s life or walk through his epistles, my life is deeply challenged. But how could this NT apostle and author, with such “uncommon faith”, emerge from a man of such spiritual blindness and physical brutality?
The Answer: God’s Grace. I believe Paul’s “uncommon” faith was partly spurred by the understanding of what he had been saved from.
