Messages on Acts (Page 2)
Divine Appointments
Pastor Brent looks at Acts 3 and 4 to see how the apostles took advantage of a divine opportunity and how God still desires to invite us into these divine opportunities today.
God Still With Us
Pastors Brent and Ryan continue a look at the book of Acts and the beginning of the church to see how the arrival of the Holy Spirit gives the church both then and today all that is needed to continue God’s work in the world.
You Are A Witness
Pastor Amy shares how our response to God choosing us, setting us free, restoring us, and blessing us should be that we tell others about the goodness of God in our lives.
Telling Your Story
Pastor Amy Becker continues our look at how to find comfort when sharing our faith by looking at how the Apostle Paul shared his faith by telling his own personal story and how we can use his model to share our own story with those around us.
Where Do I Start?
Pastor Brent Clark starts a new series looking at the awkwardness of evangelism and how the Apostle Paul would often start when he traveled to a new city.
Mission Trip to Liberia
Pastors Brent Clark and Ryan Lenerz share about their recent trip to Liberia and Brent looks at Acts 10:1–11 to see how the invitation to go and share the gospel continues today.
Stephen and a Church that is Full
Pastor Brent Clark looks at Stephen and how like Stephen we should strive to have a life that is “full of” so that we can be a church that is full of.
Dialogue: Praying Together
Sermon Podcast Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Introduction What comes to mind when you hear the words “Prayer Meeting”? If you’ve been around church for some time, I assume you are familiar with the concept. A prayer meeting is a time where Christians get together and they pray. There can be a lot of variations of this activity. They can be loud, boisterous times like my wife, Kerri and I experienced at a Pentecostal church in Tulsa, Oklahoma…
Dialogue: God (Still) Speaks
One-Sided Conversation Today I’ll be continuing our series called Dialogue: Recovering the Lost Art of Communicating with God. Now to begin, I want to tell you a story about a recent conversation I had at Caribou Coffee earlier this week. I went to Caribou on Tuesday to start my day with time reading and praying. I wanted to get a start on this message and just start my day off on the right foot. I got my coffee, sat down…
God is Sovereign
Sermon Podcast Audio Your browser does not support the audio element. Introduction Have you ever stopped to think about why you are where you are and what brought that about? Was it dumb luck or was God involved somehow? To be up front, I can tell you that as an eight year old boy growing up in southwest Arkansas, I never, not once, had the thought, “You know, when I’m 40, I’d like to be pastoring a church in Iowa.”…
Racial Reconciliation
Introduction Last year, the pastoral team and I went away to plan our preaching calendar for this year. One of the topics we thought we should cover was the issue of racial reconciliation.A couple of months before our meeting, we had seen the reporting of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Images flashed across the television of the response of the people in the community and in the nation. We knew this would be an important topic to…
Can’t We All Just Get Along: Racial Reconciliation
Introduction Last year, the pastoral team and I went away to plan our preaching calendar for this year. One of the topics we thought we should cover was the issue of racial reconciliation. A couple of months before our meeting, we had seen the reporting of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Images flashed across the television of the response of the people in the community and in the nation. We knew this would be an important topic…