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Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts: Notes//Quotes: Acts 16:11-40 - Jack   Slide 1 Scene 1: The Conversion of Lydia (16:11-15)   Slide 2  See Map that I'll send by email   Slide 3 Takeaways from Scene 1 1. God is sovereign in salvation   2. Obedience is our response to His work   Slide 4 Scene 2: The Exorcism of the Slave Girl (16:16-24)   Slide 5 Takeaway from Scene 2:...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes/Quotes: Acts 16:1-10 - Josh Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envo...

Listen alongs as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 15:22-41 2 Timothy 2:22  “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” -...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 God promised salvation to Israel...      God's blessings would come to the Nations through      the covenant with Abraham...            Circumcision was the standard means of entering            into full participation with the covenant people...                 These Gentiles had not been circumcised...                   ...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 14:1-28 Assumption: Every day for Jesus' first followers were God-soaked. Something is wrong with me, or I am doing something wrong because I don't have many God-soaked days.  Reality: Scripture authors recorded a truncated history to show us who God is. Jesus and the first followers experienced many mundane days....

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 13:13-52 “This section relentlessly present’s Israel’s history as the history of God’s activity. From v. 17 through 23 almost every verb has God as it’s subject.” Beverly Gaventa 1 Cor 15:1-4 Evangelism is not persuading people to make a decision; it is not proving that God exists, or making out a good case for the truth of C...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 13:1-12 "Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought" — Yip Harburg “To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything….Prayer turns theology into experience.” Tim Keller “The Spirit led the church in its mission. As throughout Acts, God took the init...

Listen along as Anthony continues our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 12:1-25-  Nathan Title: Murder, Rescue, & Justice “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” 23 He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 11:1-30 -Kim reading Slide 1 A biblical proposition… needs interpretation. It does not simply interpret itself… The only way to interpret… is to look at the biblical story that reveals God’s character through his actions…  The task of the church is to “faithfully improvise” the “rest of the story.” Christians are...

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 10:1-48 - Jack reading   Slides   Slide 1   Big Idea   Christ’s plan includes not just us, but all the nations of the world. How will we respond?   Slide 2   (Map of Israel showing Joppa and Caesarea, to be emailed separately)   Slide 3   “It is more likely, therefore, that the point is that the Lord’s command frees...

Notes//Quotes: Acts 9:31-43 - Faith Title: Questions, Holy Disruptions, And The Ministry Of Small Things  “The three Peter-stories Luke selects are i) a double miracle story how Aeneas was healed and Tabitha raised from death), (ii) a conversion story (how Cornelius was brought to faith), and (ili) an escape story how Peter was rescued from prison and so from Herod's evil intentions). Each may be...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 9:1-31 - Larry/Jorgen Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are...

Listen along as we continue our journey through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 8:26-40  1 Thess 4:1-8 - 1 Peter 2:13-17— 1 Thess 5:16-18 Deut 23:1 ”He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 8:1-25 - Chris  Title: Surprised By Grace “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) “24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone;...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 7:1-60 1 Pet 3:8-17 “God is everywhere present. The holy place is there wherever God may be.” - Chrysostom “No harm can be done to the temple and the law, when Christ is openly established as the end and truth of both.” - John Calvin “Stephen has been confessing Christ before men, and now he sees Christ confessing his servan...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 6:1-15 - Sawyer Title: Growing Pains   “Success, while desirable, can paradoxically create new challenges. This can manifest as increased pressure, difficulty managing growth, and strained relationships with those who haven't achieved the same level of success. Understanding these potential downsides is crucial for navigatin...

Listen along as we continue our journey through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 5:17-42  Proverbs 14:30 “Envy is one of the most miserable vices. Most other vices tend to produce some kind of pleasure, however momentary. But envy is nothing but unpleasant, through and through. It is the constant thief of joy. - Gavin Ortlund We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 5:1-16 - Jack Reading Title: Smelling Salts “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”  - Oliver Wendell Holmes 20 My son, pay attention to what I say;
  turn your ear to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them...

Listen along as we continue through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 4:23-37  “If we allow the Bible to become fragmented, it is in danger of being absorbed into whatever other story is shaping our culture, and it will thus cease to shape our lives as it should. Idolatry has twisted the dominant cultural story of the secular Western world. If as believers we allow this story (rather than the Bible) to be...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 4:1-22 - Scott   They rejected the oral traditions of the Pharisees and considered only the written Torah of the Pentateuch as valid. They considered the concepts of demons and angels, immortality and resurrection as innovations, believing in no life beyond this life. More important than their theology, however, w...

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 Title of the Message: Repentance, Removal, Refreshment, and Restoration   Slide 2 Big idea    As we wait for Jesus to restore all things, refreshment is now available in  His presence.   Slide 3 “The healing story itself is similar to those related in the gospels, but it is related with a fair amount...

Listen along as we continue our time in the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 2:42-47 Haiku - Following Jesus, learning from Him, joining in His mission on earth  “The idea of salvation cannot be reduced to a personal relationship with Jesus. God's plan is much more encompassing. God intends for salvation to be a community-creating event.” Joseph Hellerman “Long-term interpersonal relationships ar...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 2:1-41 Revelation 7:9-10 "We formerly rejoiced in uncleanness of life, but now love only chastity; before we used the magic arts, but now dedicate ourselves to the true and unbegotten God; before we loved money and possessions more than anything, but now we share what we have and to everyone who is in need; before we hated on...

Listen along as Anthony continues our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 1:12-26 - Scott Reading Title: The Space Between   “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”  - Karl Barth   “One reason why the experiential reality of perceiving God is unfamiliar country today is that the pace and preoccupations of urbanized, mechani...

Listen along as we begin a series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 1:1-11 - Faith  "How Jesus Starts His Church" ”Customary descriptions of Acts as the story of the church's growth or the story of the spread of the gospel neglect the larger context within which this journey takes place. Although it begins in Israel's leading city, Jerusalem, and ends in the Empire's leading city, Rome, the contex...