Acts 2 Sermons

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We do not have sleepwalk through life. Jesus offers us the life we were made for! Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

You can’t focus on what God has for you when you are always looking at others in comparison. This is a lesson we must learn over and over again as exemplified by Jesus’ first followers. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

We are made to serve one another in joyous and diligent contentment before God with all who have gone before us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Humans are constantly sizing one another up, figuring where we fall in the pecking order, and seeking to move up. Jesus, though models a different way—a way in which we give honor away rather than seeking it for ourselves. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Jesus can lead us to the life we were created to live if we give him control. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

God calls us to be better for others, never better than others. In striving for excellence, the goal is to achieve some good, regardless of how I compare with others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Our worth comes from being made in God’s image and that Jesus shows the better way: humility, self-emptying, and pursuing excellence without needing to be above others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Your identity rests in three truths: you are loved by God unconditionally, you are called to live and serve with purpose, and you are not in control because God is. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Proverbs is practical wisdom for real life, especially for people stepping into adulthood. We need God’s grace, wise counsel, and a teachable spirit to live faithfully and well. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Living wisely means honoring God through both diligent work and careful speech. It’s a call to do excellent work, rest faithfully, and speak intentionally. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Wisdom begins with a reverent respect for God - an awe that trusts his goodness, power, and perspective above our own. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

True wisdom is not just knowledge or experience, but humility, listening, and a willingness to learn from God and others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Jesus is the victor over sin, evil, and death, and his crucifixion and resurrection reveal God’s ultimate power and love. Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Jesus’ death on the cross was not about changing God’s heart, but about revealing God’s love and changing ours. Jesus is the victorious, loving King who willingly goes to the cross to save the world and call us to live in that same self-giving love. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Because Jesus has done for us what we could never do for ourselves through the cross and resurrection, we are saved by grace for a new life of good works, living for God and others. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

The Lamb of God serves as a powerful image of how God saves us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Jesus’ sacrifice for our sake can be understood not only as his death, but also his life lived in perfect obedience. In his life and death, Jesus gave himself for our salvation. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Jesus’ crucifixion is God’s Word to us—revealing God’s heart of love, God’s action to reconcile and heal a broken, self-centered humanity, and God’s will for how we are to live. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

To have the joyful life God has for us, we must intentionally choose what God wants for us over anything else. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

We long to experience the kind of transformation we see in Jesus, but we find change rare and difficult. The Transfiguration is a promise of the transformation God works in us. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

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We often think happiness is just one accomplishment or milestone away, but when we get there, we find that satisfaction doesn’t last. If we want enduring happiness, we need instead to focus on progress toward the things that Jesus teaches matter most. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

When it comes to happiness, Jesus and social science research agree: it’s all about relationships. The way we nurture our relationships with God, family, friends, and nature can make us significantly happier, and it can make the world happier, too. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter

Justice is about closing the gap between the world as it is and the world as God meant it to be. Fill-In Sermon Notes Watch the Sermon Watch the Full Worship Service Follow Acts 2: Website Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter