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#40daysofprogress

Great businesses would always say, “Quality control will make or break your company.” Quality control is essential in business, in public utilities, in agriculture, in education, in sports—in every area of life.    It is vital to our personalities too. You and I are not exempt from the need for personal quality control. If we are going to be strong and effective people who can withstand...

It’s God’s power that enables us to progress in our Christian life so that we can face and overcome trials of life, to live the life for which we were created and saved for. How do we acquire this power? He has given it to us, we did not earn it and we could not have earned it, it was undeserved and offered by grace. And we have received this power through our faith in Jesus Christ. #40daysofprogr...

In celebration of our Youth Sunday, youth speakers shared all about the Evidence of Progress.   What can help us progress in our faith? What are the things we must do? Let us hear and learn from our youth preachers the answers to these questions.   #bradfordyouthnetwork #evidenceofprogress #byn_youthsunday

𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗘   As we conclude our in-depth series on the book of Acts, we dive deep into the heartfelt farewell speech of the Apostle Paul to the church in Ephesus. As he says goodbye, let's look at the important lessons in Finishing Well. #ActsTheMovement

#actsthemovement

God’s workers are not indefatigable. Along the way of disciple-making, we can grow tired, weary, and sometimes, discouraged. Discouragement is just a part of our Christian life. You may have hopes and dreams and desires for people’s lives, but they don’t come. Or maybe you spend and overextend yourself, and there’s an ungrateful heart, or an unjust criticism, which attempts to impugn your motives....

In Acts 17, we find a statement made by the enemies of the gospel about the missionary team: “These men who have turned the world upside down.”  That’s quite a statement, isn’t it? This small team is credited with turning the entire world upside down! How can we, present-day believers, do the same?   #actsthemovement

Although salvation is of the Lord, and is of grace alone. Salvation cannot happen apart from hearing the word. The word is the acting agent to produce faith. The word is what the Holy Spirit will use to regenerate a person to salvation.   1 Pet. 1:23, “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”   #actsthemoveme...

Sometimes God closes doors to make way for better opportunities.

God doesn't need a Plan B. In His wise, incomprehensible ways, Gentiles were always part of the Salvation plan. We were always in Plan A, and He doesn't need a Plan B, C, D, or E.   #ActsTheMovement

Our goal and our purpose is not making disciples ONLY, but building up disciple-makers. What does that mean? It means we are in the business of training and equipping disciples who will make more disciples who will make more disciples who will make more disciples. In this chapter, let us learn how to do just that.

As we learned in last Sunday’s sermon, the early church in Antioch was a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered church. May we be a church that hears the Holy Spirit, sends the best workers to the field, speak the Word boldly, and safeguard the church from wolves.

Acts 12:24, "But the word of God increased and multiplied." The Christians may have felt small and insignificant in the Roman empire; they may have thought that they were overpowered when some of their best leaders were killed on a political whim. But the truth is: if you remain in Jesus, you win, and if you oppose Jesus you lose. In this sermon, let us learn about the five truths in Acts 12 that...

Colossians 3:11, Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.    Indeed, God responds to anyone who commits to Him. God rejects no one who comes to Him but requires those who call on Him to have faith in Jesus. In this sermon, we find the movement crossing barriers.

“Conversion is our willing response to the gospel call, in which we sincerely repent of sins and place our trust in Christ for salvation.” - Dr. Wayne Grudem Today, we will study one of the most crucial chapters in the Book of Acts—the conversion of Saul, the Movement’s worst enemy. The conversion of Paul is pivotal, not only on which his life turned, but on which the history of the church turned....

The previous chapter ended with the killing of Stephen by an angry and enraged Sanhedrin who could not tolerate the truth which he spoke and so they stoned him to death outside the city walls. Stephen was not the last. What happened that day started a wildfire of persecution that led to the scattering of believers all over the place. And what seemed to be the end of the movement is actually the be...

The church had to get organized. The two greatest words in the Christian life: trust and obey. And Stephen had them both. He believed God; he did what the Spirit told him to do. His life was full of the Holy Spirit. What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? It means to be under the control of the Holy Spirit. It means that the fruit of the Holy Spirit is evident in his life. He has that repu...

The church had to get organized. It had to get organized to carry out effective ministry, and that ministry needed to be in the hands of the people who cared the most.  It had to get organized so that the people who needed to be proclaiming the Word of God all the time were continuing to do that and weren’t distracted by something else. You have godly, gifted teachers and preachers who sustai...

More than 2000 years have passed, and the church of Jesus Christ is still here, and very much alive. We are still preaching the same message, we are still worshiping Jesus Christ, and we are still pursuing people for the glory of God. Let's listen to this sermon to see all the ways the Movement is relentless.

The fear of the Lord and the comfort of the Holy Spirit bring peace and growth to the church. Treating the Lord with contempt by religious fakery should remain a fearful prospect in the church. God is not mocked. And the Holy Spirit is a great comfort here, because it is precisely by his indwelling power that we become real and authentic. Sin among the saints is more serious than sin among the los...

Do you know our church’s vision? Our Vision Statement “A dynamic growing church of transformed believers passionate for God.” Has there ever been a church like that? Yes. The first church in Jerusalem was just like that. They enjoyed the miraculous display of the presence and power of God through the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. They saw souls saved in abundance. They were living in a day when th...

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit is all about the extraordinary Power that the Holy Spirit gives to the believers  This extraordinary power of the Holy Spirit is for witnessing or world evangelization purposes only.  The task of world evangelization is not yet complete.  Therefore the promise of this extraordinary power available for all believers for the purpose of world evangelizati...

This is the hour to recapture the movement of the Holy Spirit. This is the moment when the main thing needs to become the main thing once again. It’s time to deal with our personal issues and it’s time to deal with our sins so that the power of God might rest on us and that God might be pleased to save souls in this place. It’s time to Act now. Let the movement begin.  This is Part 1 of our n...