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Acts 4:31 After they prayed, the place they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

Acts 2:43 Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.

Acts 2:42-47 is a description of the church when it has the Gospel, the Mission and the Spirit of Jesus. As we learn to love the Gospel, live the mission and depend on the Spirit in a community of people, we will begin to see God do miraculous things in our midst.

The Book of Acts is the story of Jesus continuing His work to restore everything and everyone back to Him. Jesus gives us His Spirit so we would proclaim Jesus in all that we do.

The Book of Acts is the story of Jesus continuing His work to restore everything and everyone back to Him. The community demonstrated a life of prayer dependency on God for everything. When we are on God's mission, we need to be prayerfully dependent too.

The Book of Acts is the story of Jesus continuing His work to restore everything and everyone back to Him. The mission of Jesus isn’t dependent upon the Apostles, but on the Spirit that continues to work within His church.

Advent is a celebration of the arrival of God's only son Jesus. Jesus, as God's son, brings with him the arrival of JOY. We, as God's people, have JOY...

Advent is a celebration of the arrival of God's only son Jesus. Jesus, as God's son, brings with him the arrival of real LOVE. We, as God's people have God’s LOVE in us, So we can Love others with the Love He has for us.

Advent is a celebration of the arrival of God's only son Jesus. Jesus, as God's son, brings with him the arrival of hope. We, as God's people have hope because, in Jesus, God is WITH us, FOR us and BEFORE us.

In order to live out our gospel identity we need to walk in the light of the gospel in everyday rhythms, living normal life with gospel intentionality.

In order to live out our gospel identity we need to walk in the light of the gospel in everyday rhythms, living normal life with gospel intentionality.

God brought us into His kingdom through Jesus. He is our king. We are His servants. Our servant identity leads us to serve God as worship and serve people as though they are Jesus.

In this family, God is your Father. This means that in Christ you are known and loved, you are accepted and cared for, you are loved regardless of what you have done, and you are forgiven for what you have done and do. You are given Christ's righteousness.

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20

God has saved us not just for ourselves, but for His purpose in the world. We have been saved to make disciples to praise His glorious name.

The power of the gospel is that God has saved us from the penalty of sin, God is saving us from the power of sin, God will save us from the presence of sin.

Jesus is the King of Kings. He has ultimate authority to determine and affect His will over all creation. But unlike human kings who use the lives of their subjects to secure their power, Jesus uses His power to secure and empower those who are His. Believing this about Him helps us lay down our kingdom and submit to His rule.

God is a Missionary God. He is on a mission to redeem and restore all of creation to Himself through Jesus. As God’s people, our whole lives have been saved for this mission, so we should reorient all of life to that mission.

God is glorious. He is of ultimate worth, value and priority. Jesus shows us what a life that gives God glory in everything looks like. We are by nature glory givers, always glorifying something or someone. In Jesus, we are given the power to bring God glory in all that we do.

God is forever good. He's good because He gives good gifts, and He's good because He gives the best gift to us...Himself.

God is the only righteous judge. His judgments are perfect in every way. His desire and heart is ALWAYS that his judgment would lead towards repentance, restoration and righteousness.

Jesus is the Bridegroom of the church. As His bride, we wait in joyful anticipation for the return of our Bridegroom remembering Him by drinking the Cup of the Covenant.

Jesus is our Great Advocate. He advocates our salvation before the Father and sends the Spirit who advocates the Father’s approval to us.

Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life.

Jesus is the Wisdom of God; showing us His creative, protective, guiding and foolish wisdom.