ERC Sundays

Pastor Chris examines the cost of discipleship and the cost of sharing the gospel in the life of a Christ-follower after Paul's example.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris talk about awkward goodbyes and more snippets from Paul's farewell sermon to the Elders in Ephesus from Acts 20.

Pastor Matt continues our series with the Multiplying Church with Paul's farewell message to the Elders of the church in Ephesus.

Matt and Chris do a deeper dive on the Epicureans and the Stoics and give their thoughts on the "Unknown God"

Pastor Chris continues the journey through Acts with Paul's experience in Athens, the city of idols.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris continue a conversation on the questions asked about the Christian life in this week's sermon, "Why are we doing this?" - The Bear Pope and Chris' red phone case also make an appearance, alongside "Frumpy Chris" *** SHOW NOTES*** https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/acts-14/

Pastor Matt preaches on Paul and Barnabas' experience in Lystra and asks the question we all should be asking in each aspect of our life, "Why are we doing this?" - hopefully each decision is for God's glory and our good.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris discuss the visions for Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10, and Peter's explanation to the early church in Acts 11. "Cornelius!!!" (?) ***SHOW NOTES*** https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/acts-10/ https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/acts-11/ https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/act/10/1/s_1028001 https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/act/11/1/s_10290...

Pastor Chris continues the series of the Multiplying Church in Acts chapter 10.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris debate the aspects of adventures with Harrison Ford characters, and make a deeper examination of Paul's conversion in Acts 9.

Pastor Chris preaches on the conversion of Saul to Paul, as the Early Church continues to multiply.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris talk about a few leftovers from Acts 8, including the presence of the Holy Spirit in believers, forgiveness, and a "Pastor's React" segment to a John Crist comedy sketch. *** SHOW NOTES*** https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/acts-8/ Acts 8:22 Commentaries Matthew Henry Commentary When tempted with money to do evil, see what a perishing thing money i...

Pastor Matt walks through Acts 8 and teaches on the faith of Philip, Simon, and the Ethiopian, ending with a call to be baptized for those who believe.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris examine some other storylines and early Christians not covered in the sermon series in Acts, including Barnabas, Ananias & Sapphira, and Stephen.

Pastor Chris preaches on the martyrdom of Stephen, and the new level of threat facing the young, multiplying church.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris debate on whether they could better deal with the feeling of tiredness or the feeling of hunger, some word pronunciations and accents, and walkthrough Chapters 3 and 4 in Acts. Enduring Word Commentary: https://enduringword.com/bible-commentary/acts-3/

Pastor Matt walks ERC through the early Church's "Prayer for Boldness" in Acts Chapter 4.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris debate a conversational "Would You Rather" and talk about the finer points contained at the end of Peter's sermon in Acts 2. ***SHOW NOTES*** Four Activities of the church, Tyndale Commentary Luke records what happened to the new converts. Four activities are listed in which they took part. These are generally regarded as four separate things, but a case...

Pastor Chris teaches on the 4 essential practices that multiplied the early church, and how we should engage with these habits today.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris are back with a leftovers episode unfortunately filled with another "fart vs burp" discussion and of course some more substantive conversation about Peter's sermon in Acts, chapter 2.

Pastor Chris delves into Peter's Spirit-filled sermon as the early church begins to multiply, and what it means for us as the church today.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris debate whether they'd rather be time-traveled or teleported and discuss the appointment of Matthias as the 12th Apostle as recorded in Acts 1.

Pastor Matt continues our series in Acts, talking about how the Disciples were clothed with the power of the Holy Spirit, to carry out the challenging task ahead of them.

Pastor Matt and Pastor Chris reflect on Easter weekend, peel back the curtain on building the Easter Worship setlist, and dive into more of the details contained in the first 5 verses of Acts. ***SHOW NOTES*** Who is Theophilus? The name Theophilus appears in only two places in the Bible, Luke 1:1-4 and Acts 1:1-3. Luke wrote these two books around 61-63 AD which is during the time that the Apostl...

Pastor Chris delivers an Easter Sunday message that kicks off our series in the book of Acts!