Sermons - The Village Church

Antioch sends Paul (formerly Saul) and Barnabas on their first missionary journey. The people's reactions are mixed, but many are saved and rejoice. God uses Paul to heal a man in Lystra, and the people call him a god. Jews from Antioch and Iconium attempt to kill Paul, but the two men contin...

The gospel spills out of Jerusalem into Palestine and Syria through the ministry of Philip and Peter. Saul of Tarsus encounters the Lord on the road to Damascus and receives salvation. While the new center of operations shifts to Antioch, God continues to protect Jerusalem.

Stephen's sermon creates amazing unity between the Old Testament and Jesus, exposing the wickedness intrinsic within the human heart. Stephen is killed for his zeal, becoming the first Christian martyr.

The church in Jerusalem begins to struggle from within (Ananias and Sapphira) and from without (Sanhedrin). It also faces some racial tension.

As the gospel begins to spread through acts of power and preaching, it is received with both praise and persecution. In the middle of the persecution, the Church is prayerful and continues to walk in unity.

The Holy Spirit's coming creates a seismic shift in the hearts of the Apostles. Peter's explanation becomes the first distinctively Christian sermon. People are cut to the heart, and the Church grows by 3,000. The young Church walks in unity and garners praise from the people. Salvations ...

Jesus prepares His disciples for the mission to come by reaffirming the promises made concerning Himself and by His ascension and predicted return. The Lord then reestablishes the 12 Apostles as the beginning of the Church.

God calls us to be a people of prayer, desperately depending on Him to move and transform hearts and lives. In this series, The Village Church focuses on three prayer topics: racial reconciliation, the sanctity of human life and the nations.

God calls us to be a people of prayer, desperately depending on Him to move and transform hearts and lives. In this series, The Village Church focuses on three prayer topics: racial reconciliation, the sanctity of human life and the nations.

God calls us to be a people of prayer, desperately depending on Him to move and transform hearts and lives. In this series, The Village Church focuses on three prayer topics: racial reconciliation, the sanctity of human life and the nations.

God calls us to be a people of prayer, desperately depending on Him to move and transform hearts and lives. In this series, The Village Church focuses on three prayer topics: racial reconciliation, the sanctity of human life and the nations.

God keeps His promises. Looking at the narrative of Jesus' birth, we see that all God's promises throughout Scripture are fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, as believers, we wait on the final promise of Jesus' return.

God keeps His promises. Looking at the narrative of Jesus' birth, we see that all God's promises throughout Scripture are fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, as believers, we wait on the final promise of Jesus' return.

God keeps His promises. Looking at the narrative of Jesus birth, we see that all God's promises throughout Scripture are fulfilled in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now, as believers, we wait on the final promise of Jesus' return.

Before the foundations of the earth, God chose us, the Church, to live as instruments of His grace to a lost and dying world, bearing witness to His wisdom and power through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Since He is our ultimate joy, peace and pleasure, we seek to know Him and fill ourselves with those things that stir our affections for Him. We practice spiritual disciplines so that our hearts might stay in rhythm with His.

As ambassadors of Christ, we are to be instruments of grace as we confront sin and extend forgiveness. We always forgive from our hearts when we are sinned against by handing offenses over to God.

As those forgiven by God, we can humbly approach those who have been affected by our sin and make amends. This change of heart brings glory to God by demonstrating the power of the gospel and reflecting the heart of God.

We renounce our former ways, offer ourselves to God, and under the waterfall of His grace, ask Him to deliver and heal us by the authority of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit.

In our fear and anxiety, the call is to cry out to him, to trust him and run to promise of redemption found in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Beyond action alone, God looks deeper to the desires and motivations of the heart. Only through the gospel will God align our hearts with His purposes.

We cannot overcome the effects of sin independent of God, but He has provided the way to overcome sin and its effects through the gospel of Jesus Christ. In Christ, we display His supremacy and victory over evil as we arise over sin, shame and even death.