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Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Text: Acts 20:17-38 - Jack reading Title: Apostolic Goodbyes Slide 1: “The ancient world considered humility a weakness. Whether you were rich or poor, what you prized instead was honour—having your merits recognized and your name praised. Boasting about your achievements was expected in the Greco-Roman world, and one never humble...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 20:1-16 2 Cor 1:3-11 Galatians 3:26-29 I see no cause why some interpreters should so sharply condemn the drowsiness of the young man, that they should say that he was punished for his sluggishness by death. - John Calvin Romans 15:25-29 

Listen along as Anthony shares some reflections from the Proverbs. Notes//Quotes: Title: Where's Wisdom Slide 1 “That excuse is implicitly rejected here. Wisdom is not some hidden treasure that has to be dug from the depths of the earth (compare Job 28) or the sole possession of the lonely sage sitting atop a mountain. To the contrary, Wisdom roams the streets looking for someone to instruct. The...

Listen along as we continue our Advent series. Notes//Quotes: Luke 2:8-20 - Josh Reading “I put on my hard hat, I grab a chisel and I imagine going into the very back corners of that cave and just digging into the work, each time I go in the cave, it’s getting bigger for the next visit.” - Courtney Dauwalter “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. Only to know this i...

Listen along as Anthony Garcia continues our Advent series. Jack Reading Luke 1:26-38 & Matthew 1:18-25 Slide: 1 https://pin.it/5m6BRIZrS Slide : 2 “Embrace or reject, believe or doubt. Either we abandon ourselves to God’s path, the steps of which are only revealed as each foot is lifted in obedience, or we cling to our own path with its illusion of certainty.”     — Miriam Dixon Slide:3 “I se...

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our Advent series. Notes//Quotes: Matthew 2:1-12 - Faith Reading   Slide 1 The Big Idea The Magi prove that God keeps His promise to bless all the nations of the earth   Slide 2 Who was Herod the King?   Slide 3 “There are lots of Herods in the New Testament—this one is the first Herod, Herod the Great, the King of the Jews. But the thing about Herod the Great...

Listen along as we begin our series through Advent. Notes//Quotes: Luke 1:5-25 - Larry/Jorgen Luke 1:5-25 Advent is the season that, when properly understood, does not flinch from the darkness that stalks us all in this world. Advent begins in the dark and moves toward the light—but the season should not move too quickly or too glibly, lest we fail to acknowledge the depth of the darkness. Advent...

Listen along as Dr. Michael Goheen continues our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 19:21-41 - Jack 21 Once all this had been finished, Paul decided in his spirit to go back through Macedonia and Achaea and, from there, on to Jerusalem. “After I’ve been there,” he said, “I really must go and see Rome.” 22 He sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, on ahead to Macedonia, while he himsel...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 19:1-20 Jer 31:31-34 2 Cor 5:17 “As throughout Acts, there is no set pattern. The Spirit came at various times and in various ways. What is consistent is that the Spirit is always a vital part of one’s initial commitment to Christ and a mark of every believer.” J.B. Polhill The norm of Christian experience, then, is a cluster...

Notes//Quotes: Acts 18:24-28 Faith   You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. Frederick Beuchener  Jesus may be in your heart, but grandpa is in your bones - Pete Scazerro Gal 3:28-29 “Jesus may be in your heart, but...

Listen along as we continue our journey through acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 18:1-23 Our work can be a calling only if it is reimagined as a mission of service to something beyond merely our own interests. Thinking of work mainly as a means of self-fulfillment and self-realization slowly crushes a person. - Tim Keller 1 Cor 6:9-11 There is much to be cynical about—and it is a good answer if there has...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 17:16-34 - Nathan Acts 17:16-34 “Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior.” Martin Luther Isaiah 44:12-20   The gospel does not come as a disembodied message, but as the message of a community which claims to live by it and which invites others to adhere to it. Therefore,...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Acts 17:1-15 - Faith Acts 17:1-15 “The resurrection was indeed a miraculous display of God’s power, but we should not see it as a suspension of the natural order of the world. Rather it was the beginning of the restoration of the natural order of the world, the world as God intended it to be…The resurrection means not merely that Christians hav...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts: Notes//Quotes: Acts 16:11-40 - Jack   Slide 1 Scene 1: The Conversion of Lydia (16:11-15)   Slide 2  See Map that I'll send by email   Slide 3 Takeaways from Scene 1 1. God is sovereign in salvation   2. Obedience is our response to His work   Slide 4 Scene 2: The Exorcism of the Slave Girl (16:16-24)   Slide 5 Takeaway from Scene 2:...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes/Quotes: Acts 16:1-10 - Josh Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envo...

Listen alongs as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 15:22-41 2 Timothy 2:22  “Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” -...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 God promised salvation to Israel...      God's blessings would come to the Nations through      the covenant with Abraham...            Circumcision was the standard means of entering            into full participation with the covenant people...                 These Gentiles had not been circumcised...                   ...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 14:1-28 Assumption: Every day for Jesus' first followers were God-soaked. Something is wrong with me, or I am doing something wrong because I don't have many God-soaked days.  Reality: Scripture authors recorded a truncated history to show us who God is. Jesus and the first followers experienced many mundane days....

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 13:13-52 “This section relentlessly present’s Israel’s history as the history of God’s activity. From v. 17 through 23 almost every verb has God as it’s subject.” Beverly Gaventa 1 Cor 15:1-4 Evangelism is not persuading people to make a decision; it is not proving that God exists, or making out a good case for the truth of C...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 13:1-12 "Words make you think. Music makes you feel. A song makes you feel a thought" — Yip Harburg “To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything….Prayer turns theology into experience.” Tim Keller “The Spirit led the church in its mission. As throughout Acts, God took the init...

Listen along as Anthony continues our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 12:1-25-  Nathan Title: Murder, Rescue, & Justice “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” 23 He said to them, “You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 11:1-30 -Kim reading Slide 1 A biblical proposition… needs interpretation. It does not simply interpret itself… The only way to interpret… is to look at the biblical story that reveals God’s character through his actions…  The task of the church is to “faithfully improvise” the “rest of the story.” Christians are...

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 10:1-48 - Jack reading   Slides   Slide 1   Big Idea   Christ’s plan includes not just us, but all the nations of the world. How will we respond?   Slide 2   (Map of Israel showing Joppa and Caesarea, to be emailed separately)   Slide 3   “It is more likely, therefore, that the point is that the Lord’s command frees...

Notes//Quotes: Acts 9:31-43 - Faith Title: Questions, Holy Disruptions, And The Ministry Of Small Things  “The three Peter-stories Luke selects are i) a double miracle story how Aeneas was healed and Tabitha raised from death), (ii) a conversion story (how Cornelius was brought to faith), and (ili) an escape story how Peter was rescued from prison and so from Herod's evil intentions). Each may be...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 9:1-31 - Larry/Jorgen Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth. A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are...