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Listen along as we continue our journey through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 8:26-40  1 Thess 4:1-8 - 1 Peter 2:13-17— 1 Thess 5:16-18 Deut 23:1 ”He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 8:1-25 - Chris  Title: Surprised By Grace “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) “24 Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone;...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 7:1-60 1 Pet 3:8-17 “God is everywhere present. The holy place is there wherever God may be.” - Chrysostom “No harm can be done to the temple and the law, when Christ is openly established as the end and truth of both.” - John Calvin “Stephen has been confessing Christ before men, and now he sees Christ confessing his servan...

Listen along as we continue through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 6:1-15 - Sawyer Title: Growing Pains   “Success, while desirable, can paradoxically create new challenges. This can manifest as increased pressure, difficulty managing growth, and strained relationships with those who haven't achieved the same level of success. Understanding these potential downsides is crucial for navigatin...

Listen along as we continue our journey through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 5:17-42  Proverbs 14:30 “Envy is one of the most miserable vices. Most other vices tend to produce some kind of pleasure, however momentary. But envy is nothing but unpleasant, through and through. It is the constant thief of joy. - Gavin Ortlund We can glimpse it in the book of Acts: the method of the kingdom will match the...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 5:1-16 - Jack Reading Title: Smelling Salts “Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”  - Oliver Wendell Holmes 20 My son, pay attention to what I say;
  turn your ear to my words. 21 Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; 22 for they are life to those who find them...

Listen along as we continue through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 4:23-37  “If we allow the Bible to become fragmented, it is in danger of being absorbed into whatever other story is shaping our culture, and it will thus cease to shape our lives as it should. Idolatry has twisted the dominant cultural story of the secular Western world. If as believers we allow this story (rather than the Bible) to be...

Listen along as we continue our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 4:1-22 - Scott   They rejected the oral traditions of the Pharisees and considered only the written Torah of the Pentateuch as valid. They considered the concepts of demons and angels, immortality and resurrection as innovations, believing in no life beyond this life. More important than their theology, however, w...

Listen along as Mike Gaston continues our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Slide 1 Title of the Message: Repentance, Removal, Refreshment, and Restoration   Slide 2 Big idea    As we wait for Jesus to restore all things, refreshment is now available in  His presence.   Slide 3 “The healing story itself is similar to those related in the gospels, but it is related with a fair amount...

Listen along as we continue our time in the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 2:42-47 Haiku - Following Jesus, learning from Him, joining in His mission on earth  “The idea of salvation cannot be reduced to a personal relationship with Jesus. God's plan is much more encompassing. God intends for salvation to be a community-creating event.” Joseph Hellerman “Long-term interpersonal relationships ar...

Listen along as we continue our series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 2:1-41 Revelation 7:9-10 "We formerly rejoiced in uncleanness of life, but now love only chastity; before we used the magic arts, but now dedicate ourselves to the true and unbegotten God; before we loved money and possessions more than anything, but now we share what we have and to everyone who is in need; before we hated on...

Listen along as Anthony continues our series through the book of Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 1:12-26 - Scott Reading Title: The Space Between   “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.”  - Karl Barth   “One reason why the experiential reality of perceiving God is unfamiliar country today is that the pace and preoccupations of urbanized, mechani...

Listen along as we begin a series through Acts. Notes//Quotes: Acts 1:1-11 - Faith  "How Jesus Starts His Church" ”Customary descriptions of Acts as the story of the church's growth or the story of the spread of the gospel neglect the larger context within which this journey takes place. Although it begins in Israel's leading city, Jerusalem, and ends in the Empire's leading city, Rome, the contex...

Listen along as we wrap up Exodus and see the hope of Easter. Exodus 33:12-23 “For a while” is a phrase whose length can't be measured. At least by the person who's waiting. - Haruki Murakami “We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true. Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are e...

Exodus 23:1-9 - Faith Title: A Jealous God   “The jealous God”— doesn't it sound offensive? For we know jealousy, the green-eyed monster, as a vice, one of the most cancerous and soul-destroying vices that there is.” - J.I. Packer   I was dreaming of the past And my heart was beating fast I began to lose control I began to lose control I didn't mean to hurt you I'm sorry that I made you cry Oh no,...

Listen along as we continue our series through Exodus. Notes//Quotes: Text for reading: Exodus 19:1-6 - Scott Title: Sinai pt. 2 “We can imagine our octogenarian mountaineer in joyful fellowship with the God whose patience he had exhausted at this spot some months earlier.” - Christopher Wright 10  “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he car...

Listen along as we continue our series through Exodus. Notes//Quotes: Exodus 14:5-31 “The story of God is the story of salvation, centered on the One whose name means “Yahweh is salvation,” and here is what that looks like: deliverance from slavery and certain death, announced by faith, and received as a gift through trust and obedience.” - Chris Wright “With our modern curiosity, we tend either t...

Listen along as we continue our series through Exodus. Notes//Quotes: Exodus 12:1-13 “Liturgies aim our love to different ends precisely by training our hearts through our bodies.”. - James K.A. Smith  Exodus 12:29-32 13:17-22 Whenever Israel returned to God in such times of national repentance, covenant renewal, or restoration, they returned to the foundational historic event of their national ex...

Listen along as we continue our time through Exodus. Exodus 7:1-13  2 Tim 3:16-17 “One could object that it is not worthy of God to wield the sword. Is God not love, long-suffering and all-powerful love? A counter-question could go something like this: Is it not a bit too arrogant to presume that our contemporary sensibilities about what is compatible with God’s love are so much healthier than tho...

Listen along as we continue our series in Exodus. Exodus 5:1-9, 6:1-8 - Scott Reading Title: Battle Of The Gods “The exodus is a battle of the gods, in which only one can emerge from the ring victorious…The conflict between the deities: Egypt's against Israel's, the false against the true, the serpent against the seed, Pharaoh against the Lord. It is a mismatch. Battles against the Lord always are...

Listen along as we continue our series through Exodus. Text: Exodus 3:1-6 Title: God With Us “What Moses does mean by this? Did he mean that he became a foreigner to those who no longer accepted him? To the Egyptians, the Hebrews, or that now he's in Midian and he doesn't belong here either? Moses is a misfit and he has this hybrid identity that doesn't really belong.”  — Dr. Carmen Imes “What is...

Listen along as we look at Exodus 2. Notes//Quotes: Exodus 2:1-25 “The one universal balm for the trauma of war was tea. It was the thing that helped people cope. People made tea during air raids and after air raids, and on breaks between retrieving bodies from shattered buildings. Tea bolstered the network of thirty thousand observers who watched for German aircraft over England, operating from o...

Listen along as we begin our series through Exodus. Notes//Quotes: Exodus 1:7-22 Books do not usually begin with the word “And.” But Exodus does, in the Hebrew text, and so do Leviticus and Numbers: the second, third, and fourth books of the Bible. You would not know this from most modern English translations, presumably because it is not considered good literary style to begin a sentence, never m...

Ephesians 4:1-6 “Not only (1) is their unity expressly stated as coming from the Spirit, but (2) four of the five graces listed in vv. 2–3 are among the fruit of the Spirit in Gal 5:22–23; and (3) in the Trinitarian confession that follows, pride of place is given to the Spirit, precisely because the one body, which is Paul’s present concern, is the result of their common experience of the one Spi...

Listen along as we continue our series looking at the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Notes//Quotes: 1 Cor 12:1-14 -  Ex 31:1-5 Joel 2:28-29,  Ezekiel 36:25-27 Christian faith has been specially advanced through the loving service rendered to strangers, and through their care for the burial of the dead. It is a scandal there is not a single Jew who is a beggar, and that the godless Galileans c...