In the midst of opposition and discouragement, Jesus told Paul to keep speaking. And he says the same to us.

What will find increasing dissonance with our surrounding culture is actually the key to everything we think and say: Jesus is real; Jesus is alive; Jesus has been raised from the dead.

Jesus builds his church in the city, and uses a diversity of ways to make diverse people into one body in him.

Acts 15 stands out as one of the most important chapters in the Book of Acts because it’s the only place where we see the church come to a theological crossroads.

Paul goes on three missionary journeys in the book of Acts. Chapter 14 shows us the the ending of that first journey, and a relevant theme emerges.

We want to train our minds to run in biblical ruts, to have God’s acts in history shape our understanding of ourselves and our own day.

In this sermon, guest preacher Voddie Baucham unfolds the narrative of Acts 12 and shows us the sovereignty of God in death and deliverance.

The gospel and the community it creates, called the church, are on the move, beginning at Ground Zero in Jerusalem, but not staying there. 

One of our goals in reading the Bible is to train our minds to run in biblical ruts. We want to learn to read the story we’re in by immersing ourselves in the stories God likes to tell.

Luke wants us to make the connection to Isaiah 56 and know that the gospel has now advanced, and is advancing, to the ends of the earth.

Acts 8 is a transitional chapter in the book of Acts. We move away from a Jerusalem-focus to a wider vision of the church’s growth.

The point of Stephen’s sermon is the repeated rejection of God’s will by God’s people; he cashes it all in (verses 51–53) with their rejection of the Messiah.

Baptism is where Christians identity with Jesus’s death and resurrection, not by just saying it, but by dramatizing it. In baptism we are saying, to everyone, that we are with Jesus, that what he did, he did for me — and we say it in the most vivid way. 

The task in this sermon is to look at the first part of Stephen’s speech and ask the question: “What is Stephen getting at with these Old Testament examples?”