Pastor Brian Coles brings us the final message in our Acts 29 series, The Holy Spirit still speaks and guides. Several weeks ago Pastor Lester began this journey reminding us that the things that the Holy Spirit was doing in the book of Acts he is still doing today.
We have learned that the…
- The Holy Spirit Still Empowers
- The Holy Spirit Still Strengthens
- The Holy Spirit Still Saves
- The Holy Spirit Still Sends and Delivers
The Holy Spirit Still Sends Us
September 10, 2017 • Brian Flewelling
Pastor Brian Flewelling brings us Part 4 in our Sermon Series Acts 29.
What was started in the book of Acts is being completed through us. The resources in the first church are still available to this church. Wake up Church! The Holy Spirit is still sending us out in a thousand directions to have a thousand conversations under a thousand rooftops. Every believer is a full-time missionary. Every conversation is a kingdom opportunity. Everyone is a disciple maker.
The Holy Spirit Still Saves
September 3, 2017 • Lester Zimmerman
We are presently studying the book of Acts and giving a special focus to the ministry and acts of the Holy Spirit in the early church. Even though there are only 28 chapters to the book of Acts we have entitled this series Acts 29 because the empowering work of the Holy Spirit continues through God’s people today.
The works of the Holy Spirit did not stop or decline as the book of Acts closes in chapter 28. The Holy Spirit is still doing his amazing work in the earth through God’s people. We are now living in the days of Acts 29.
• The Holy Spirit still empowers people like he did in the book of Acts
• The Holy Spirit still gives supernatural courage and makes people brave
• And - The Holy Spirit is still saving people all over the earth
Today we are looking at Acts chapters 9 thru 11. These chapter reveal the deep struggle the Jewish people had in accepting Jesus as the Messiah and then also accepting the fact that the gentiles could be saved without converting to Judaism and observing their laws.
Powerful testimony by Ryan Forbes.
The Holy Spirit Still Makes Us Brave
August 27, 2017 • Gary Buck
Kenneth Scott Latorette, history Prof at Yale, said this:
“Never in so short a time has any other religious faith–or for that matter any other set of ideas, religious, political or economic–ever achieved so commanding a position in such an important culture without the aid of physical force, or social or cultural prestige.”
In other words, Christianity should NOT have spread. Islam was spread through force and conquest, especially in its early years. Not only did Christianity not have support to help it spread, there was also great persecution set against them. To be a Christian in the early church could cost you everything.
Only the Holy Spirit could make a following of a carpenter’s son grow.
Only the Holy Spirit can make us spiritually brave. The same God that stood behind the gospel in the early church still stands behind you today!
The Holy Spirit Still Empowers
August 20, 2017 • Lester Zimmerman
Today we begin a five-part series on the book of Acts. The book is called Acts because it refers to the Acts of the Holy Spirit through God’s people in the early church.
Acts begins with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the beginning of the book and ends with the Apostle Paul still preaching in the power of the Holy Spirit at the end of the book. In between are amazing stories of the Holy Spirit working through God’s people.
The book of Acts gives the history of the Christian church and the spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as well as the mounting opposition to it.
Acts is written by Luke who is a doctor and a disciple of the Apostle Paul. He also wrote the gospel of Luke.
There are 28 chapters to the book of Acts but we have entitled this series Acts 29 because the empowering work of the Holy Spirit continues through God’s people. It did not end in Chapter 28. The works of the Holy Spirit continues throughout the generations. The Church of Jesus Christ continues to advance and his Kingdom on earth continues to expand.
We are now living in the days of Acts 29. The Holy Spirit is still empowering God’s people and doing amazing things.
The practical message in this series is that God does amazing things through ordinary people who are empowered by the Holy Spirit.
