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Responding to Critics
December 10, 2017 • Dr. Carlo Serrano • Acts 10:34–36, Acts 11:1–8, Proverbs 15:31–32
"When you get excited about God, don't expect everybody to get excited about your excitement. You intensity confronts their http://passivity...some people will be inspired by what God is doing in your life, but others will mask their conviction with criticism. After all it's much easier to criticize than it is to change ourselves... We criticize in others what we don't like about ourselves." ― Mark Batterson
A Church for Everyone
December 3, 2017 • Chris Edmondson • Acts 10:8–10
Most people don’t have a problem with God. After all, plenty of people show up for church on Christmas and Easter. But unfortunately people do have a problem with the church. Over the centuries Christians have made Christianity so complex that people simply write it off as irrelevant and confusing.
An Unlikely Disciple
November 26, 2017 • Dr. Carlo Serrano • Acts 9:1–22
“You are my Lord, because You have no need of my http://goodness...you converted me to yourself so that I was no longer seeking a wife or any other hope of worldly success...I was standing firm on that rule of faith on which you showed me to her in a vision so many years before.” ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
The Truth About Jesus Followers
November 19, 2017 • Chris Edmondson • 1 Corinthians 15:54–57, 1 Thessalonians 4:13–14, Matthew 5:16, Romans 12:14–20, Acts 8:1–8
What does it mean to be the church? What change does the Holy Spirit cause in our lives? Today, we’re looking at the expansion of the church through the lives of the first generation of Christians—a group who, much like us today, hungered for an encounter with God.
It's Getting Uncomfortable
November 12, 2017 • Chris Edmondson • Acts 6:8–15, Acts 7:54–60, Acts 8:1–3, Acts 1:8
As the first century believers grew in numbers, so did the Jews’ determination to stomp out the church, but God used their vain attempts to strengthen and spread His message. The enemies of the early church designed to scatter and lose them, yet God designed to scatter and use them. Are you experiencing problems and difficulties today? Maybe God wants to use them so that you can be used by Him.