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42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.--43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles.--44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common.--45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need.--46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,--47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And
Let's Love Each Other - Together
42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the L
Let's Depend In Prayer Together
42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, 47 praising God and having favor with all the people. And the L
The Early Church Was on Mission Together
"They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved." (ESV) Four Rhythms of the Early Church: Gather: Coals Burn Brighter Together Scatter: A River, Not a Reservoir Share: A Potluck, Not a Restaurant Multiply: Fruit Cant Be Manufactured Two Questions: Is this us? Is this you? W
Temporary Trials Prepare Us for Eternal Glory
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, I believed, and so I spoke, we also believe, and so we also speak,--14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.--15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.--16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.--17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond
We Turn From Idols Because God Alone Can Save Us
King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, whose height was sixty cubits and its breadth six cubits. He set it up on the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon. 2 Then King Nebuchadnezzar sent to gather the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces to come to the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 3 Then the satraps, the prefects, and the governors, the counselors, the treasurers, the justices, the magistrates, and all the officials of the provinces gathered for th
Meaningful Membership Lives in Meaningful Relationships
31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.--32 If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once.--33 Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, Where I am going you cannot come.--34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.--35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. Relational Glory shared
A Healthy Church Practices Healthy Spiritual Discipline
15 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.--16 But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.--17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.--18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.--19 Again
Isolated Christianity is Impossible
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.--13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodyJews or Greeks, slaves or freeand all were made to drink of one Spirit.--14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.--15 If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body.--16 And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body, that would not make it any less a part of the body.--17 I
Jesus Entrusts His Personal Reputation to You and Me
13 Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, Who do people say that the Son of Man is?--14 And they said, Some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.--15 He said to them, But who do you say that I am?--16 Simon Peter replied, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.--17 And Jesus answered him, Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.--18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of he
The Church is God's New Community People
31 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah,--32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.--33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.--34 And no longer shall e
Gaining By Losing
Guest Speaker: Michael Byrd 9 I am speaking the truth in ChristI am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit--2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.--3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.--4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.--5 To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Ame
Gospel Through Culture
22 So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious.--23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: To the unknown god. What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.--24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,--25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.--26 And he made fr
You’re healed to be a witness
1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.--2 And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.--3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.--4 And Peter directed his gaze at him, as did John, and said, Look at us.--5 And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.--6 But Peter said, I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Chris
The Resurrection Reshapes Our Future
1 If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.--2 Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.--3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.--4 When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.--5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.--6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.--7 In these you too once walked, when you were living in
We forgive because grace is greater than any wound
21 Then Peter came up and said to him, Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?--22 Jesus said to him, I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.--23 Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.--24 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.--25 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.--26 So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him,
Healing comes from bringing our whole selves to God
32 A MASKIL OF DAVID.--1 Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.--2 Blessed is the man against whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.--3 For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.--4 For day and night your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah--5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, I will confess my transgressions to the LORD, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah--6 Therefore let everyone who is godly off
The Resurrection makes new life possible
6 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?--2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?--3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?--4 We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.--5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.--6 We know that our old self was crucified with him
Healing can happen because of Christ
Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?--2 For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.--3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.--4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.--5 But he was pierced for our transgre
Jesus, Our Passover Lamb
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Counterfeits starve us; Jesus satisfies forever
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Please God with your work!
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother (this is the first commandment with a promise), 3 that it may go well with you and that you may live long in the land. 4 Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. 5 Bondservants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, 6 not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 rendering service with a good will as t
Your marriage reveals what you believe about the gospel!
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. 25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemi
Shine Like Jesus!
8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. 11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. 12 For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret. 13 But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, 14 for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper,and arise from the dead,and Christ will shine on you. 15 Look carefully
Loving like Jesus means keeping holy boundaries
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. 3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. 4 Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving. 5 For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one dec