Acts of the Apostles (18): Sermon Video Introduction: The early church father Tertullian once famously said that the “blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” This aphorism has ...
Quicksilver Evangelism
The God of Glory Appears
Acts of the Apostles (17): Sermon Video Introduction: We have already looked at the overall theme of Stephen’s speech to the Sanhedrin, which is that God’s presence is not locked in a box ...
Where the Lord Is
Acts of the Apostles (16): Sermon Video Introduction: A superficial reading of Stephen’s speech will mislead you into thinking what George Bernard Shaw once said, when he argued that Stephen ...
In the Place of Moses
Acts of the Apostles (15): Sermon Video Introduction: One of the hallmarks of worldliness is when the curators of museums subvert the legacies of the men they are ostensibly honoring. This ...
The Word That Grows
Acts of the Apostles (14): Sermon Video Introduction: We see in this passage the formation of the Christian diaconate. The noun for deacon is not used here, but the context makes it pretty ...
The Honor of Dishonor, the Grace of Disgrace
Acts of the Apostles (13): Sermon Video Introduction: One of the more remarkable blessings that the presence of the Holy Spirit brings is the ability He gives to believers to suffer scorn gladly. ...
Great Grace, Great Fear
Acts of the Apostles (11): Sermon Video Introduction: We come now to the famous story of Ananias and Sapphira, the moral of which is sometimes thought to be “look what happens to chintzy ...
God’s Hand and Determinate Counsel
Acts of the Apostles (10): Sermon Video Introduction: The God of all creation is, of necessity, the God of all history. It is not possible to separate the two, and any attempts to separate ...
No Other Name
Acts of the Apostles (9): Sermon Video Introduction: The foundation of the Christian church was the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and because His execution had been perpetrated by ...
Times of Refreshing on the Threshold of Doom
Acts of the Apostles (8): Sermon Video Introduction: Jesus Christ was a murder victim, killed by the ungodly men who ran the ecclesiastical machinery of ancient Jerusalem. They thought that ...