Becoming the Church: A Ministering Community – Part 2
When Peter and Cornelius meet up in Acts 10, they engage in an amazing conversation — one that helps us learn how to both receive ministry and give it away to others. Today we’re focusing on three ways to prepare our lives to receive ministry (clue: they have to do …
Becoming the Church: A Ministering Community – Part 3
The church is a community that both receives and gives ministry. And in Acts 10:36, Peter — in one powerful statement — gives us a deep understanding of what we’re giving when we minister. He stated, “This is the message of Good News … that there is peace with God …
Becoming the Church: A Praying Community
The story in Acts 12 is about a church coming together in prayer during a time of crisis. It’s about persecution and death — faith and breakthrough — and has some hilarious, very human moments sprinkled in. It shows both the natural and supernatural ways that prayer works together in our …
Becoming the Church: A Community that Follows God – Part 1
If the church is nothing else, it must be a community that follows after God! But how does Jesus lead us? How do we know it’s God who is calling us to take a certain path? In this first of a two-part message, we’re looking at two distinct ways God led the …
Becoming the Church: A Community that Follows God – Part 2
The decisions we make shape the outcome of our lives. So how can we know if we are making choices that are following where Jesus is leading? Often He leads us through a process of discernment — and in Acts 15 we find the church doing four things to discern …
Becoming the Church: A Fearless Community
Pastor Gary Howse finishes our series in the book of Acts by journeying with the Apostle Paul into his final season of ministry. Paul had been called by the Lord to head to Jerusalem even though he was told time after time that hardship awaited him there. Paul’s life teaches …