Acts

40:52 minutes (7.02 MB)Pastor Deanza teaches how we are the Church and looks at how the early church established community, prayer life, breaking of bread and the spreading of the gospel. 

41:50 minutes (7.18 MB)Pastor Leah shares how Justice is part of the essential nature of God, and how we are called to live out God's justice as part of our identity as Christians.

29:25 minutes (5.06 MB)Pastor Ray teaches how prayer in its many forms is a wonderful gift from a loving Heavenly Father. Sometimes our prayers are "why prayers"; like the psalmist, we give voice to our "Why?" questions in prayer.

30:24 minutes (5.22 MB)Pastor Leah continues our sermon series through Acts 11 and the development of the early Gentile Church at Antioch. Today, just as much as at that time, we need great encouragers in our lives to help us learn what it means to live as followers of Christ. How can we step into the challenge to be someone's Barnabas?

36:22 minutes (6.25 MB)Pastor Ray teaches that one of the greatest threats to the wholeness, effectiveness and authenticity of the church doesn't come from the outside--from skeptics, critics or secular culture--but from within--from the burden of "religious legalism" we impose on ourselves and others. We are called to be people of grace.

32:49 minutes (5.64 MB)Pastor Leah preaches on Acts 10:23b - 48, focusing on how that initial spread of the Gospel to the Gentiles 2000 years ago continues to call us to unity around a belief in Jesus Christ today.  Just as the church was 'figuring it out' then, we continue to learn how to overcome barriers and divisions in our culture and our churches.

26:06 minutes (4.48 MB)Pastor Ray teaches from Acts 10, where the text confronts us with Christ's deeper mission to which the healing miracles point: the healing of mind and soul and attitudes that break down the walls of suspicion, fear, prejudice and hatred that separate people from each other. This is the message of reconciliation that defines Christ's mission, and ours.

35:36 minutes (6.11 MB)Pastor Leah teaches we need to claim the radical hope we are called to as believers in Jesus Christ.

35:53 minutes (6.16 MB)Pastor Ray teaches in today's text as we continue the story of Saul of Tarsus who was captured by the amazing grace of God on the road to Damascus. The grace of God now compels him to proclaim the message that Jesus is the Son of God.
That same grace compels us today.

42:51 minutes (7.36 MB)Pastor Eugene preaches about the dramatic conversion of Saul of Tarsus from a murderous persecutor of Christians to a person blinded, humbled, and later, restored by the grace of Christ to be a “chosen instrument” for the very gospel of Jesus Christ.