In this message, Pastor Phillip begins a new chapter in our study of the book of Acts. Here we learn that Paul and Apollos both move on to different areas where God was calling them and God uses Paul to instruct believers who were only acquainted with the baptism of John the Baptist. Pastor Phillip […]
In this message, Pastor Nathan deals with a uniquely placed passage of scripture in Acts 13:52 where it describes the disciples as being continually filled with the Holy Spirit. He challenges us to think about the frequency which which we are being filled and our expectation in being filled with the Spirit. While some might […]
In this message, Pastor Nathan expounds on Peter’s defense of his obedience to God and how his defense provided undeniable proof of God’s working and direction in bringing the Gentiles into the Kingdom of God. The circumcised believers that confronted him, were at first angry and vehemently upset at Peter’s transgression of tradition, but once […]
In this week’s message, Pastor Phillip teaches on several concepts we see displayed here in Chapter 8, namely the laying on of hands, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and the consequent manifestation of that baptism through a miraculous gift of the Spirit. He also addresses the sin of Simon the sorcerer who had proclaimed […]
Continuing from last week’s sermon, Pastor Phillip finishes his analysis of Stephen’s defense in Acts 7 and shows how Stephen, by the power of the Holy Spirit, was making a parallel to the spiritual leaders in the Old Testament who persecuted the prophets and the spiritual leaders of his day. They were no different and […]
In this sermon, Pastor Phillip begins teaching through Chapter 7 where Stephen is invited to give a defense before the religious Sanhedrin. He shows how Stephen, led by the Holy Spirit, was making beautiful by powerful parallels between Abraham and Joseph in the Old Testament and Christ, that the religious elite couldn’t refute. This is […]
Today’s message is focused on a young man named Stephen. This was one of the men selected, out of all those who had come to know Christ, to serve the widows in the daily distribution of food – the work of a deacon. However, Stephen was so full of the Holy Spirit that God used […]