Guest Speaker—Church Planter

May 5, 2024

Acts 14:19-26 (ESV)

¹⁹ But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. ²⁰ But when the disciples gathered about him, he rose up and entered the city, and on the next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe. ²¹ When they had preached the gospel to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch, ²² strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God. ²³ And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

²⁴ Then they passed through Pisidia and came to Pamphylia. ²⁵ And when they had spoken the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia, ²⁶ and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.

God's Strength in Our Weakness

April 28, 2024

Isaiah 40:28-31 (ESV)

28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
     The Lord is the everlasting God,
        the Creator of the ends of the earth.
     He does not faint or grow weary;
        his understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the faint,
        and to him who has no might he increases strength.
30 Even youths shall faint and be weary,
        and young men shall fall exhausted;
31 but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
        they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
     they shall run and not be weary;
        they shall walk and not faint.

Hope for Godly Living

April 21, 2024

1 John 3:1-3 (ESV)

¹ See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. ² Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. ³ And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Living in the Light

April 14, 2024

1 John 1:5-7 (ESV)

⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. ⁷ But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.