Text: Acts 13:1-12 | Listen to Message Making a straight, sensible path to Jesus   The first Christian missionaries impacted the world by taking the gospel to influential cities. Salamis was the cultural and commercial center of Cyprus, and Paphos was the capital. Together, these two cities shaped the religion, culture, politics, and economics of […]

Text: Acts 12:1-25 | Listen to Message Faith in deliverance or in death   The story of Peter’s miraculous 11th-hour rescue from a Roman prison cell is a familiar one. Christian children all over the world have heard how the church prayed and the angel came, how chains fell off and doors opened automatically as […]

Text: Acts 11:19-30; 13:1-3 | Listen to Message What does it mean to be a Christian?   Christians are people who believe in and follow Jesus Christ. Therefore, those who call themselves “Christians” should probably think and act and talk a lot like Jesus. So here are a couple questions worth pondering: 1. If others […]

Text: Acts 10:1—11:18 | Listen to Message The death of racism in the life of Jesus   The Early Church was troubled by deep racial divides between Jews and Gentiles. The Jews were “God’s chosen people,” who had received many privileges that the Gentiles had not (including the Law, the covenant promises of God, the Temple, […]