16 sermons preach from Acts 17 in real church libraries — each one transcribed, summarized, and indexed to the verse. Jump to the exact moment a verse is quoted, or open the full sermon.
“We realize that in you we live, and in you we move and have our being.”
“The sermon trace is said to begin at verse 1 of chapter 17.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Paul, Silas, and Timothy brought a message about Jesus Christ to the city of Thessalonica; many believed and a riot nearly occurred as they were accused of defying Caesar's decree.”
A Sunday service sermon from 1 Thessalonians 5:11 urging the congregation to 'comfort and edify one another' — a call to reclaim a village mentality of mutual care, accountability, and practical support amid trials, with exhortations on holiness, discipleship, stewardship, and an invitation to salvation.
“Verse 3 is paraphrased: Paul explained and demonstrated that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“When we look at this text in verse 4...”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Where it talks about the Berean Jews and how they were noble, because they worshipped in both spirit and in truth.”
A packed Inland Empire Sunday service featuring worship, communion reflections on Job, teaching from Matthew and Genesis, baptisms/testimonies, mission and leadership announcements, and a central sermon on 'wrestling with God' (Genesis 32) calling believers to honest, transformative prayer and wholehearted discipleship.
““the Bereans received the word with eagerness... they examined the scripture to make sure that what he was speaking was true.””
Pastor Steve Wilburn (Core Church LA) preaches from Ephesians 4 on how Christians are to "learn to walk" with Christ: beware false teaching, lay aside the old sinful ways, and intentionally put on the new, Christlike life. He calls believers to mature discipleship by testing teaching against Scripture, repenting, replacing harmful habits (lies, crude speech, theft, uncontrolled anger) with truth, kindness, work, forgiveness, and holiness, and issues an invitation for spiritual renewal.
“They received the word with all readiness and searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.”
A Bible study on 1 Corinthians explaining the Holy Spirit's role in the church: empowering preaching, revealing the gospel, transforming believers (washed, sanctified, justified), guiding marriage and singleness, distributing spiritual gifts, enabling discernment and tongues, and the process to receive the Holy Spirit through believing, repentance, baptism in Jesus' name, and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit.
“When we look at this text in verse 12...”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Sermon title references Acts 17:16-27 — 'Finding The God You Never Knew.'”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
““Now, while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, the Bible says that his spirit was provoked within him as he saw the city full of idols.””
Pastor Ralph Castillo uses Jeremiah's indictment of Israel to expose modern idolatry: anything that takes first place in our hearts and replaces the living God. He contrasts the fountain of living water with broken cisterns, warns that forgetfulness and lesser loves lead back into slavery, and issues a call to return, repent, and be captured again by Christ.
“Paul's spirit was provoked within him when he saw that the city was given over to idols.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Now while Paul was waiting for them in Athens, his spirit was being provoked within him as he observed that the city was full of idols. So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be present.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“We were in Acts — it was 17 verses 16 through 34 (the sermon about Paul speaking in Athens and idolatry).”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Paul has been on a preaching tour and here we come to the 17th chapter of Acts, where he ends up in Athens and is brought to the Areopagus (Mars Hill) to confront idols.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“The speaker states that in verse 18 Paul preached to them the resurrection.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Verse 20 is cited: the people 'wanted to know what these things mean'—what does the resurrection have to do with me?”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus: 'Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious... The God who made the world and everything in it... for in him we live and move and exist.'”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Paul tells them that the 'unknown God' they acknowledge is actually the one true God who created them and everything else.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Paul says, 'as I passed through and considered the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with an inscription.'”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“Continuing in verse 24, he is Lord of heaven and earth and does not dwell in temples made by hands; he is above all and ruler over all.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Verse 25 is cited: he gives life, he gives breath, and he gives everything we have.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“He made from one man every nation of mankind, determining their appointed times and boundaries, that they would seek God and perhaps find him, for he is not far from each one of us.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Verses 27–28: 'he's not far from us' and 'in him we live and move and have our being.'”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“"So that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from one, though he is not far from each one of us."”
A Bible study on prophetic vision (Habakkuk 2:1) defining vision as "God's preferred plan." The speaker emphasizes that vision must be received from God, requires standing watch, humility, waiting, present faithfulness, and the re-education of perception so your priorities, loyalties, and obedience align with God's revealed will.
“In him we move and have our being.”
A Bible-study message on kingdom strategy: how to move from God's vision to sustainable results by discerning the end, assessing present reality, building backwards, aligning people/resources/timing, measuring progress, executing with flexibility, and developing endurance under pressure.
“"In him that we move, in him that we have our being"”
A sermon based on Galatians 5:1 declaring a "public service announcement": Christ has liberated believers from slavery to the past and to systems that devalue them. The preacher exhorts listeners to stop living "in their head," embrace their God-given freedom, stand firm in community, resist returning to old yokes, and respond in faith (including salvation, joining the church, and service).
“It is only in you that we live, we move, and we have our very being.”
A Psalm 55–centered message taught from Psalm 55 about finding God-given peace amid pain, betrayal, and overwhelm. The preacher urges honest lament to God, warns against mistaking escape for peace, and shows that true, sustaining peace comes from God even when circumstances don't change. The service included baptisms, communion, an invitation to salvation, and church announcements.
“We realize that in you we live, and in you we move and have our being.”
A Bible study on what makes a church healthy: clarifying the identity and function of God's people, the church, and the kingdom; calling believers to daily engagement with Scripture, committed discipleship, corporate purpose/destiny, faithful witness, and submission to godly leadership.
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“Having overlooked the times of ignorance, God now commands all people everywhere to repent; he has fixed a day to judge the world by a man he has appointed, giving assurance by raising him from the dead.”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“Paul tells a city of idolaters that it's time to repent because humanity faces divine judgment; when they heard of the resurrection some began to scoff, but others believed (including Dionysius the Areopagite and Damaris).”
Dr. Michael Ditaway preaches from Acts 17:16–27 on Paul’s encounter in Athens, urging listeners to recognize the one true God—the Creator, Sovereign, Source, and Relational Lord—and to repent of modern idols so others might find the God they never knew.
“The preacher notes that when Paul spoke of the resurrection some mocked, and some believed (the account in verses 32–34).”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“32 it says when they heard the resurrection”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
“In verse 34, the Bible says that whenever Paul was talking about the resurrection, some believed.”
A sermon on the power and purpose of a “dangerous sermon”: preaching and living a message that confronts idols and systemic evil, proclaims the resurrection, and calls Christians to incarnational witness so their lives become the sermon in homes, workplaces, and public life.
Every reference on this page was extracted from the transcript of a real sermon in a public Sermon Mind church library. Quotes reflect each preacher’s own reading of the text.