“Acts 6 teaches that the greatest miracle was solving a food distribution problem so the church stayed united and the gospel advanced.”
A Sunday sermon emphasizing that prayer must remain the church's highest priority. Using the early church's response to internal conflict as a model, the preacher argues that prayer brings God's perspective, produces godly leadership, preserves unity, releases power, and changes people more than circumstances.
“Stephen, one of the first seven deacons ordained by the apostles, had just been killed.”
Pastor Shaun D. Marshall preaches from Acts 8:1-8 about the need to let go of the past so God can lead us into his future. He highlights three practical responses—grieve, grow, and go—using the scattering of the early church and Philip's ministry as an example, closes with an invitation to salvation and church membership, and connects the message to local church mission and the Beyond campaign.
“Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint... And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit.”
A Bible study on the Holy Spirit's activity in the book of Acts, outlining eight primary roles—witnessing/preaching, boldness in prayer and proclamation, imparting wisdom for leadership, giving visions/instructions, declaring future events through prophets, warning of danger, correcting doctrinal error, and supernatural movement/transportation (with application to the rapture). The sermon concludes with the gospel call: repent, be baptized in Jesus' name, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, plus an invitation to receive Christ.
