Acts 8:9-25. Simon the Sorcerer loses his audience once Philip starts performing signs that actually change lives.
An Easter message on why the virgin birth matters to the whole structure of Christian belief, and on faith as something audacious in a culture that calls it foolish.
Acts 8:1-4 and the persecution that scattered the church. Satan waits for an opportune time — and the scattering is exactly how the word spread.
Acts 7:54-60. Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, sees heaven open and dies asking God not to hold the sin against those killing him.
Stephen in Acts 6 — three chapters in the whole New Testament, and an example of what following Christ costs. Framed as a story about the person in the pew,…
Acts 21:7-14. The prophet Agabus binds his own hands with Paul's belt, everyone begs Paul not to go to Jerusalem, and Paul answers that he is ready.