Category: Service
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Acts 24:1-9
We as Christians live our faith in the world. Do we leave it at the church door on Sundays? How are we perceived in our daily lives in our communities? Does our faith show in all we do?
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Acts 22:17-29
In this text Paul speaks to the people of Jerusalem from the steps of the barracks. They had been ready to beat him up, but the commander didn’t seem to want the trouble and decided to take Paul into custody to find out what was going on.
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Acts 22:1-16
After his conversion experience temporarily blinded him, Paul was taken by the hand and led to Damascus. Our dependence upon each other is no weakness, no indication of unimportant inferiority. Our dependencies, our limitations, our numerous needs for each other – all of it is grace. To allow ourselves to be led in the direction of our own Damascus is gift.
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Acts 10:13-38
Being an apostle in the early days of the Christian church was a dangerous profession. In preaching the good news about Jesus, many of the apostles were mocked, beaten, jailed, and killed.
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Acts 19:1-17
We should be more active in seeking to find God in our everyday lives, and not wait passively for Him to come to us. God’s love is there for us – we need to open our hearts to it and find the joy that awaits us as the Holy Spirit comes upon us.
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Acts 9:1-22
God didn’t, hasn’t, doesn’t, won’t take “no” for an answer. When God calls, God already knows our objections, our feelings of inadequacy, our prone-ness to disobedience, our fears. God tolerates our objections, already knowing we have them, and the call remains. God doesn’t give up so easily!
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Acts 6:8-7:1
The Holy Spirit calls us to act, to do. Stephen, “full of grace and power,” was full of the Holy Spirit who fully worked in his life. He carried out God’s purpose by leaning into his gift of speaking. The Holy Spirit is the very means through which we are to accomplish God’s work here on Earth with one another.
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Acts 6:1-7
Have you ever noticed how quickly, when we’re displeased or dissatisfied, we seem to need to blame or scapegoat someone? Rather than simply expressing our concerns, we look for someone to accuse.
Summer of the Spirit 