Sermons

This week, Pastor Shaq Hager walks through Acts 5:17-42. It’s a story about the apostles being brought before the Sanhedrin. This is becoming a regular occurrence for the apostles – trials before the Sanhedrin, questioning, veiled threats, and now a physical beating. All because they continue to heal people and teach the crowds the Gospel… Read...

This week Pastor Shaq Hager discusses Acts 5:12-16. It’s a brief and descriptive passage in which Luke describes the ways the Spirit is at work through the apostles to bring physical healing and restoration to people’s lives and bodies. And not just for people within the nascent church community, but also people outside the community.… Read...

Pastor Dennis Allan continued our Acts study by walking through the story of Ananias and Sapphira recorded in Acts 5:1-11 (NIV). Ananias and Sapphira want to be leaders and hold positions of honor in the early church, and so they devise a plan to deceive Peter and the apostles. They want to appear good without… Read...

This week Pastor Dennis continued our study on the book of Acts by leading a conversation on Acts 4:32-37. It’s a summary passage in which Luke describes the way the early church met the needs of vulnerable people until, according to Luke, “there were no needy persons among them.” What values and ethics did the… Read...

This week, Carrie Buckner continues our community’s study of the Book of Acts by focusing on Acts 4:23-31. It’s a story about the way the first followers of Jesus gathered together after Peter and John were questioned by the Sanhedrin and ordered by them to no longer speak or teach about Jesus. We see the… Read...

This week, we return to our Acts series. Pastor Dennis walked through Acts 4:1-22, the story of Peter and John and the Sanhedrin Council. In the story, the Sanhedrin, Judaism’s most powerful legislative body, appear threatened by Peter and John and the “power” with which they healed a lame man and taught crowds of people.… Read...