Sermons on Acts 13
The Joy of the Lord
The following notice was posted on a bulletin board in a business office: “It has come to management’s attention that workers dying on the job are failing to fall down. This practice must stop as it becomes impossible to distinguish between death and the natural movement of the staff. Any employee found dead in the upright position will be dropped from the payroll.” Well, behind this humorous notice lies a somber reality – many people drudge through much of their…
A Message of Encouragement
I invite you to turn to this passage of Scripture, to the first recorded sermon of the Apostle Paul. It is not his first sermon, but it is his first recorded sermon, and in fact, it is the sermon from Paul that is given the greatest detail of any of Paul’s sermons. We remember the church at Antioch had sent off Paul and Barnabas on the first missionary journey; so the missionary era of the church begins and the travel…
A Mission Minded Church
Young Henry Martin studied at Cambridge University to become a lawyer. By his senior year, he had been recognized as the university at its best mathematician. Upon graduation Henry Martin abandoned his intentions to go into law. For the Glory of God in missions, God had captured his heart and led by God’s Spirit, he traveled then to India as a missionary there in 1806. Sailing from England, Henry left his family, his friends, his homeland; he even left Lydia,…