Sermons on Acts 17
Foundations
No follower of Jesus can be healthy in his or her walk with God without a healthy connection to the local church.
The God of All Creation
Why should we commit ourselves to world missions? Why should we invest so much of our time, our money, our energies to bring the Gospel to a people half-way around the world? Why should we go to other cultures with our religion when they already have a “religion of their own?” The Word of God answers these questions with three specific motivations. The first motivation: we must commit ourselves to missions because God commands it. As a result of God…
Reasoning with Intellectuals
One philosopher defined philosophy as “a route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.” Today the study of philosophy often leads the student into the pursuit of unending and meaningless questions. I am reminded of a story of a young man who was about to go out on his first date. He was very nervous about this. He wondered whether he would be able to carry on a conversation as effectively as he would like. He expressed this concern…
Marks of Nobility
God wrote a Book and what a wonderful book it is. This book tells us more about our inner self than any psychology. This book tells us more about the meaning of life than any philosophy. This book tells us more about wise human government than any nation’s constitution. This book tells us more about God and His workings than any other religious script. God wrote a book, and He gave it to you and He gave it to me.…
God’s Troublemakers
The story is told of a man named Donald Sweet who was referred to in his home environs as “Old Soggy,” and he lived in the last citadel of prohibition in Mississippi, and “Old Soggy” decided to run for office one day, and the local newspaper immediately put him on the spot, asking him his position on “The Whiskey Question.” Here is “Old Soggy’s” rather lengthy, but telling answer: “Dear Editor: I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject…