Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

I. God has a plan for the universe and everything in it. II. God has let us in on his plan. III. God’s plan will be fulfilled at just the right time. IV. God’s plan is to unite all things together in Christ. 

How should we respond to Christ and his atoning sacrifice? Offer to him a sacrifice of praise, and offer to others a sacrifice of generosity.

Joshua leads all Israel in a covenant renewal ceremony. 

God's plans are never frustrated. Even the death of Stephen and consequential persecution of the early Church leads to the fruitful expansion of the church and proclamation of the gospel.  I. The word goes forth in Stephen's death II. The ...