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The Acts of the Apostles | Week Eight | John 10:27–30 | August 16th, 2026
In Acts 20, Paul gathers the Ephesian elders on a beach in Miletus for a painful farewell, knowing they will never see his face again. This scene offers a vivid portrait of true spiritual leadership—one that weeps, bleeds, and pours itself out ...
The Acts of the Apostles | Week Seven | Acts 19:21-41
Psalm 115 warns that "those who make idols become like them." An idol is anything created that we ask to do the work of the Creator—anything we look to for security, identity, worth, or control. In Acts 19, as the gospel spreads throug...
The Acts of the Apostles | Week Six | Acts 19:17-20 | August 2nd, 2026
Today Joel talked about the difference between knowing about God and actually knowing His presence, using Acts 19 where Paul meets disciples in Ephesus who'd never even heard of the Holy Spirit. He walked through three movements—faith without p...
The Acts of the Apostles | Week Five | Acts 18:9-10 | July 26th, 2026
This week Joel walked us through Acts 18, where Paul arrives alone in the loud, chaotic boomtown of Corinth by his own admission scared, in weakness and fear and trembling. He showed us the three gifts God gives frightened people: friends in Pr...
The Acts of the Apostles | Week Four | Acts 17:24-27 | July 12th, 2026
This week Joel walked us through Acts 17, where Paul stands on Mars Hill in Athens and, rather than mocking the city's countless idols, aches for it as a place of people starving for a God they cannot name. We are showed that an idol is not the...