RIC Various Scriptures In response to questions you asked and topics you suggested, we are beginning a three-part series on spiritual warfare. Today I will focus on Satan and his strategies. Next week I will focus on Satan’s power broken and then the third week, Tracy will preach on protecting ourselves from the devil. When…
Acts 12:1-19 I read all the William Goldman novels I could when I was in university and The Princess Bride was one of these. So when a movie was made of The Princess Bride in 1987, it was with eagerness that I took my daughters to the movie theater and then a couple years later…
Acts 12:19b-24 When I think about the book of Acts I think about the excitement of the church as it grew from just a hundred or so followers of Jesus, to 3,000 converted at Pentecost, to the expansion of the church into Samaria and then into the Gentile world. I think about Acts as the…
Acts 9:43-10:23 My father had a number of prejudices, although I think he liked to hang on to them simply to provoke discussion. When I was in seminary one of my roommates came with me to visit my family and when my father discovered that my friend, David, had grown up in France, he said,…
Acts 9:32-43 This will be the fifth year we have preached from Acts in the period after Easter until summer. Over the past four years we have moved through nine and a half chapters of Acts. We ended last year with Paul being sent off to Tarsus because of threats on his life in Jerusalem…