The Acts of an Easter People: Fearless Witness

A sermon by Jim Somerville, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Richmond, Va. The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 5:27-32 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in...

Situational Awareness

A sermon delivered David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on November 14, 2010. Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 21:5-19 What would you say the following crime stories have in common? While investigating a purse-snatching, Brunswick, Georgia, detectives...

Reaching To The Far Shore

A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on May 9, 2010. Acts 16:9-15 Even when we’re doing the will of God, we live in “in-between” times. Life, we discover, is not so much an uninterrupted continuum as much as it is a...

The Jesus Effect

This sermon was delivered by Wendell Griffen, pastor of the New Millennium Church in Little Rock, Ark., on November 1, 2009. Acts 3: 1-10 As Peter and John were entering the Jerusalem temple for prayer, they encountered a begging man who had been lame his entire...

Lessons From a Church Meeting

This sermon was prepared by Wendell Griffen, pastor of the NewMillenniumChurch in Little Rock, Ark., on October 4, 2009. Acts 1: 12-26. When we read Acts, the fifth book in the New Testament, we learn about many firsts experienced by the followers of Jesus Christ. ...