To run the Christian life well, we need to stay healthy. Hebrews 13 describes how we can keep our faith healthy by following leaders who lived and finished their race demonstrating an unwavering devotion to their unchanging Lord. We need those examples and that same foundational focus because there's no shortage of false teaching out there that would threaten our undivided allegiance to Christ alone.

It is to for our own good that we learn to lead well for the cause of Christ and for the sake of those who follow.

How to Follow Well

PRAY INTRO: Last week in our study of the second half of Acts 6 , we discussed how Stephen became Stephen. How did the humble helper for charity distribution become a target of the religious establishment and then become the first martyred follower of Jesus? Upon examination, it becomes clear that Luke’s…

PRAY INTRO: Have you ever had a problem sneak up on you? (Oh man, things are going so great. I did not see that coming.) Or ever inherited a problem as a leader that you weren’t even around to help cause? (I sometimes observe coaches or managers of sports teams and feel sorry for them in the dysfunction…

[Subtitle - The First Christian Sermon, Part Two] PRAY INTRO: Jesus does what he says he will do. He has power and authority to accomplish it. He takes broken sinners and restores them to God. Chief among his chosen Apostles was a handful of fishermen, whom he told to leave their nets behind in the Lake…

[Subtitle - The First Christian Sermon, Part One] PRAY INTRO: Remember that there had come a deafening silence of the Holy Spirit prophesying in Israel for some 400 years. (after the time of Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi) But of course, this is no longer the case with the coming of Jesus Christ, who…