Sermon – Acts 2 – The Day of Pentecost – preached @ FCC 10/12/08 Lay Reading: Eph 1:17-23 Pages 1078 and 1692 The book of Acts was written by Luke. If he sounds familiar, it is because that’s the same guy who wrote the gospels of Luke. In fact, Luke and Acts are almost like a two volume set of one book.…

Introduction I would like to do a little demonstration for you this morning. I have here a jar. Let the jar represent your life. Sometime in your childhood you make a choice to disobey your parents and you commit your first sin. As life goes on, you lie, you cheat on a test, you think things you shouldn’t,…

True and Proper Worship 1. The mission is a statement of what the church is supposed to be doing, while the vision is a snapshot or picture of it. 2. The mission is used for planning where the church is going; the vision is used for communicating where the church is going. 3. A mission statement must…

Acts 2:1-4 John 16:7-8; 13-16 Pentecostal Power Last week was a significant week in the traditional year celebrated by many churches. The truth is that at Baptist Churches we often overlook this Sunday. The Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. I think we overlook it because it is about the Holy Spirit and sometimes…

Galatians 5:22-23 In one of his meetings, D.L. Moody was explaining to his audience the truth that we cannot bring about spiritual changes in our lives by our own strength. He demonstrated the principal like this: “Tell me,” he said to his audience, “how can I get the air out of the tumbler I have in…

Palm Sunday Foretold by the Prophets 9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 22 The stone which the builders rejected…

Where do we start? 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all those who do His commandments; His praise endures forever. What do we tend to fear? The unknown…

Close your eyes and imagine the following: God the Father - nice old man with a beard? God the Son - Pic of Jesus or Jesus on the cross Holy Spirit - The bible gives us some descriptions. John 3 says he is like the wind. We can picture what the wind does, but we really can’t se it. To most of us, the…

One of the things that I have noticed over the years is how quickly people can flip you from being happy to angry. Have you ever noticed that? You could be having a great day… the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming… You feel great. And then some crazy-maker walks into your life and in about…

The Holy Spirit assures believers of their standing in Christ and their eternal salvation.

The Presence of The Holy Spirit How many of you know who the Holy Spirit is? Many times we relegate the Holy Spirit to a lesser role than the Father or Jesus. Many books are written about the Father and Jesus but very few are written about the Holy Spirit. If we understood who He is and what He does…

Intro Our culture has become one of talking points where it is “us versus them” and neither side can meet in the middle. Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as…

The call to remember

In Christ... we are blessed we are chosen we are holy and blameless before God we are redeemed we are forgiven we are rich we are predestined we are sealed Who is God? Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,…

The Lighthouse of Jesus, the pure oil Olive, is our Salvation.

3 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 1 Therefore, having…

a scriptural look at a God who still communicates and a Spirit that is still active

The Holy Spirit dwells within Jesus Christ and his disciples. Recognisable results in believers’ lives include Christlikeness and the fruit of the Spirit.