Acts 13: 4-12, 44-48 p. 1154
Intro: Fellowship is an intentional relationship with God or with other human beings. Our fellowship with God is initiated by him, he chooses us in love and we respond to his love. His love not only impacts us in this life but goes on after we die because [...]
Acts 12: 1-19; 13:1-3, p. 1153
Intro: Worship is reverent love and devotion given to a deity; to glorify, give praise and honor. For Christians; the one and only true God found in the Bible; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. They are never separated one from the other.
Worship means actions, beginning from within. Worship is rooted [...]
Acts 11: 15-30
Intro: What does it mean to grow up? We start out very helpless and completely dependent. Over time we mature, until we are humanly speaking on our own, only to become dependent again when we get old.
The Christian life is like that in many ways. We start out following Jesus but not really [...]
Practice: Parents, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord (Eph 6:4). Listen, my son (daughter), to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching (Proverbs 1:8).
Experience: I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother [...]