Podcast of weekly sermons from Dan Nold from Calvary Church in State College, PA. Calvary Church is a Church Without Walls serving Penn State University, State College, PA, and the surrounding area.
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It's not enough to get into God's Word, we need to let His Word get into us. "More Than Bread" is a podcast featuring Pastor Dan Nold from Calvary Church in State College, PA. It focuses on simply reading the Bible (with a few comments) in the hopes that listening to God's Word, learning from God's Word and leaning into God's Word will shape our hearts, minds, and souls to bring us life. As Jesus said, "We do not live by bread alone, we live by every Word that comes from the mouth of God."
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When prayer gets stuck in deep trouble, gratitude might be the extra you need to add to your ordinary. When gratitude is added we have the opportunity to go deeper with God.By Dan Nold
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Acts #61 -- Acts/Galatians -- "We need a soul revolution!"
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Send me a Text Message! I want to talk to you about seed-planters and soul revolutions. Seed-planters are people with vision. They are people with the patience, the faith and the courage necessary to strive hard for a future they may or may not see. Without seed-planters there is no fruit, no life. Seed-planters are people who love to serve. Seed-p…
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Acts Series #60 -- Acts 25 -- "A great love story..."
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Send me a Text Message! Acts 25 contains one of my favorite love stories in all of scripture. I’ll never forget the first time it hit me, it settled into my heart. The passionate relentless love of God is so great. The love of Christ is so great, His pursuit so relentless that he would throw his #1 spokesman in jail for two years so that his #1 ene…
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Acts Series #59 -- Acts 24 -- "Jesus help us be faithful!"
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Send me a Text Message! ACTS 24 is a beautiful description of Paul being faithful. Embracing opportunities to share his faith, to talk about Jesus, even when it might make his life miserable. Not watering down the message to someone who has the power of life and death in his hands. Giving the full truth even if it might be controversial. Paul was f…
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Acts Series #58 -- Acts 23 -- "When Jesus comes close..."
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Send me a Text Message! There is a moment of a scene in Acts 23, a short description in verse, and here's what it says, "The following night, the Lord (Jesus) stood near Paul and said, "Take courage..." Who doesn't need more courage, but rather than focusing on the courage…here’s what I love. The following night, Jesus stood near Paul and spoke. Je…
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Acts Series #57 -- Acts 22 -- "What's in your box?"
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Send me a Text Message! Bob Buford talks about one of the most significant questions anyone ever asked him. The question was, "What's in your box?" It was a question asked in the midst of some life-coaching and the purpose of the question was to bring about a discussion of the central purpose of Bob's life. The consultant finally said to him, "Bob,…
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Acts Series #56 -- Acts 21:1-36 -- "Living for the gain?"
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Send me a Text Message! I think every Christian in America should be required to memorize Philippians 1:21. This was Paul’s dream, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." That's the creed he lived by. "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain." Is that our creed? For most of us, who have the label American Christian, Paul's words are clos…
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Acts Series #55 -- Acts 20:17-24 -- "What is your six-word story?"
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Send me a Text Message! If you had to summarize your life in six words, what would they be? How would you describe your life in six words? "Penn State wins again. Heart full." "If I don't graduate, I'll die." "I am seeking comfort and control." The challenge of the six-words is that it causes us to focus on what matters most, to capture briefly som…
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Acts Series #54 -- Acts 20:13-38 -- "It's not too late to finish well!"
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Send me a Text Message! What does it take to finish well? Or let me make that even more specific, what does it take for a follower of Jesus, a Jesus-apprentice to finish well? Because I think in order to finish well, we need to have some sense of who is determining the finish line, our course. Who is writing our story? For Paul that goes all the wa…
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Acts Series #53 -- Acts 20:1-12 -- "Do you have time for a word of encouragement?"
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Send me a Text Message! The time comes when we all need a word of encouragement. And isn't that what church is all about. Paul says that the church is God's fields and we are partners in the Harvest, that the church is God's building and we are partners in it's construction...none of us stand alone. And one of the best things we can do together...i…
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What does the next 6 years look like as we get closer to the 2030 vision? Courtney and Isaac Balban talk about what it means to prepare us for what the Lord is going to do in our houses, neighborhoods, and our church.By Isaac Balban
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Acts Series #52 -- Acts 19:10-41 -- "God doesn't just love you...He likes you!"
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Send me a Text Message! Somewhere along the journey every heart ablaze for God, begins with a growing heart-conviction that God actually wants to be with us. This is his great promise. I will be with you. I want to be with you. But somewhere along the way, we gain this idea that God is love so God has to love us. He has to love us because he's God.…
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Acts Series #51 -- Acts 19:1-11 -- "It's time to breathe again!"
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Send me a Text Message! The Word of God is vital to spiritual life, but it's not enough. It's necessary but not sufficient. There's more. When we go through bone-drying, hope draining times, we need more than knowledge about God. We desperately need the Spirit, the breath of God. In Ezekiel 37, God says I'll put my breath into you. The word for bre…
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Acts Series #50 -- Acts 18 -- Someone was there for you... Who is on your team?
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Send me a Text Message! Acts 18 is full of names, the names of people whom Paul built into...and who were on his team. Paul says that the church is God's fields and we are partners in the Harvest, that the church is God's building and we are partners in it's construction. None of us stand alone. If you are here today, it is because someone planted …
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Acts Series #49 -- Acts 17:23-29 -- "Let your heart be stirred by the Father-Heart of God!"
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Send me a Text Message! I think every person in the world, wants a father who loves us, who will pursue us no matter what, right? Don't we? Our hearts long for a father who will never give up hope that somehow, somewhere his son or daugther will re-connect, come home. A father who is persistent and unrelenting in his love, always reaching out, rega…
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Acts Series #48 -- Acts 17:16-34 -- "You have a mission and your mission matters!"
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Send me a Text Message! I believe God has planted in the very dna of our souls, a desire to matter; a desire to live a life that makes a difference... to find a mission worth dying for and even better worth living for. So let me ask you right now, you can answer in the quiet of your own heart, "What and/or who are you really living for? What is you…
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Prayer is nothing less than a kid climbing up in their father's lap and having a conversation with Dad. But sometimes it's more. Sometimes it's a wrestling, travailing, contending battle against life as it is for the life of Jesus...By Dan Nold
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Acts Series #47 -- Acts 17:10-15 -- "Are you urgently hungry for more than bread?"
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Send me a Text Message! Are you urgently hungry from something more than bread for your stomach? Here is what I think, while many things could seem urgent, what actually becomes consistently urgent is whatever we think will brings us life and is missing. In other words, urgency is defined by hunger. Urgency happens when we lack something which we b…
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Acts Series #46 -- Acts 17:1-9 -- "Are you ready to turn the world upside down?"
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Send me a Text Message! Once upon a time we were called, "the people who turned the world upside down." In this episode I want to challenge us to pray, "Lord would you do it again?" We want to live in an upside down world because what we have come to experience as right-side-up is all wrong. And it all begins with a decision...it's a yes or no deci…
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Acts Series #45 -- Acts 16:16-40 (part 2) -- "Who is the jailer God's putting in your life?"
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Send me a Text Message! I've always thought this story of Paul and Silas was a bit strange. This woman has been following them for days, telling people that they are God's men. They are legit; here to save you. But then one day, Paul gets annoyed and delivers her from demonic bondage and economic slavery and as a result they get beaten severely and…
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Acts Series #44 -- Acts 16:16-40 -- "Will I finish my race with joy?"
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Send me a Text Message! Every time we come to the funeral of someone who loved Jesus...it should make us long just a bit more for home. Because no matter how great or how hard your life is at this moment, the best is yet to come. And I think that’s how the people on Jesus-team in the early church; I think that’s how they lived their lives. They liv…
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Acts Series #43 -- Acts 16:1-15 -- "What if when God says "all," He means it?"
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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 16, we get introduced to two people Lydia and Timothy, both followers of Jesus. We know more about Timothy than we do Lydia, but it's still good to hear their stories. Their story is part of God's story and so is yours. Before we leave this episode we'll focus on bit more on Timothy's part in the story of God and how…
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The call to a life of persistent prayer is one that many of us would like to feel more equipped to answer. The idea of praying without giving up is an attractive idea and we find some life in picturing ourselves as that kind of a praying person. But...By Scott Leddy
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Acts Series #42 -- Acts 15:32-41 -- Calling out extraordinary potential from ordinary people...
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Send me a Text Message! At the end of Acts 15, we are introduced to John Mark. We know him best as the writer of the gospel of Mark. But I think it's safe to say, that without Barnabas we probably would have missed Mark. But instead of missing Mark, we gained an amazing gospel with a vital perspective on Jesus and His team. Barnabas was able to loo…
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Acts Series #41 -- Acts 15:1-29 -- How do you know if they are Christans?
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Send me a Text Message! This episode is about what identifies us as followers of Jesus. What are the non-negotiables? Some of us grew up in a culture that emphasized what some call boundary marker religion. There were certain things that you did and did not do that were very important. Those things marked you as being in the group or not in the gro…
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Acts Series #40 -- Acts 14:1-28 -- Can anything good come from everything hard?
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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 14 is a statement that I love to hate and wish I could ignore. "We must suffer many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God." Through many hardships and much suffering, we enter the Kingdom of God. You have got to love that right? We get lots of joy and lots of persecution and then don’t care too deeply about what othe…
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Acts Series #39 -- Acts 13:52 & 14:17 -- "Let's pause for joy!"
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Send me a Text Message! It's hard to miss, the book of Acts gives us front-row seats to the incredible joy that saturated the early church, even in the face of hardship, suffering and persecution. This joy wasn’t just a here-and-gone moment of emotion but rather a steadfast perspective and fullness of delight that came from the joy-giving power of …
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Acts Series #38 -- Acts 13:41-52 -- "A light for the whole world!"
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Send me a Text Message! The early church faced unrelenting attacks, deep persecution, tragic losses, and from a human perspective unbeatable opponents. Yet, no matter what happened, they would not only bounce back, but in the hardest of chapters, they would overcome. The Word of God spread, followers of Jesus multiplied, communities were turned ups…
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Extraordinary prayer is a journey that begins with a good teacher and ends with...well it never ends.By Dan Nold
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Acts Series #37 -- Acts 13:13-41 -- "God is all-in for you...and that's Good News!"
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Send me a Text Message! Christ is the treasure above all treasures. He is worth everything you have. We go all-in for Jesus, because what we gain is of infinitely greater value than what we give. The only logical response to Jesus is the all-in response. But I'll never forget, a time I was listening to a description of the parable of the treasure..…
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Acts Series #36 -- Acts 13:1-12 -- "When darkness comes, heaven is near!"
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Send me a Text Message! When I read Acts 13, I'm reminded that whenever we go on the mission of God, we step into a spiritual battle. There is darkness in this battle. It may be the darkness that comes in the bitterness of anger, the darkness that comes from depression, the darkness that descends upon a relationship when we just can't seem to find …
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Acts Series #35 -- Acts 12:1-25 -- "We burn better together...!"
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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 12, after all the difficulty, all the persecution, and all the battle that was thrown at the early church, in the end the WORD of God flourished and continued to spread. Why? Well at least in part because of prayer. That was our focus in the last episode. We said you could chart the growth of the early church by thei…
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Acts Series #34 -- Acts 12:5-25 -- "...but then they prayed!"
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Send me a Text Message! You can chart the growth of the early church by it's prayer meetings. Something bad would happen, but they they prayed. It looked like they were down and out, but then their prayers went up and in. I bet 80% of us say we believe in prayer. We believe it's important, so why don't we pray? Of course, almost everyone sends up a…
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Memorial Day Special -- Matthew 5 & Isaiah 58 -- "It's time to shine!"
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Send me a Text Message! Memorial Day is a day to remember those who gave their lives defending our freedom. So how do we honor their sacrifice? I wonder if the best way to honor their sacrifice is found in Matthew 5 and Isaiah 58 both of which contain a call to shine. You are the light of the world, so shine! You are the light of the world, so shin…
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What does it mean to love your neighbor? Who are your neighbors? Coworkers, friends or actual neighbors? Stacy and Kim Sublett sit down to talk about the simplicity and beauty of Front Yard Mission and the tools that are available that you can use to...By Stacy Sublett
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Acts Series #33 -- Acts 12:1-5 -- "Jesus make us dangerous!"
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Send me a Text Message! Acts 12:1-5 is a good reminder that when we become part of the mission of Jesus, we enter into a spiritual battle. Don't be discouraged when we face defeat and darkness in our spiritual lives...it's a battle. When relationships tank...don't be caught off guard, it's the enemy's strategy to divide and conquer. The gospel is a…
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Acts Series #32 -- Acts 11:24-30 -- "Generous people are happy people!"
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Send me a Text Message! There is a surprising amount of research on this. Gender has no impact on happiness. Weather has no impact on happiness. You have just as much potential for happiness under the cloudy skies of State College as you do in the sun of San Diego! Research suggests that happiness has its source in things like, volunteering, giving…
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Acts Series #31 -- Acts 11:19-24 -- "God's Gracious Hand Upon Us!"
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Send me a Text Message! You can use a hand for many things; fight, discipline, shake hands, or hug. You can hold someone up. You can bless them. But nothing will empower us and change us and help us turn the world upside down like having the gracious hand of God upon us. The gracious hand of God is nitro fuel for our tank. It's the hand that takes …
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Acts Series #30 -- Acts 11:1-30 -- "Two things you can do as part of a great move of God"
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Send me a Text Message! In this episode as we look at Luke 11, we will pause to ponder two things that we can do, every single one of us can do these two things and they will make a huge difference in our life and the lives of others. The more we do these two things, the more the gracious hand of God will be upon us! What two things? Repentance and…
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Acts Series #29 -- Acts 10:24-48 -- "Are you a do-gooder?"
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Send me a Text Message! In Acts 10:31, there is this simple, yet convicting description of Jesus. "God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and power and Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of Satan, because God was with Him." I read those words and can't help but think, "Isn't our goal to be more like Jesus? Even d…
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Prayer may at times be more than, but it will never be less than an on-going and on-growing personal love relationship with our Father God.By Dan Nold
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Acts Series #28 -- Acts 10:1-23 -- "When's the last time you head the voice of God?"
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Send me a Text Message! So "More Than Bread," is a podcast that is seriously convicted that there are no words we need to hear more than we need to hear the Words of God. Because the stuff of life is not enough to give us life. We need more than relational stuff or vocational stuff…we definitely need more than luxury, comfort and control stuff. We …
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Acts Series #27 -- Acts 9:18-43 -- "That's the kind of walk we need!"
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Send me a Text Message! Today as we finish up Acts 9, we get another look at the impact of the early church and the transformation of people! But in the midst of all the amazing stories, we will pay special attention to verse 31, which offers a glimpse into how the early church found life and helped others find life in between the two tensions of t…
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Acts Series #26 -- Acts 9:1-17 -- "How does it feel to be chosen?"
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Send me a Text Message! In this episode, we will focus on one small statement in Acts 9. It is a small statement with great significance. Are you ready? Here it is... "You have been chosen." What comes to mind when you hear those words? "You have been chosen." Well you might say, it depends. Chosen for what? If you get a registered letter from the …
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Acts Series #25 -- Acts 8:9-40 -- "People matter to God..."
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Send me a Text Message! Lost people matter to God. Your neighbors, coworkers, classmates and friends matter to God. Your enemies matter to God. Acts 8 is a reminder that not only did Jesus go the cross because lost people matter to God, even after the cross he will do everything he can to bring people to Jesus to find life in the Kingdom of God. Lo…
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Acts Series #24 -- Acts 8:1-8 -- "I surrender to you Jesus..."
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Send me a Text Message! Acts 7-8 describe a defining moment for the church. Stephen's moment of sacrifice defined our movement as a movement of people who were full of faith, and full of the Spirit, full of grace, and full of power. Stephen's ending moments defined our movement as a movement of people who were fully joyfully surrendered to their Ki…
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Pastor Dan and Lynn talk prayer with a special message to women that they are God's delight. You are seen, known, and loved.By Dan and Lynn Nold
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Acts Series #23 -- Acts 7:51-60 -- "If I give it to Him, will God waste my life?"
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Send me a Text Message! One reason why reading the book of Acts is so important, is because it's a reminder of something significant. We read Acts and we can hear, maybe ever so faintly hear, this call that echoes down through the centuries... "There is a cause, there is a story being written that is worthy of your life." As I read the ending of St…
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Acts Series #22 -- Acts 7:1-51 -- "Is 4 minutes for God, worth my life?"
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Send me a Text Message! If I lay it all on the line, God’s gonna waste my life. That's the thought that comes to mind when I read Stephen's sermon in Acts 7. Sure Stephen was filled with passionate courage and preached it straight to the Jewish religious leaders. But then look at what happened. And we think, "If I say yes to God, he's going to send…
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Acts Series #21 -- Acts 6:3-15 -- "God uses ordinary people...like me."
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Send me a Text Message! Acts chapter 6 is a turning point in our movement. Up until Acts 6, the only names you ever hear about is Peter and John, once in awhile James. Everyone else is part of a group, or just a number. But after Acts 6 it changes. After Acts 6, everyone has a mission. Ministry is handed off from a few leaders to everyone. In chapt…
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