Best Dan Nold (Pastor of Calvary Church Podcasts (2024)

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Acts Series #52 -- Acts 19:10-41 -- "God doesn't just love you...He likes you!" 21:51

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Send us 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!" 21:38

6h ago21:38

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Send us 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? 22:24

1d ago22:24

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Send us 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!" 22:02

2d ago22:02

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Send us 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!" 20:12

3d ago20:12

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Send us 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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Acts Series #47 -- Acts 17:10-15 -- "Are you urgently hungry for more than bread?" 19:23

6d ago19:23

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Send us 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?" 20:59

7d ago20:59

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Send us 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?" 21:06

8d ago21:06

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Send us 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?" 21:29

9d ago21:29

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Send us 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?" 22:33

10d ago22:33

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Send us 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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Acts Series #42 -- Acts 15:32-41 -- Calling out extraordinary potential from ordinary people... 19:35

16d ago19:35

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Send us 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? 21:46

17d ago21:46

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Send us 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? 20:14

18d ago20:14

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Send us 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!" 21:21

20d ago21:21

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Send us 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!" 22:24

21d ago22:24

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Send us 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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Acts Series #37 -- Acts 13:13-41 -- "God is all-in for you...and that's Good News!" 21:13

24d ago21:13

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Send us 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!" 21:23

25d ago21:23

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Send us 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...!" 20:59

26d ago20:59

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Send us 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!" 21:29

27d ago21:29

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Send us 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!" 20:13

28d ago20:13

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Send us 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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Acts Series #33 -- Acts 12:1-5 -- "Jesus make us dangerous!" 21:08

1M ago21:08

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Send us 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!" 21:15

1M ago21:15

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Send us 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!" 20:00

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Send us 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" 22:23

1M ago22:23

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Send us 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?" 20:22

1M ago20:22

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Send us 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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Acts Series #28 -- Acts 10:1-23 -- "When's the last time you head the voice of God?" 21:25

1M ago21:25

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Send us 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!" 21:05

1M ago21:05

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Send us 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?" 21:21

1M ago21:21

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Send us 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..." 19:42

1M ago19:42

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Send us 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..." 21:39

1M ago21:39

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Send us 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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Acts Series #23 -- Acts 7:51-60 -- "If I give it to Him, will God waste my life?" 20:48

1M ago20:48

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Send us 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?" 21:33

2M ago21:33

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Send us 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." 20:21

2M ago20:21

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Send us 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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Acts Series #20 -- Acts 6:1-8 -- "An unstoppable force... AND an unspeakable mess?" 20:52

2M ago20:52

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Send us a Text Message. As we dig into Acts 6, here is the first thought that comes to my mind. Sometimes the church is both an unstoppable force and an unspeakable mess. The church in Acts was an amazing movement, full of power and courage, a joy and generosity that would just knock the spiritual socks off your feet. But it wasn't pure. It wasn't …

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Acts Series #19 -- Acts 5:40-42 -- "Thanks for the suffering?" 20:42

2M ago20:42

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Send us a Text Message. In Acts chapter 5, we find the early church experiencing intense persecution from the religious authorities. The apostles have been arrested, flogged, and commanded to stop speaking about Jesus. But instead of being silenced and scared, they rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer disgrace for the Name. Can you imag…

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Acts Series #18 -- Acts 5:12-42 -- "If it is of God..." 20:30

2M ago20:30

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Send us a Text Message. In Acts 5, a religious leader by the name of Gamliel, let loose with some wisdom on the Jewish religious leaders. He warned them to leave Peter and John alone because if this movement was not of God, it would die out. But if it was of God...they would find themselves fighting against God! The church in Acts was of God. It wa…

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Acts Series #17 -- Acts 5:1-16 -- "Time to get real with our sin..." 21:29

2M ago21:29

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Send us a Text Message. To turn the world upside down, we must get real with our sin. We have to take off our masks and get real with our sin. When we get real with our sin, grace happens and life is transformed. If you grew up in the church, and you are wearing a mask of spirituality that hides the sin in your heart, then you don't like the story …

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Acts Series #16 -- Acts 4:31-5:11 -- "Can we get real? What is real church?" 21:31

2M ago21:31

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Send us a Text Message. This episode is about stuff and our masks and getting real with each other and God. And a little bit about what sometimes happens when God gets real with us! One of the amazing things about people giving up their stuff is that stuff is one of the most secure and effective masks we wear. Right? Because if we have stuff on the…

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Acts Series #15 -- Acts 4:1-31 -- "It's ok to be ordinary, as long as I've been with Jesus!" 20:28

2M ago20:28

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Send us a Text Message. Some of you think that there is simply no way God can do anything of significance through you. You beg off every time He extends His hand of partnership, because you are just an ordinary nobody, a common anybody. You don't have the training for this or the experience for that. But the most important question is, "Are you wil…

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Acts Series #14 -- Acts 4:1-31 -- "Have you ever been shaken by God?" 20:10

2M ago20:10

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Send us a Text Message. When I read Acts 4, my first thought is this, "Before we turn the world upside-down, God may need to shake-up our church! In Acts 4, there's a prayer meeting that shook a building. We'll actually the Spirit of God did the shaking and I can’t help but ask, "God do you have it in you to do it one more time? Would You shake us …

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Acts Series #13 -- Acts 3:1-26 -- "I want to dance..." 21:58

2M ago21:58

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Send us a Text Message. I want to dance, but even more I want to see those around me dance. When the crippled man of Acts 3 began to dance in the temple, do you understand his crippled place become the glory bookmark in the chapter of the story entitled, "When the Spirit was poured out." Where are the bookmarks in your life? What potential bookmark…

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Acts Series #12 -- Acts 3:1-20 -- "When cripples dance...God is near!" 21:13

2M ago21:13

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Send us a Text Message. As we dive into Acts 3, we encounter one of favorite early church moments, a truly iconic miracle, the story of a lame beggar who became a dancing cripple. In fact, I’ve used that as my user name on more than occasion, because in the end, aren’t we all just dancing cripples? And I don't know if you've noticed it or not, but …

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Acts Series #11 -- Acts 1-2 (reprise) -- "The Breath of God is for you!" 21:46

2M ago21:46

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Send us a Text Message. "Wait for the Spirit," Jesus said. Then the Spirit came and the church was birthed. It was a church of humble power and courageous generosity, a church that lived against the grain of society but loved so deeply many in that culture were compelled to join them. It became a church that beat down the gates of hell to rescue ne…

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Acts Series #10 -- Acts 2:41-47 -- "Who cares?" 21:30

2M ago21:30

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Send us a Text Message. I want to live the uncommon life that comes from an uncommon encounter with the living God. And as much as I want to see signs and wonders like the healing of bodies; even more I hunger to see the healing and renovation of hearts. I hunger to see the healing of 10's of 1000's of hearts; the kind of wholesale renovation that …

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Acts Series #9 -- Acts 2:16-47 -- "The church (as Jesus envisioned) is the hope of the world...." 20:32

2M ago20:32

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Send us a Text Message. Acts 2:42-47 is the original destination for the church. Don't get me wrong, the Acts 2 church was just as full of imperfect people as we are today. The Acts 2 church would make mistakes just like we do today. But there was a freshness of Spirit and when that Spirit is let loose in the church, I believe the church is the hop…

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Acts Series #8 -- Acts 2:13-20 -- "Set our hearts on fire with your Spirit!" 20:48

2M ago20:48

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Send us a Text Message. What if it's true that God offers us His presence in the same the same way, he offered it at Pentecost? What if a group of people could be so filled with the Spirit that the world was changed...turned upside down? What if what happened in Acts 2, could happen today? Would we want it? That day in the upper room as the Spirit …

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Acts Series #7 -- Acts 2:1-13 -- "Jesus fill me with the breath of life!" 20:44

2M ago20:44

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Send us a Text Message. We can be filled with many different things...good and bad. What are you filled with today? It's an uncommon call to be filled with the Spirit of God. We're not exactly sure what it means, but we do know what it's like to be filled with something. If someone says that they are filled with grief, or filled with fear, despair,…

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Acts Series #6 -- Acts 1:1-26 -- "Imagine you missed it..." 20:37

2M ago20:37

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Send us a Text Message. Imagine you had a chance to be there in the upper room on Pentecost when the Spirit of God came...but you missed it. Imagine you missed it. You weren't there. You didn't join the group. Got distracted. Got scared. Other things were more important. You missed it. What did they have to do in order to receive the promise? Just …

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Acts Series #5 -- Acts 1:1-11 -- "Waiting for something more..." 20:31

2M ago20:31

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Send us a Text Message. When God asks us to wait, it's always a word of hope. When God says, WAIT, He's promising you that there will be a tomorrow. Wait is a word of hope. God's Wait is always tied to a promise, which simply means there is still more to come. Some of you have been waiting on promises you believe God gave you years ago, maybe decad…

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Acts Series #4 -- Acts 1:1-11 -- "Change the preposition and you change the world..." 19:42

2M ago19:42

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Send us a Text Message. "The Holy Spirit will come upon you," Jesus said. "And you will be baptized, immersed in the Holy Spirit. You will receive power and you will be my witnesses everywhere you go." I love my church. I see God at work here. But if there's anything that I know we need more of, it is the power of God. So if we want to turn the wor…

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