On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit empowers the church to carry out the mission Jesus gave the Apostles: being his witnesses everywhere. In this sermon, we look at three ways the Spirit empowers the church for its mission.

In Acts 1 we read about Jesus' ascension into heaven after his resurrection. What we might miss is how the story is full of allusions to Old Testament prophetic texts that are meant to shape our understanding of the authority that Jesus is giving to his disciples.

Faith isn't an idea in our head, but instead, trust in what God has done. If we embrace this truth then it will have an affect on our life. The results will include prayer, mission, witness, transformation and more faith. Faith also awakens us to God's love, which, when we comprehend us, will lead us…

Phillip has no idea that his obedience to a seemingly absurd command by God will lead him to share the good news with an outsider that God has welcomed in and that this outsider--a Eunuch from Ethiopia--would become the apostle to take the message to a whole new continent.

When the Disciples heal a man who has never walked, they call attention to who Jesus is, and give him credit for the transformation in the person's life. The Church will demonstrate Jesus is with us, when we become a healing presence in our community.

Are the accounts of Jesus' resurrection reliable? If so, how should Christians Respond? In this sermon we'll look at two disciplines that come from Jesus' post-resurrection command: Forgiveness & reconciliation and Discipling.

The world distorted by sin will be made new when God renews creation. The resurrection of Jesus on Easter represents the power of new creation breaking into the present age. So we live in the old age, but now the power of the new creation is breaking in and calling us to live in it's…