by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: GOSPEL OUTREACH DEPENDS ON GOD’S SOVEREIGN INITIATIVE IN OPENING DOORS AND OPENING HEARTS INTRODUCTION: Do you ever get discouraged in your efforts at reaching out to others with the gospel message? Do you wonder why your ministry plans just don’t seem to...
by admin | Apr 10, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE BOLD PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD AND THE PERSON OF JESUS CHRIST EXCITES NEW CONVERTS AND ANGERS JEALOUS TRADITIONALISTS INTRODUCTION: Same Big Idea and Outline from last week fits this passage as well; just the sequence of events are repeated in a new...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SPIRIT-LED EVANGELISTIC DIVINE APPOINTMENTS CAPITALIZE ON PREPARED HEARTS INTRODUCTION: Our lives are heavily organized around our appointments. In the olden days of pen and pencil we used the Daily Planners; now we track our appointments on our blackberries...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: RELIGIOUS CHARLATANS (LIKE SIMON THE SORCERER) VALUE FAME AND FORTUNE BUT HAVE NO ACCESS TO THE GENUINE POWER OF GODINTRODUCTION:You can buy a lot of things in life. The rich and the powerful realize this. They are used to getting preferential treatment....
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: PERSECUTION (WITH ITS MOB MENTALITY) SHARPENS OUR VISION OF THE GLORY OF GOD AND FLAMES THE FANATICISM OF UNGODLY EXTREMISTSINTRODUCTION:What kind of a world was it back in the early church when a godly man like Stephen could be stoned to death? What type of...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: 3 CHARGES DIRECTED AGAINST RELIGIOUS PHONIES FOR RESISTING THE HOLY SPIRITINTRODUCTION:Stephen had been charged with a number of very serious offenses – against God, against Moses, against the temple, against the law, against the whole Jewish system of...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE MAJESTIC CREATOR OF ALL CANNOT BE CONFINED TO ANY PHYSICAL DWELLING PLACE MADE BY MAN OR DEPENDENT ON ANYTHING HIS CREATION HAS TO OFFERINTRODUCTION:This is the final OT history lesson from Israel’s past —summing up a long period of time from the days of...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: CLEAR CONTRAST: WILL YOU OWN OR DISOWN GOD’S APPOINTED REDEEMERINTRODUCTION:We say that we own Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior … but what evidence is there to support our claim? The Sanhedrin claimed to be the pillars of spiritual leadership for the...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE GOD OF COVENANT LOYALTY PREPARES HIS CHOSEN DELIVERER TO DEMONSTRATE REDEMPTIVE POWER IN WORDS AND DEEDS DESPITE INITIAL REJECTIONINTRODUCTION:The Providence of God is an amazing thing for us to study. God’s Providence involves His loving care over His...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE GOD OF FAITHFUL DELIVERANCE GRANTS FAVOR AND WISDOM TO THOSE LIKE JOSEPH WHO ENDURE UNJUST SUFFERING FOR GOD’S ULTIMATE GLORYINTRODUCTION:On this week after Christmas – the day after we celebrate the birth of our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ – what is...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE GOD OF GLORY CONTINUES TO INITIATE NEW SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIPS BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH BUT NOT LIMITED TO HIS DEALINGS WITH ABRAHAMWhat are the chances you will miss Christmas this year? Saturday will come and go and you will...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP REQUIRES A SPIRIT-FILLED SERVANT WHO IS FULL OF GRACE, FAITH, POWER AND WISDOM IN REFLECTING THE GLORY OF GOD(:1-7) INTRODUCTION:There is a lot of interest today in the activity of Profiling the criminal mind. It is interesting that in...
by admin | Apr 9, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: POWERFUL OPPOSITION TRIES IN VAIN TO SILENCE THE PROCLAMATION OF JESUS CHRISTINTRODUCTION:The intensity of the persecution against the new gospel message picks up in this section. The Sadducees just can’t tolerate the emphasis on the resurrection of Jesus...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE INTEGRITY OF CHURCH FELLOWSHIP REQUIRES SEVERE JUDGMENT OF SPIRITUAL HYPOCRISYINTRODUCTION:Halloween has been over for a number of weeks … but many people in the church of Jesus Christ are still wearing a variety of masks. The word hypocrisy comes from...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: PERSECUTION UNITES THE CHURCH TO PRAY TO THE SOVEREIGN GOD FOR SPIRIT-FILLED MISSIONARY POWERINTRODUCTION:Like my family, you have probably attended many missionary conferences. You have heard the reports of those who served on the foreign field in...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: SUPERNATURAL POWER OF JESUS CHRIST CANNOT BE EFFECTIVELY OPPOSED – CHRISTIAN TESTIMONY CANNOT BE SILENCEDINTRODUCTION:Persecution has never been effective in stopping the growth of Christianity and the spread of the gospel. In fact the opposite has proven...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE EXCLUSIVITY OF THE GOSPEL — SALVATION ONLY COMES BY FAITH IN THE POWER OF THE RESURRECTED JESUSINTRODUCTION:Some people are name droppers … “I know so-and-so.” Or maybe: “I know someone who knows so-and-so.” There is only one name that counts =...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: RECEIVING THE PROMISED BLESSING OF CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM HINGES ON REPENTANCEINTRODUCTION:This second sermon of Peter in Acts 3 deals with a much bigger issue than the offer of personal salvation. That is certainly part of the focus — and living where...
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: FAITH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST MAGNIFIES THE GLORY OF CHRIST (BY UNLEASHING DIVINE POWER THAT BRINGS GREAT BLESSING)INTRODUCTION:The greatest mistake God’s servants can make is to receive the glory and praise from men that is only due to Jesus Christ....
by admin | Apr 8, 2020 | Bible-NT
BIG IDEA: THE AWESOME POWER OF JESUS CHRIST HEALS BROKEN PEOPLE IN SPECTACULAR FASHIONINTRODUCTION:How crippled were you before you came to know the power of Jesus Christ in your life? What have you experienced of the strength of the shackles of sin; the destruction...
