Paul Jon Tried to celebrate Shannon’s birthday yesterday by going to the beach, but it rained, so we sat in a group and sang songs It’s hard dealing with all the emotions involved in remembering this day As we move through tonight, contemplate what our nation has walked through and what we’ve gone through as Christians And I think about the teachings of Jesus Christ My thinking changed on this day Do not become the evil that is done to you, turn the other cheek Lord’s Prayer Paul Sterling Psalm 4 Katie Keating Psalm 27 Anna Warde Isaiah 61 Stephen Keating I was thinking about tragedies Hurricanes on the East Coast, fires in Texas If we’re not careful, we try and put meaning on it and talking for God instead of listening Look at Job, the three men looking for meaning and they’re wrong Ecclesiastics God doesn’t point fingers, this … Continue reading →

Paul (How Great Is Your Love) Jon Acts 4:23-35 Book of the development of the first church of Christ Chapters 3-5 talk of the first persecution levelled against the church The response was astonishing and positive They die unlike any other Uneducated and socially marginalized took over Thr Roman Empire Something happened to them to make them respond the way they did In Acts 17, these men are causing this upheaval in the greatest empire we’ve ever known Get to a point where empire isn’t shaking you, but you’re shaking empire As we walk through this text we’re going to talk about this Peter and John went back Lord look upon their threats The civil authorities over the church could take possession of vital things If that threat happened to us, how would we respond In v. 29 they say give us boldness The fact that that’s what they asked … Continue reading →