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In our world, you can have joy, or you can have suffering. What you can’t have is both. But this passage shows us that suffering can actually be one of the most powerful ways the joy of Christ comes alive in you.Eric Stiller, 1 Peter 1:3-9, 4:12-16
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Every human needs to be safe, seen, soothed, and secure. Instead, most of us feel the pressure to perform for the love we need. Jesus offers us the ultimate experience of being safe, seen, soothed, and secure, because Jesus offers us true peace.Eric Stiller, John 14:27-15:5
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We all long for a place to belong and a purpose in life. In Acts 20, we see God's people joined together in his mission. The church as a fellowship of God's people on mission is called to walk together, to walk through tears and trials, and to testify to the wonderful hope we have because of God's grace.…
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These days it can be suspect and even unpopular to talk to other people about Jesus. Read the book of Acts, chapter 18, and listen to this sermon to understand why “sharing the Gospel” is basic to being a Christian and a blessing to the whole world.Beverly Cardwell Debord
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What if your ultimate safety wasn’t in being protected from suffering, but in the goodness of a God who carries and transforms you through the suffering? That is definitely not a safe question. But it is the question this passage helps us answer.Eric Stiller, Acts 16:19-40
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Even though our culture is deeply influenced by Christianity, many people have a distorted or false picture of Christianity. It doesn’t make any sense to them. How do you make sense of Christianity to people for whom Christianity doesn’t make any sense? This passage helps us.Eric Stiller -Acts 14:8-22
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It’s often hard to recognize God’s work in our lives and in the world, because it doesn’t look like what we think it should look like. How can we take care not to miss what God is doing? In this passage, the apostle Paul shows us it’s all wrapped up in understanding the story we’re in.Eric Stiller - 13:16-30, 38-39
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Evangelism is a controversial and fearful topic for many people, and for many reasons. But the word has its roots in the idea of "good news," specifically the good news about Jesus. This passage helps us recover a healthier and happier understanding of this much misunderstood word.Eric Stiller - Acts 11:19-26, 13:1-3
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God's vision for the world has always been a multiethnic, multicultural vision. This story is one of the most powerful examples of that. In this passage, Peter recounts how he was led to a summit experience in the expansion of the gospel to all the world.Eric Stiller - Acts 11:1-18
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What if the gospel of Jesus Christ is the only thing that can really affirm and honor all the different cultures of the world because it’s the only thing that can truly fulfill our deepest spiritual longings? This passage shows us how.Eric Stiller: Acts 8:26-39
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One of the biggest threats to the church in America isn’t external: the loss of power. It’s internal: our inability to give power away. The book of Acts, and especially this passage, helps by showing us what it means to be the church.Eric Stiller - Acts 6:1-7
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Wouldn’t it be great if the Church could be totally transformed? If it could, how would that be possible. Historically, when the Church experiences radical transformation it is called Revival. Join us as we continue our series in the book of Acts and we look at the account of the very first revival.Eric Stiller - 4:23-25
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Many people say no one should ever claim to have the one, true religion. But what if the gospel is not only not the oppressive threat many people think it is? What if, instead, it’s actually the only thing that can really create a world of true justice and peace?Eric Stiller - 4:1-13
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The presence of evil and suffering in this world is still one of the most powerful arguments against faith in an all-loving, all-powerful creator. We want to make sense of it. Even more, we want to find freedom from it. Is that possible? And if so, how?Eric Stiller - Acts 3:1-21
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What if the only solution for the oppression, abuse, and injustices of the church isn’t the removal of the church, but the renewal of the church? One of the best ways to get a vision for the future of the church is to get a clearer picture of the very first church. This passage helps us do that.Eric Stiller - Acts 2:37-47
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In our culture, spirituality is hot. Church is not. But what if real spirituality is impossible to experience apart from Jesus and the church he called into being? This passage helps us by showing us what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit.Eric Stiller - Acts 2: 1-13
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We live in a world where many believe in God or spiritual reality, but what feels more real to us is all the pressures, anxieties, and discouragement of what we call “the real world.” How does that change? In this passage, Jesus leads us through the path of transformation.Eric Stiller: Luke 24:13-33
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To have a name is to be a person: a unique self with meaning and dignity. Evil is anything that distorts and destroys your personhood. It erases your name. But in this passage, we see how Jesus restores it back to us.Eric Stiller: Mark 5:1-20
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We live in a weeping world, because everything we love is always dying. But we also live in a seeking world, because we long for something that cannot be touched by death. How does the resurrection of Jesus address this struggle?Eric Stiller - John 20:11-18
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“Why have you forsaken me?” Jesus didn’t ask this question of a human being. He asked it of God. What does it mean? To look at the cross is to come face to face with something we don’t want to look at, but desperately need to.Eric Stiller - Mark 15:33-39
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We all need to know not only that we are worthy of love and belonging, we need to know why. The woman in this story, and Jesus’ question about her, give us a new way of seeing others by giving us a new way of seeing ourselves.Eric Stiller - Luke 7:36-50
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We modern people struggle greatly with the idea of God’s judgment. But in this parable, Jesus shows us that unless we allow God to be a God of judgment, then he cannot be the God of love we so desperately desire.Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:47-50
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Who doesn’t want to be someone’s precious “treasure”? Who doesn’t want to know that someone loves them more than life itself? No matter who you are, these two short parables are an invitation to both those gifts.Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:44-46
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The problem of the “other” is one of the biggest problems in our world. How should we respond? Is it possible to embrace the other? These two short parables offer us a powerful answer.Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:31-33
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We have a longing for something bigger than ourselves, and many people wonder if Jesus might play a part in it. In this parable, Jesus shows us what we’re longing for, and how it comes into our lives.Eric Stiller - Matthew 13:1-9,18-23
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