Sermons on Acts

REPORT OF THE PRESBYTERY – Don Mayberry TESTIMONIES: Adam Anderson The following is a response to the question, “How did you decide to become a follower of Jesus Christ?” This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, […]

Acts 2:42 – They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 – Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 – All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 – They sold property […]

Introduction This morning, this past week, and for all of your lives, you have been impacted by a man named Edouard Benedictus.  How?  Edouard was a French chemist who made a wonderful accidental discovery.  One day in 1903, he was up on a ladder trying to grab a beaker, when it fell and broke on […]

In his new book, Cast of Characters Lost and Found, Max Lucado writes: Tourists travel to Molokai—a ruby on the pearl necklace of the Hawaiian Islands—for its quiet charm, gently breezes, and soft surf. But Father Damien came for a different reason. He came to help people die. He came to Molokai because leprosy came […]

Have you ever admired something about another church or denomination? I confess that I have! For example: When I visited Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago a few years ago and saw the lake on their campus where they do their baptisms I thought, “I wish Redland had a lake like that on Muncaster Mill […]

Unfortunately most of us are familiar with MURPHY’S LAWS—those humorous lists of things that, according to some guy named Murphy, CAN and DO go wrong in life. Here’s some examples: The other check-out line at COSTCO always moves faster than the one you are in. This is true even when your line is the shortest. […]

Acts 2:42 – They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. 43 – Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. 44 – All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 – Selling […]

In the winter of 1979 the church I grew up in-The First Southern Baptist Church of Dover, Delaware-a church my father pastored for 27 years-this church that I tend to refer to as my “home church” – well, it went through a nasty split. And-it happened about the same time Sue and I decided to […]

Acts 2, Acts 4 describes the early church….a group of Christians who were known for the Christlike way in which they treated one another. If the churches of today are to enjoy “church” in the fullest sense of the word they must be places where “one-anothering” happens. The various qualities of one-anothering that combine to […]