Sermons on Acts

Sermons on Acts

Daring The Journey

Sunday September 26 2021Acts: The Adventure BeginsDaring The JourneyActs 28: 1-6, 11-16, 30-31 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Scripture 1 After we had reached safety, we then learned that the island was called Malta. 2 The natives showed us unusual kindness. Since it had begun to rain and was cold, they kindled a fire and welcomed all of us around it. 3 Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire, when a viper, driven out…

Creating An Uproar

Sunday September 19 2021ACTS: The Adventure BeginsCreating An UproarActs 19: 11-20Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Scripture 11 God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, 12 so that when the handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were brought to the sick, their diseases left them, and the evil spirits came out of them. 13 Then some itinerant Jewish exorcists tried to use the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus…

Deliverance For All

sunday September 12 2021ACTS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINSDeliverance For AllActs 16:25-34 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch SCRIPTURE 25 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. 26 Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. 27 When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword…

The Power of Prayer

Sunday August 29 2021ACTs: the adventure beginsthe power of prayerActs 12:6-11 NRSVrEV Brian hARDESTY-cROUCH CALL TO WORSHIP We come to worship to offer our praise and seek God’s path.We come carrying our doubt and faith, our fear and hope.We come to hear God’s word in song and in silence, in preaching and in prayer.We come to worship, trusting that the Spirit will transform us and transform the world, until the Kingdom of God is come on earth.

Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Sunday august 29 2021Acts: The Adventure BeginsCan’t Stop, Won’t StopACTS 8:26-35 NRSV Rev Jessica Wright, preaching scripture 26 Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) 27 So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge of her entire treasury. He had…

An Impressive Healing

Sunday August 22 2021ACTS: The Adventure BeginsAn Impressive HealingACts 3:1-10 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Scripture 1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon. 2 And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple. 3 When he saw…

Embodying Enthusiasm

Sunday August 15 2021ACTS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINSEmboDYing EnthusiasmACTS 2:42-47 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Scripture 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 Awe came upon everyone, because many wonders and signs were being done by the apostles. 44 All who believed were together and had all things in common; 45 they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need. 46 Day…

The Adventure Begins

August 8 2021ACTS: THe ADVENTURE BEGINSThe Adventure BeginsACTS 2: 32-42 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch scripture 32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses. 33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you both see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, ‘The Lord said to my…

Get Ready & Wait

August 1 2021ACTS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINSGet Ready and WaitACTS 1: 6-14 NRSVRev Mary Beth Hardesty-CroucH scripture 6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, is this the time when you will restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He replied, “It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be…

Unlikely Heroes: Philip and the Ethiopian

July 12 2020 Gathering Notturno (Rimsky-Korsakov)Jessica Mingee WelcomeRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Song of Praise All My Fountains (CCLI 5925670)Resonate Transition to Prayer Cheryl Esbrook Hymn of Prayer Surely The Presence Of The Lord (CCLI 7909)UMH 328 –2xRev Rusty King Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s PrayerRev Jessica Wright Children’s Time April Kwan and Trish MoreheadWill and Hannah Horton Gratitude Moment Rev Jessica Wright Song of Gratitude Every Move I Make (CCLI 1595726)Rev Rusty King Introduction to Message: Our Contemporary Hero Rev…

Unlikely Heroes: Ananias

June 28 2020 Gathering Praise Him! Praise Him! (Hayes/Allen)*MJ Wright WelcomeRev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Song of Praise Glorious Day (CCLI 7081388)Resonate Transition to PrayerDawn & Scott Horton Song of Prayer Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) (CCLI 4768151)Resonate Pastoral Prayer & The Lord’s PrayerRev Maxie Moore Children’s TimeApril Kwan & Trish Morehead Gratitude Moment Rev Mary Beth Hardesty-Crouch Song of GratitudeEternal Life (St Francis/Dungan)**Rev Rusty King and MJ Wright Scripture Acts 9:10-19 NRSVDaisy Miller 10 Now there was a disciple…