Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Galatians 2. In our earlier readings from Acts, we noted the tensions that began when God saved Gentiles and gave them the same spiritual status as the Jewish believers in Jesus had. Here in the book of Galatians, Paul urged the churches he started […]
Galatians 1
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Galatians 1. As our society becomes more secular, it is a relief when we find others who profess to know Jesus Christ. However, many people and groups have adopted the name of Jesus without embracing everything that the Bible teaches about Christ. Since they […]
Acts 15
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 15. Paul and Barnabas had been chosen by the Holy Spirit back in Acts 13 to take the gospel to the Gentles. Here in Acts 15, however, they had a disagreement that they could not solve. That disagreement was detailed in verses 36-41: […]
Acts 14
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 14. Paul and Barnabas are still on that first missionary journey which concluded here at the end of Acts 14, specifically verses 26-28. God’s miraculous power was at work through these chosen men (vv. 8-10). So, it was inevitable that someone would ascribe deity […]
Acts 13
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 13. When Paul described the core of the gospel, he wrote: “For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised […]
Acts 12
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 12. Persecution by the religious leadership in Jerusalem started back in Acts 7 with the stoning of Stephen. It continued in Acts 8 through Saul, but God saved him in Acts 9. Here in Acts 12 we were told that Herod, a Jewish […]
Acts 11
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 11. In the devotional about Acts 10, I suggested that there would be tensions in the early church as God transitioned her from a group of Jewish believers in Jesus into a trans-national, worldwide group with no ethnic distinctions. Here in Acts 11 […]
Acts 10
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 10. In Acts 8, we read about how God used Saul’s persecution to move the church and the gospel out of Jerusalem and into Judea and Samaria, just as Jesus said would happen in Acts 1:8. Then, in Acts 9, we read how […]
Acts 9
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 9. We met Saul yesterday and saw how he persecuted the church and, in God’s providence, was used to get the gospel out of Jerusalem and into the rest of Judea and also into Samaria, just as the Lord had commanded in Acts […]
Acts 8
Rumble | YouTube | SermonAudio | New Arbor Bible Church Read Acts 8. Back in Acts 1:8, Jesus said that the disciples would be his witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the rest of the earth. Here chapter 8 of Acts, persecution (vv. 1, 4-5) moved the gospel from Jerusalem to Samaria. Phillip, one […]