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Paul and Barnabas continue their first missionary journey to Pisidian Antioch, where his message brings the whole city; he starts back in Egypt, leading up to Christ - but why? We take a deeper look into this passage and investigate "Let my people go..."

Saul (from this point forward known as Paul) and Barnabas come up against a magician named Bar-Jesus (Elymas), who, in a losing encounter against God, goes blind - but someone else sees the Light.

In this passage, we take an interesting look into Herod Antipas (not Herod Agrippa from chapter 12), and some "close encounters" he had in his life that, despite his proximity, didn't make him a Christian.

We continue with the rest of Acts chapter 12, looking at the death of Herod, the imprisonment - and miraculous freeing - of Peter, and something we'll call "The Battle of Ektenes" you may not have known was going on during all this.

We look at Acts 12:1-5, setting the stage for what comes next in the rest of chapter 12. James, the brother of John, is the first Apostle martyred. We learn about the 3 James's in the New Testament and which one this is, recap some of his life that led to this moment, and remember that despite his death, the Church cannot - and will not - fail.

We close out Acts chapter 11 with an in-depth look at the final four verses (27-30), and 4 points that we can take away from them.

Looking deeper into Acts 11:19-26, these few short verses show us a name which - though at first derogatory - stuck, a name which we who believe are still called: "Christians." We are image-bearers of the name of Christ; are we living in such a way to earn the title?

Closing out the "Peter & Cornelius" section of Acts, we break the final "act" of chapter 11:1-18 into 5 sections: the Confrontation, the Explanation, the Intersection, the Revelation, and the Correction; concluding on and important take-away for all of us.

In part 2 of 3 in this section within the book of Acts, we continue studying the vision that Peter had and why unclean vs clean was such a big deal. More than that, what this vision meant for Peter - and for us - is life-changing.

Peter, who is visiting different towns and healing in the name of Jesus, is asked to come to a man's house named Cornelius. Both men have visions from the Lord, but before we go deeper into the story, there are 2 things we'll stop and highlight from Acts 10:1-9.

We pick up right where we left off, still fresh on the conversion of Saul and what happened right after. Immediately is always a key word to watch out for, so we'll notice a few of those and then cover some amazing things God did through Peter involving Aeneas and Tabitha.

We continue in our Acts series now in chapter 9 and the conversion of Saul (he's still not "Paul" yet), and what a true conversion is - listen to find out about chainsaws and flamethrowers and how an 8-year-old can see what the world can't.

One of our Elders, Brad Decatur, continues in our series in the book of Acts (chapter 8), looking at how the church spread through people like Philip, and how lives continued to be changed by the Gospel.

We continue in Acts, covering chapters 6 to 8, the message Stephen gave and his eventual stoning. We'll hear his speech straight from the scripture and hopefully walk away with some important things to help us grow in our faith.

As we journey through the book of Acts chapter by chapter & even verse by verse, our next stop is chapter 6 where the apostles had to make a choice on where the priority of ministry is, and it's one that we can learn greatly from today in the wake (and the woke-ness) of "social justice."

Continuing in our Acts Series, we move further into chapter 5 when the apostles were thrown into prison for preaching Jesus, how they got out, and what the result was. There are 3 important things we can learn from this passage.

We take a look at Acts 5:1-16, and how people desired for just Peter's shadow to fall on those who were brought to him, and how everyone was healed. This past week in our nation, the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v Wade, and so we'll discuss that head-on, in light of the shadow that needs to fall on our land again.

We continue in our chapter-by-chapter series in Acts into chapters 4 and 5 with the story of Ananias and Sapphira, and how on this Father's Day we can learn the difference between giving God & others some versus all and how lying about what we DO do (or do NOT do) is a big deal.

In week 2 of our series in Acts, we look at the continuous story in chapters 3 and 4 to learn some valuable lessons about a man who was healed by Jesus through Peter and John.

We kick off our new series in Acts on Pentecost Sunday and looking at the birth of the church in chapters 1-2. One Lord, one Spirit, one God who is over all, through all and in all.