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How can you stop me from preaching???
Acts 4:17-21 New International Version (NIV) 17 But to stop this thing from spreading any further among the people, we must warn them to speak no longer to anyone in this name.” You do not force a Christian to preach, share, disciple, tithe, give. A person who experiences God’s unconditional love and radical grace is compelled to…
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Jesus Centered
Acts 4:7-13 New International Version (NIV) 7 They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of the people! 9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown…
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Response to Grace
Acts 3:17-23 17 “Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders. 18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer. 19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord, 20 and that he may send…
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Point People to God’s Power and not Yours
Acts 3:11-16 11 While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Colonnade. 12 When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own…
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I Don’t Need your Money
Acts 3:1-6 3 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts.3 When he saw Peter and John about to…