March 26, 2023
Blessed Forgiveness—Psalm 32
Rev. Jason Piland
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
(Psalm 32:1 ESV)
March 19, 2023
Repentance and Faith—Acts 20:17–21
Rev. Scott Wright
…how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
(Acts 20:20–21 ESV)
March 12, 2023
Paul’s Farewell—Acts 20:13–38
Rev. Scott Wright
And now, behold, I know that none of you among whom I have gone about proclaiming the kingdom will see my face again. Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God. Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. (Acts 20:25–28 ESV)
March 5, 2023
Raising Eutychus—Acts 20:7–12
Rev. Scott Wright
And a young man named Eutychus, sitting at the window, sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer. And being overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third story and was taken up dead. But Paul went down and bent over him, and taking him in his arms, said, “Do not be alarmed, for his life is in him.”
(Acts 20:9–10 ESV)
February 26, 2023
A Team Effort—Acts 20:1–6
Rev. Scott Wright
When he had gone through those regions and had given them much encouragement, he came to Greece. There he spent three months, and when a plot was made against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.
(Acts 20:2–3 ESV)
February 19, 2023
The Craftsmen—Acts 19:21–41
Rev. Scott Wright
About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, brought no little business to the craftsmen.
(Acts 19:23–24 ESV)
February 12, 2023
Praying, Trusting, Rejoicing—Psalm 31
Rev. Jason Piland
February 5, 2023
The Word Triumphant—Acts 19:18–20
Rev. Scott Wright
And a number of those who had practiced magic arts brought their books together and burned them in the sight of all. And they counted the value of them and found it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. So the word of the Lord continued to increase and prevail mightily.
(Acts 19:19–20 ESV)
January 29, 2023
The Sons of Sceva—Acts 19:13–17
Rev. Scott Wright
Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this.
(Acts 19:13–14 ESV)
January 22, 2023
In The School of Tyrannus—Acts 19:8–12
Rev. Scott Wright
And he entered the synagogue and for three months spoke boldly, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God. But when some became stubborn and continued in unbelief, speaking evil of the Way before the congregation, he withdrew from them and took the disciples with him, reasoning daily in the hall of Tyrannus.
(Acts 19:8–9 ESV)