An unusually comprehensive series on the history of the early Christian church as recorded by Luke. Reading through this series is like being taken vividly back to the First Century, but in such a way that the reader gains a sense of continuity with events in the church taking place today. "this is the book of action, revealing how God is at work through Christians. There is intense conflict throughout the book but a conflict met by a ringing confidence that is wonderful to see. It is a record of power exercised in the midst of persecution; an account of life and health pouring from a living Christ into a sick society through the channel of obscure men and women, very much like you and me. We could never understand the New Testament if we did not have the book of Acts, for it fills the gap that would exist between the gospels and the book of Romans, which follows. At the end of the gospels we find a handful of Jews gathered in Jerusalem talking about a kingdom to come to Israel. In the book of Romans we find an apostle who is not even mentioned in the gospels and who was not one of the twelve, writing to a band of Christians in the capital city of Rome, talking about going to the ends of the earth. The book of Acts tells us how this happened and why this change occurred."
Enter multiple search parameters to narrow the list to sermons matching all of them. For example, choose
Book: Psalms
Speaker: Stedman, Ray
to see sermons by Ray Stedman that also have a specific reference in the Psalms.
Click on the Clear Filters button to see the whole list again. If you are getting no results, make sure that you don’t have a filter parameter that you did not intend.
Click on a column title to sort the list by that column. Click a second time to reverse the sort order. By default the list is ordered from newest to oldest (reverse chronological).
If a selection list (drop down menu of Book/Chapter/Speaker/Sermon Series) extends below the sermon list and overlaps these tips it will not function correctly: Clear Filters to reset the list so you can make your selection. This is a bug in the software that we hope can be fixed in the future.
The Book filter will not find every sermon that touches on a particular book
it cannot find sermons where the book name does not appear in the Scripture References column, e.g. filtering on Luke does not find a sermon with reference Matthew – Revelation.
Scripture References in the catalog are not complete for all sermons for various reasons
If you are exploring the library by Date, note that the date selector has unfortunate limitations:
You must select both specific from and to dates for the filter to work. Just typing in a year in one field, for example, will not narrow the list to that year.
In the calendar browser that pops up, you can click on the month/year at the top to move by larger periods of time. For example, if January, 2019 is displayed and you click on it you can choose months in 2019, click again and you can navigate through years.
Typed in dates must be in the format shown in the sermon list: 20 Jan 2019. Other formats such as 1/20/19 do not work.
Typed in dates will sometimes be misinterpreted and replaced: try editing the replacement text into your desired date rather than clearing the field and starting over.
The Search field only searches the catalog list of sermons displayed on this page. Unfortunately we do not have the capability to search the text of sermons at this time.