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TURN MY LIFE AROUND (3 OF 4)

by Scott Maze

Scripture: Acts 17:16-34
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Turn My Life Around (3 of 4)
Series: Turn My Life Around: Your Story Reimagined
Scott Maze
Acts 17:16-34


There's a spiritual emptiness to emptiness to much of lives in modern America. Collectively, millions of people will put their heads on pillows tonight and say, ''There's got to be more to life than this.'' Yes, you're breathing but you're not living.

Series Introduction

This is series of messages devoted to highlighting life change. There is profound life change as a result of deeply believing the gospel. The gospel is the essential message of Jesus died and was raised for sinners. The gospel revolutionizes your life. The gospel seeps into your life and it changes you from the inside. God makes a tree burst forth in springtime color with all its budding beauty. And God takes a callous, hard heart like yours and mine and transforms it until it becomes like a live oak tree to His praise. In a word, it is transformation. The gospel revolutionizes your life.

Sermon Introduction

This is a relatively famous passage in the book of Acts. We've skipped ahead with Paul, who is now on his second missionary journey. It has received an enormous amount of attention from scholars. And it deservers your attention.

Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 17 So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18 Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, ''What does this babbler wish to say?'' Others said, ''He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities''-because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19 And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, ''May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20 For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.'' 21 Now al ...

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