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Series: The Basics of the Christian Life
Tim Melton
Acts 16:25-26
At times in life we need to stop or at least pause. Maybe life has become too hurried, busy or stressful. Maybe we have over-committed or made things more complicated than they have to be. Maybe it is the virus, the snowstorm, or balancing work and home. It just becomes too much. This can also apply to our spiritual lives. Perhaps we have gotten distracted, apathetic, too rigid, or overzealous. Perhaps we trying to be super-spiritual and at some point our faith stopped being a blessing and turned into a burden.
We need to get back to the basics. That is what we are going to do for the next four Sundays. Today we are starting a new sermon series focusing on the ''Basics of the Christian Life.'' In the weeks ahead we will focus on these four themes, ''Believe, Belong, Abide, and Bear Fruit.''
Today we will begin by focusing on the role of belief in our Christians lives.
In Acts 16 the Apostle Paul and his companion Silas are unjustly beaten and thrown into a Philippi prison. The story continues in verse 25, ''About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.'' The story then tells how the jailer saw the damage, and thinking that the prisoners had escaped, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But the apostle Paul cried out ''Do not harm yourself, for we are all here. And the jailer called for lights and rushed in and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, ''Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'' Paul responded with these words, ''Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.'' Belief is the doorway to salvation.
In John 6:47 Jesus says, ''Truly, truly, I say to you, w ...
Series: The Basics of the Christian Life
Tim Melton
Acts 16:25-26
At times in life we need to stop or at least pause. Maybe life has become too hurried, busy or stressful. Maybe we have over-committed or made things more complicated than they have to be. Maybe it is the virus, the snowstorm, or balancing work and home. It just becomes too much. This can also apply to our spiritual lives. Perhaps we have gotten distracted, apathetic, too rigid, or overzealous. Perhaps we trying to be super-spiritual and at some point our faith stopped being a blessing and turned into a burden.
We need to get back to the basics. That is what we are going to do for the next four Sundays. Today we are starting a new sermon series focusing on the ''Basics of the Christian Life.'' In the weeks ahead we will focus on these four themes, ''Believe, Belong, Abide, and Bear Fruit.''
Today we will begin by focusing on the role of belief in our Christians lives.
In Acts 16 the Apostle Paul and his companion Silas are unjustly beaten and thrown into a Philippi prison. The story continues in verse 25, ''About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.'' The story then tells how the jailer saw the damage, and thinking that the prisoners had escaped, drew his sword and was about to kill himself. But the apostle Paul cried out ''Do not harm yourself, for we are all here. And the jailer called for lights and rushed in and trembling with fear he fell down before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them out and said, ''Sirs, what must I do to be saved?'' Paul responded with these words, ''Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved.'' Belief is the doorway to salvation.
In John 6:47 Jesus says, ''Truly, truly, I say to you, w ...
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