Them and Us

August 7, 2022 "Them and Us"- Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 11:1-18 Now the apostles and the brothers and sisters who were in Judea heard that the gentiles had also accepted the word of God.  So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers criticized him,  saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?”  Then Peter began to explain it ...
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Now I See

July 31, 2022 "Now I See" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 9:1-20 Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest  and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.  Now as he w...
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The Supreme Weapon

July 17, 2022 "The Supreme Weapon" - Pastor Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 6:8-12, 7:54-8:1 Stephen, full of grace and power, did great wonders and signs among the people.  Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and others of those from Cilicia and Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.&nbsp...
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Anchor of Our Hope

July 3, 2022 "Anchor of Our Hope" - Dave Gombert ScriptureLuke 10:1-11 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go.  He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his ...
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Back to Work

June 26, 2022 "Back to Work" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 5:17-21,25-29 Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,  arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.  But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, brought them out, ...
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What Owns Us

June 19, 2022 "What Owns Us" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 4:32-35, 5:1-11  Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.  With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great g...
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What I Have

June 12, 2022 "What I Have" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 3:1-10 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.  And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the ...
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Outside the Walls

June 5, 2022 "Outside the Walls" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 2:1-4, 14-21 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue reste...
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Looking Up

May 29, 2022 "Looking Up" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureActs 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.  After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convi...
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Stand Up

May 22, 2022 "Stand Up" - Rev. Bri Desotell ScriptureJohn 5:1-9 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes.  In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people. One man was there who had been ill for t...
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