Acts: Holy Boldness in a Hostile Environment

As our culture gets more resistant and hostile to the gospel, we are tempted to retreat in silence. We can lose a holy boldness and be intimidated into going under the radar with our faith. It's tempting. How to get that boldness back and keep it? One way is to see it in others. We will be examining in Acts the courageous efforts of Paul (stoned, left for dead, and then walking back into the city... seriously!!!) and Barnabas to bring the gospel to their generation. They will inspire us to boldness and to a stick-to-it-ness that won't easily be intimidated. These things are increasingly the need of the hour.

Acts 14

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Acts: Dying Grace

In Acts we will be studying the amazing account of Stephen... his life, his ministry, death, and his triumph. There is so much to learn from this man about living for Christ in a hostile environment, about being brave, about being loving to ones enemies, about dying grace.

Acts 7

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Acts: Cowards No More

How brave are you? How bold are you when it comes to sharing your faith? How willing are you to suffer for the gospel if it comes to that? These are hard and searching questions. We often feel like cowards. In Acts, we will watch normal ordinary men, who clearly proved that in the past they struggled with being cowards and thinking only about their own skin or reputations, act with amazing boldness. We will be shocked at their response to persecution. But more importantly, we will explore why and how they were able to do these things... and how we can!!

Acts 5

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Acts: Be Bold

We live in an increasingly hostile environment to the Gospel, and yet, it is a time in which people need desperately to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. How do we not be intimidated but rather be bold in sharing our faith? Well, we have a thrilling account of the early church and how they handled, by God's grace and power, a similar situation. In Acts we will look at how they found grace and power!

Acts 4

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

Life of Daniel: Angel Battle

Daniel's final vision is of angels doing battle; then the book closes. What is going on in this book and around us today that makes this man's message so important to us? We will conclude our study of Daniel assessing how his life and ours have so many similarities... living for God in a hostile climate.

Daniel 12

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA

1 Peter: The Christian's Self-identity or Who Has the Right to Define Who You Are?

Who do you allow to define you? The world is always attempting to do this to the Christian. God alone has the right to define who we are and in this passage Peter says some amazing things about who Christians actually are. Listen to them...believe them... because only God has the right to define you!

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1 Peter 2:4-10,1:2-3,1:23,1:14-16,4:3-5,1:18-19
Matthew 21:33-46
Exodus 19:5-6
Isaiah 43:21

Sermon discussion questions for parents to use with their children:

• Who do you let define you?
• What happens to us when we let the world do it?
• Who alone has the right to define you?
• What has He said Christians are?
• Why is this important for us to grasp and how will it change our lives?

Pastor Todd Jaussen
Crossroads Christian Fellowship Church
Greenville, PA