Everyday Truth with Kurt Skelly

An Angelic Response to Hateful Lies

Acts 6:11-15

Nobody wants to be lied about. But when those lies are vicious and murderous, what does one do? The natural response would be to fight and argue. Watch the biblical response!

Irresistible Influence

Acts 6:8-10

Stephen was selected to be a deacon, but he ended up being much more of a preacher! And the Word of God declares that his religious opponents were not able to resist his wisdom and spirit. Irresistible. Now that's thee kind of influence Christians should possess...

The truth can even reach religious people!

Acts 6:5-7

Sometimes religion itself is the biggest barrier to receiving the truth. Religion has a way of immunizing the truth and keeping it at bay. But the gospel is so powerful that is can penetrate through the thick walls of religious preconception!

Leaving the Word of God

Acts 6:3-6

Someone once wisely observed that good things can become the enemy of the best things when they keep us from prioritizing them first. The Apostles faced a situation that threatened the very lifeblood of the early church. How did they navigate through?

A Most Unreasonable Thing a Pastor Can Do

Acts 6:2

Among other things, difficulties reveal what is really important to us. They reveal our non-negotiables. And just what was the non-negotiable ministry to the early Apostles? How did the church problems they faced reveal the greater priority to which they were committed?

The Enemy Within

Acts 6:1

The First Century Church was a reliant body! It seemed that the more intense the persecution became, the more the church grew. Nothing seemed to be able to slow her down until she faced the threat of implosion. Learn how factionalism fueled by murmuring is so dangerous.

 

If God's in it, you can't beat it!

Acts 5:34-42

Gamaliel was the wise and and learned instructor of Paul. I'm not sure that he ever embraced faith in Jesus Christ, but he did have an open mind to the possibility that Jesus actually was the Messiah.

Scripture cuts deeply.

Acts 5:17-33

 

One of the most amazing things about the Bible is its ability to cut into the thoughts and motives of a human being. Unlike any other book, it can reveal to us things about our faulty thinking and carnal justifications that other resources simply cannot penetrate.

 

 

Don't trifle with God!

Acts 5:11-16

 

The Lord sent an early message to the church that He expects holiness and reverence from her. Holy Spirit power  and church-age grace are not excuses to have a cavalier attitude about God.

Lying to God

Acts 5:1-11

 

Why would anyone try to lie to God Himself? Yet that's exactly what we all do when we knowingly sin against thee voice of God's Spirit in our lives. Today we explore how seriously God views such duplicity.