Take Courage! Despite Animosity, The Church Advances!

Pastor Joyce Swingle continues our series on The Church Advances, teaching that from Acts 21:27 - Acts 23:11 how the Lord thwarts animosity to ensure the gospel is preached across the world.  Drama Evangelist Rich Swingle shares a section from his one-man play The Acts.  Pictured:  a view of at "Let Us Worship" protest on the National Mall in October 2020.  

Elizabeth J. opens with prayer.

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Teach Me!

Pastor Linda Warren shares how The Church Advances Through Teaching in today's message from Acts 18: 24 - 19:10.  Pastor Jim Warren opens the service with a challenge to "Give Praise for a person who corrected our theology or misunderstanding about a Biblical concept." Drama Evangelist Rich Swingle and Rebekah W.  share their testimonies related to this challenge.  Liz J. prays for the message and for the offering at the end of the service.

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Rich shared how his Bible study leader in the NY Media Initiative told how his prayer as a four-year-old to be weightless was answered...

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Paul's Turn the World Upside Down Equation

Pastor Jim Warren preaches on Acts 18:1-11. Pastor Rachel Taylor opens in prayer. Drama Evangelist Rich Swingle does a dramatic reading of the Scripture. 

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Here's the new song by Heather Peterson we added to our worship set:

 

Here's the songwriter's story: How to properly describe what this song means to me? I wrote it at a time I was very sick with adrenal fatigue. I asked the Lord to heal me, and He answered me that... 

[Read the whole story here.]

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The Church Advances Through Jesus Alone

Pastor Rachel Taylor urges the congregation to be passionate for Jesus and Jesus alone amid the many idols of the world as she continues the series The Church Advances from Acts 17: 16-34.  

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Jesus is Worth It.

Pastor Randy Solomon preaches on how Jesus is worth enduring anything for in this passage from Acts 17: 1-12.  He mentions both the book The Insanity of God and the movie by the same name, which you can watch for free for a limited time.  

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Here's the trailer for the film The Insanity of God:

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The Church Advances through Power

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Acts 16:16-40, when Paul and Silas' worship service led to a prison breakout. At the opening she refers to a sketch Drama Evangelist Rich Swingle helped his students at the Salvation Army Territorial Arts Ministry Conservatory devise through sociodrama. Click here, and then move the time to 39:25 to watch the sketch.

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Let the Lord Lead the Journey

Pastor Linda Warren shares from Acts 16: 6-15 how The Church Advances when we let the Lord lead the journey.   Pastor Jim Warren opens with prayer and closes with announcements.  Board Member Tom M. prays over the pastors for Clergy Appreciation Month. 

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The Church Advances in Freedom

In the series The Church Advances, Pastor Linda Warren teaches from Acts 15: 1-16:5 that the Lord gives freedom in Christ to live in faith and in fellowship.  This passage of Scripture shows how the enemy would try to stop the advance of the gospel by imposing strict rules on believers.  But the Bible exposes this enemy tactic because it is for freedom that Christ has set us free.

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Be Wary of Worldly Fame: Trust in Jesus Alone

Pastor Randy Solomon shows how Paul and Barnabas resisted pride, relying on Jesus and helping The Church Advance from Acts 14: 8-23.  

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The Church Advances Despite Opposition

Pastor Jim Warren continues The Church Advances from the book of Acts, citing John 15:18 as well as Acts 13: 13-52 and showing how we need to proclaim the gospel consistently and fearlessly despite opposition.  

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God Overcomes Obstacles

Pastor Rachel Taylor continues our series on The Church Advances by showing from Acts 13: 4-12 how God overcame obstacles in Paul's ministry to the Gentiles.  Pastor Jim Warren leads a time of praise testimony during which Eva P. shares how God overcame her obstacle to present the Word of comfort and truth to one in need.  Pastor Linda Warren closes with the offering prayer.  

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God Sends to Save

Pastor Linda Warren continues our series The Church Advances, preaching from Acts 13: 1-3 on how God sends servants from the Spirit-filled community to save those in spiritual need.  

She mentions Corrie ten Boom, whose story is told in the book and movie, The Hiding Place, and also in a more recent film, Return to the Hiding Place. 

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Follower, Respond!

Pastor Rachel Taylor shares from Acts 11: 27-30 in our series The Church Advances.  She encourages the church to respond to the Lord's Word in word and deed to give as the Holy Spirit prompts.  Pastor Joyce Swingle opens in prayer and Pastor Rachel closes with the Priestly Blessing.

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Get Out of Jail

Pastor Randy Solomon continues our series The Church Advances with Acts 12, about -- among other things -- Peter miraculously walking out of prison. Pastor Randy tells about Palau the movie. You can download the scene he mentions by clicking here. He also tells an amazing modern story from the book The Heavenly Man, about Brother Yun, who was imprisoned by the communists and miraculously walked out of jail. Pastor Randy opened the service by showing a photo of a prison wall, like the one below. He mentioned that Christians are persecuted today, and here's an article on how Christians are the most persecuted people group on earth today: Global Persecution Report: 'Christians Are the Most Persecuted ...and It's Accelerating'.

Opening and closing prayers are by Pastor Jim Warren, who teaches briefly on Daniel 3. Prayer over sermon and offering are by Pastor Rachel Taylor. 

There are several testimonies of how the Lord has answered prayer through our community.

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Photo of prison wall by Ashim D’Silva on Unsplash.

Cancel No One!

Pastor Joyce Swingle continues the series from Acts called "The Church Advances."  She picks up from Drama Evangelist Rich Swingle's message of last week by continuing the discussion of Peter's vision and the opening up of the mission to the Gentiles in Acts 11: 1-18.  She mentions Tony Loeffler, who has partnered with Westchester Chapel on many occasions in the US and Cuba.

Pastor Randy Solomon opens with prayer.  

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The Holy Spirit Fell on All Who Heard

Rich Swingle, drama evangelist, preached on Acts 10 and was joined by Pastor Joyce Swingle to do a readers theatre performance of the chapter. Pastor Rachel Taylor opens the service with prayer.

Rich mentioned Eric Ludy, who runs Ellerslie, a campus devoted to building brave-hearted Christians. The film Rich mentioned was For the Glory.

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It's not on the video, but during our sharing time Rich mentioned a short film he worked on at the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp about a fictional app that will call the trained to speak of the hope that is within those too afraid to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit and share. Here's that film:

Here's the video Rich mentioned that has more details about Will Ford and Matt Lockett: 

And for even more details you can get their book, The Dream King, at www.DreamStreamCo.com, where you can also find out more about the ministries of Will Ford and Matt Lockett.

For more information on revivals visit www.DayAndNight.org/thegreatexperiment.

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Excerpts from Eric Metaxas' interview with Will Ford and Matt Lockett used by permission. 

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Death Cannot Stop Life!

Pastor Linda Warren continues our series in the book of Acts on The Church Advances with a message from Acts 9: 36-43, showing how Death Cannot Stop Life.

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Declare the Healing Hope!

Pastor Rachel Taylor continues our series "The Church Advances" with a message from Acts 9:32-35, exhorting all to advance the kingdom by declaring the healing hope of the Lord.  Pastor Randy Solomon closes with a communion message from Matt. 15: 32-39.

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To Advance the Church Obey the Holy Spirit

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Acts 8:26-40, Philip and the Ethiopian.

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Pastor Joyce refers to this map of Philip's journeys from www.TheBibleJourney.org.

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She also refers to a map showing the long journey both ways by the Ethiopian. That map is adapted and used by permission from Jeff Dahl.

The live service closed with the song "Jesus Shall Reign," sung by Eric Liddell, or at least Rich Swingle playing Eric Liddell. It was a part of The Global Hymn Sing in 2018, and you can see Rich's introduction below...


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Recognize the Greatest Power

Pastor Rachel Taylor preaches on Acts 8:1-25. She opens by talking about our last opening worship song, which was written by students of the Territorial Arts Ministry Conservatory in 2017. You can see the song being performed below at the 2:09:30 mark.

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