May 24th
POWER FOR A NEW BEGINNING
Acts 2:1-21
On Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon ordinary believers and the Church was born. This opening message explores how the Spirit empowers believers for witness, mission, and transformed living, reminding us that Christianity was never meant to be lived apart from the presence and power of God.
June 14th
EMPOWERED TO STAND
Acts 3:1-4:31
Peter and John boldly proclaimed Jesus in a world that resisted them. This message explores healing, courage, public faith, and how the Holy Spirit empowers believers to remain faithful even when facing opposition.
May 31st
WHAT KIND OF CHURCH ARE WE BECOMING?
Acts 2:42-47
The early Church was marked by prayer, generosity, worship, fellowship, and joy. This message explores the kind of Spirit-formed community God calls the Church to become and what healthy discipleship looks like in everyday life.
June 21st
EMPOWERED for holiness
Acts 5:1-16
The Holy Spirit not only comforts and empowers the Church — the Spirit also calls believers to integrity, honesty, and authentic faith. This message explores holiness, reverence, and the importance of living truthfully before God and one another.
June 7th
eMPOWERED TO REMEMBER & MOVE FORWARD
Acts 4:23-35
As the early believers faced pressure and uncertainty, they gathered in prayer and asked God not for comfort, but for courage. This anniversary message reflects on God’s faithfulness through the past while calling the Church forward in boldness, unity, and hope.
June 28th
EMPOWERED beyond our boundries
Acts 8:26-40
When Philip encountered the Ethiopian eunuch, the Holy Spirit pushed the Church beyond familiar boundaries and expectations. This message explores Spirit-led obedience, radical welcome, and the Gospel reaching those often overlooked or excluded.
July 5th
EMPOWERED FOR transformation
Acts 9:1-22
The story of Saul’s conversion reminds us that no life is beyond the reach of God’s grace. This message explores transformation, calling, healing, and the life-changing power of an encounter with Jesus through the Holy Spirit.
July 26th
empowered to discern together
Acts 15:1-21
How do Christians make faithful decisions when sincere believers disagree? Through the Jerusalem Council, we discover that the Holy Spirit still leads God's people as we listen to Scripture, one another, and God's work among us with humility and grace.
July 12th
EMPOWERED FOR radical welcome
Acts 10:1-48
Through Peter and Cornelius, the Holy Spirit shattered assumptions about who belongs at God’s table. This message explores inclusion, discernment, hospitality, and the widening embrace of God’s grace for all people.
August 2nd
EMPOWERED for the midnight hour
Acts 16:16-34
What do you do when life doesn't make sense? Paul and Silas show us that worship, faith, and hope can flourish even in life's darkest moments—and that God often uses our midnight hours to bring freedom, transformation, and salvation.
July 19th
eMPOWERED FOR THE mission
Acts 13:1-12
Even in prison, Paul and Silas worshiped God with courage and hope. This message explores suffering, endurance, spiritual freedom, and the sustaining presence of the Holy Spirit in life’s darkest moments.
August 9th
EMPOWERED TO speak to the world
Acts 17:16-34
How can Christians share the gospel in a changing and skeptical culture? Paul's message in Athens teaches us how to engage people with truth, grace, and respect while faithfully pointing every generation to Jesus Christ.
August 16th
EMPOWERED in disapointment
Acts 18:1-17
Faithfulness doesn't always produce immediate success, but God is still at work. Through Paul's ministry in Corinth, we learn how to persevere when expectations go unmet and trust God's promises even when the results are hidden.
September 6th
empowered in every season
Acts 28:1-16
God's calling doesn't end when circumstances change. Whether facing hardship, unexpected opportunities, or new beginnings, we are invited to serve Christ faithfully in every season of life.
August 23rd
EMPOWERED FOR the future
Acts 20:17-38
Every generation must prepare the next to carry the mission forward. Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders reminds us that healthy churches build faithful leaders, shepherd God's people well, and leave a legacy that endures.
September 13th
EMPOWERED when god has another plan
Acts 28:17-31
Life rarely unfolds according to our plans, but God's purposes are never thwarted. Paul's arrival in Rome reminds us that even delays, disappointments, and detours can become opportunities for the gospel to advance.
Augut 30th
eMPOWERED through the storm
Acts 27:13-44
Storms are an inevitable part of life, but they never have the final word. As Paul faces a violent shipwreck, we discover how courage, wisdom, and unwavering trust in God can anchor us through every crisis.
September 27th
EMPOWERED to finish well
Acts 28:30-31, Acts "29"
The Book of Acts ends without a true ending, because the mission of Jesus was never meant to stop on a page — it continues through His Church, in every generation, including ours. As we finish this journey through Acts and look ahead to Hebrews, we're challenged to carry the gospel forward with the same courage, faith, and dependence on the Holy Spirit that marked the first believers.
October 4th
EMPOWERED to keep believing
Hebrews 11
Acts showed us the church in motion; Hebrews now asks what kept every one of those faithful people moving even when the promise stayed out of view. The great "hall of faith" is a list of ordinary people who trusted God's word and, in almost every case, never lived to see it fully realized. As we step beyond Acts, we discover that the same Spirit-empowered faith that carried Paul through Corinth, Athens, and a shipwreck is the same faith every believer — and every generation of the church — is called to keep.
October 11th
EMPOWERED to run with endurance
Hebrews 12:1-2
Because we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, we are never running this race alone or starting from nothing. Hebrews calls us to strip off whatever weighs us down, keep our eyes fixed on Jesus rather than on the outcome, and run our own leg of the race with endurance and active persistence. As Paul's story gives way to our own, we are invited to trust the same Author and Perfecter of faith to complete what He has begun in us.
October 18th
eMPOWERED for the rest of the story
Philippians 1:6
Philippians was written from prison — not as Paul's final words, but in a season where he didn't yet know how his own story would end. "To live is Christ, to die is gain," he wrote, pressing on toward the goal without knowing what the next chapter held. As we close the Empowered series, we look back at where God has already led us since Pentecost and Acts 28 — and forward to a chapter none of us has written yet — trusting that the same God who never failed Paul, and has never failed St. John's, is still writing the story.
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