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Sunday, April 26, 2026 | "O come, let us worship and bow down... before the Lord our Maker." (Psalm 95:6)
Sunday School @ 9:30 am | Worship Service @ 10:30 am
Announcements/Reminders
- May 6 - NMI Memorial Service
- May 10 - Mother's Day
- May 16 - Ladies Celebration Luncheon @ 11 am
Sermon Notes for 04/26/2026
SCRIPTURE: Acts 16:16-34
The Gospel has something strangely intolerable to the world.
Paul and Silas Travel to Europe
- The Holy Spirit prevented them from preaching in Asia
- Paul had a dream of a man in Macedonia crying for help
- As they move eastward, the culture changes
They Encounter a Fortune-Teller (v.16-21)
- They set out to pray, but a demonic spirit annoys them
- “Popular belief led to distorted practices and abuses, including cheats who exploited the gullible for profit.”
- Paul casts the evil spirit from the slave-woman; this angered her owners
- Paul and the others are accused of causing trouble in the city
- “The world has received all the rules and doctrines of all the philosophers that ever were. But this is a property of Gospel truth: it has something in it that is strangely intolerable to the world” - John Wesley
Paul and Silas are Arrested (v.22-30)
- They are arrested and beaten publicly
- In the dungeon, they worship the Lord
- At midnight, an earthquake shakes the prison which opened the doors and unshackled the prisoners - no one escapes!
First European Converts (v.31-34)
- “What must I do to be saved?” - Jailer
- He and his household are saved and baptized that night
If the rules, doctrines, and philosophies that speak into your life are counter to what you read in the Gospels, then you need to rethink who or what you are allowing in your life.