Citylight Lincoln Church Podcast

Pastor Austin kicking off our advent series at the very beginning with the first promise in Genesis 3

Pastor Josh Luse continuing our sermon series by preaching about the death of Stephen in Acts 7:54-60

Bob Walz continuing our sermon series in Acts with Acts 6 and 7

Pastor Austin Edwards continues our sermon series in Acts with Acts 6:1-7

Pastor Josh Luse continuing our sermon series in Acts with Acts 5:17-42.

Pastor Austin Edwards continuing our sermon series with Acts 5:12-16 | Sunday, November 5

Pastor Austin Edwards preaching over Ananias and Sapphira. "We don't have a Wealth problem, we have a Worthy problem"

Pastor Josh Luse continuing our sermon series in Acts with Acts 4:32-37

Pastor Austin Edwards continuing our sermon series in Acts with Acts 4:23-31

Pastor Josh Luse continuing our sermon series in Acts with Acts 2:42-27

Preacher - Josh LusePassage - Acts: 4:5-22

Skyler KilzerOct 1

Pastor Austin Edwards sermon over Acts 3:1-10

For our next sermon on the Acts of the Apostles, Austin preaches about verses 14 to 41. After receiving the Holy Spirit the Apostles are radically changed. The same people who less than two months prior fled and abandoned Jesus are now proclaiming the Gospel in front of thousands of others. The Holy Spirit empowered them using Scripture to proclaim that the savior of the world had come and for the salvation of world!

We pick up where we left off last week in Acts 2:1-13, the arrival of the Holy Spirit. In the reading for the day, we once again find the apostles gathered together in prayer during the feast of Pentecost. Suddenly the Holy Spirit comes upon them like tongues of flame, gifting them the ability to speak in a multitude of languages. From this reading we can see that God desires that all people should be able to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

In this week's sermon in the book of Acts, we read about the disciples' return to Jerusalem after Jesus' ascension. Rather than immediately going out to the nations to proclaim the Gospel, Jesus commands the apostles to remain in the city and to wait. As Christians, we often are called to wait for God's timing. But what does that mean? In his sermon, Austin points out how the disciples model a better kind of waiting.

To kick off our series in Acts, Josh preaches through the first eleven verses of the book! What we see in our verses today is that through the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, we are called to be witnesses. Josh lays out what it means to be a witness of the Gospel and what we are supposed to look like as a witness.

Before we kick off our sermon series in the book of Acts, we first take a week to study the Lord's prayer in Matthew 6:9-13. During Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches the crowd how they should pray to God. In today's sermon, Austin breaks down how this simple prayer teaches us so much about our relationship with God the Father and how we should talk to Him!

For our last sermon in Psalm 51, Austin teaches us what it means to have a truly "broken and contrite heart." Sin has a cost. When David brings an offering to God for his sin, though, he doesn't bring a burnt offering. Instead, he brings a heart broken by what he has done. To be broken and repentant over our sin means acknowledging that we needed to be made clean and to turn from our sin!

For our third sermon covering Psalm 51, Skyler teaches us the answer to the ultimate question: "What is the meaning of life?" For as long as humans have walked the earth we have wondered what possibly could be our place and purpose in the 80 short years that we have. But as David and Skyler point out in Psalm 51 life isn't about us. It's about God's glory!