Episode Archive
481 episodes of Acts 2 Sermons since the first episode, which aired on November 30th, 2014.
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Love and Happiness, part 4: Invest in and Protect What You Value Most
January 28th, 2024 | 37 mins 10 secs
Many of us would say our relationships are the most important things in our lives, but the way we spend our time rarely reflects that. If we want strong relationship, we have to prioritize them appropriately, invest in them, and protect them from all the things that distract us.
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Love and Happiness, part 3: How to Have Better Relationships
January 22nd, 2024 | 34 mins 18 secs
Good relationships require time and effort. Find out how to make time for your most important relationships and learn seven ways to improve your relationships.
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Love and Happiness, part 2: How to Live a Happier Life
January 14th, 2024 | 33 mins 38 secs
The first act of love is attention. When we share our full attention with the people in our life, we create deeper connections and help both the people we love and ourselves to experience a happier life.
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Love and Happiness, part 1: What is Love?
January 7th, 2024 | 34 mins 37 secs
Everyone wants to find love and to be happy, but we end up looking in all the wrong places. This may be because both love and happiness are hard to define. Find out what the Bible and science say about what they mean and how we can find them.
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New Year, True You
December 31st, 2023 | 28 mins 8 secs
As we head into a new year, marketers promise that the possibility of a “new year, new you.” But instead of trying to become something different, what if we focused on becoming more fully our true selves—the people God created us to be?
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Christmas Candlelight 2023: Waiting for Dawn
December 24th, 2023 | 20 mins 45 secs
Jesus came to bring light into darkness. Today, we celebrate that the light has come into the world, and the darkness cannot overcome it!
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Almost Christmas Sermon Series, part 3: Love in Action
December 17th, 2023 | 38 mins 6 secs
Love is more than a feeling—it’s something we put into action. In this sermon, Pastor Mark invites Acts 2 families to share how they have answered God’s call to embody Jesus’ love through service to others.
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Almost Christmas, part 2: An Altogether Hope
December 11th, 2023 | 32 mins 32 secs
When we're struggling, hope can seem distant an even unattainable. The hope that Jesus brings, though, comes into the darkness with us and shines a light.
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Almost Christmas, part 1: Peace: Anger’s Antidote
December 4th, 2023 | 30 mins 1 sec
As the season of Advent begins, this four-week sermon series is to help us move from merely living an “almost” life to the full, altogether life God has for us in God’s kingdom.
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The Gospel of Mark, part 6: Terror and Amazement
November 26th, 2023 | 33 mins 28 secs
When they encountered Jesus’ empty tomb, the women who came there felt terror and amazement and ran away. Eventually, though, they told others of Jesus rising from the dead. At the end of the Gospel of Mark, we are faced with the same question they faced: how will we respond to the Good News of Jesus?
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The Gospel of Mark, part 5: The Year the Stars Fell from the Sky
November 19th, 2023 | 36 mins 35 secs
When Jesus describes wars, suffering, and starts falling from the sky, it can be confusing and even scary. But when he teaches about these things, he’s actually preparing the disciples for the cross and resurrection. As we read those words today, they help us to bear witness to the cross and live the resurrection in our daily lives.
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The Gospel of Mark, part 4: Encountering Jesus
November 13th, 2023 | 39 mins 43 secs
When we read the Gospel of Mark, we encounter Jesus in all of his power, and through that encounter, he invites us to live in a new kind of reality--the Kingdom of God.