Bold and Courageous Faithfulness
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever wondered if you would have the courage to literally die for your faith? In this sermon on Stephen the Martyr from the Stories in Acts series, we find out what it takes to have a bold and courageous faith — a faith that is built on little steps of obedience along the way that lead to a big step of obedience in the end.
1) Faithfulness enables followers of Christ to step in
2) Faithfulness empowers followers of Christ to step up
3) Faithfulness emboldens followers of Christ to step out
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast. If you'd like more information about our church, |
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| 0:14.0 | Harris Creek, how we doing? That's so good. Hey, if you got a Bible, get it out. If you got pen and paper, |
| 0:20.4 | open up your notes app. We're going to learn some scripture today. Hey, if you got a Bible, get it out. If you got pen and paper, open up your notes app. |
| 0:22.3 | We're going to learn some scripture today. Hey, if you don't know me, I'm Drew. I'm one of the pastors here. |
| 0:26.3 | And I grew up in the great state of Arkansas. Yeah, yes, there are other states besides Texas. |
| 0:32.5 | Most Texas don't know that. But yeah, Arkansas borders, Texas. And I have found, as I've lived here, that Texans |
| 0:40.0 | have some stereotypes they think of when they think of Arcansans. Can you guys just tell me a few? |
| 0:44.0 | Just say them out loud. What's that? Hillbilly. Yeah, that's fair. What else? Woo pig. Suey, |
| 0:53.3 | come on. That's true. |
| 0:55.5 | Usually you get a no shoes, no shirt, no problem. |
| 0:58.4 | That's an Arkansas thing. |
| 1:00.7 | Like hunting, fishing. |
| 1:01.8 | Yeah, so there's lots of stereotypes about Arkansasans. |
| 1:04.2 | Mayor your cousin, that's one. |
| 1:07.3 | That one's not as true. |
| 1:09.0 | But, yeah, those are all mostly true. |
| 1:11.8 | And so I grew up in a small town in Arkansas about hours southeast of Litter Rock. |
| 1:16.1 | And in that town, it was a farming community, all the stereotypes are true there. |
| 1:21.0 | And especially of my neighbors. |
| 1:22.6 | So we lived on a dirt road in town. |
| 1:25.2 | I didn't know that was possible, but we did. |
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