The challenges that you face in your personal life will not merely be overcome simply because you come to church and get new debt.

Dr. Tony Evans says information alone only goes so far.

Knowing the fundamentals will make you a mechanical Christian, it will make you a powerful one.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans.

Author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklef Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas and president of the Urban Alternative.

God not only wants you to follow his plan for your life, he wants you to be excited about it.

Let's listen as Dr. Evans explains how to ignite your passion for God, turning his priorities into your vision.

The Book of Acts is a unique book in the New Testament.

It is the book written to describe and illustrate the ministry of the Holy Spirit.

It's a transitional book. It transitions us from the old covenant to the new covenant.

The Holy Spirit is indispensable. He is not a negotiable item.

Four things come out of our thoughts today.

First of all, the purpose of the Spirit's power.

Jesus says in chapter 1, or Luke is the one writing but referring to Jesus Christ,

in verse 2, until the day when he was taken up after he had by the Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom we had chosen.

So Jesus now has given instruction to the apostles as to how they were to function while he leaves and goes to heaven.

In verse 3, he says to these, he also presented himself alive, risen from the dead.

After having suffered by many convincing proofs appearing to them over a period of 40 days between his resurrection and his ascension,

speaking of the things concerning the kingdom of God.

He was introducing his people through his leadership to a whole new orientation of life.

That new orientation is called in the Bible, the kingdom.

The kingdom are the new guidelines for how life is to be lived in this new realm that a converted person becomes a part of when they become a Christian.

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