Key Takeaways

• The healing of the lame man was a sign of the Kingdom of God arriving.

• Our transformed lives should confront the world with the reality of Christ.

• True transformation comes through Jesus, not our own power or piety.

• God offers forgiveness, refreshment, and restoration through repentance.

   

Study Questions

5-Day Devotional

This Week’s Liturgy & Playlist

CALL TO WORSHIP

Leader: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.

People: To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!

Revelation 4:8, 5:13

Confession of Faith

From The Heidelberg Catechism

Q. What is your only comfort in life and death?

A. That I am not my own, but belong with body and soul, both in life and in death, to my faithful Savior Jesus Christ. He has fully paid for all my sins with his precious blood, and has set me free from all the power of the devil. He also preserves me in such a way that without the will of my heavenly Father not a hair can fall from my head; indeed, all things must work together for my salvation. Therefore, by his Holy Spirit he also assures me of eternal life and makes me heartily willing and ready from now on to live for him.

Confession of Sin

Holy God, we confess that we have denied you in our thoughts, words, and deeds, like those who rejected the Holy and Righteous One. Our hearts long for life, yet we have sought it in fleeting things and neglected the Author of Life. We yearn for refreshment, but we resist your call to repentance. Forgive us, and draw us to yourself, that we may find true life and walk in your ways. Amen.

ASSURANCE OF PARDON

Let it be known to you therefore, brothers, that through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

Acts 13:38-39

Looking Ahead

Next week’s scripture: Acts 4:1-22