Acts // Pastor Gene Pensiero

Saul escapes Damascus when he is let down in a basket through the wall (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus tells Ananias that Saul is His chosen vessel (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Saul quits kicking against the goads and is saved on the road to Damascus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Philip is sent to the desert on a mission to inform the Ethiopian eunuch that the Person he is reading about is Jesus Christ (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Simon the Samaritan Sorcerer attempts to purchase the ability to impart the Holy Spirit and is strongly rebuked by Peter (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Saul observes that whether the Christians he persecutes live or die they do it as unto the Lord (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

When Stephen tells the Jewish leadership that they are resisting the Holy Spirit they respond by stoning him to death (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Although slandered and seized, Stephen sits with his face glowing (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The apostles instruct the Church to choose seven men to wait on the tables of the widows (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The twelve apostles are beaten but rejoice that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for Jesus (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

An angel sets the twelve apostles free from the common prison and tells them to return to the mission Jesus has given them of proclaiming the Gospel to the whole world (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Great fear is associated with the Church and the apostles perform many signs and wonders – so much so that even Peter’s shadow falling on a person would heal them (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Ananias and Sapphira are struck dead for lying to the Holy Spirit (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The disciples approach God as the absolute authority in the universe to request boldness as His servants (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The Jewish ruling council wanted to silence Peter and John but could not ignore the obviously healed man in their midst (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Peter indicts the nation of Israel of killing their Messiah in ignorance. Then he encourages them that when they repent He will return and establish the promised kingdom on earth (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Peter tells the lame man to look at him; he’s healed, and he begins walking, leaping and praising God (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

The believers were marked by having all things in common as three thousand were added in one day, then more each subsequent day (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Peter proves to the crowd that they crucified Jesus, but God raised Him from the dead to sit at His right hand (Pastor Gene Pensiero)

Jesus is pouring out the Holy Spirit as history moves towards His Second Coming to reign over the earth (Pastor Gene Pensiero)