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Acts 20 The Church

Pastor Jeremy Ross looks at this passage to examine the way the church grew and developed. We want the church in Dunfermline to grow spiritually and in number because we love people and family and friends. In this passage, Paul urges the overseers to keep watch over themselves and the flock. We also see that the church […]

Acts 17 Communicating the gospel

Continuing our series in Acts, Paul takes the gospel to the Thessalonians, the Bereans and to the Athenians. He uses different ways to connect with people, visiting the synagogue to reason from the scriptures, showing compassion and proclaiming the gospel wherever he goes to the glory of God.  He goes out in obedience to tell people […]

Acts 10 The growing church

This passage describes the continuing work of Jesus Christ building his church, a church planted and growing throughout Asia. As God opens and closes doors in Dunfermline Free Church and as thousands of Syrian refugees head to the UK and to Scotland, we may see new things happen when new people are involved in the […]

Acts 8 Surprises in Samaria

Tertullian wrote in 197AD “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church”. This passage in Acts 8 sees the church scattered after a great persecution breaks out. Philip finds himself in a city in Samaria where he proclaims the Messiah and meets Simon the Sorcerer. Peter and John join Philip and the […]

Acts 16 Discussing baptism

Lydia and members of her household and the Phillippian jailer and his household are baptised in this passage in Acts. Christians may have differing ideas about whether children or adults should be baptised. This has been an area of debate for a long time, the early church fathers were discussing baptism in 150AD and so was St Augustine […]