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06/02/2026

Walking in the Unstoppable Light Together

Acts 13 Network family, as we gather in our living rooms, around dinner tables, and in backyard spaces this week, we are shifting our focus to a powerful new journey through the Gospel of John, focusing on John 1:1-5.

In a house church network, we don't just "attend" church—we are the church. This profound text challenges us directly in how we live out our faith in close, everyday community.

If you missed our time together or want to catch up on the message to discuss with your house church, you can listen to the full audio now.

🎧 Listen Here: acts13.net/messages

🏡 Bringing the Gospel into the Living Room:

No More "Customized" Faith: In our culture, it is so easy to create a version of Jesus that perfectly aligns with our personal comfort zones, biases, or political preferences. We treat Him like a well-behaved pet on a leash. But the real Jesus is the transcendent, untamable Creator of the universe. In our house churches, let’s commit to letting the real Christ disrupt our comfort zones and reshape our hearts.

Discipleship is Face-to-Face: God could have spoken our redemption from a distance, but He chose to save us by stepping into our neighborhood, taking on flesh, and becoming face-to-face with us. That is the exact heartbeat of a house church! We are called to be face-to-face, sharing our lives, our meals, and our faith in deep relationship.

An Unstoppable Light for Dark Seasons: Darkness is highly visible right now. Whether it’s economic anxiety, heavy grief, or physical illness, the weight is real. But John reminds us that the light of Christ is permanent, active, and ongoing. The darkness tried to extinguish it at the cross, but it failed completely. The light wins!

💬 Our House Church Challenge This Week:

Many of us love to be the helper—we love to write the check, lend the tool, or offer the answer. But we absolutely hate being the one to admit, "I need help." If you are walking through a dark or heavy season right now, don't carry the weight alone or try to hide it. Bring it to your house church community. We exist to hold each other up, to carry one another's burdens, and to reflect the unstoppable light of Christ into each other's lives.

Let's look out for one another this week, Acts 13 family!

05/18/2026

🦁 From a Roaring Lion to a Loving Smile: Wrapping Up the Book of Amos

If you’ve been following along through the Old Testament book of Amos, you know it hasn't always been an easy journey. Amos is famous for its intense, tough-love messages—from chapter one, we see a holy God dropping a plumb line, calling out spiritual rot and systemic injustice, and warning that the nation will be sifted.

But as we reached the final verses, we discovered that the story doesn't end in exile—it ends in a breathtaking vision of restoration.

In this message, we look at what happens when God applies His radical gospel grace to deeply broken societies. Drawing a powerful parallel to modern history—specifically South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission led by Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu—we explore how true, biblical justice doesn't just flip a power structure to oppress the former oppressor. Instead, it seeks to completely heal, rebuild, and restore.

Key Takeaways from the Message:
🔹 Mansion vs. Tent: Why God looks past outward appearances to restore and rebuild the "fallen shelters" of our hearts.
🔹 Radical Inclusion: How God's plan for restoration features our historic enemies standing right alongside us in grace.
🔹 Our Partnership: Our calling to take our transformed lives out into the world to practice real, tangible justice.

✨ This Week's Challenge: When you pray this week, take a moment to close your eyes and picture God looking at you. If you imagine anything other than a joyful, loving smile, hit the reset button. Because of Christ, you are a deeply loved child of God. He isn't rolling His eyes or looking at you with frustration—He is smiling in grace.

🎧 Catch up on the full sermon, re-listen to the message, or share it with someone who needs a reminder of God's overwhelming grace!

👉 Listen here: https://acts13.net/messages

05/14/2026

📐 Are your leadership and ministry foundations "in plumb"? In our latest message covering Amos 7–9, we look at the powerful vision of the builder's plumb line. It's a sobering but essential reminder for everyone in ministry, church planting, and leadership: spiritual drift rarely happens all at once. Like a bad golf swing, being just two degrees off at the start can quietly land our ministries and our souls deep in the wilderness down the road.

When Amos looks at Israel, he exposes what happens when our highest institutional commitments shift away from God, or when we slip into a compartmentalized faith that cuts corners to get ahead.

But the ultimate message of Amos isn’t destruction—it's radical grace. Even in seasons of shaking and sifting, God's heart is to lovingly realign, refine, and preserve a holy remnant for His mission.

Take some time to lean in, reflect, and evaluate your own alignment with the Gospel this week. Catch the full audio message on our website!

🎧 Listen now: https://acts13.net/messages

05/03/2026

Are we looking out the right side of the bus? 🚌💔

In a powerful message based on Amos 6, we’re challenged by a jarring memory of a bus ride in Jamaica: on the left side, beautiful luxury resorts; on the right side, heartbreaking poverty. It’s easy to keep our eyes fixed on the "left side" of life to protect our comfort, but we’re reminded that when we ignore the "right side," our empathy begins to die.

Amos calls out "arrogant complacency"—the kind of heart that numbs itself with comforts while ignoring the ruin around it. As a network committed to following Jesus, we are called to a different path:

Acknowledge Reality: We must stop pretending the "right side of the bus" doesn't exist in our own neighborhoods.

Practice Empathy: True followers of Christ are known by their love and their ability to weep with those who weep.

Move into Action: Empathy should move us to put our arms around the wounded and walk through the heartache with them.

Are we using modern "lotions and wine" to numb ourselves to the world’s needs, or are we ready to enter in deeply as the people of God?

🎧 Catch the full message on the Acts 13 Network here: https://www.acts13.net/messages

04/26/2026

This Sunday we sit with one of the most challenging chapters in all of Scripture — Amos 5.

Amos walks in and starts singing a funeral. For people who are still alive. Religion is thriving. The economy is humming. And yet God says: your worship is noise. I hate your festivals.

The reason? Justice was being trampled. The vulnerable were being squeezed. And the people were putting their trust in everything except God.

Amos's question cuts right through it all: Who do you seek?

This week's message is up now 👇
https://www.acts13.net/messages

We gather Sunday evenings in Ypsilanti. If you're curious, you're welcome. 🏡
📍 9016 Parkland Dr, Ypsilanti, MI

04/20/2026

What if God's harshest words to his people are actually his most loving?

That's the tension at the heart of Amos 3–4. Israel was doing all the religious things — and doing them loudly. But their worship was empty, their neighbors were invisible, and God wasn't impressed.

The word he uses to confront them? *Chosen.* Not as a legal category. As a love language. "I know you. You are mine. And I love you too much to let you stay here."

This week's message asks the question Amos has been asking all along — and the same one a Chinese pastor once asked after touring America's biggest churches:

*Where is Jesus?*

🎧 Catch the full message at the link below.

👉 https://www.acts13.net/messages

Acts 13 Network gathers Sunday evenings in Ypsilanti. All are welcome.

04/14/2026

New episode of Beyond Sunday School is up! 🎙️

We're in Revelation 14 this week — and I'll be honest, when you hit the part about blood flowing as high as a horse's bridle for 200 miles, your first instinct is probably not "this is a passage of joy." But that's exactly what it is.

In this episode we talk about:
• What the 144,000 actually represent
• Why the "eternal gospel" is so much bigger than we usually make it
• How the winepress is a picture of hope, not horror
• And why grapes are good — but wine is so much better

The call through all of it? Persevere. Follow the Lamb wherever he goes. Fight the dragon not on the dragon's terms, but on Jesus' terms.

Listen here 👉

04/12/2026

Catch up anytime at the link below. 👇
https://acts13.net/messages

We gather every Sunday at 5:30 PM in Ypsilanti. Come as you are — there's a seat at the table for you.

04/09/2026

This Sunday, we begin a new series. We will be looking together at the message of the prophet Amos. His prophecy is the one upon which all the others were built! Join us this Sunday at 5:30 pm for dinner followed by singing, Scripture, communion, and prayer at 6:30 pm as we begin, "Mandate fo MIshpat - A Sermon Series on Amos."

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