A sermon on Acts 26 turns Paul's defense into a call to stop lingering at the almost.
The episode reads Acts 26 as a sermon on Paul's defense before King Agrippa II and the obedience that should follow a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

Local sermons with Scripture, candor, and urgency.
The Tabernacle Sermons records messages shaped for a church family in Buckley, Cadillac, and Manistee. The preaching moves from biblical narrative to lived pastoral moments, with a conversational pace that can turn from grandparent jokes to Good Friday grief in a breath.
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The Tabernacle Sermons is a large archive of Christian weekend messages from a church speaking across Buckley, Cadillac, and Manistee. The tone is unmistakably congregational. Listeners hear greetings to church family, thanks for volunteers, references to services across campuses, and the familiar rhythm of prayer before Scripture. The preaching is not detached classroom commentary. It turns biblical texts into urgent pastoral encounters. Recent episodes move through Good Friday, Easter, Palm Sunday, and the continuing story of Paul in Acts. Jesus’ crucifixion is handled with dramatic gravity. Resurrection hope is framed through grief, memory, and the shock of a tomb that should have ended the story. Paul’s defenses become lessons about testimony, direction, suffering, and courage. The show also carries a distinctly conversational humor. A sermon might begin with grandkids navigating stairs, a cold sunrise, hunting stories, or a small lesson on ellipses before narrowing toward a theological point. That looseness is part of its character. The speaker can be playful, blunt, and emotionally candid, then shift into a direct appeal for obedience or faith in Christ. Ministry itself is described with affectionate honesty, including the exhaustion, joy, and strange privilege of serving people. The pastoral moments can be intimate. One excerpt recalls a hospital bedside and a woman near the end of her story, using that scene to reflect on God’s presence when peace feels absent. Another follows an attempted gospel conversation that becomes unexpectedly serious. Across the episodes, faith is presented less as a private opinion than as a direction for life. The sermons return often to God’s faithfulness, Jesus as Savior, Scripture’s promises, and the call not to stop at almost. For listeners comfortable with direct Christian language and urgent calls to respond, the show offers warm, grounded preaching with real local texture. It is sermon audio with dirt under its shoes.
Made for: Best suited for listeners seeking Christian sermons that connect biblical passages to church life, family stories, suffering, and salvation. It will especially fit people who appreciate warm humor alongside direct pastoral challenge.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its blend of church specificity and emotionally vivid preaching. It moves easily from volunteers and family anecdotes to Acts, Easter, prayer, and bedside pastoral care without losing its local voice.
The Tabernacle is a group of imperfect people desiring to be changed by the love & grace of a perfect God. We gather on weekends to worship Jesus, then scatter to our communities as missionaries throughout the week.
Acts becomes a courtroom drama, then turns the witness stand toward you.
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A sermon on Acts 26 turns Paul's defense into a call to stop lingering at the almost.
The episode reads Acts 26 as a sermon on Paul's defense before King Agrippa II and the obedience that should follow a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
A clear Easter sermon that treats the resurrection as central, then ties it to peace and hope.
This Easter sermon keeps its focus tight: the resurrection of Jesus is treated as the foundation of faith, peace, and hope. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 15 and the claim that the witnesses were still alive, it moves steadily from Christ's death and rising to forgiveness, freedom…

Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.




This Easter Sunday sermon at The Tabernacle focuses on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and its implications for peace.
The Tabernacle Sermons episode "ALL THINGS NEW | New Master" argues from Revelation 21 and 2 Corinthians 5:14-15 that new life requires Jesus to become master, not only Savior.
A dramatic retelling of the Easter story from the perspective of a witness, focusing on the emotions of Jesus' death and the hope of resurrection.
A reading of the Gospel account of Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday.
A pastor shares a lighthearted anecdote about being a grandparent and watching his grandson explore stairs, leading into a Palm Sunday sermon about new hope.
The Tabernacle Sermons episode "REVOLUTION | The Revolution Continues" uses the three-dot ellipsis to interpret the abrupt ending of Acts 28 as an invitation for believers to continue the story.
The Tabernacle Sermons examines Paul's defense before King Agrippa II in Acts 26, focusing on his persecution of Christians, encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, and commission to preach to Jews and Gentiles.
The Tabernacle Sermons episode “REVOLUTION | He Said So” examines Acts 25, where Paul faces unproven charges, a planned ambush, and imprisonment lasting two years under Felix.
The Tabernacle Sermons explains Paul’s imprisonment in Acts 23–24 through the theme of trusting God’s promises before understanding the process.
Billy Graham walked into Jim Bakker's prison cell, arms open, and said, 'Jim, I love you.'
Pastor Adam of The Tabernacle teaches Acts 21:27–22:21, where Paul, after a seven-day purification vow, is seized in the Jerusalem temple and chained twice by the Roman tribune Claudius Lysias.
At a Thursday "Fight Night" with over 300 men, a pastor opens with walkout songs such as "Eye of the Tiger" and "Enter Sandman" before asking "what's your death song?" He cites Paul's 2 Timothy 4 words, "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith," as the model.
A pastor reflects on God's promise to never leave us, sharing a bedside encounter with a dying woman who struggles with feeling God's presence after prayer.
Pastor John introduces a sermon series on Acts 13, discussing how the gospel divides people, with a personal anecdote about recognizing a young basketball player from his church.
The speaker humorously recounts his experiences with humidity at a camp meeting in Georgia and at home in Michigan, then transitions to a Bible study in Acts chapter 9.
A sermon on Acts 5:12-16 describing the apostles' miracles and the growth of the early church.