The Way Church KC

Paul does everything right — he humbles himself and lays down his own freedom for the sake of unity in the church — and it still blows up in his face. He's dragged out of the temple by a mob that got the story wrong. In this message, Zach walks through Acts 21 and asks the question that cuts close: what right or preference are you holding onto that's quietly costing you a brother or sister? And when doing right still go...

Everyone who loved Paul told him not to go to Jerusalem. They weren't wrong about the cost — the Spirit had already said chains were waiting. They were wrong about the conclusion. In Acts 21, Zach walks us through a room full of weeping friends, a prophet with a belt around his hands, and one man who won't be talked out of obedience. God telling you what something will cost is not God telling you no. And when the argument fin...

Paul stands on a beach in Miletus and says goodbye to the elders he loves, knowing he will never see their faces again. It is the only place in Acts where we get to listen in as Paul talks to a church he planted. And what he hands them on the way out isn't a strategy, a building, or another leader — he commends them to God and to the word of His grace. The church was never yours to hold. Jesus bought it with His own blood, an...

In Acts 20, Luke tucks a resurrection right into the middle of a travel journal. A young man named Eutychus fades during Paul's long, late-night message, slips off a third-story windowsill, and dies — and then God raises him back to life. It's a reminder that the risen Jesus is still doing His quiet, powerful work through ordinary faithfulness: His people showing up, His word going out, and His resurrection life breaking in. ...

In Ephesus, some tried to use the name of Jesus like a magic formula — and it backfired. Pastor Zach walks through the story of the seven sons of Sceva and the citywide scroll-burning that followed to make one point plain: Jesus cannot be used, only followed. Whatever formula or false security you have been reaching for, this message is an invitation to let it go and walk in the real power of a life surrendered to Christ.

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Apollos was gifted but unfinished. Twelve disciples in Ephesus were sincere but incomplete — they had not even heard of the Holy Spirit. Pastor Zach traces the story of Acts 18:23-19:10 to show what happens when Jesus, by his Spirit, brings people all the way in rather than leaving them almost there. This is an invitation to stop white-knuckling your way through faith and ask the Spirit who already lives in you to fill you fr...

Paul arrives in Corinth discouraged, and the Lord meets him in a vision with four words that change everything: "I am with you." Pastor Zach walks through Acts 18:1-22 to show that the same Jesus who was forsaken on the cross so we would never have to be now says to the afraid, the far-off, and the still-a-mess: do not be afraid, for I have many in this city who are mine.

Scripture: Acts 18:1-22
Series: Living by the Spirit, Foll...

Paul walks into Athens, a city full of idols, and instead of condemning it from a distance, he engages it — reasoning in the synagogue, debating in the marketplace, and finally standing before the philosophers at the Areopagus to preach the God they had been searching for all along. Zach unpacks what it looks like to bring the gospel into a culture that already senses something is missing, and why postponing Jesus is still th...

When Paul and Silas hit Thessalonica, they did not bring an army or a political platform — they brought a crucified and risen King, and the city got turned upside down. Zach walks through what it looks like to bow to the true King, examine the Scriptures daily, and let the gospel do the same disruptive, redemptive work in Kansas City that it did two thousand years ago.

Scripture: Acts 17:1-15
Series: Living by the Spirit, F...

When the foundations shake and the doors fly open, Paul and Silas stay — and a jailer who asked "what must I do to be saved?" finds the answer that still holds today: believe in the Lord Jesus. In Acts 16:25-40, we see how God meets us in suffering, breaks chains we could never break ourselves, and turns a midnight prison into the birthplace of a family.

Scripture: Acts 16:25-40
Series: Living by the Spirit, Following the W...

In Philippi, a slave girl bound by a spirit of divination gets set free in the name of Jesus — and the gospel exposes just how many chains the rest of the city is still wearing. Zach walks through Paul and Silas' encounter in the marketplace and the jail cell that follows, and makes the case that every one of us is bound by something, and that Christ alone can set the captive free.

Scripture: Acts 16:16-24
Series: Living by...

Paul crosses into Europe for the first time and finds not a synagogue but a small prayer gathering by a river in Philippi. There God opens the heart of a businesswoman named Lydia to respond to the gospel — a reminder that changed hearts, not changed circumstances, are what God is after, and that He is still doing that quiet, decisive work in ordinary people today.

Scripture: Acts 16:11-15
Series: Living by the Spirit, Foll...

Paul and Barnabas part ways over a hard disagreement, and God brings a whole new team together — Silas, then young Timothy. But it’s a closed door in Asia and a vision of a man in Macedonia begging for help that finally shows Paul where God wants him next. Sometimes God directs us as much through the doors he closes as the ones he opens.

Scripture: Acts 15:36-16:10
Series: Living by the Spirit, Following the Way

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The Jerusalem council settles the biggest question the early church ever faced: are you saved by grace alone, or grace plus something else? Once that gospel clarity lands, the letter to Antioch shows what a healthy church actually looks like — not just correct doctrine, but real joy, real unity, and real peace, because grace was never meant to just be understood. It was meant to be experienced together.

Scripture: Acts 15:22-3...

The Jerusalem council faced a big question: do new believers have to become culturally Jewish before they can belong to Jesus? Acts 15 settles it once and for all—salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, with nothing extra required.

Scripture: Acts 15:1-21
Series: Living by the Spirit, Following the Way

The Way Church KC is a community of misfits & saints in the Rosedale neighborhood of Kansas C...

Paul and Barnabas were stoned and left for dead in Lystra—then got up and kept preaching. Acts 14 shows us the rhythm of real gospel mission: suffering, strengthening, and celebrating what God has done. The mission of Christ does not stop, and neither do we.

Scripture: Acts 14:19-28
Series: Living by the Spirit, Following the Way

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In Lystra, the crowds tried to worship Paul and Barnabas as gods—and their response was to point everyone straight back to the living God. Acts 14 confronts us with a simple, hard question: what are the vain things we chase instead of Him, and are we ready to turn from them?

Scripture: Acts 14:1-18
Series: Living by the Spirit, Following the Way

The Way Church KC is a community of misfits & saints in the Rosedale neighbo...

Paul steps into the synagogue at Antioch in Pisidia and delivers a sermon that traces the whole story of Israel to its point: Jesus. This message walks through Acts 13:13-52, where Paul makes clear that the good news was never meant to be hoarded — it was always meant to be carried, shared, and responded to. Whether you are hearing this message for the first time or the hundredth, it is for you.

Scripture: Acts 13:13-52
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Before Paul and Barnabas ever set foot on the mission field, the church at Antioch had to do something first: worship, fast, and listen. This message walks through Acts 13:1-12, the moment the Holy Spirit sets apart two ordinary men for an extraordinary calling, and the early church responds not with a program but with prayer. Being sent by God always starts with being set apart by God.

Scripture: Acts 13:1-12
Series: Living by t...