When the Gospel Shakes a City — Acts 16

This Sunday's message walked through Acts 16 in Philippi and named four things we should expect to see when the gospel shakes a city: chains start breaking, darkness starts fighting, praise starts rising, and households start believing. The tension is midnight — that place where you have prayed and obeyed and still find yourself sitting in the prison with your feet in the stocks — and the message insisted that Paul and Silas sang not because their circumstances changed but because God was still God. The call is for The River Church to stop accepting bondage as normal in Post Falls, Kootenai County, and the entire inland northwest, to praise in the dark where our children and neighbors can hear it, and to pray for whole households, not just individual decisions.