Podcast
Common People, Uncommon God
The Salt Company - Ames
Speaker: Tony Lee
February 12, 2026 · 31 min
Summary
Acts 4 reveals that God uses common, ordinary people—not impressive or powerful ones—to change the world. Peter and John, uneducated disciples transformed by encountering Jesus, boldly proclaimed His resurrection to religious leaders, resulting in thousands of conversions. The sermon challenges listeners to move from consumer Christianity to cross-centered conviction, compelled to share Jesus despite personal insecurities and broken pasts.
Highlights
God's redemptive plan to renew and redeem the entire globe wasn't through power, platform, or privilege—it was through a message, through the name of Jesus being spoken.
Every disadvantage of the world is a gospel advantage. Everything that you've hated about yourself or the things that you wish were different about yourself, God can use and redeem them to bring someone else into the kingdom of God.
Conviction isn't 'I'll do it when it's comfortable.' Conviction is 'I can't help but speak, I cannot stop but speak of who Jesus has been to me.'