Read the text – Romans 8:1-14
In this sermon series, “The Goodness of Suffering”, we explore what it means to die with Christ and how it will reshape our lives. This sermon by Nick Lindeback focuses on our new life in the Spirit and how by the Spirit we put our sin to death. This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Parish, Glenbrook morning service.
Read the text – Romans 8:1-9
The Goodness of Suffering is a new sermon series on Romans 8 and walks through how suffering and setback are chances to reshape our lives and depend on God. This first sermon, by Nick Lindeback, focuses on how Jesus had taken away condemnation for us and that we no longer have to justify ourselves. This was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Parish, Glenbrook Evening Service.
“The Joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10
The three speakers for our Women’s Retreat, Kezia Barnes, Tamara Lindeback and Linda Oakley, take us through how we find the Joy of the Lord in His character, in our salvation and in our Christian fellowship.
Talk 1 – Joy in God’s Character (Kezia Barnes)
Read the text – Psalm 33
Talk 2 – Joy in Salvation (Tamara Lindeback)
Read the text – Titus 3:5-7, John 15:3-16, Psalm 16:11, Psalm 51:12-13, 1 Thess 5:16-18
Talk 3 – The Joy of the Lord in Christian Fellowship (Linda Oakley)
Read the text – Matthew 18:20, Nehemiah 8:10, Isaiah 40:31, 1 Corinthians 12:12-20, Galatians 6:2, Revelation 7:9, Romans 15:1-2, Galatians 5:24-26, Romans 15:13
Read the text – Psalm 139; Deuteronomy 30:11-20; Isaiah 65:17-25; Romans 14:1-9
God ends life. God is the author and sustainer of life – from conception to eternity. How does the Christian person live by his timing and determination until he brings you home. In this Bible Talk, Ken Noakes aims to help us think Christianly (Biblically) about the value of life under God’s hand when it comes to dying and death – especially as we live in a world where life can be quietly ended or painlessly prolonged. Our topic: Thinking Christianly about Euthanasia.
Read the text – Psalm 139; John 9:1-34
God shapes life. Disability is a normal and good part of God’s creation and whilst that may mean there are limitations placed upon a person (including their reliance on others), Christians should embrace the God’s gift of each person.
In this talk, Ken Noakes opens a discussion about how Christians can think about disability in our fallen world now and suggests a different approach to thinking about disability in our coming perfect world. This will create discussion – agree or disagree – let’s together recognize that we can take steps now to care well for those who live with disabilities as we all wait for heaven.
Read the text – Romans 12:1-13
In the sermon series, ‘Everywhere, Everything, All the time’, Lower Mountains Anglican Church explores what it means to worship God. In this sermon, Dave Swan tells how worship is more than just church on Sundays. We are to worship God with everything we are, and everything we do.
Read the text – Job 19:1-29
We have met the upright and blameless Job, and seen the tragedy and suffering which fell upon him. In the chapters that follow (Job 3-27), Job responds to the “comfort” (?) of his friends with words full of agony and pain. Job looks to his only hope: a sovereign and perfect God who cannot allow injustice. In spite of his circumstances and feelings, the small glimmer of hope from 9:33-34 which became a faint trickle of hope in 14:14-15 and 16:19-21, has become much more certain, to the point where declares “I know that my redeemer lives!”(19:25). This yet again reveals that the deepest desire of his heart is to be in the presence of the God he loves (19:27). In spite of what his friends have said, Job doesn’t fear death because he is sure that he will see the Lord face to face, and that there is the hope of a resurrection (19:26).
God’s official royal announcement, which he entrusted to his chosen representative and slave, Paul, and which is the culmination and fulfillment of everything he has been doing and saying in history, is that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the powerful divine Lord. God’s gospel is not about us, it is about Jesus!
Ken Noakes looks at what Romans 1 teaches us about the Gospel of God, and given this is a graduation address, he challenges those graduating (and listening) to put into practice the knowledge they now have by proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus.
Read the texts – Ezekiel 36:22-30; Romans 8:1-17
In this talk we look at the third ‘I believe’ statement in the Apostles’ Creed. Glen Connor, looking at Romans 8:1-17 shows us five aspects of how the Holy Spirit works in the life of a believer: to free us from sin and death, change our mindset towards God, to guarantee our resurrection, to bring holiness in the life of the believer, and makes us God’s children.
Read the texts – Amos 5:18-27; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11
We continue working through The Apostles’ Creed and in this talk we focus on the line ‘He ascended into Heaven, and is seated at the right hand of the Father; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead’. For those who love Jesus the day he returns will be a day of light. For those who do not it will be a day of darkness.
Nick Lindeback is eager in this talk to help us to know that it is because of what Jesus has done that the day of darkness (Amos 5:18) will be a glorious day of light (1 Thess 5:4-5) and that we can look forward to light, offer light to others, and live in light forever.
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