Sunday’s sermon ‘Squabbling Friends’ (Job 3-27) by Ken D Noakes is now available: http://bit.ly/1HWO0kX
Category Archives: Old Testament
Sending and Psalm 4
It seems counter cultural to work really hard to call people to Christ, build them in faith, grow a body of believers – only to then send them away!
Over the last few weeks we have done both.
Suffering and the Saint
In Job Chapters 1-2 we get to peak in on a conversation between God and Satan.
God: Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.
Satan (my paraphrase): Of course he is going to be blameless and upright – you protect him and his household and you bless him – if you weren’t so protective he would curse you to your face!
What a cynic. It is so easy to think the worse of someone instead of the best! (notably – a pattern we always see in Satan!)
But does he have a point?!
Sermon: True Friendship (Proverbs)
Vaughan Roberts
Sunday’s sermon ‘True Friendship’ by Vaughan Roberts is now available: http://bit.ly/1DIM44G
What the devil…
Satan appearing in the heavenly realms to address God (as we saw on Sunday in Job 1 and 2) raises more than just eyebrows! What do we know about Satan? What was his plan? Does he have any power over God (such that he can just appear before him)? And how can we know that Satan won’t cause bad things to happen to us?
What do we know about Satan?
The Bible doesn’t say as much as you would expect – I guess God is not that willing to give Satan air time in his word to us. For the record, I can count just 80 passages that refer to either Satan, the devil or the evil one.
That said, it may be worth also pointing out that the Bible might not tell us everything there is to know about Satan (it doesn’t tell us everything there is to know about circumcision, the end times, predestination or Ehud for that matter!). We can be confident that the Bible tells us everything we need to know concerning Satan.
What we can say may be helpful.
Sermon: ‘Heavenly Tussle’ (Job 1-2)
Sunday’s sermon ‘Heavenly Tussle’ (Job 1-2) by Ken D Noakes is now available: http://bit.ly/1DoMdKq
Slice of Heaven (Part 3)
So we have looked at six reasons why the doctrine of heaven is neglected and then four reasons why Heaven should really matter to us. In this third essay, I want to look at ‘Why heaven exists?’!
Heaven Matters (Part 2)
Baby you’re all that I want
When you’re lyin’ here in my arms
I’m findin’ it hard to believe
We’re in heaven
And love is all that I need
And I found it there in your heart
It isn’t too hard to see
We’re in heaven
So sings Bryan Adams (Yes I know it was right back in 1984, but tell me you don’t know the song!).
An ‘Application Outline’ of Ezekiel
The word of Lord through the prophet Ezekiel!
Here is an ‘application summary’ for the book of Ezekiel.
God’s Shepherd and his Sheep
I was at the Adelaide Show and somehow found myself in a sheep pen!
Well, not quite in the pen, but in the hall where they were auctioning off the sheep – merino bulls to be exact.
Reading Ezekiel 34 – God’s Shepherd and his Sheep got me thinking. Is it derogatory to be compared to a sheep? After all, in Ezekiel 34 it is clear that there was the one true Shepherd and that would be Jesus – and he cared for his flock – his sheep. Now if we each are following that shepherd, then we are the sheep! Is it a bad thing to be labelled a sheep?
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