True worship shows itself in humility and love. This talk looks focuses on faith in action demonstrated in Christian humility and love.
Read the Bible text – Romans 12
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– Dave Swan
Sermon – Theological Gardening (Rom 11:11-36)
God is sovereign over salvation – he shows his mercy in his time. Human arrogance has no place under mercy of God. This talk will recognize that God is sovereign, and we are not! He can and does use human rebellion for his purposes and so it is possible that even when someone stumbles, he will use that for their good.
Read the Bible text – Romans 11
Watch the Video – here
– Trevor Oakley
Sermon – Home Goal: Rejecting the given gospel (Romans 9:1-10:13)
Can we recognize God’s sovereignty over all things with humanity’s responsibility in some things. In this talk, we look at what Paul taught the Roman church about God’s mercy in election – such that anyone who hears, believes and confirms Jesus as their Lord can be confident in their salvation.
Read the Bible text – Romans 9:1-10:13
Outline for this talk – Romans 9.1-10.13
Watch the Video – here
– Ken Noakes
Sermons – Hope in…
‘Hope’ is a well used term, yet one that is easily misunderstood. This three part series aims to help Christians understand and be equipped as children of God to live in a world that is flawed, fraught and fallen yet still under the glorious umbrella of hope in Christ.
Using the Letter to the Romans as a springboard, this series will look to address the topics of Judgement, Suffering and Predestination – whilst recognizing that ‘creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.’ (Romans 8:20-21)
Hope in Judgement
Read the Bible text – Romans 2:17-3:20
Watch the Video – here
– Josh Ord
Hope in Suffering
Read the Bible text – Romans 5:1-5
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– Dave Swan
Hope in Chaos
Read the Bible text – Romans 8:31-39
Talk Outline – Hope..in Chaos (Predestination)
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– Ken Noakes
Sermon – Gathering to Proclaim Christ (Colossians 1:15-2:7)
How good it would be to have 20/20 vision? So many opportunities open up to you when you can see with clarity. Colossians helps the Christians person to see clearly. And as Colossians is written to a church, the gathering of disciples, it helps to set our sights on what we might be able to do in ministry and mission for the cause of the gospel. The core business of an assembled group of Christians is to fulfil the commission which our Lord gave us – to go out and make disciples.
Read the Bible text – Colossians 1:15-2:7
Watch the Video – here
Sermon – A Festal Garment (Lamentations)
Do you love a good party? Go back a millennium and you may have found yourself at an Israelite party – or ‘festival’ to be more accurate. Israel as the people for God conducted festivals which celebrated or reminded them of what God had done for his people. At these festivals they would read out one of their (Old Testament) scrolls – Ruth at Pentecost, Song of Songs and Passover, Ecclesiastes at the Feast of Tabernacles, Esther at Purim and Lamentations at the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. This custom was not continued by the Christian church.
Yet these little books exist in our Bible and it is not often that you hear them preached. So, in our Five Festal Garments series we are going to look at these little biblical treasure troves and see what Christians can learn today as we get dressed to live godly lives.
Let’s look at the Book of Lamentations
Read the Bible text – Lamentations
– Josh Ord
Watch the Video – here
Bible Studies – Lamentations (3 Studies)
Sermons: A Festal Garment – Despair & Kindness (Ruth 1-4)
Do you love a good party? Go back a millennium and you may have found yourself at an Israelite party – or ‘festival’ to be more accurate. Israel as the people for God conducted festivals which celebrated or reminded them of what God had done for his people. At these festivals they would read out one of their (Old Testament) scrolls – Ruth at Pentecost, Song of Songs and Passover, Ecclesiastes at the Feast of Tabernacles, Esther at Purim and Lamentations at the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. This custom was not continued by the Christian church.
Yet these little books exist in our Bible and it is not often that you hear them preached. So, in our Five Festal Garments series we are going to look at these little biblical treasure troves and see what Christians can learn today as we get dressed to live godly lives.
Let’s start with the Book of Ruth
Read the Bible text – Ruth 1-4
– Ken Noakes
Watch the Video – here
– Ken Noakes
Watch the Video – here
Sermon – A Festal Garment (Ecclesiastes)
Do you love a good party? Go back a millennium and you may have found yourself at an Israelite party – or ‘festival’ to be more accurate. Israel as the people for God conducted festivals which celebrated or reminded them of what God had done for his people. At these festivals they would read out one of their (Old Testament) scrolls – Ruth at Pentecost, Song of Songs and Passover, Ecclesiastes at the Feast of Tabernacles, Esther at Purim and Lamentations at the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. This custom was not continued by the Christian church.
Yet these little books exist in our Bible and it is not often that you hear them preached. So, in our Five Festal Garments series we are going to look at these little biblical treasure troves and see what Christians can learn today as we get dressed to live godly lives.
Let’s look at the Book of Ecclesiastes
Read the Bible text – Ecclesiastes
– Dave Swan
Watch the Video – here
Choosing what we sing in Church: Choosing New Songs (Part 9 of 9)
By David Shead
Choosing New Songs
In this last article in the series, let me turn our attention to the important job of choosing new songs.
Five things to consider:
Sermon – A Festal Garment (Song of Songs)
Do you love a good party? Go back a millennium and you may have found yourself at an Israelite party – or ‘festival’ to be more accurate. Israel as the people for God conducted festivals which celebrated or reminded them of what God had done for his people. At these festivals they would read out one of their (Old Testament) scrolls – Ruth at Pentecost, Song of Songs and Passover, Ecclesiastes at the Feast of Tabernacles, Esther at Purim and Lamentations at the anniversary of the destruction of Jerusalem. This custom was not continued by the Christian church.
Yet these little books exist in our Bible and it is not often that you hear them preached. So, in our Five Festal Garments series we are going to look at these little biblical treasure troves and see what Christians can learn today as we get dressed to live godly lives.
Let’s look at the Book of Song of Songs
Read the Bible text – Song of Songs
– Ben Smith
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