Dear Church,
I received your invitation for the Easter Services in my letterbox this week. There was a nice note attached which seemed genuine. You are that church that I drive past on the way to the shops – with the tower – and the old sandstone? The sign out the front seems very friendly.
You seem to be an inviting church. I have been thinking about your invitation. Should I come?
‘Friends, life will be tough at points. Perhaps many points. Perhaps, it seems, every point. But you know you can trust your life into the hands of God when you know they are truly good hands.’ – Simon Marshman
Watch the full sermon: http://bit.ly/2u7aCp6
Read the Bible text: Acts 27:1-28:12
‘That’s not an abstract philosophy, an idea for life. That is the claim that a dead man named Jesus was alive. And it’s a claim with implications. Which introduces the key question that Paul had for Agrippa, and that God has for us tonight: “Do you believe?”‘ – Simon Marshman
Watch the full sermon: http://bit.ly/2FxXlep
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2G6ICEp
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2G9alnQ
‘I want to talk to you about right and wrong … I want to talk to you about righteousness which God supplies, which doesn’t come as a result of keeping the law, but which comes as a gift of grace for whoever believes. That you would believe in this Jesus.’ – Arthur Ang
Watch the full sermon: http://bit.ly/2Fkt12T
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2F7Egfb
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2t6Tsr4
Sermon ‘Citizenship Concerns’ (Acts 21:37-22:29) by Ken D Noakes is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2BHM4p5
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2BZkK6o
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2C02E4l
Outline, Workings and Script for this Talk – Acts 21.37-22.29
Sermon ‘Arresting Times’ (Acts 21:1-36) by Ken D Noakes is available to stream or download: http://bit.ly/2BtARbc
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2BkX6QW
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2BOhlaw
I was asked the question: ‘What are the major challenges, and/or ministry opportunities, facing Australian churches in 2018?”
It is far above my station to be able to speak for just the church in which I serve let alone all Australian churches! And so with that caveat, I humbly offered this opinion in answer to that question:
Christians face the continued challenge to be in the world but not of it.
Sermon ‘Vision Sunday: Mission’ (Matthew 28) by Des Smith is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2saulmG.
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2rVE8xa
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2s06tT0
Did Jesus teach Christians to ‘Hate the sin, love the sinner’? Is it written in the Bible?
Sermon ‘Five Things Jesus Never Said: Hate The Sin, Love The Sinner’ (Romans 1:18-25 & John 3:16-21) by Des Smith is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2rO3VXL
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2GeKqLa
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2GeqDLR
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