It is one thing to say that you believe in what Jesus had done to save you – it is another step to act on that belief.
James 2:14 asks the question: ‘What good is it brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith, but has no deeds? Can such a faith save them?’.
This third talk on the topic of ‘faith’ looks at faith in action.
Read the Bible Text – Hebrews 12:1-3 James 2:14-26
Talk Outline – Hebrews 12 and James 2
– Ken Noakes
‘Faith’ is the Christian calling. And one could ask: ‘How do I know my faith is real?’ or ‘Does doubt mean I have a shallow faith?’. Yet, you don’t need to be Christian to have questions about ‘faith’: ‘How do I get faith?’ or ‘What does faith achieve?’.
This talk, the second in a series on ‘Faith’, looks how faith comes to a person.
Read the Bible Text – Hebrews 11:1-39 Joshua 2:1-24
Talk Outline – Hebrews 11 and Acts 10
– Ken Noakes
We all love justice and hate injustice. From earliest childhood this has been the case. One of the first complaints we learn to utter is, “That’s not fair!”
But how do we go when the finger of justice is pointing at us? Are we still as passionate about it? Or is there something else we love even more?
And what about God’s justice? How do we feel about that? Is justice beneath God? Does his justice betray a cranky side of him? And how will we go when God’s finger of justice is pointed at us?
These are very important questions!
Read the Bible Text – Romans 3:21-26
– David Shead
Sermon ‘Healing The Body’ (John 11:1-44) by Simon Marshman is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2jDC0WB
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/1SYwdSc
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2f9AwBR
Sermon: Do you know what you must do to be saved? Geoff Lin from Acts 16:11-40 – available to stream or download: http://bit.ly/2mOSL1Q.
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2mMzDhz
English Support Document: http://bit.ly/2mMujeg
William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London, sermons ‘Christmas Just Around The Corner’
John 1:12 – available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2gDw5iL
John 1:18 – available to stream or download: http://bit.ly/2gcFZnF
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2gnKf7r
Download the English Corner PDF: http://bit.ly/2g0IbPb
I fear being fake.
I have been a Christian for over 20 years now and there have been times when I have felt I have just been going through the motions. Is that wrong?
It is a horrible feeling, but as I have often said it is difficult to control feelings (although it is possible to manage feelings).
Christians are real people. We serve a real God, who really loves us and who is really disappointed when we sin. At this I am ashamed. I don’t want to sin, and I do. I want to be serious and active in my faith and yet at times I feel as if I am just taking it all for granted.
Why is it that we belong?
There is a tension often in Christian communities – the tension of wanting more and more people to feel comfortable and welcome so that they may enjoy a sense of belonging to a body which likes to be together. Yet on the other hand, being a people who believe and respond to the Word of God – when at times that Word challenges, or confronts, or asks something of the person which is not that comfortable.
Which comes first? Belonging or Belief?
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