Ken Noakes preaching at Trinity Church Aldgate, looks at Paul’s attitude, articulation and activity as he shares his faith. Ken then challenges us to reflect on how the Gospel shapes our lives.
Tag Archives: Hope
Sermon – Conformed To The Son (Romans 8:18-30)
Sermon ‘Conformed To The Son’ (Romans 8:18-30) by Des Smith is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2zIQJ6W
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2zyIgmU
Read the English support notes: http://bit.ly/2zyGSAI
Sermon Script – Romans 8.18-30 – Conformed to the Son (Vision Sunday #2)
Sermon – Nahum (Nahum 1-3)
Sermon ‘Nahum’ (Nahum 1-3) by Geoff Lin is available now in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2vAv4e0
Read the Bible text: http://bit.ly/2ubRtAK
If you are going to live for Christ, are you willing to make a stand? (Part 2 of 6)
‘The ultimate test of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and moments of convenience, but where he stands in moments of challenge and moments of controversy.’ so said Martin Luther King Jnr, the great American Black Civil Rights Leader and Preacher at a Nobel Peace Prize Recognition Dinner on 27th January 1965.[1]
It is a profound statement and one which many Christians should be able to relate too. Christians can say what they believe, but that belief is most clearly tested, most obvious, when Christians have to stand firm through challenge, conflict or persecution.
What must I do to be saved? (Part 3 of 4)
Why is salvation by grace so hard to accept?
This doctrine is one of the many points where the Bible is totally out of step with our society!
Romans 5 helps us:
5 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Before I die… I want to go home!
Sickness and death hurt.
Last week, a member of 5pm Church unexpectedly passed away. Brian started attending 5pm at the beginning of last year and for a brief time was a member of one of our small groups. He passed away in his home of as yet unknown causes. He was a son, a brother, a friend, a doctor and a Christian. Thank God.
Book Review: 666 and All That
666 and All That: The Truth About the Future by John Dickson and Greg Clarke (Sydney: Blue Bottle Books, 2007).
Reviewed by Katy Annis
What happens in the End? What does the Bible say will happen in the future?
The theological term most often used to describe the end of times is ‘eschatology’. 666 and All That by John Dickson and Greg Clarke addresses the topic of eschatology, a subject that both fascinates and concerns many people.
Dickson and Clarke treat this subject with a clear, concise and ‘no-nonsense’ approach. This book has a simple underlying argument; that is, Scripture itself does not provide a literal ‘play-by-play’ description of what the future will be like, therefore, we have little to gain by attempting to understand it in this way. Rather, they suggest that our focus should be on the promises, the hope and the joy that Christians can anticipate in the future Kingdom.