Read the text – 1 Kings 5:1-18
Chapter 5 onwards of 1 Kings focuses on the construction of the Temple built by Solomon, the first permanent place of worship and residence of God on earth. In this sermon of the sermon series ‘Desire of the Nations’, Dave Swan speaks on the great promise of God, and how this promise still stands with His faithfulness thousands of years later, long after the Temple itself had fallen. This was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook morning service.
Read the text – 1 Kings 3:1-38
This video is part of the ‘Desire of the Nations’ sermon series. In this sermon, Dave Swan looks at 1 Kings, the beginning of King David’s royal line. He speaks on God’s promises and blessings, first for King David and then for King Solomon. This sermon was give at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook evening service.
Wisdom in Proverbs: More precious than Rubies.
Julie Haddon helps us see the truth of the gospel in Proverbs across 3 talks from our Women’s retreat.
Join her in Proverbs to see God’s creative purposes, through the Fall, until we see Jesus as the true expression of Wisdom in Proverbs 31.
2024 Womens retreat slides talk 1 and 2
2024 Womens retreat slides talk 3
Talk 1 – Wise Ways (Julie Haddon)
Read the text – 1 Kings 4:29-34 & Proverbs 1:1-7
Talk 2 – Wise Worship (Julie Haddon)
Read the text – Proverbs 9:1-18
Talk 3 – Wise Women (Julie Haddon)
Read the text – Proverbs 31:10-31
Read the text – Job 28:1-28
Job’s ‘comforters’ have become more like his ‘accusers’. Chapter 28 acts as an interlude where all are invited to lift their eyes from Job’s problems and the arguments which have bogged them down. The cost of the search for the most valuable things is worth it. Yet, Wisdom is the most valuable thing and the most difficult to find. God is the only source of true wisdom.
In this Bible Talk, Ken Noakes helps us to unlock the wisdom of the Book of Job. And in doing so helps the listener to lift their gaze from suffering and trying to figure things out for themselves to understanding that answers can only be found in God.
Read the text – Job 19:1-29
We have met the upright and blameless Job, and seen the tragedy and suffering which fell upon him. In the chapters that follow (Job 3-27), Job responds to the “comfort” (?) of his friends with words full of agony and pain. Job looks to his only hope: a sovereign and perfect God who cannot allow injustice. In spite of his circumstances and feelings, the small glimmer of hope from 9:33-34 which became a faint trickle of hope in 14:14-15 and 16:19-21, has become much more certain, to the point where declares “I know that my redeemer lives!”(19:25). This yet again reveals that the deepest desire of his heart is to be in the presence of the God he loves (19:27). In spite of what his friends have said, Job doesn’t fear death because he is sure that he will see the Lord face to face, and that there is the hope of a resurrection (19:26).
Read the text – Job 1:1-2:10
With suffering wherever you look around the world, we being to ask many questions… Where is God? Why does he allow this? How can God be good when things are not? In the book of Job, we see these questions. We follow his struggle to understand what was happening to him. And yet we also see the development and growth in his understanding of God, and the kind of Saviour we all need.
In this Bible Talk, Gary Haddon introduces this book of wisdom and we look at the upright man named Job – a man who fears God and shuns evil. This man who experiences some extraordinary trials which shape argument of the Book of Job.
Read the text – 1 Corinthians 1:17-31
Why did Jesus have to die, and more die in the way he did, especially since he knew he would rise again just three days later. Why go through all he did? In this Good Friday talk Ken Noakes looks at the foolishness of the cross – foolish in the eyes of so many in the world, yet the wisdom of God.
Read the text – 1 Corinthians 3:18-4:13
What does a faithful leader under Christ look like: a steward and servant. In fact, a fool, and one whom you should imitate in Christ. In this Bible talk, Gary Haddon helps us to think through who a disciple follows and why – for it should be Christ whom we follow, as demonstrated by a leader who shows themselves to be faithful. They must strive to imitate Christ, being willing to become the scum of the earth in the process!
Read the text – 1 Corinthians 3:1-17
Growing up in faith means being built up upon the only true foundation Jesus Christ and grown by God. Take care, anyone who builds upon that foundation, for your work will be tested.
In this talk, Ken Noakes helps us to understand that growing in faith is grounded in what God has done through Jesus, yet demonstrated in the various ways that we each serve to build up his church. And we are warned that the good we do (under God) will last while the bad will be destroyed.
Read the text – 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
What should hold a church together – Our relationships? Our feeling of belonging? Our gospel convictions? Jesus? The Apostle Paul wrote this extraordinary letter to a church he knew well, yet a church which had got itself into a bit of a muddle. It turns out that the Christian Family does matter – and it is important to ensure that Jesus sits at the heart and soul of this church and in fact any church.
In this talk, Ken Noakes looks at what it means to be mature in Christ by understanding the wisdom of God, which is impossible without the Spirit revealing it to us.
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