Grace
Rosemary Cunliffe completes our series on the Basis of Faith adopted by St James’ by speaking of heaven from Revelation 21 and the city of God but beginning with Genesis 1 taking us from creation to new creation.
Talks tagged with ‘Jesus’
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Christ’s Return as the Triumph of Grace
The gift of eternal life is not ultimately a passport to heaven but a participation in new creation that breaks into our present reality with a completely new reality –the kingdom of God in which we participate as the holy people of God, full of grace and truth. Matthew 24:32-44; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Seeking, Practising and Carrying the Presence of God (Part 2)
John and Ann Coles speak together at the New Wine Cambridgeshire event in St James’. John speaks from Exodus 33 and Moses encounter with God, and Ann speaks from Genesis 1 and John 6 – about the feeding of the 5000.
Seeking, Practising and Carrying the Presence of God (Part 1)
John and Ann Coles speak together at the New Wine Cambridgeshire event in St James’. John speaks from Exodus 33 and Moses encounter with God.
Advent Sunday
Peter Cunliffe speaks from the lectionary texts of Advent Sunday about having confidence in God’s word and so not fearing the news because the ‘Good News’ which is the gospel is of new creation and Christ’s return as king.
Grace – the atonement as the work of grace
Peter Cunliffe speaks from Romans 3. Everyone has sinned, we fail to reach the mark. There are different ideas about sin; at sin’s root is the fundamental unbelief, distrust and rejection of God and the human displacement of God as the centre of reality; but apart from the fact that sin separates us from God and […]
The church as a body with Christ as the head
The nature of the church: invisible yet visible (the church as God sees it)
God has put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church. Ephesians 1:22 Christ’s church, this body of people, benefit not only by what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross, but also that he has made us into a […]
Don’t be afraid
Jesus doesn’t say, Being a disciple will be easy, or undemanding, but what he does say is that he will equip and be with us, he will give us all we need. The call to discipleship is the call to be like Christ, including being treated like Christ. So we need to hear Jesus saying to us “Don’t be afraid.”
Easter Day
Easter 2015 Here are the notes of Peter’s address to the 9 am congregation on Easter Day in lieu of a partial recording.