1. Righteousness from God
Dipping our toes in Romans. The Gospel Truth. Righteousness from God. Romans 1:1-17 Archdeacon Hugh introduces the New Year sermon series in the Book of Romans.
Talks tagged with ‘New Creation’
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5. The Kingdom of God is judgement
Luke 19:11-27 The kingdom of God comes with an announcement of judgement. Luke includes the story of a master who goes away to be made king and who returns to inaugurate his kingdom. it works as a counter to the unexpected way in which Jesus demonstrates his kingship.
Frontline Sunday 5
In this last of the series of Frontline Sundays we read from Hebrews 10:19-25. Motivating one another and gathering together was all the more poignant on the Sunday before a second ‘lockdown’ was to begin. Allen Foster reviewed the series reminding us that we are God’s elect, scattered and exiled. We hold hope together with […]
1 John 5:1-12 Faith in the Son of God
Last in the Series in 1 John. 1 John 5:1-12
1 John 3:1-3 Children of God now
1 John 3:1-3 Peter develops what it means that we are children of God in the series in First John. Our experience of our earthly father may make a stumbling block to accept God as a father. As people we need to ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the truth about God’s nature to us. […]
God’s Glory Shared 1.
Readings were from Genesis 1:26-31a and Isaiah 43:1-7. The preacher sets the scene for a short series about the big picture of God and us. Beginning with the perfection of creation it looks forward, beyond the world’s mess, to the image of God being restored in us. As the pinnacle of God’s creation we can […]
The Life of a Disciple
In this last in the series ‘the Life of a Disciple’, Rosie sums up some of the areas which have been considered through the series and looks at what it means to be real, authentic disciples of Christ. She illustrates this using the story from Luke 13:10-13 of a woman ‘crippled’ for 18 years.
The Life of a Disciple – 8
Peter Cunliffe develops the subject of discipleship and draws on Deuteronomy 4:4-9 and Mark 10:13-16 to explore what it means to have responsibility for the whole church in nurturing faith in one another, especially thinking about our roles in the faith development of children and young people. As adults in the church we face the […]
The Life of a Disciple 4
Formed by the Spirit The Spirit is at work in us, in the church and in the world. In us…revealing the love of the Father to us, and so making us more like Christ In the church…forming the body of Christ – the Church and making a bride that will be holy and blameless and […]
All that Jesus said and did – Matthew 11: 20-24
Last week we ended with Jesus’ denunciation of the people through his little parable of the children at play, as we continue to read in Matthew the denunciation becomes sharper. In these five verses of Matt 11:20-24 there is a double warning, explanation and comparison of the story of judgement on towns in Israel’s past […]