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Job Advert – ASSISTANT TO THE PASTOR (Full Time)
Feb 25th
This is a fantastic opportunity for an outgoing person who will enjoy the challenge of being fully involved in a wide range of work in this busy church of various nationalities. This will suit someone who has a strong desire to see people come to Christ and to grow in Christ, who enjoys discipling and equipping people in their Christian life.
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Sermon 20111204 No angel seen for 400 years then one visits Zechariah
Dec 5th
John Barton preached on the first chapter of Luke’s gospel and the appearance of the angel Gabriel to Zechariah. John brought out a number of details that are often often overlooked.
The recording quality is very bad, don’t know why, sorry. It is worth persisting though as this is good teaching. Standard Podcast [ 42:07 ] Play in Popup | Download
Sermon 23102011 Until Jesus Christ returns in glory, when I shall know fully, even as I am fully known, I am determined to live the transformed life
Oct 24th
This morning Graham spoke on 1 John 4:16-5:5 looking at what this passage says about seeing, believing and knowing.
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1 John 4:16-5:5Intro I have tried to gather things under heading to make it easier to deal with the many themes that appear in this section. This week the headings are Seeing, Believing and Knowing. In case you think you are getting a touch of deja vu, yes it is similar to the headings on 16th Oct when the headings were Knowing, Seeing and Trusting. Once again I need to point out that John does not simply repeat points but seems to go in a spiral, enlarging as he returns to a point. When he revisits a point he tends to amplify upon it either by adding information to it or by the context he places around it.
Verse 21 There are three relationships we have with God:
- With our brother and sister who is each his image.
- By the commandment which is his will.
- Through Love; seen in us as we live out that action and decision we call love.
1) Seeing Verse 20 Loving is connected with seeing, as previously mentioned.
See 1 John 4:12 No-one has ever seen God; but More >
09102011 Sermon: Steve Jobs died this week. Think of all he accomplished and ask yourself how your accomplishments compare to his
Oct 11th
I continued my series on 1 John. This week we reach the great theme of the action, or activity, described in the scripture as love. In the week that Steve Jobs died and the media has been full of comments on his life and work I invited people to think of all he accomplished and ask to ask themselves how their accomplishments compare to his. I suggested that there is a great difference between what can be accomplished in this life and what makes a difference to eternity.
Standard Podcast [ 29:20 ] Play in Popup | Download 1 John 4:7- 10
Intro Steve Jobs died this week. Think of all he accomplished and ask yourself how your accomplishments compare to his.
I quoted from his Stanford University Commencement address which delivered on June 12, 2005. I predicted it will become popular to be read at funerals for years to come.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. More >
25092011 Sermon: Jesus, a man that was born, died, rose, ascended, pleads before the Father, returning again to judge the earth
Sep 26th
Continuing with the series on 1 John. This time we look at the incarnation and why it matters to our present as well as our future. We noted that being seated with Christ ensures our fellowship with God and our authority as believers. To be hid with him ensures our fellowship and our security.
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1 John 4:1-6
Intro – The Spirits John is indicating here that behind people’s comments or teachings there can be a spiritual influence, and in some cases an actual spirit. In order to assess the truth of a teaching it helps to try and identify its root, where it is coming from. This is as relevant today as it was then. The reason is that the battle for ownership of the souls of men and women is still raging.
1) The Test (a) “Acknowledges” or “confesses”. This is more than agreement with something. See James 2:19 Mark 1:24. It is the belief or conviction that is being communicated. (b) The doctrine. That Jesus has come in the flesh. This is the core doctrine of what is known as the ‘incarnation’. Jesus was the one who had existed from the beginning and was both true God and More >
11092011 Sermon: Cain represents man’s way rather than God’s way, man made religion, a supposed bloodless route to God
Sep 12th
Week 17 of the series on the epistles on John. This week is 1 John 3:11-24.
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Intro In this section we will read of love and hate. We come to the centre, or mid-point, of the letter. Perhaps we could also say we are getting to the heart of the letter as John speaks of love.
The turn of the spiral this time is on the word ‘beginning’, verse 11.
See 1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched— this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
1 John 2:7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.
1 John 2:13 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, dear children, because you have known the Father.
1 John 2:14 I write to you, fathers, because you have known him More >
Sermon 03072011: The world and its desires pass away
Jul 3rd
Unfortunately the recording didn’t work this week, however, Graham’s notes on 1 John 2: 15-17 can be read below.
Letters of John. Part 14
1 John 2:15-17
Intro
Toby covered the section of 1 John 2:15-16 so I will avoid repeating what Toby said. There is so much richness of revelations here that I do not need to repeat what Toby brought to us.
In this section we see that John speaks about having a right perspective on this life. He stresses that we should not love the world or anything in the world (15). and that ‘The world and its desires pass away’ (v17).
1) Do not love the world
Yes I know Jesus is quoted in John 3 as loving the world. We need to understand that in this letter John writes about having a right perspective on this life, in this world. Unlike in John chapter 3 he is not speaking of the world as containing people who should be loved, but ‘stuff’ that the world contains.
The key to understanding what John means here is to read the rest of the statement,
If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
The point here is that we are being told about More >
YEC Sermon 120611: An informed study of 1 John could not be complete without addressing word propitiation
Jun 13th
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1 John 1:9 – 2:2
“Atoning sacrifice” or “propitiation”.
Intro An informed study of 1 John could not be complete without addressing the matter of this word. There has been much debate among bible translators about how to render the word in English. Some would say the word carries the meaning of a sacrifice to appease the anger of God, others would say that God is love and is not angry so another word is needed.
Illustration of the Jack Russell on the path. 1) Does God have anger as well as love? Exodus 22:24 My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.
Exodus 32:10-11 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation. But Moses sought the favour of the LORD his God. O LORD, he said, why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand?
Exodus 32:12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to More >
Sunday Sermon 15th May 2011
May 16th
This week there was only a short preach because we had a meeting where lots of different people shared about how they are involved in mission at the moment. However, we did record what Graham shared. Apologies that the recording misses off the bible reference. It is Acts 12.
Standard Podcast [ 18:04 ] Play in Popup | DownloadHi All. We had a missions focus on Sunday with a few of our people telling of the adventures they will be up to this summer, with others reporting about previous trips. We also profiles some others we are connected to in various places overseas.
One interesting fact was that we have one person who has been visiting a place in India to serve there as a missionary while at the same time we have believers in our church from India living as missionaries among us. What a great and wonderful thing the church is!
I emphasised though that they usual mission place is where each believer lives and works.
It was only a very short preach therefore. I focused briefly on Acts 12:5
Acts 12:5
See the background in the first verses of the chapter. The situation appeared disastrous, but the church was praying!
I asked the following questions:
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Sunday Sermon 27 Feb 2011
Feb 28th
If you are a regular listener to my sermons you will wonder why this one is so short and why I was speaking quickly. The reason is that we had first had a visitor telling us about her work overseas in a place where she and others could be in danger if some of the details were to be public. For that reason her presentation was not recorded. My sermon came after her talk and I cut it down to fit the time.
I did not have time to include the details about the Chiasm which I intend to do next week. However, the notes about it are here as here is where it best fits.
Standard Podcast [ 16:11 ] Play in Popup | Download2 John 4-6
Intro Date And Place Of Writing. Although this was addressed earlier in the series it is relevant to remind ourselves of the details now.
Eusebius (AD 263–339 wrote first surviving church history, and advisor to the Emperor Constantine) writes that John, after the death of the Roman Emperor Domitian, returned to Ephesus from his exile in Patmos (where you wrote the book of revelation) and went on missionary tours into the heathen regions around. He also visited churches in the More >
