Mic 3 – Should you not know justice? – sermon notes
Text: Micah 3
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Mic 2 – Situation vacant – sermon notes
Text: Micah 2
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Lk 1:57-80 – “What will this child be?” – sermon notes
Text: Luke 1:57-80
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Lk 1:1-4 – “Dear Theophilus” – sermon notes
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Ex 5 – From bad to worse – sermon notes
Exodus 5
‘Things are going from bad to worse’
…mutterered the teenager as he reflected first on the coffee stain he had just made on his parent’s new carpet, and then on the results of pouring bleach over it.
…moaned the England football fans as they contemplated first their team’s embarrassing display in the European Cup and then on the manager’s equally embarrassing departure from his role.
…sighed the young woman struggling single-handedly to raise her two young children, who then was told that she must undergo prolonged and painful medical treatment.…
Eph 2:1-10 – Before and after – sermon notes (v2)
Ephesians 2:1-10
Transformations. DIY SOS, Restorations, Homes Under The Hammer, House Doctors, Grand Designs, Tattoo Fixers, Embarrassing Bodies.
But none of them attempts: the transformation from death to life.
V5 ‘God made us alive even when we were dead.’
1. Before, 1-3
A threefold tyranny: –
The tyranny of the world: v2 ‘You followed the ways of this world’. ‘Those places, persons, pleasures and pursuits where God is left out.’ Those without Christ are slaves to secularism, materialism, peer pressure, religious fads, and the dubious role models of celebrities.…
Ex 2:11-25 – What is God up to? – sermon notes
Exodus 2:11-25
“Why do I bother to keep forgiving him?” shrugs the woman, after her husband has abused her yet again.
“Why do I bother being honest?” complains the employee, who has been hauled over the coals once again for refusing his bosses’ orders to fiddle the books.
“Why do we bother to keep bailing him out of trouble?” mutter mum and dad, after their wayward son let’s them down yet again.
Do you known that feeling?…
Ex 2 – The turning point – sermon notes
Exodus 2
Many of us have known and loved the story of ‘Moses in the Bullrushes’ since childhood. It is indeed a charming story. But it is also a perplexing story. And, ultimately, a hugely encouraging story.
1. Be Charmed
Cruel Pharaoh is afraid that the Israelites will continue to grow in number and turn against him. First, he commands the Hebrew midwives to kill all the boys at birth. But they outwit him. Then, he orders that they all be cast into the Nile. …
2 Tim 3 – Continue in the gospel – sermon notes
2 Timothy 3
What kind of church do we want to be? A gospel church. Guard the gospel, 1:14. Suffer for the gospel, 2:3. Now: continue in the gospel: v14 – ‘but as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of’.
Why? Because ‘there will be terrible times in the last days,’ v1. The present age, between Christ’s first and second comings. If Paul was thinking of some far-off future, why would he tell Timothy in v5 to ‘have nothing to do’ with certain trouble-makers? …
Psa 139 – You know me – sermon notes
Psalm 139
It was going so well! Here is one of the most beautiful and personal of all the psalms. ‘Lord, you are amazing. You know me through and through. You are with me everywhere I go. You formed me in my mother’s womb. And isn’t it about time you started smiting some enemies?’
At first, I considered leaving that bit out.
1. God knows me – completely, 1-6
V1 – ‘O Lord, you have searched me and you know me’ – though others may misunderstand and misrepresent me, you, O God, know me as I really am. …