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• What’s unbelievable here?
• Jonah’s sin
• Your sin and mine
• See how the text speaks of….
‘Fruit in keeping with repentance’
Responding to the grace of God…
Something you need to put right?
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• Jonah, down, but not gone!
• The appointed rescuer
• Did it really happen?
• See how the text speaks of….
Vows?
Before you vow!
If you’ve broken a vow…
Evidence for design abounds in this world. Even some ardent atheists acknowledge this, but they deny the need for a Designer, attributing it to ‘evolution’. Modern science reveals design that ‘shouts out’ that God created, as the Bible says. However, many reject God on the basis that he must be god to allow the terrible events and suffering that we see in the world today. The idea that there was a ‘global flood’ that covered the earth and any suggestion that the ‘Noah’s Ark’ story is true, now gets laughed at by many. But the Bible holds this out as a fact, and in this world there is evidence in support of it. Do you know what that evidence is?
Rod Walsh, a well known speaker on Creation matters, from Creation Ministry International, will present some of this faith-affirming evidence that will encourage you in his topic, ‘Noah’s Flood – A Deluge of Evidence’. It’s on at St John’s, 7pm on Friday 25 October 2024. Supper follows and tables full of CMI resources. Come and join us!
In this message on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-12, Presbyterian Theological College student, Aaron Maskell, encourages us from the text to live lives on integrity (by both believing and living the gospel) based on Paul’s experience and example.
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In 2 Timothy 1:8-12, we find that the Apostle Paul was just ‘getting warmed up’ after his initial greeting to Timothy. After establishing the reasons why he was so thankful for Timothy, Paul proceedes with some exhortations to Timothy to take responsibility for the gospel, not so much teaching it (not yet anyway), but suffering for it. Paul was in prison and facing death and he was doing all this for the sake of the gospel. Timothy was not yet in prison and not yet facing death, but he was still called to live a li9fe of faithfulness to the gospel as Paul did – regardless of the outcome.
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• The second in this series
• What we learned about Paul and Timothy
• The passing of the baton
• See how Paul speaks of …
Five French young men
Faithful unto death…
The letter of Paul to Timothy that we know as 2 Timothy is significant for a number of reasons, but mainly because it stands as Paul’s last letter before his execution. Written to his younger son and trainee Timothy, a pastor-teacher in the first century, it is full of warm feelings from Paul to Timothy, but also strong advice and exhortation about Timothy’s task and the way he ought to fulfill his calling. In 2 Timothy 1:1-7, Paul sets some foundations in place, especially in regard to his own confidence in the Lord and, to a degree, also in Timothy.
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• The first in this series
• Paul’s last letter and from prison!
• Paul’s attitude
• See how Paul tells us of his confidence in …
Fan this into flame…
What God has given his servants…
Now that our Home Groups have finished a Bible Study series on “Joseph and his amazing testimony” (Genesis 37-50), our next series has begun on Acts 1-12. Our prayer is that God will use this to revive and refresh His people as we note the way in which His church sprang into action and through the sharing and preaching of the gospel message about Jesus, transformed the world of their day! Come join us!
The text of Genesis 35:1-29 tells us that Jacob finnaly headed from Shechem, where there had been much disgrace brought upon his family, to Bethel, where God renewed so many of His promises to Jacob’s family. With three revelations of the Lord to Jacob on the way to and while at Bethel and three deaths in Jacob’s immediate family, the chapter is full of highs and lows for Jacob. As the last in this sermon series, it’s good to see how Jacob played a special role in the coming of the One who was Jacob’s (Israel’s) greater Son, Jesus the Messiah.
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• The sixteenth and last in this series
• The context of this chapter
• Jacob and Bethel
• See how Moses tells us of Jacob’s journeying…
Where his story began…
Who his story leads to…
There’s no way of looking at Genesis 34:1-31 without saying that the story is not a pretty picture. In fact, the actions of jacob’s sons were deplorable, as we the actions of the young man who raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah. Moses, who recorded the story for us, certainly doesn’t hold back – even Jacob himself comes across as all too passive when dealing with the sins of his sons. But in all of this, God is at work, even rescuing us from afar bigger mess that we created because of our own sin.
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• The fifteenth in this series
• An uncomfortable text!
• Some of the bad fruits from Jacob’s failure to obey
• See how Moses tells us of …
The abuse of the holy…
When God’s people are a stench…
The text of Genesis 33:1-20 gives the conclusion to the long anticipated meeting of Jacob and his twin, Esau. All that Jacob had been through now led up to this most significant moment when he would have to face up to his brother. But while the reader might have expected to be fireworks and anger, the situation has been diffused. Jacob is different and so is Esau. God has been good! But Jacob’s half-hearted response to God leaves the door open for compromise and temptation to make their way in his family.
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• The fourteenth in this series
• Amazing and remarkable…
• Some of the fruits of God’s work in Jacob’s life
• See how Moses tells us that …
A warning about what’s to come!
God’s work to make us His own…