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Freedom is our future hope. We can begin to enjoy it now by acting through love.

Intro a) Do you have any irrational, and entirely ridiculous fears? i) I do… I have an irrational and entirely ridiculous fear of moths. • If a moth comes anywhere near me I’m like a caffeinated rave dancer, on ice. • It’s irrational. • It’s an insect! • I’m 38.75 times bigger than it! • It’s ridiculous.…

We have been looking at the book of Nahum over the past few weeks and we have noticed that the message of God against this great city of Nineveh was a message of wrath. 100 years before the prophet Nahum had brought this message of judgement God had sent another prophet, the prophet Jonah and Jonah had…

Welcome TKC Reading We start by taking a moments rest before we read For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. When he fled before Saul into the cave. 1 Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me, for I take refuge in you. I will seek refuge in the shadow of your wings until danger…

Introduction There’s a show on channel 4 called undercover boss - you may have heard about it or maybe you’ve seen it. I've never watched a full episode, but I like the concept of it. The show focuses on massive companies where the owner is SO high up the chain that the front-line workers don’t know…

Real meaning of the passage, applied to heart

Welcome to our Christmas Day Service. It is a great pleasure to have you here especially if you are a guest. Prayer Let me start with a 700 year bc prophecy of Jesus: 14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.…

sdav In the 1920’s a boy was born in New York City to a poor family. The boy’s father was unemployed majority of the boy’s life. The boy grew and in high school, be became aware of the financial burden the family had and started working. He had many jobs and finally became an office assistant in a magazine…

don’t give up - pursuing the Spirit leads to life Intro me Who here has had a good habit, one you’ve held on to it for a while, slip away from you? Maybe it’s exercise. Maybe it’s diet. Maybe it’s bedtime. Maybe it’s practising an instrument. Maybe something spiritual - like bible reading or prayer.…

Over the last number of weeks we’ve been focusing on prayer on a fellowship, looking at passages that model prayer or teach on prayer. The plan is to have today and 2 more on this topic, and again I want to urge you all to pray with me that God might in His grace stir our hearts to see our dependence…

Prayer can be the place we find strength to submit to God’s plan - even in a crisis. So in our present crisis, be honest with God in prayer, but pray for the strength to walk the hard path of obedience. Jesus walks the costly path of submission, and so, Jesus takes the cup of wrath for us. Let Jesus take your cup. Show others the mercy and grace you’ve been shown.

THE CHURCH IS CHRIST’S AND CHRIST IS ABOVE ALL While civil government is invested with divine authority to rule the state, neither of those texts ( Rom 13 ; 1 Peter 2 ) (nor any other) grants civic rulers jurisdiction over the church . I believe that God in Scripture has established three institutions…

Mothering Sunday Mothering Sunday is a day honouring mother churches, the church where one is baptised and becomes "a child of the church", celebrated since the Middle Ages in the United Kingdom, Ireland and some Commonwealth countries on the fourth Sunday in Lent. According Wikipedia Mothering Sunday…

Then they sent for him and called him. And Jeroboam and all Israel came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying, “Your father made our yoke heavy; now therefore, lighten the burdensome service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.” So he said to them, “Come back to me after…

At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.” For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s…

1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Things that cause people to stumble are bound to come, but woe to anyone through whom they come. 2 It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble. 3 So watch yourselves. “If…

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under…

Pancakes Cook 2 pancakes This week sees the start of lent. A time when we remember Jesus time in the wilderness, how he went without food, focused on His Father and has an encounter with satan. The Lenten period starts with Shrove Tuesday (pancake day) and Ash Wednesday. I want to start by cooking pancakes.…

Often when God's call on our lives is discussed, the focus is on what we should do. Sometimes there is also a focus on who we are in Christ. But I want to look behind even that to start with, to the question of who God is, or what God is like. Because it makes a huge difference to how we respond to God's…

It's Just So Rich: Philippians 2:5-11 There is something fantastic about fudge shops. When you go to your local Tesco's you know that you can buy fudge, but it's likely to be own brand, mass produced, only one or two flavours available. We went to the Lake District for our holidays and we stayed in Ambleside.…

Title: Grace for Beggars Context: The relief from the famine at Jerusalem Text: 2 Kings 6:24- 2 Kings : 7-20 @ Nelson Road on 16th March 2008 Introduction A couple of weeks ago I sat watching the news….and saw the bombing on Palestine by the Israelis….bodies where everywhere….it was hard for me to take…

John 3: 26 They came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, that man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan—the one you testified about—well, he is baptizing, and everyone is going to him.” 27 To this John replied, “A man can receive only what is given him from heaven. 28 You yourselves can testify…