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again just a summary map - no mp3!!

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again now Mp3 - just to keep a record

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Just for the sake of keeping a record - but no mp3 this week!

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http://www.mediafire.com/file/yadymdymmii/Luke 1 26-38 - 21 Feb 2010 - ABruce.mp3

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A new Year a new sermon series on luke!http://www.mediafire.com/?dydamjz4izw

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Introduction - Isaiah 9:1-7Believe it or not another year, is for all intents and purposes over. And these realizations always give you cause to pause and reflect on what was, and then think about what will be.If your life was like a vineyard, what kind of crop would 2009 have been for you?And please don't over think this metaphor, I don't want people coming up to me after church saying, "Mine

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Well congratulations Steve and Michelle, you have done it, officially married and everything!I'm glad I could play a part here today.Michelle, you look lovely today.And Steve, well - good to see you got rid of those ridiculous corn rows you had at your brothers wedding!!Now, I'm pretty sure I don't need to argue to you two that marriage is a good thing! Given where we are standing and what we

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Download here:http://www.mediafire.com/?waztonmqxjx

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Introduction to this seriesThe aim of this particular preaching series, or series of talks really, is to help us think Christianly, about the world that God has given us to live in. Normally we have talks directly from a set passage from the Bible, and this is entirely right, in terms of our confidence that God really does speak to us truly about our world, from his word.However often, due to the

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1.0 introductionWell everyone, in case you have forgotten, it is tax return week!Personally, I hate tax return week. It is such a laborious exercise isn't it? Where you have to account for money earned, and money spent, and if you are like me, you are never quite sure if you are doing it properly. It is tiring!I hate it so much, I gladly pay for an accountant to do it for me.And my suspicion is,

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Luke 17:20-37 -- Jesus is the unexpected.. King, Judge and saviour. But the most unexpected part is his timing!1.0 introductionThe great populist philosopher Homer J. Simpson once confidently declared that, “BEER is the cause of --- and solution to --- all the world's problems!".And that is an insightful critique I think, into the nature of our society and its relationship to alcohol today. Just

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1.0 introductionNow I don’t mind admitting there is much that I do not know, things about life, things about the world, and even things about myself.Having said that, there is a couple of things, that even a simpleton like myself can figure out, and say with certainty. And those couple of things are; firstly I am alive. And secondly, I will die. These are just the scientific and historical

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You are Worthy MP3oops missed one! Church at Laodicea MP3

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Download from here

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Back on the horse in the letter to the church at Sardis!

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http://www.lmap.org.au/file_download/79/Revelation+2+-+09+August+2009.mp3

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For some reason I can't get my sermon to post on this site, but you can download a mp3 version of it here: http://sites.google.com/site/thewonderousstory/revelation-1---7pm

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Big Idea: The Kingdom of God is near and it comes in a Day of Judgment for the nations (in particular Edom) and restoration for Jacob Let me start by asking who here has ever heard a sermon on Obadiah?How long a go was that?Right well for the rest of you – mark this day in history – It could be the only sermon on Obadiah you hear in all you days on earth. By my reckoning a church like ours gets

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Big idea: a story of redemption; deliverance (salvation) is from the Lord, and he will use his chosen deliverer.Human beings love stories of redemption. Redemption is a key theme that runs through so many of the stories in books, movies, and even sport, but especially life, that as a society we love to tell.Many of you will know the sometime television presenter Simon O'Donnell, who once upon a

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Big idea: Sampson was the reluctant deliver, who should have been preparing the way for the king, but God in his sovereignty, his grace and patience would use his chosen person to achieve his good purposes.Put your hand up if you heard about Sampson as a kid?Maybe at Sunday school or scripture. Right so you get the impression that it is a fairly famous story, in fact the great Bruce Springsteen

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The chasm of alienation -- part three -- the solution -- part twoHow do you know you are doing the right thing?How do you know, that you are doing the right thing in your life, and with your life? How do you know, that you are doing the right thing in any given situation in your life? And how do you know, that doing the right thing actually matters anyway?So How do you know you are doing the

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The chasm of alienation -- part two -- the solution - part oneWhy is there something, rather than nothing?Why is there a world, why are there people, why do we exist, when it seems far more likely that non-existence is the more statistically sensible outcome. If you have an airtight, vacuum sealed, sterile, box of nothing, even if you leave it alone for millions of years, I guarantee you that

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Part one -- the chasm of alienation -- the problemhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2XX820jYoThe overwhelming sense of that song, both lyrically, and melodically, is of a man who knows that the world is not as it should be. And a man who longs for God to change it. (Whether it is the most theologically correct song going around, is definitely up for grabs), but at its heart it conveys in

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The chasm of alienationThe title for this weekend, "the chasm of alienation" came to me as I was reading a book by the great Christian philosopher Francis Schaefer, who put forward the idea, shaped by his biblical thinking, that in this life Mankind experiences a profound alienation. Mankind experiences a profound alienation, a disconnection, from truth and reality because at the heart of the

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Luke chapter 18 -- God gives grace to the humble but opposes the proud!BI; God has atoned for sin in the death of his son on a cross, and he graciously gives that forgiveness and cleansing to all who will humbly acknowledge their sin and accept his gift of forgiveness. The humble will be exalted, but the proud will be brought low.IntroductionWell today is a great day, where we are able to

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BI: God is the faithful covenant Lord who sees, hates and opposes sin by his sovereign hand through Israel’s enemies to test his people. But he is also the faithful covenant Lord who acts compassionately and sovereignly by raising up a deliverer to save His people.God alone is the saving Lord.AP: God’s people need to repent from the sin of idolatry (of willful self-determination) and turn to the

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‘My Generation’BI; God’s Covenant faithfulness is seen in both; his anger against the sin, and then his compassionate deliverance of his people.AP; The people are called to worship and serve their God alone.Introduction:They say living in Australia today there are four main generations, each with their distinctive characteristics;The Lucky Generation – who were born prior to 1946, I reckon they

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Jesus is the Lord who was bodily resurrected and by this, declared to be the Lord of Eternal Life, because he has defeated Sin and Death.Introduction – The Resurrected Jim!When I was fairly new out of university (the first time!), I often got assigned to go and do the site inspections for the various construction projects our company was working on. And one of the first ones I was assigned to was

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Who’s on Trial?Big Idea: Through the character of Pilate we see it is not Jesus who is on trial, but Jesus is the Judge presiding over the trial of the Jews, Pilate and us as the reader.I’m sure your life is no different to mine in this respect, - that the speed of the year is determined - by how quickly it seems we get to those most important of events of the year, - the Public holidays. The

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John 17; "I pray father..."Introduction;There are two big questions you need to ask about life, and they aren't optional. If you have been given the gift of life, it is incumbent upon us to ask these two questions, but more than that I think even the harsh pragmatics of this life bear their weight upon all of us at some point, and compel us to find answers to these two questions;1. who am I?2.

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Jesus goes to his father so that we may receive the holy spirit and all his benefits!IntroductionDid anyone hear see the latest Baz Luhrman epic Australia?It seems to me the only thing epic about it was the media propaganda leading up to its release, unless you think the level of ambivalence by the movie-going public after its release was even more epic!Now I didn't see the movie, and maybe when

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Forgive as the Lord forgave youWell Ian and Janessa, first the good news, congratulations well done you have made it, you are now officially married!Now for the bad news, if the history of marriage (even my own marriage but that matter), tells us anything about life, well take some really good pictures now, because this is as good as you are ever going to look, but before you panic that's okay --

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Follow the leader: "I am the good Shepherd"Today is 15 March 2009 AD, or, "in the year of our Lord", this is not a widely used phrase today, but still true. But if the secular media is to the be believed 2009 is not so much the year of our Lord as it is the year of our ObamaBarak Obama is the poster boy, (or the new messiah if you like), who is apparently going to lead his country and did indeed

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Jesus; the Lord of the eyesIntroductionhave you ever had a ‘deer in the headlights moment’?A moment of light shining like a spotlight on you, that uncovered you, and made you feel exposed, and it made you anxious to the point that you felt nauseous and thought you could throw up?A moment where you have no chance but to make a choice at that instant and everything to follow hinged upon this

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Mine eyes have seen the glory the coming of the Lord!(The glory of the Christ -- the first sign)IntroductionParents are a bit odd really!They work hard and they do their best, but ultimately they seem to spend most of their time being amazed, looking at their kids and saying, "who knew they could do that?".Parents always seem to be a couple of steps behind the play, when it comes to their kids.

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‘The Lord Almighty and the Temple of all the earth’IntroductionNow today we are up to our second and last talk on Zechariah, and as you may remember from last week if you were here, that Zechariah is a prophet of God who lived in Jerusalem in 520 BC. Now the whole of the nation of Israel had been invaded and exiled from their land in two parts, the north fell in 722 BC and the south in 586 BC.The

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‘The Prophet and the day of small things’IntroductionTime520BC – mightn’t jump straight to mind as being a postcard moment in your life, so let’s go back a bit. In around 1000 BC the Great King David’s Son Solomon, built the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem, and it was massive and impressive and you can read about it and its dedication in 1 kings 7 and 8.But it all went down hill from there for

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The Kindness and Love of God.Have you ever had a Slogan that sticks in your head, just through plain repetition, you know the kind of thing, where you have heard the phrase so many times, that you can just hear the phrase said and a whole heap of images come flooding back with it. Maybe it’s a line from a movie, like tell him he’s dreaming, Or, you can’t handle the truth!Some phrases just have an

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Teach the hope of eternal life that results in self-controlWhen I was a new graduate working in the consulting firm mentioned last week - one of the first big jobs I worked on - involved putting an 8 storey extension on top of a 14 storey existing building.That is no mean feat let me tell you, - after you take out the underground car park levels, - this extension effectively doubled the height of

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The Knowledge of the hope of eternal life results in godliness.Well good morning everyone, a few people will be away on holidays for the next couple of weeks, so for the next three weeks we are going to look at the book of Titus. 3 weeks and 3 chapters in the book, coincidence, not in the Anglican church my friend…Titus is a great book, but it’s a brief book, a brief book that is shot throughout

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Luke 2:21-35 -- "my eyes have seen the Lord's salvation"Big idea: Gods promised salvation (Jesus) has appeared as a light to the whole world.Introduction to the talk;Have you ever wondered how some people come up with the names of their children?I mean some kids names are just plain odd aren't they?And you just can't help but think, the Internet has a lot to answer for in this department!And even

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The family likeness -- endure instruction, discipline and hardship so you may produce the fruit of holiness and reached the heavenly goal.IntroductionQuite a few years ago I was in a soccer team, or a football to if you like, with a coach who was quite frankly obsessive. This coach had played in very high level teams in his day, and his expectations were a little higher than what we were used to.

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The life of faith; faith is a convicted belief in Christ and his promise demonstrated in action, and expressed through perseverance in the face of death.IntroductionIn around the middle of February 2007, Kath and I found ourselves having a very odd conversation. We were standing in a beach house a Callala Beach on the South Coast, and were as I said having a very odd conversation. Now to set the

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‘Let Us – Persevere’ IntroductionKath and I, as you may be aware, have just got back from a 10 day trip to visit friends in New Zealand, and the great thing about travelling is noticing all the differences about another country, the weather, the food, the people, even the livestock. But also noticing all the things that are common to people wherever you go, like voting in a new centre-left

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The full Assurance of faithJesus is the supreme High-priest, he is eternal, perfect, an appointed by God. And because of this he is able to save completely.Application: BE Assured; stop worrying about sin -- its penalty, or it is guilt -- look to Jesus our eternal and perfect High-priest who has saved us completely.Introduction;A few years ago when I was working in an engineering firm, we used to

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Christ or Caesar?Christ went to such great lengths as our supreme High-priest to faithfully confess us, how can we now slide back from faithfully confessing him?Action; (PRAY and obey)Introduction;"They have burned the church and killed the pastor," was the anxious report given to Nigeria's national director. "My wife and children... We are hiding.". Over the year, most of the project Philip

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Do not put the Lord your God to the test like the wilderness generation did, but continue by faith his Son, and act in obedience with His word so you will enter his true rest.IntroductionI'm sure it I'm not alone in this, but I get a macabre sense of enjoyment, when I hear stories about people who managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Stories about people who seem to have it all laid

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Everyone needs a Big Brother!And Jesus the Supreme Son of God (who has defeated death’s power and penalty), is our Brother, so fix your thoughts upon him in this life when you face opposition!INTROA couple of years ago I was on beach mission on the Central Coast. And the first day of beach mission is set up day, where you spend time slaving away in the hot sun, putting out tents, marquees and

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The Supreme Son The Supreme Son has spoken, so be careful to pay attention so you do not drift away from his Word of Salvation.Introduction to HebrewsBecause of the events of this week, time has got a little away from me, so rather than having a detailed sermon today, and we will be having a talk that focuses on the main theme of chapter 1, but also introduces us generally to the book of Hebrews

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Christ’s GlassesIntroductionAs you may remember from last week from marks gospel we looked at a couple of scenes from Mark 10, where Jesus continues to explain to his disciples what discipleship will mean for them. Jesus try to explain to them what it means to follow him and he explains it through engaging a cast of characters who come to him and ask him questions.So in the first scene last week,

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Where is this relationship going?IntroductionGood morning everyone this week we are back looking at Marks GOSPEL and in particular were looking at chapter 10 versus 17-31. Now the passage in front of us today breaks up into two clear scenes. Scene one is where Jesus and a rich guy meet, and the second scene is where Jesus talks to his Disciples and in particular Peter gets a mention, which is not

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Live a Life worthy of your calling as Christ body in oneness of faith, knowledge, service, and speaking the truth in love that leads to maturity.Intro: They say that people in society can be divided into two basic categories, and they are those for who the glass is half full, and those for who the glass is half empty. So I thought I’d take a straw poll and we could see what kind of people we

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Have a mind to suffer for Christ, by speaking the Gospel and serving each other in humilityIntro:People throughout the history of the world have tried to answer the question of what is the goal of life? To the ancient philosophers like the stoics, the most you could hope for in this life was to bear up under all the external hardships and difficulties that happen to you with a sense of self

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Making PlansBig Idea: Jesus is the LORD of Heaven and Earth who commands His Disciples to make more DisciplesIntroduction:This mightn’t come as a surprise to you, but I can assure you it came as a surprise to me, that I have now well and truly passed from the decade of my twenties. I finished university over 10 years ago now, and if I had to summarize that decade, it would be about having to

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The aim of the game is to Devote yourself to the Lord!Serve the Lord by faithfulness through being concerned with pleasing him, wherever he has placed you, because he bought you at a price.Intro:Firstly, the chapter is long, but is important so it could have been a sermon series in it’s own right. But instead it will be a sermon, actually it is more of lecture really, in two parts and we are

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Do not be deceived, but flee sexual immorality because you belong to the Lord.IntroThe crowning objective of Western civilization is liberty or freedom. For instance the American declaration of Independence which was written on the 4th July 1776 says,‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

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What are you doing? This is a no-brainer! Expel the immoral brother that he may be saved on the day that the Lord returns and you may be acting properly.IntroThe only sport I’ve ever been sent off in, is netball, and it was mixed netball at that. My illustrious playing career lasted 2 games and then we parted ways. It is fair to say that netball and I have some philosophical differences in what

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Arrogance or Power? Pride or humility? Whip or Gentile Spirit?Don’t judge Paul; But imitate Paul your father in the Gospel whose life is the way of the Cross.Have you ever had the experience of saving up for a holiday, and looking forward to it so much that you thought you could burst, only to find yourself, when the great day arrives and you reach your long awaited destination, being so dog

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The Spiritually Mature realize that under God’s sovereignty we are all God’s Fellow workers; but only God makes things grow!So build God’s Temple well now because a day of testing is coming!IntroAs most of you will be aware, I have only fairly recently become a parent, and as you may also be aware, I have very recently got to experience the great joy it is, to go on a long family holiday car trip

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We are to live by GOSPEL WISDOM ‘..Lest the Cross of Christ be emptied of its Power’Intro to CorinthiansWell if the letter to the Corinthians was to go before office for film and literature classification, I’d imagine it would get an iM rating, with a statement that it is recommended for Immature Audiences as this letter contains graphic depictions of: Division Idolatry Sexual

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The Lord Appointed!Jonah 4:4-4:11Context, Setting and charactersWell today we continue with the story, of that most enigmatic of God’s prophets from the Old Testament Jonah, and today we look at scene four of his story that is set just outside the city of Nineveh.Now as you may remember scene 1 of Jonah is set upon the sea, and the scene ends for Jonah with him facing a watery grave at the bottom

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‘The Lord is Gracious and Compassionate’Jonah 3:1-4:4Context, Setting and charactersWell as you may remember last week we finished scene 2 with our ‘hero’ Jonah, being vomited onto dry land. This of course followed his descent from Israel to the bottom of the ocean and then Jonah’s prayer from a watery grave, with his head enclosed by reeds. Jonah’s prayer is answered by God he is taken to a

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‘Salvation belongs to the LORD’'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death.I'm very disappointed with that attitude.I can assure you, it is much, much more important than that.' Bill Shankly – manager of Liverpool Football ClubWe live in a society that is somewhat glib in it’s view of death don’t we?At best we set out to numb the specter of it, by the endless pursuit of ever

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‘Get Up Jonah!’Context, Setting and charactersThe book of Jonah is an enigmatic story, where everything is up side down. It is a story where irony is at the fore. It is also a rhythmic book that at times is explicitly poetic, and other times plays upon itself with these great parallel scenes that repeat, and in turn help us to interpret the message of each scene in light of the other.Jonah itself

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‘Christ Alone has done all that is required for salvation to be available as a gift which is received by faith alone.’‘Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus… let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure

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‘..you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed..’ 2 Timothy 3:15-16What is God Like towards me?Throughout history people have sought to answer the question, what is God like? And many have attempted an answer to this question, by making claims about God’s nature and character.People’s investigation

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‘For in the Gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith.. “The Righteous will live by faith”’ Romans 1:17.As some of you may be aware I ride a motorcycle. I’ve ridden bikes for a bit over 12 years now. The motorcycle I ride now I purchased exactly 10 years ago today. And it was an experience I won’t forget in a hurry, for various reasons but particularly the test

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Grace Alone‘For it is by grace you have been saved, through Faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast’ Ephesians 2:8-9Intro to the seriesWell since the beginning of time, mankind has asked questions about, ‘what is the meaning of life?’. Which implies the next logical and personal question doesn’t it? In ‘what is the meaning of my life?’

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‘Jesus is now the true meeting place for God and Man because the Old Temple will be destroyed!’Intro to SermonThis week we are moving on from our series on Ephesians and are continuing for the next four weeks or so in Mark’s gospel. These sections of Mark’s gospel continues our series we have titled ‘encounters with Jesus’. And looking at Jesus life is particularly appropriate, as we approach

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‘That we may know the love of Christ, and so be filled with the fullness of God’Intro:Have you ever been unexpectedly wet (not the depends kind of wet), I mean really drenched, I mean caught in a monsoonal rain storm type wet, I mean standing under a waterfall wet, I mean you got caught in a place where it rained so hard you thought your head would bleed!To which Edmund Blackadder would of course

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Remember: ‘In Christ’ the two have become the one temple and household of God!(Aka: From the outhouse to the penthouse!)I once went to Silverwater prison and a thought occurred to me immediately, People like me aren’t supposed to be in places like this! Now that feeling probably wasn’t as strong as the time soon after when I found myself in Emu Plains women’s periodic detention centre, NOW there

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‘In Christ we have an inheritance: Guaranteed’IntroductionI used to work in a consulting engineering firm, I’ve since repented of that so don’t hold it against me, but one day one of the project managers asked one of the younger engineers if a set of drawings for a particular project was going to get out the door today to meet the contract deadline. The younger engineer, who was fairly new from

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