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John Stott Online

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Subject: Stott Bible Study 08-23-97 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 From: ROMANS A Commentary by John Stott. Romans 1:1-6. 3). The substance of the gospel is Jesus Christ. If we bring verses 1 and 3 together, by omitting the parenthesis of verse 2, we are left with the statement that Paul was set apart for […]

Bible Translations (1)

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From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Date: 3 Apr 1997 * (Michael Kennedy) wrote: I don’t mean to pick on you Nigel, but…….. Are you saying there are better mainstream Bibles around than KJV ? Forgetting the language, I’m talking about general accruacy. (Biblical scholarship, as you put it) There are many excellent modern translations available today, […]

New Year Sermon: overcoming resentment and fear

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A happy new year to you all! Your car has just depreciated $1000, and all your clothes are now last year’s! Isn’t time a mysterious entity? I’m amazed that I’ve experienced 73 ‘new year’s days’ – time has sped by so quickly. For children, of course, time has a different quality: for them eternity is […]

The Cross

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Good Friday message, Friday 28 March 1997 Copyright (c) 1997 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. Alexander the Great once found his philosopher friend Diogenes standing in a field, looking intently at a large pile of bones. Asked what he was doing, the old man turned to Alexander and replied, "I am searching for the bones […]

Easter And Reality

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FOR SOME OF YOU, CHURCH ATTENDANCE AND A COMMUNITY OF FAITH ARE INTEGRAL PARTS OF YOUR LIFE. FOR OTHERS OF YOU, THEY ARE NOT. BUT FOR ALL OF YOU TO GET UP AT THIS UNGODLY HOUR OF THE MORNING, EASTER HOLDS SOME SIGNIFICANCE. THE GOOD NEWS OF THE RISEN CHRIST CREATES A REALITY WHICH IS […]

A Communion Meditation

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(Rough notes from a sermon preached at Syndal Baptist Church 6.7.97) Those of us who have been coming to church for a long time will probably have some special memories of communion services we have experienced, at serendipitous moments in our lives…. I was brought up in what is known as a ‘(Plymouth) Brethren’ assembly. […]

Humility

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A sermon preached by Lindy Croucher. Heathmont Baptist Church, Sunday July 6, 7 pm. Humility I spent half of this weekend on an NRG leaders retreat, and yesterday we all went for a very uphill hike through the forests of Warburton. We stopped to turn around and had to wait for the ambitious ones who […]

Psalm 139

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GOD IS… WHO YOU NEED (PSALM 139) WHAT KIND OF GOD DO YOU BELIEVE IN? [1] GOD KNOWS ME (vv. 1-6) [2] GOD’S WITH ME (vv. 7-12) A LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET US GO THE ‘HOUND OF HEAVEN’ PURSUES US [3] GOD MADE ME (vv. 13-18) OUR CREATOR CAN MAKE DEMANDS ON US RELEVANCE […]

Stephen: Notes Of A Sermon

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(by Rev. Jan Croucher) DEFENDING THE FAITH Acts 7 – 8:3 INTRODUCTION TOPIC – to do with the transforming power of the Gospel You will remember in Corrie ten Boom’s book ‘The Hiding Place’ when she speaks of the time years after her release from Auschwitz, and following a message she gave (I think in […]

Power And Justice: Some Seed-Thoughts

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MORNING WORSHIP THEME: ‘The worst evils in the world are not done by evil persons; the worst evils in the world are done by good persons who do not know that they are not doing good’ (Reinhold Niebuhr). The Word of God in Scripture: 1 Kings 21:1-19, Luke 16:19-31 The Word of God in preaching: […]

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