Continuing our 5 part series on Making Disciples, we consider ‘How to make disciples.’ The question really is: By what method or means is God rescuing and gathering his people into the kingdom of God? We discover that there is no one size fits all method – no silver bullet to ensure that people are […]
This year at Church, we have been working through “The Vine Project” and wanting to align all we do to become a ‘disciple-making’ culture. What is the Vine Project? The Vine Project is more than a book. It is a helpful roadmap which sets out to help the church to change its culture to become […]
This is the second in the series dealing with “The Vine Project” which is all about discipleship. The question faced was this one, “What is a disciple?” The answer is in the sermon and the challenge is to ask ourselves if we are one.
Often in life we regret things but how is that different to repentance? Which is the Christian response to committing sin, be it against God or a fellow human being? Worldly sorrow goes along the regret line and leads to death says the Apostle Paul. Godly sorrow leads to life!
This passage helps answer the question – What is it to be a child of God? As our country of birth or residence will shape our identity in terms of how we behave or our likely experiences in life, so too there are common experiences and behaviour that children of God will share and that […]
This sermon, picking up Don Carson’s teaching on prayer, urges members of the congregation to make a time to pray, to pray aloud and to have a prayer diary. Paul, in this passage lets the Colossian Christians know that he prays for them constantly and we could do more to make constant prayer for others, […]
Paul in verse 4 is speaking to parents! His first word to parents it not to exasperate their children. We understand the words to mean “Do not irritate your children, do not provoke your children to be resentful or angry.” I think, parents as a whole find this very difficult to do! How does one […]
Being a Christian today can see you labelled a religious “fanatic” and while it seems totally unfair it isn’t uncommon. Even in Paul’s day he was accused of being a crazy person. Even in the churches he was labelled as such by those who opposed him. In 2 Corinthians 5 we read this… 13 If […]