This morning, as we finish 2024, we will reflect on the Church of Laodicea, exploring the dangers of self-sufficiency and the need to recognise our dependence on Jesus and the power of the gospel.
Phillip is the Principal of the RTC in Melbourne. This is the final part of his Fellowship Day 2024 weekend series encouraging the church to dig into the book of Acts to gain a better understanding of what it means to “win people to Christ and be transformed to be more like Jesus.”
The Gospel binds people of different backgrounds, different minds together.
It is easy to see how we can drift from an understanding of justification by faith alone to some sort of works righteousness. Even Simon Peter did so!
A new community based on the forgiveness we receive in believing in Jesus as our Lord and Saviour.
Paul defends himself to the Galatian Christians as he is under attack. He explains that his faith is real and that he is a servant of God. Those who promote another Gospel are doing their best to undermine his apostleship.
Jonah is someone that should have felt embarrassed about his behaviour. Compared to the sailers he was an embarrassment to God and his people. 1. Jonah, cared nothing for the life of the Ninevites – The sailors cared for Jonah’s life. In the same vain – Jonah had no compassion – the sailors had compassion. […]
In this final chapter of Acts, we discover that all roads lead to Rome. Paul finally reaches Rome, as God had promised. But the path of Paul’s life to get there was windy at best. Sometimes our lives don’t go the way we might have hoped or planned. But if they are lived as if […]