It’s an answer to prayer 16 Sep 12
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It’s an answer to prayer
Could it be an answer to prayer? Someone last Sunday thought that our really good beginning was. Well, probably more than one person thought this. Could it be true?
What prayer? Your prayer. My prayer. Our calling on God to do his work in bringing people to know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Our prayer that Jesus will build his church. Our prayer that a simple thing like distributing cards would alert some people to the opportunity to connect with God’s people again.
So those who have been praying: keep it up. What a great blessing it is to be part of a praying church. A praying church is a believing church. It is a family that believes in the Father. Believes to such an extent that it keeps on calling out to him to do his work, to show his love, to stretch out his hand to heal and bless.
6. Sower and seeds Luke 8.1-15
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Sower and Seeds Luke 8.1-15
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 9 September 2012
Hearing and speaking the Word of God and how it works
Is this a set-up? 9 Sep 12
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Is this a set-up?
Well, it could be. If God is involved. On Wednesday we read about Peter finding his way to a town only 15 km from where a notable Christian woman was dying. He was there in time to be summoned to Joppa (now Jaffa, a suburb of Tel-Aviv) where Tabitha had died. This was a set-up. God planned the occasion to show his power and mercy through Peter to this godly woman and her community.
Peter soon found himself involved in a more ornate set-up. This one involved a foreign soldier up the coast having a vision of an angel, telling him to send for Peter. Meanwhile Peter himself had had a vision (he probably thought it was more like a nightmare at first). It was about eating food he had been brought up to consider out-of-bounds – disgusting really.
10W. Trusting the Word of God Acts 6.1-7
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Trusting the Word of God Acts 6.1-7
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 2 September 2012
How the apostles made sure they were majoring on their main game and how it is the Word of God that changes lives and grows churches.
Bless the Father of the Family 2 Sep 12
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Bless the Father of the Family
May the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ be praised. So said Peter and Paul. So say we. The Father from whom every family in heaven and earth is named. The Father from whom all fatherhood originates.
Fathers and families. Happy fathers’ day to all the fathers. Not always an enviable job. In fact these days a pretty despised job, to be a father. A significant minority seems to think we don’t really need fathers in families.
One of the problems is that some fathers have given the rest a bad name. And some have confused their bad, or not-very-good human father with God. But God is not, in the first place, our father. He is first of all the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is that relationship which tells us what kind of a father he is. He is a very good one, if the Bible is to be believed.
9W. Who wins: Obeying Jesus' last command Acts 5.12-42
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Who wins? Obeying Jesus' last command Acts 5.12-42
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday August 26, 2012
The 12 apostles and the full assembly of the elders of Israel. Who is obeying what God said? Obeying the command to make disciples of all nations and bear witness to the Lord Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit? And us?
A culture of invitation 26 Aug 12
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A culture of invitation
“If you build it, they will come.” If you start a new service, will they come? Maybe once they might have, but not now. For most people church is not part of their thought world.
Although, the recent census revealed that 2786 people in Willetton said they were Anglicans. That is quite a lot of people. Perhaps some go to other Anglican churches, perhaps some have a different definition of Anglican. But they did tick that box.
But how will they find their way to Christ the King? Here is an answer from Dr James White,
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