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Started our new series of Sunday talks/sermons at the weekend by looking at James 1:17 and talking about how we view the good things that come our way in life - from the contents of our bank account to the people we count as friends.
You can download the sermon itself from here in the normal way.
This coming Sunday, Louise continues the series, looking - rather more specifically - at the gift of Food.
This morning's sermon from me on Eph 4:17-24 is online for download or listening directly.
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This morning's sermon from me on Eph 4:17-24 is online as usual (thanks Mark for the very speedy upload!).
Click on the "ephesians logo" for all the other sermons in this series.
Yesterday's sermon is available for download. I was speaking about Ephesians 4:1-16.
If you're interested in thinking about and chewing over Ephesians a bit more, one way I'd recommend is to use the vast resources of the web to download other sermons to listen to.
The "other All Souls" (!) in London, for example, has a huge stock of online sermons - dating back to the heyday of John Stott's ministry as Rector in the 1960s through to the present day. Good stuff here and they had a series on Ephesians earlier this year themselves. Downloads are free, very easy to search/navigate and there's over 3000 online. You have to register (free) and there's a limit to how many you can obtain a week, but other than that it's an absolute goldmine.
Enjoy digging!
Today's sermon on the next part of Ephesians - chapter 3 v14-21 - is now online in the normal way.
You can view the previous talks in the series via the Ephesians 'logo'...
My sermon from last week (27th May) is now online - looking at Ephesians 3:1-13 - thanks to Mark for doing the honours! You can download it in the normal way.
I mentioned, on Monday, Andrew Watson's Sunday evening sermon on the principle of Kingdom Multiplication - challenging and encouraging stuff.
I'm delighted to say that, especially for the many from All Souls not able to make it that evening, you can now get hold of the textof his talk by downloading it as a pdf file.
Here's a taster:
"...all attempts to hold onto our lives with a clenched fist ...are to be replaced by an open-handed trust in the love and faithfulness of God. When Jesus talks here about loving life, he’s talking about a kind of stifling love, a love that grips so tight that it risks suffocating the very thing it seeks to hoard or protect. And how much more fun to let go: to say: ‘Lord, it’s all yours: my money, my time, my ambitions, my rights, my respectability, my security. Lord, let’s do something exciting together’.
Friends, it was costly sending out the church plants. It was costly for those who went and costly for those who stayed; and costly too for those small congregations who had worked for decades to keep their churches going, and were now apparently to be submerged under a bunch ofhappy-clappy believers from some large and somewhat sinister neighboring church.
I found it costly to send out such wonderful groups of people – and, if you were around at the time - so did you. How much easier it would have been to keep St. Stephen’s together: to grasp onto it, to protect it, even to risk stifling it - to proceed by addition not multiplication. How much easier to have avoided the possibility of failure ...by holding on to what we’d got, not by recklessly seeming to throw it away.
But God’s been good, hasn’t he? It’s not just that we’ve developed from one growing church to four. It’s not just that our combined numbers are now double what they were at the beginning of the millennium. It’s also that in some small way we’ve begun to discover the dynamic principle of kingdom multiplication."
Good to have Tors' sermon from Sunday, looking at the last few verses of Ephesians 2 online. Having missed it because I was leading Soul Time, I'm looking forward to downloading it and listening myself.
You can access the previous Ephesians sermons by clicking on the logo.
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