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.1 Cor 4: 6 - 21 / PM

Paul's questions posed:
◘ What makes you so superior?
◘ What do you have that isn't a gift?
◘ Why do you act as if you're self-made?

[ Paul’s rebuke - Gal 3:3 NLT - How foolish can you be?
After starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort? ]

1.  Puffed-up ( Read more... )

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‘Nature/ Substance/ Being’
• What’s one in God
• What God is

‘Person’
• What’s three in God
• Who God is | Oneness

1. Gen 1 :1 - 2:3 / TW  09-08-20

◘ Trinity: incomprehensible
- cannot fully get your head around it
• Ps 145: a sense of wonder / infinite / unique
• Isaiah 40
This tendency to compare God to other things but He is not like ( Read more... )

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2 Cor 2: 14 (NIV)

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ's triumphal procession & uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.
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- how are these images encouraging?
- how are they challenging?
   [ ego. / vainglorious. ]
- are there any potential dangers
for viewing evangelism in this way?

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What is it?

Perfect righteousness - an attribute of God
Definitive sanctification ­- an attribute of Jesus
 (atonement; sacrifice - making us holy)

So offer yourself as slaves to righteousness, leading to holiness - 1 Pet 15

Why is it so important then?

It’s God’s desire for our lives:
Eph. 5: blameless, cleansedIt makes sense for now in ( Read more... )

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Colossians 1  v. 1 - 14
Paul prays & thanks God for the Colossians growing faithWho ( Read more... )

‘The Local Church is the Hope of the World’ (Autumn 2016)


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'straining toward what is ahead, I press on'

... but sometimes I just want to pause, rest & savour,


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or, “ Where is God When...?”

With each new sermon series, there's always one particular sermon which really gets your mind working. During the Genesis series last summer, it was Fiona talking about Noah & God's promise. I didn't make it to church on Sunday (Guilds stitch-bitching intervened) so downloaded the sermon to listen to instead last night ( Read more... )

From Through the Dark Woods (Joanna Swinney), this beautiful passage was quoted from Lewis' The Silver Chair, making me think of 2 Cor. 5:7:
“In order to understand what followed, you must keep on remembering how little they could see. As they drew near the low hall, which separated them from the place where the lighted windows had appeared, they ( Read more... )