OPENING COMMENTS Today is the sixth Sunday of Easter. So next Sunday, the last Sunday of Easter, will be observed as Ascension Sunday to remember Jesus ascending back to the Father. The Sunday after that will be observed as Pentecost, when we celebrate the sending down of the Holy Spirit … and the birth of the Church. The theme for this week is New in Christ. Our keynote passage is John 15:9-17. OPENING […]
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The theme is new in Christ. In our call to worship psalm, God’s steadfast love and faithfulness have won the victory in the sight of all the ends of the earth. In our reading from Acts 10, it is the receiving of the Holy Spirit that brings Gentiles into the new messianic community. Our reading from 1 John features faith in the One who came in the flesh, Jesus Christ, as central to the
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This presentation (a.k.a The Gospel in ‘P’s) is structured around what I call the four ‘P’s – Purpose, Problem, Provision and Potential. In our first lesson in this series, we saw that God’s PURPOSE for creating Man (in His image) was RELATIONSHIP. In the second lesson, we saw that Man’s PROBLEM (which derailed God’s Purpose) was SEPARATION from God … caused by SIN and DEATH. In this, our third lesson, we will investigate what the
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This presentation is part of a series, UNDERSTANDING THE GOSPEL – Discipleship 101, which has been designed to help us with our plans to make disciples for Christ. What is a disciple? A believer who is following … and sharing … Christ? What does “Gospel” mean? Good news What is the Gospel? Essentially, God has solved the problem that Man had and could not solve. NOTE: There are two views re: that solution: 1.
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Why were you born? Is there a purpose for your life? Why did God create humans, in the first place? In this article, we’re going to investigate what the Bible says about GOD’S PURPOSE FOR MAN, What was God’s plan for Man? Genesis 1:11-12, 20-21,24-25 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed
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Are the accounts of the resurrection contradictory? April 5, 2021 by Ian Paul If the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth from the dead is the most important and foundational truth of the Christian faith, how come the New Testament accounts of the resurrection and Jesus’ appearances are so contradictory? That is a relatively widespread response in atheist/apologetic circles, and I think amongst Muslim critics of the Christian faith. I think this one, in
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Welcome and Thanks for joining us for a special Good Friday edition of our Friday DIVE Bible study. Tonight, we commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion and death and we reflect on events that happened on the day Jesus Christ, our Saviour, died on our behalf. This day is a somber one, traditionally held with an attitude of contemplation and solemnity, and we can pause to consider the many questions raised by Jesus’ crucifixion. Today’s theme follows
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