Having begun with Luke's account of the birth of our Lord, I begin my message this Christmas with an article from The Times this past Thursday under the headline:
Saturday, December 24, 2016
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Caesar or Jesus
In the days of Caesar Augustus, Jesus was born in Bethlehem
The
Christmas story tells of the birth of a new king. The world was moving
according to the orders of Caesar Augustus, but although he was hailed as the
great bringer of peace, real peace on earth would be realized only through the
sovereignty of the child born in Bethlehem. Today the world moves to the orders
of many different Caesars …there is the Caesar who is called The Market, and
he speaks each day from New York where he goes by the name Dow Jones,
Saturday, December 10, 2016
In Support of Botox
It’s easy to assume, reading fashion magazines, that “everyone” lives in a high-maintenance, metropolitan world where “everyone” has injectables. This isn’t true. In the real world, normal women either don’t give them a thought or, usually in early middle age, start thinking about them with intense curiosity. Which is as it should be: we’re talking about injecting your face with stuff. Doing it in the first place is not a decision to be taken lightly.
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Aesthetics
Friday, December 9, 2016
The Four Soils and Christmas
Christmas is a season of great sowing for the church and for
the Kingdom of God … all the special services and year end functions are
wonderful seed sowing opportunities. Your part is to try as hard as you can to
bring people to them … just bring them … or at least just invite them.
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
I AM: The Alpha and The Omega
Here
we are at the end of our series on the I AM statements of Jesus. Hopefully we
know a great deal more about who Jesus claimed to be and was in the flesh. But,
that is never really the goal of preaching, to increase knowledge ... No, at
the end of this series I really hope we have a better idea of who we are in the
light of Jesus' I AM statements.
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