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Living ‘in Christ’ (2)
Read more: Living ‘in Christ’ (2)Scripture Readings Psalm 25:1-15 Colossians 3:1-11 Introduction Dr Joseph Haroutunian, a professor at McCormick Theological Seminary, came to America from Armenia. One day a well-meaning friend said to him, “Your name is difficult to pronounce and difficult to spell–it could hurt your professional career. Why don’t you change your name to Harwood or Harwell or…
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Living ‘in-Christ’ (1)
Read more: Living ‘in-Christ’ (1)Bible Readings Ephesians 5:1-10 Colossians 3:1-12 Introduction Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, Our topic for this morning is United with Christ—living ‘in-Christ’. This is the first in a short series of three sermons This sermon is the next in a series from the letter of Paul to the church in Colossae…
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Jesus Christ only – no if’s, not but’s (3)
Read more: Jesus Christ only – no if’s, not but’s (3)Bible Readings 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17 Colossians 2:13-23 Introduction Dear friends in the Lord Jesus Christ, Today is the third sermon on the topic Jesus Christ only, no if’s, no but’s. In our first sermon, we drew the conclusions from Paul’s theology about the Person of Christ in Colossians 1:15-23, God’s mystery kept order wraps for…
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Jesus Christ only – no if’s no buts’ (2)
Read more: Jesus Christ only – no if’s no buts’ (2)Bible readings Romans 6:1-11 Colossians 2:8-15 Introduction Dear friends in the Lord, Some 24 years ago we migrated from South Africa. Heila and I had to meet the requirements of the Government at the time. All along, our children, then under the age of sixteen, had nothing to do to meet any regulation. We can…
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Jesus Christ only, no if’s or but’s (1)
Read more: Jesus Christ only, no if’s or but’s (1)Bible Readings Ephesians 3:14-21 Colossians 2:6-15 Introduction Dear friends in the Lord, Our series from Colossians goes under the heading “United with Christ.” In the very first chapter we found terms like fulness, wisdom, understanding, every way, all power, all things, everything, glorious riches, all wisdom, perfect in Christ, all energy, full riches, complete understanding,…
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The Gospel: Defending your defence
Read more: The Gospel: Defending your defenceBible Readings Ephesians 1:15-23 Colossians 1:24-2:5 Introduction When I grew up in South Africa we had a sort of war-game. We called it kleilat. I’ll explain. We would go down to the creek and dig up some black clay. We would also cut some green flexible sticks from a willow tree. The hard ones…
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The Christ of the Gospel
Read more: The Christ of the GospelBible Readings Psalm 2 Colossians 1:12-23 Introduction My dear brothers and sisters in the Lord, When we began our series from the letter to the Colossians, we first looked at the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We moved on to the next, Growing in the knowledge of the Gospel. I preach the Word of God to…
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Growing in the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Read more: Growing in the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus ChristBible Readings Psalm 119:129-136 Colossians 1:9-14 Introduction Dear friends in the Lord, Jesus Christ, Last week we commenced a series of sermons from Paul’s letter to the Colossians. This series goes under the title, United with Jesus Christ. Last week the message was about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We looked at what the Gospel…
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ
Read more: The Gospel of Jesus ChristBible Readings 1Corinthians 10:5-17 Colossians 1:1-8 Introduction There are 7.6 billion people on earth. Of this 7.6 billion a great deal are not Christians. About 2.3 billion profess to be Christians, which, in theory, makes Christianity the largest religion by numbers. Between 2010 and 2015, an estimated 223 million babies were born to Christian mothers…
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