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Commitment, Commandment, Commission
People say, "Don't say the 'C' word", referring to cancer. Well in the western church there are three "C" words. For most people in the west, and even Christians, 'Commitment' is what women want from men (even if it is only commitment to pick up the toilet seat and flush after use), 'Commandment' is something Charlton Heston smashed in the desert, and 'Commission' is what an agent waits eagerly for. These three "C's" are what the church needs.

(Date Added: 2010-03-10)

God's purpose for you
Life is not a Monopoly game in which you go around the board month by month getting your salary and buying things as you go around. We need to design a new lifestyle game. In this game you do have to work and buy some stuff but many other things happen along the way. People get sick, starve, die and cause each other much pain. Part of your task in the game is to find faith in God, apply obedience to your life and teach others to do the same. In this game there is an earthly bank but also a heavenly one.

(Date Added: 2010-03-02)

Hearing God (Part 3)
I am convinced that hearing God is available to every one of His children. Jesus was perfectly clear that His sheep hear His voice. The trouble is we do not believe and persevere. God is only one option and not the only option in our lives. The people who heard God in the Bible had no other option.

(Date Added: 2010-02-24)

Hearing God (Part 2)
Why don't we hear?

(Date Added: 2010-02-16)

Hearing God (Part 1)
God is calling us to a fresh encounter with Himself. The human experience seems to be a search for God but Genesis 3:9,10 describes a God who looks for us; "And the LORD God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you? And he said, I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked, and I hid myself". Religion sets out paths to find the "gods" but the God of the Bible is the one who does the searching. We however have a part to play.

(Date Added: 2010-02-09)

Purpose of the church and you
People all around us, among us, and perhaps even you yourself, are in the worst possible mess. So many cannot manage their lives and all they know is that it is not working. Many feel they have lost the reason to live or perhaps more correctly they have never had a real reason. They only thought they had a reason. You see, nothing we do on earth is the reason for living if it is not seeking what God wants. Your reason for living is not being a butcher, baker or candlestick maker - if you are not God's butcher, baker and candlestick maker. We live to fulfill the purposes of God or we live a potentially meaningless and painful life. Jesus did say as the absolute guide to life; "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all thing will be added to you."

(Date Added: 2010-02-02)

How to lose your soul
Many things are lost and found in the lifetime of a man. People make and lose money, property, friends, family and even themselves. A very important, yet sneered at phrase is, "He is trying to find himself". It generally denotes the realisation that one does not know oneself, has lost direction and wants to find the true meaning of life. The question that birthed this sermon topic was, "How does a man lose his soul?" If you believe you have a soul you must realise that it is of irreplaceable value. It may just be the one thing that lasts for ever. It may just be the one thing a man loses while trying to gain many other things.

(Date Added: 2010-01-26)

God could use an ass, or you
In the minds of men bigger is better and more is what we need. The big guy almost always wins. We've seen this is the USA's involvement in the Middle East. Their military superiority is crushing. Their only real challenge is talking the rest of the world into submission. Two slogans do summarise our age. "If it feels good do it", and "might is right". God on the other hand does things differently. He takes a childless couple to start a nation. Uses a collection of slave tribes to give the world His Word. He uses a boy to kill a giant, and three hundred men to defeat an army of more than thirty thousand.

(Date Added: 2010-01-19)

Fishers of Men
Our church emblem is a fisherman with a net. It is appropriate as we are a seaside village, but more than that it is a definitive symbol of the church. Perhaps as seminal are the symbols of the sower and the harvester. All peoples of the world understand these images. These are images of God the Father collecting what has been lost or stolen from Him.

(Date Added: 2010-01-13)

Who needs God?
From the outside the streets are neat and tidy with rows of newly painted houses. The cars are bright and clean and the queues at the super market portray a message of wealth. It seems to be alright, but are they? Our world, and especially our community, is a strange combination of self sufficiency and hopelessness. On the outside we seem to have it all together but every now and then the bubble bursts and all the painful details are exposed. Deep inside, where no one else can see, there is a gnawing feeling of fear, anger, frustration, dis-ease. A feeling that all is not well. We fell a lack of peace, a lack of joy, a lack of well being. We fill this feeling with more business and more things.

(Date Added: 2010-01-06)

Dangerous Money
About women some man said; "You can’t live with them and you can’t live without them". He was wise or bitter, depending on how well you are doing with the women in your life. It is more true to say "one cannot live with or without money". Money is a dangerous thing in the lives of most people. Without it we are largely destitute, without hope and a future, and with it we most often become self sufficient and forget about God.

(Date Added: 2009-12-31)

When God is Centre
I had trouble with the wheel alignment on my car. The basic problem is that the wheels are not pointing in exactly the right direction. The tell-tail signs are wobbling of the wheels and excessive tyre wear. I would be driving and as I get to cruising speed the vehicle starts shuddering and becomes unstable. I then have to back off and crawl along. When I inspected the tyres I could see that this is costing me a lot of money. The tyres are being scrubbed off. My bad wheel alignment is a good illustration of many people's lives. They never seem to get up to speed. They continuously get the wobbles and their lives cost them so much both in money and heartache.

(Date Added: 2009-12-23)

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