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Campaign Promises

Feb.11, 2007 Campaign Promises By Harry T. Cook Luke 6: 17-26 This gospel reading is the less well-known and more consistently neglected version of Matthew’s so-called “Sermon on the Mount.” Luke’s version is chronologically later, though it includes much of what Matthew proposed yet is considerably briefer. Both appear to be derivative of an earlier […]

Sermon – Does Jesus Love Osama?

LOVE RAISED FROM THE DEAD A sermon on 1 Corinthians 15: 1-11 by Nathan Nettleton, 4 February 2007 Some of you have probably seen something of the little controversy in the media this week aroused by a sign put up outside of a number of Churches, many of them Baptist. For those who haven’t heard […]

Damn preacher

Luke 6:17-26 by William H. Willimon All I know about Jesus is what I heard him say. That’s all I know about almost anybody. It’s not true that “deeds speak louder than words.” Only words speak. The old “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one” is only partly true. Most ministerial speech these days […]

Samuel [2]

SEA POINT EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CAPE TOWN. MINISTER, Rev. Thomas Scarborough. Samuel: 1 Samuel 2:11 to 1 Samuel 2:36. Morning Worship, 5 November 2006. Well this past week I was looking for a suitable theme for the dedication of young Alessia at the end of this month — and I was looking over the dedication […]

Samuel [3]

SEA POINT EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CAPE TOWN. MINISTER, Rev. Thomas O. Scarborough. Samuel: 1 Samuel 3. Morning Worship, 12 November 2006. I asked the question last week, “What are the most important choices you will make in life?” And we said that these choices are not the great milestones of life, such as choosing a […]

Zephaniah [2]

by Rev. Thomas Scarborough 15 February 2004. We are taking a brief look at the prophet Zephaniah at the moment. It is a brief book, in fact, because it covers just three pages in our Bible. Now this is the Word of God, and every part of it is precious, and every part of it […]

ZEPHANIAH [1]

by Rev. Thomas Scarborough 8 February 2004 Today I return to the Old Testament with my preaching. It is good to look at the Old Testament from time to time, because that is also part of God’s Word to us. Often the Old Testament is neglected. We must remember that when we deal with the […]

Authority

Jan. 28, 2007 By Harry T. Cook Luke 4: 21-32 Talk about a mixed reaction. First the synagogue congregation was outraged by what Jesus taught – so much so that its members were ready to push him off a cliff. Then they were astounded, so the text says, by the quality of his teaching because […]

Samuel [1]

SEA POINT EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, CAPE TOWN. MINISTER, Rev. Thomas O. Scarborough. Samuel: 1 Samuel 1:1 to 1 Samuel 2:11. Morning Worship, 21 November 2006. In the past few weeks, we jumped ahead of the story we are going to look at this morning — which is the story we find at the beginning of […]

The Book of Revelation

From a thoughtful (Catholic) friend: Re Revelation, I have taught on this book a number of times, and though it needs supplementing, there is a book (written before 1990’s) which one really can’t go past for getting a level handle on it: Michael Wilcock “I Saw Heaven Opened”. What I really find useful about this […]