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What Happens After I Die (Part 2)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-154 (Topical Sermon) WHAT HAPPENS AFTER I DIE? Revelation 20:1-15 by Rod Benson Steven Spielberg’s Deep Impact is a movie about the apocalyptic end of the world (at least the world as we know it), with cosmic judgement falling from the sky on an unsuspecting world in the form of a giant […]
My Least Favorite Parable
A Sunday school teacher was telling her class the story of the Good Samaritan, in which a man was beaten, robbed and left for dead. She described the situation in vivid detail so her students would catch the drama. Then she asked the class, “If you saw a person lying on the roadside all wounded […]
Sent, Sending (John 20:19-23)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-034 (Devotional) SENT, SENDING by Kim Thoday “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” (John 20:19-23) John’s Gospel portrays a relationship of trust and confidence between Jesus and the Father. The whole enterprise of salvation seems to ride on this relationship. It is because of this relationship that Jesus […]
Rock Or A Stone?
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-143 (Sermon) A ROCK OR A STONE? Jeremiah 15:15-21; Matthew 16:21-27 by Kim Thoday The Book of the prophet Jeremiah, in the Old Testament, contains within in it a great deal of inspiring, challenging and disturbing poetry. The text from Jeremiah 15: 15-21 is part of a poem forewarning times of deep […]
Practice Of Discipline (Numbers 6)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-035 (Expository Sermon) THE PRACTICE OF DISCIPLINE Numbers 6:1-21 by Rod Benson J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Spielberg movie Hook, about “the boy who would not grow up” have entertained generations. Yet, as J.I. Packer observes in A Passion for Holiness, “Peter is not a person with whom any wise child, […]
The Wellspring Of Life
“For everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give will never thirst; the water that I shall give people will become in them a spring welling up to eternal life.” (John 4:13-14) To desert people a well is a vital part of everyday life. […]
The Practice Of Discipline
THE PRACTICE OF DISCIPLINE (expository) Numbers 6:1-21 J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and the Spielberg movie Hook, about “the boy who would not grow up” have entertained generations. Yet, as J.I. Packer observes in A Passion for Holiness, “Peter is not a person with whom any wise child, or wise adult for that matter, will identify […]
Psalms On Sundays: 147 – Praise, Fit For What
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-033 Sunday 16 Feb 2003 Reading: Psalm 147 – PRAISE, FIT FOR WHAT? ‘Father God your love and care is overwhelming, and we are so undeserving. We praise you.’ A new-born baby, with umbilical cord still attached, is found in a shopping bag. What confusion, what loneliness could lead a mother to […]
Purification Of Sinners
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-030 (Expository Sermon) THE PURIFICATION OF SINNERS Numbers 5:1-10 by Rod Benson In a British newspaper article titled “The diseases of modern civilisation,” journalist David Newnham writes, “Surrounded, then, by a maelstrom of disease, and veined internally with the rot of poverty, Britain increasing resembles a population under siege.” This melange of […]
Preparation For Service
The preparation for service Numbers 8:5-26 NASA scientists once built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at maximum velocity at the windshields of airliners, military jets, and the space shuttle, to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. Eager to test it on the windshields […]
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