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Unparalleled Power
Rev Rod Benson, Blakehurst Baptist Church 6.30 pm, Sunday July 30, 2000 Psalm 104 When American poet John Crowe Ransom published his first book in 1919, he titled it Poems about God. Psalm 104 is another poem about God ö one of the most majestic and profound reflections on God and his works ever penned. […]
As The Father Has Sent Me, So I Send You.
(John 20: 19-23) By Kim Thoday 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 is able to teach, heal and minister in the ways described in John’s Gospel. Jesus speaks […]
Stormy Weather Ahead
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-015 (Devotional) STORMY WEATHER AHEAD (Matthew 8: 23-27) by Kim Thoday The Bible shows us quite clearly that if the Church is following its Lord … we are in for stormy weather. If you think the Church is about smooth sailing … a cathedral on crystal water … then think again! Lessons […]
We Shall Overcome
(Sermon by Kim Thoday) On the 11th February 1990, Nelson Rolihlaha Mandela was released after 27 years of incarceration as a consequence of his struggle against the forces of Apartheid in South Africa. The majority of his prison sentence was served at the notorious maximum security prison on Robben Island – a little island some […]
Seeing The Light
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-016 (Expository Sermon) SEEING THE LIGHT John 9:1-38 by Rod Benson If you wake up tomorrow and discover that your pyjamas are on backwards, it’s possible, says one writer, that aliens abducted you during the night. The author, John Mack, doesn’t write for some supermarket tabloid. He’s a professor of psychiatry at […]
Gandalf, Galadriel And God
Isaiah 40:1-31 (cf Hebrews 1:3; 2 Peter 1:16-18; Matthew 11:28-29; John 17:3) One of the sermons of Jonathan Edwards that God used to kindle the Great Awakening in New England in 1734-1735 was titled “The Excellency of Christ.” In it Edwards unfolds the glory of God’s Son by describing the “admirable conjunction of diverse excellencies […]
The God Who Rescues
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-126 Sunday 20 Jul 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 17 – THE GOD WHO RESCUES ‘If God is for us, who can be against us?'(Rom 8:31) What an amazing and liberating statement! This is a prayer for deliverance: the prayer of someone falsely accused, who cries out to God to vindicate […]
What Happens When I Die?
1 Cor 15:41-57; 2 Cor 5:1-10 “When death separates us from someone we love,” writes Billy Graham in Facing Death and the Life After, “there is a time when we think no one has suffered as we have. But grief is universal.” Grief is universal because death is universal: “man is destined to die once, […]
Mustard Seeds In The Land Of The Giants
(Luke 13: 18-19; A Sermon by Kim Thoday) As a young person during the 1970s I was interested in anything to do with Sci-fi. With the American fascination with “alien invasions,” of course, there were plenty of American TV serials dealing with that kind of theme. Since then we have seen a steady stream of […]
Humiliating Greatness (Kim Thoday)
John 13: 1-20) By Kim Thoday In the New Testament, what are some of the different ways people see Jesus? How was Jesus understood, in his life and in the life of the early Churches? Some of the characters and writers used well known socio-religious and political categories and titles for Jesus. Some of the […]
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