Outgoing 12 A – Problems of the Heart

Outgoing – Session 12 24 November 2011 Audio Full Text Problems of the heart What stops us from being an outgoing people? Discuss! We want to feel ok with the world But Jesus hits a conversation like a sack of bricks. . We want to feel ok with God So I don’t want to get [...]

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New Kids Song for Christmas (and a few older ones)

Hot off the press – NEW KIDS SONG (though it’s not really for kids ;-) . And, previously on Christ the Truth… A song about the OT’s wait for Christmas… . This one’s meant to be sung as a round… . And here’s my favourite of all my little ditties…

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An Advent Sermon on Mission – Philippians 2:5-18

Mission is our ongoing life because mission is God’s outgoing life. Work out (v12) Shine out (v15) Hold out (v16) Pour out (v17) . Full text Audio .

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Happy Friday [Belated]

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He rescued me because He delighted in me [repost]

I preached Psalm 18:19  a while back.  And you know my first reaction as I was preparing? Hmmm, tricky, how on earth should we understand this…? I hope you’re all saying: But why Glen – it seems perfectly straightforward. Well, there’s the slightly tricky part about how we take the verse on our own lips.  Clearly it’s [...]

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Paul Blackham’s Latest Doctrine Day Talks

From Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Swansea Doctrine Day on “Life is for Living” Pentateuch part 1a Pentateuch part 1b Pentateuch part 2 Knowing life as a human being (Creeds) .

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Coming Very Soon – King’s English Devotional

I’ll be self-publishing the King’s English as a daily devotional in four quarterly instalments. Hopefully it will be available very soon on Amazon, STL, and through me.  Just in time for Christmas.  Just in time for all those New Years Bible-reading resolutions! Tell your friends! And thanks so much to James Watts for a great [...]

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Outgoing 11B – Problems of the head – part two

Audio Full Text Outgoing – Session 11B - 17 November 2011 Questions, Questions… Coming to Christ is like getting married… . You do ask questions before you’re married But that’s not the primary way you get to know each other . You get to know each other by living in each other’s worlds and by telling [...]

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Outgoing 11A – Problems of the head – part one

Audio Full text Outgoing – Session 11A – 17 November 2011 Problems of the head? The Link Between Knowledge of God and Salvation by God Fallen humanity does not know God 1 Samuel 3:7; Psalm 14; Matthew 7:24-27; 11:25-26; John 1:5; 1:18; 5:37-38; 7:28-29; 8:19; 14:17; 15:21; 17:25-26; Romans 1:18; 3:10-18; 8:7; 1 Corinthians 1:21; [...]

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James 2:14-26 sermon

Many of my sermons, for one reason or another, don’t get recorded.  Not only was this sermon not recorded I can’t find my script for it either!  So here is my Powerpoint.  And here’s a sketch of what I said… …How about this for a show of faith: When he saw Jesus from a distance, he [...]

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Some King’s English Posts

Is Acts 17 really a model for ‘contextualization’? Is being a “law unto oneself” a bad thing? Is “hope against hope” shaky grounds for future confidence? God forbid! More here.  

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Happy Friday

Note to the Editor: The Fast Show works by being Fast.  Quicker edits please. Nonetheless, good to see it back :)

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Reading the Bible Together – Guest Post by Paul Blackham

In January our Church plant will be starting on a three year programme of Reading the Bible Together.  It is the simple plan of reading the Bible that Steve Levy has developed at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Swansea. Beginning with Matthew in January, Romans in February and Genesis in March the whole Church family [...]

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Which god don’t you believe in?

Here’s a couple of older Dawkins’ articles reposted…   I think, actually, [Richard Dawkins is] a pre-Christian atheist, because he never understood what Christianity is about in the first place! That would be rather like Madonna calling herself post-Marxist. You’d have to read him first to be post-him. As I’ve said before, I think that [...]

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Outgoing 10 – Proclamation People

Outgoing – Session 10 – 10 November 2011 Sorry no audio! Full manuscript Powerpoint Proclamation People John 20:19-23  As the Father sends Jesus, so He sends us. This doesn’t mean we are sent to save the world.  John 19:30! It does mean that we proclaim the forgiveness He won. How?   John 20:24-31  A Thomas [...]

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Me and Peter Tatchell on Occupy London Stock Exchange

    Me and Pete, side by side, speaking to the issues of the day.  Well we’re consecutive articles on a protest blog anyway… I rambled with a lot of nonsense, and wasn’t as gospelly as I’d like to have been.  But there are no retakes, a mic gets shoved at you and you say [...]

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Bully Boys

Emma writes a vivid account of some mundane but murderous marital bullying she overheard. …For almost forty minutes, he ran her down. Criticised her appearance, complained about the coffee she ordered (and brought to him), repeatedly insisted that she was stupid and useless. When she went to get some groceries, he greeted her return with a volley [...]

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The Priesthood of Christ – a sermon on Hebrews 4:14-5:10

      The centre of the Christian life is not your personal relationship with God.  The centre of the Christian life is Christ’s personal relationship with God.  But the good news is, you are in Christ, the Man after God’s own heart. Full Text Audio

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