Santa is anti-Christ

From my sermon this morning (Isaiah 9:2-7). Audio here. Don’t have the spirit of Scrooge. Don’t have the spirit of Winterfest. Don’t have the spirit of Santa. Look again to the manger. Text below…

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Ten Signs You Might Be A Pharisee…

…or at least Pharasaical in your Christianity (taken from this sermon on The Two Sons: Luke 15): . 1)    You’re in church Luke 15:25 – the field is the older brother’s natural habitat.  Not the far country.  Close to the banquet.  But not in it. . 2)    You’re angry v28 – older brothers have volcanic [...]

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Why it’s vital to preach faith alone – James 2:14-26

14 What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? 15 Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If one of you says to him, “Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does [...]

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‘Anti-works’ never works

This morning I led a little bible study in Philippians 3:1-11.  We went away feeling that we shouldn’t build or glory in our spiritual CVs.  Instead we should count them as loss – dung even. So we resolved once again to be anti-works-of-law, anti-flesh, anti-the-circumcision-sect, anti whatever is anti-grace. But of course that’s not really [...]

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In praise of “going through the motions”

Isaiah warned us and Jesus repeated it – it’s hypocritical to honour the Lord with your lips while your heart is far from Him (Isaiah 29:13; Mark 15:8).  It’s something I pray about every Sunday, “As I preach or pray or sing, may my lips and my heart be set on the Lord Jesus.” But [...]

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Ok, bibles under desks, no peeking…

Without looking at James 2 see if you can remember which way around his body/spirit illustration goes. Is it: Body / Spirit = Works / Faith or is it: Body / Spirit = Faith / Works . In other words, does faith enliven our works or do our works enliven our faith? . Got the [...]

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Five Smooth Stones – Reward

This is the last in our series looking at various doctrines through the lens of the David and Goliath story. (The other four stones were: preaching, grace, faith and election) Here we consider why it is that the concept of reward is not counter to the doctrines of Christ alone, grace alone and faith alone. So [...]

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