Spiritual Gifts – The Gifts that are Given (Part 2b – Ability Gifts)
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SERMON: 1 CORINTHIANS 14:26-40
Sermon I preached on 1 Corinthians 14:26-40 at Banstead Community Church on 29th March 2020.
1. Order is needed for the church to hear the Word of God
2. Order is needed for the church to display the character of God
More sermons can be found HERE
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LATEST LINKS
10 links to check out over the weekend…
- How the World Worshipped on One of the Most Unusual Sundays in Church History
- When Corona Makes Us More Like the New Testament
- The Church after the Coronavirus
- Christians do long-distance relationships!
- The invisible congregation
- The loneliness of the long distance Pastor
- Like lovers, parted by war
- Why Online Services will never be a Replacement for On-Site Services
- Can Baptism and the Lord’s Supper Go Online?
- Should We Take Communion Virtually?
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KIDS TALK: BIG QUESTION #11
This is part of a series of kids talks I’m doing in the morning service at Banstead Community Church based on the New City Catechism.
Big Question #11 – What is sin? [NCC Q16]
Powerpoint Pictures: Bank Robber, Shape of person on floor, Car Speeding, Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
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What do the following people have in common?
A bank robber. A murderer. Someone who drives at 100mph down the High Street. Child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
They all are law-breakers.
They have all broken the laws of this country which are set by the Government and they each deserve to be punished.
But they are not the only law-breakers.
We all are law-breakers too, even you children. You may not have broken the laws of this country, but you have broken God’s law.
Remember in the previous Big Question we saw that no-one has been able keep the law of God perfectly.
Because we break God’s law, we are sinners who sin.
What is sin?
That’s what our next big question asks. Let’s look at it now…
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Q: What is sin?
There are lots of ways of answering this question.
It is falling short of God’s standard, like Evil Kenevil fell short in his ‘jump’ of Snake River Canyon.
It is living life as if God did not exist. Even though he made you and he gives you life and lots of good things to enjoy, you and I forget about Him and don’t thank Him as we should.
But it is also breaking God’s law.
“Everyone who sins breaks the law. In fact, sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4)
Sin is lawlessness.
It is not following and obeying what God tells us to do in His law.
You can break God’s law by doing something wrong and even by thinking something wrong. This is something we all do – which is why we need Jesus to save us!
Like criminals are punished for breaking the laws of this country, so we deserve to be punished for breaking God’s law. However, because Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment we deserve, when we trust in Jesus, we can be forgiven and be given eternal life with Him in heaven instead.
So, what is the answer to the question “What is sin?”
It is this:
A: Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, not being or doing what he requires in his law.
Let’s say the question and answer out loud together.
What is sin? Sin is rejecting or ignoring God in the world he created, not being or doing what he requires in his law.
Children when you go out to Sunday School you’re going to learn a song that will help you to remember this.
SPIRITUAL GIFTS (3)
Spiritual Gifts – The Gifts that are Given (Part 2a – Ability Gifts)
Download my teaching handout as a pdf
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SERMON: 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1-25
Sermon I preached on 1 Corinthians 14:1-25 at Banstead Community Church on 22nd March 2020.
1. Be keen to have gifts that edify the saints
2. Be keen to have gifts that evangelise the sinners
More sermons can be found HERE
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FIELD NOTES (22/3/S)
22/3/S
Ligonier Ministries is streaming all their teaching series for free until at least the end of June.
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Crossway have made available some excellent books for free: Prayer by John Onwuchekwa; Big Picture Bible Crafts by Gail Schoonmaker; A Shelter in the Time of Storm by Paul Tripp (pdf; kindle); The Final Days of Jesus by Andreas J. Köstenberger & Justin Taylor.
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Andy Prime: “Pastor, your task amid #COVID2019 remains the same: ‘We will devote ourselves to prayer & to the ministry of the word.’ For our word ministry the ‘how’ may change but the ‘what’ does not. For our prayer ministry maybe what needs to change is our devotion to it.”
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You want to check out David Murray’s daily messages on Living Faith in Testing Times where he is working his way through the book of James.
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Matt Merker: “”Let all the people say, ‘Amen!'” (Ps 106:48) Why is it so common for ONLY the pastor to say “amen” after his prayer? An easy way to put the “corporate” in corporate prayer is to encourage your church to offer a hearty “amen” after a prayer if they agree with it!”
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Check out the talks from the recent Shepherds’ Conference: Doctrinal Clarity for a Confused Generation.
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Scott Sauls: “The pastor’s call: (1) Preach the gospel faithfully, (2) Love the people God entrusts to you, (3) Cultivate private character that matches or exceeds public persona, (4) amplify Christ, not himself, (5) die and be forgotten.”
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David Shaw gave an excellent evangelistic talk on suffering use the Lord’s Prayer as a Christian framework. Have a listen HERE.
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Lots of great resources to help you pray in light of Covid-19 from Richard Coekin, Jeremy Walker, Kristi Mair, and Jonathan Black.
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A vital resource for churches at this time: Digital Tools for Church during the Coronavirus.
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Dustin Benge: “Sadly, the Sunday evening worship and Wednesday evening Bible study and prayer have disappeared in many churches. 2 hours on Sunday morning, out of 168 hours in a week, is not enough for the corporate gathering of the saints.”
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Download Sermon Notes for Kids sheets.
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Isaac Adams: “5 American idols: – Comfort, despite our call to carry our cross – Safety, despite God’s assuring us we’ll have trouble – Autonomy, despite our service of a King – Consumerism, despite God’s plentiful provision – Productivity, despite God’s promise that He will be exalted.”
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The Payneful Truth is a weekly text and audio journal from Tony Payne.
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Jared WIlson: “The drop out rate continues to hover around 70% despite now two generations of attractional youth ministry dominating the evangelical landscape and even the creep of juvenilization into the corporate gathering. Maybe there’s a better way?”
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There’s a new issue of Credo Magazine out on the topic of The Truth Inside the Lie: Theology through Fiction.
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Matt Smethurst: “Seven reasons to study church history: 1. It instructs. 2. It exhilarates. 3. It gives perspective. 4. It illuminates. 5. It inspires. 6. It humbles and convicts. 7. It fires worship.”
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All the Church Society books on Kindle have got big discounts on them at the moment.
LATEST LINKS
10 links to check out over the weekend…
- Tending the Lambs You Can’t Touch
- Pastoral Work During a Pandemic
- Banished from the public means of grace
- Leading in a time of uncertainty
- Pandemics, panic and peace
- 25 Hymns to Sing in Troubled Times
- Songs to Sing in a Pandemic
- The Coronavirus Is a Result of the Fall
- Prayer: If We Want To Overcome Our Prayerlessness Perhaps We Need To Embrace The Fact That Prayer Is Hard Work
- Forever and Always the Son: Why We Treasure Eternal Generation
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SPIRITUAL GIFTS (2)
Spiritual Gifts – The Gifts that are Given (Part 1 – People Gifts)
Download my teaching handout as a pdf
More teaching handouts can be found HERE
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SERMON: 1 CORINTHIANS 13
Sermon I preached on 1 Corinthians 13 at Banstead Community Church on 15th March 2020.
1. Love is what Christ is like
2. Love is what heaven is like
More sermons can be found HERE
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DAILY HENRY
From Matthew Henry’s comments on Matthew 4:1-11:
Those who excel in gifts, who are in eminent positions and have gained a great reputation, need to remain humble, for Satan will be sure to aim at them, to puff them up with pride, so that they may fall into the condemnation of the Devil.”
LATEST LINKS – CORONAVIRUS EDITION
10 links to help you think about the Coronavirus and its implications for local churches…
- A Guide for Christian Leaders in the Time of Coronavirus
- Love in the Time of Coronavirus
- Coronavirus: How Should Christians Respond To The Threat of COVID-19?
- The church and the plague
- The Best Laid Plans
- You’re Not a Bad Pastor If You Cancel Services Over COVID-19
- Prayers for the Plague from 1563
- 5 things to pray for hospitals and emergency services
- COVID-19: Lessons from Martin Luther
- C.S. Lewis on the Coronavirus
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