Tag: Sermon
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The Humility and Hope Born of Praise in Every Season (Psalm 33)
What are we to do when things change? When things that once were are no longer, when normal becomes a memory, and when the things that we have gotten used to become things we miss and long for? It can be hard to know how to respond when the unexpected becomes real before us and…
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Finding Your Voice in a World of Whisiper (Acts 17:22-31)
That we might speak so the world can know
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Underneath the Mango Tree (Acts 2:42-47)
Simple Faith: Under the Mango Tree I remember hearing about a small Christian Church that was gathering under a mango tree. They meet there faithfully every Sunday as their minister gathers them for worship, and the children meet under a different tree just on the other side of the same plot of land. When it…
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From Plagues to Covenant (Hope in The Exodus)
Freedom Formed by God’s Story 1. Introduction — Freedom Is Only the Beginning In 2009, I was travelling for the first time out of the UK/Ireland, by myself with a team, to Senegal. From start to finish over those two weeks, it was one of the most formative times of my life—the constant experience of…
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1 | Grace in the Wilderness and For the Wilderness | Matthew 4: 1-11
I wonder: if you were asked what some of the challenges the Church faces in our context are, what would you say? The answer would depend a lot on our background and our desire for our own lives. We might say: declining numbers, a loss of tradition, a lack of confidence, among other things. Then,…
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3 | The Beautiful Life is a Holy life (1 Peter 1:1-10)
1 Learning To Linger (Introduction) Last week, I spoke with someone preparing for a challenging test: memorising 150 answers, then facing an interview where they’d be asked about any of them at random. A friend who had taken the exam before shared a photo of their hallway—white walls covered with colourful post-it notes, each packed…
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Atr Irwin 