Sermons by “Chris Johnson”
29 March 2020
This service is available in both video and audio format.
Chris concludes our series in Esther and ties up the themes and threads that have been running through the past few months. He also asks how we can apply them to our unusual current situation. Elsewhere in the service, Ricky leads prayers, Karen explains how the situation is affecting her and Barry and Lynne read a poem together.
Also, one of our worship leaders, Pete Roberts, has chosen the songs for us to listen to this morning. The playlist can be found in the paragraph below the video.
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22 March 2020
This service is available in both video and audio format.
In a world that suddenly seems a lot different to the one that we’re used to, this week we have a very different kind of service. The outbreak of coronavirus and the drastic measures we have all now had to take to slow down it’s spread seem to have taken us all completely by surprise and underprepared. But were we?
In the first of what we’re all praying is a very short series of video services Chris looks at what God has been teaching us as a church over the past year and how we can use all that we have heard to help us deal with the new situations we find ourselves in. We also have prayers from Susan and reflective poetry read by Barry.
To help it feel more like a proper service, Lynne has put together a playlist of songs that you can listen to after the message and reflect on how God is prompting you to respond. Find the YouTube playlist in the paragraph below the video.
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Covenant Service
Every believer is qualified to be a servant of the new covenant. Chris reminds us what that covenant is and how we can each serve.
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Esther 9
Chris explores the themes of remembering and assembling in Esther chapter 9 and applies them to our own call to remember and assemble.
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Handling Emotions Well: Worry
How should we respond to worry? Edited highlights of our all age service!
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Esther 7
In Esther chapter 7 we see God continuing to work through seeming coincidence to bring a divine reversal. God bring this about through Esther as she recognises her royal position may have been given to her for a reason. Chris sees the links with Holy Week and applies the a new testament perspective as we recognise that we were born for such a time as this.
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Handling Emotions Well – Anger
Year Text in Context
Our year text is a call to live a life worthy of the Lord and please Him by bearing fruit and growing the knowledge of God but it is also a prophetic blessing over us to enable us to do those things.
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Chris introduces the year text and speaks about what he believes is the Lord’s vision for 2020.
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