In our harvest service for 2017, EBA Regional Minister Beth Powney looks at part of Jesus’ farewell discourse to his disciples and examines how we can apply Jesus’ command for us to be His branches in our lives today.
Sermons from 2017 (Page 3)
Mervyn Thomas, CEO of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), visits us to talk to us about the ethos and work of the organisation, and about his recent trip to Iraq.
In this Boys’ Brigade, Girls’ Brigade and YPF reunion service, Chris looks at reunions in Scripture and proposes that the greatest reunion is between God and “all things”.
The Sunday Club teachers and the Adult team summaries our series looking at Meals with Jesus.
Chris leads a guided meditation on Luke 19:1-19 to deepen our understanding of the way in which Jesus brought security, acceptance and significance to Zacchaeus and a challenge to do the same for others.
How can we find assurance of eternal life? How can wealth be a hinderance? How does God make the impossible possible through Jesus? Does your faith touch your wallet as well as your heart? Chris explores how our security, acceptance and significance are rooted in grace and yet we are encouraged to invest for eternal returns.
What do we need to do to find the security, acceptance and significance we need? In this talk Chris highlights Jesus’ teaching that our hunger is rightly met through the gift of the Spirit. Our Heavenly Father is not reluctant to give Holy Spirit yet Jesus clearly teaches that we can not receive Him or His gifts if we do not persist in asking, seeking and knocking, recognising our desperate need of Him.
In the next part of the Meals with Jesus series, Kath Robinson examines the differences in motivations between the two people in Luke 7:36-50 and asks whether we are Simon the Pharisee or the woman who perfumes Jesus’ feet.
Whilst our need for security, acceptance and significance are fully met through our relationship with Christ our experience of these can vary. In the light of John 6: 1-11 Chris seeks to show how we can experience these in greater measure through trusting, receiving and obeying. In response he challenges us to offer the little we have to God, receive His gifts and get involved in His miracle.a
Everyone has a need for significance, security and acceptance. Jesus demonstrated how these needs cannot truly be met through independence, manipulation and idolatry but through trust, humility and worship. In our first talk we consider Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.