Isaiah 9:1-7

Matthew 1:18-23

25 December 2018

David Simmons

Name #1: Jesus

 ‘God saves’

Name #2: Immanuel

‘God with us’

Jesus and Immanuel

God is with us to save us.

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved…for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”

Peter in Acts

1:57-80 Luke

23 December 2018

Neil Atwood

I Am Second

“…it’s not about you.”

Zechariah

not about him

not about the baby(!)

Celebrating
someone else

Jesus

Not about John. It’s about Jesus

“Praise be to the Lord the God of Israel because he has come to his people and redeemed them, he has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David.”

Luke 1:68

Promise fulfilled

Rescue from our enemies   v74

His plan of reversal

His promises are kept

Responding to God’s glory

“And you my child will be called a prophet of the most high. For you... will go on before the Lord. To prepare the way for him.” 

Luke 1:76

“You, my child... will go before the Lord.
To prepare the way for him.”

Salvation from our enemies

Salvation from our sin

Not. About. Me.

All about Him

Luke 1:26-38

Luke 1:39-56

16 December 2018

Roger Cunningham

Songs capture something

Mary’s situation

My soul glorifies the Lord

His might used for mercy

His plan of reversal

His promises are kept

Responding to God’s glory

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

Ephesians 1:1-14

9 December 2018

Roger Cunningham

God’s purpose

How God achieves His purpose

Our purpose

Seeing lives transformed through Jesus

Making Disciples Growing Disciples

Purposeless or in Christ?

How will my life reflect God’s purpose in 2019?

Romans 8:1-17

Romans 8:18-39

2 December 2018

David Simmons

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from your hand. But even if he does not, we want you to know that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.”

Daniel 3:17-18

God gave his Son for us, so God will give us all things

Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?

Who then is the one who condemns?

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 

“For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his.”

Romans 6:5

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 

Daniel 7: 1-4

Romans 8:18-30

25 November 2018

Josh Wheeler

GOD IS ALL POWERFUL

GOD HAS OUR GOOD AT HEART

so

SUFFERING SHOULD NOT EXIST

From our perspective

GOD’S WORD and OUR EXPERIENCE sometimes seem to clash

1). God is all powerful

He FORKNEW us and PREDESTINED us.

2). God does everything for our good

We are CONFORMED to

the image of Jesus

GOD IS ALL POWERFUL

GOD HAS OUR GOOD AT HEART

so

EVERYTHING IS WORKING FOR OUR GOOD

We can depend on God

We can long for Jesus return

Romans 8:17-30

Romans 8:31-39

18 November 2018

Roger Cunningham

Our groaning

We groan because we are destined for something better

God’s Spirit intercedes for us

We take courage, not fear

 Romans 8:14-27

Revelation 21:1-5 & 22:1-5

11 November 2018

David Simmons

‘I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea…I have laboured and toiled and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked’

2 Corinthians 11:23-27

Creation waits in eager expectation (19)

Creation is in a state of frustration (20)

Cursed is the ground because of you;

through painful toil you will eat food from it

all the days of your life.

It will produce thorns and thistles for you,

Genesis 3:17-18

Creation groans (22)

1 John 4:16b – 5:5

Romans 8:5-22

4 November 2018

Roger Cunningham

I’d love our children to be like me

We are members of God’s family

We take on the family likeness

We take courage, not fear

Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted. Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:1-2

We are heirs of God

Romans 7:14-25

Romans 8:1-13

21 October 2018

David Simmons

1.      Problem

2.      Solution

3.      Application

1.      Problem

We can not free ourselves from sin

‘the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes’

Romans 1:16

Law + flesh = sin and death

2.      Solution

God sets us free from sin

God sent his own son

in the likeness of sinful flesh

to be a sin offering

he condemned sin in the flesh

“the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.”

Romans 13:8

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart…You shall love your neighbour as yourself.’

Mark 12:30–31

3.      Application

Set free in the struggle with sin

Christ for us

The Spirit in us

“if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”

Romans 10:9