Intro Australia is vulnerable. I dunno if you know anything about our country’s ability to defend ourselves. I might scare you a bit, but I promise this is relevant. Australia can’t defend ourselves. We don’t have the equipment or the numbers to defend our nation properly. If a large force from the north…

Story: Polycarp Ploycarp of Smyrna was a Disciple of the Apostle John. He was a very holy man, and he lived a long life. He would pray continually and for all people. He was a leader of the Church, and even as an old man, he was considered a threat to Rome. Christians would not sacrtifice to the gods,…

Intro This is your life! This is about you. I’m not going to sit here and moralise you, speaking about the importance of living a good life and being kind to people. That is important, but it’s not the most important thing i could tell you. In a world where there seems to be ever shifting boundaries,…

Intro Isaiah Name means Yahweh is Salvation Prophesied “740 b.c., and he lived long enough to record the death of Sennacherib (37:38), datable to 681”, so he was prophesying while the northern 10 tribes were defeated and dispersed by Assyria. He pronounced the judgement of God against all Israel, warning…

Intro Reminder about Isaiah Yahweh is Salvation Prophesied “740 b.c., and he lived long enough to record the death of Sennacherib (37:38), datable to 681”, so he was prophesying while the northern 10 tribes were defeated and dispersed by Assyria. He pronounced the judgement of God against all Israel,…

Intro Do you know the story of “A Christmas Carol”? Written by Charles Dickens. Its been made into a move and other adaptations. One of the key plot devices is that the main character, sour and miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge, is visited throughout a Christmas Eve and given visions of the past present and…

( Matt 6:7-15 ) Have you ever seen these religious? prayer systems Tibetan Prayer Flags & Prayer wheels –for karma’s sake Introduction “By hanging flags in high places the Lung ta will carry the blessings depicted on the flags to all beings. As wind passes over the surface of the flags, which are sensitive…

Intro The context of new Christians trying to understand how the Old Testament connects with the New. How does the coming of Jesus affect how a faithful Jew was to obey God? Does it mean keeping the food laws? No. Circumsicion? No. What about temple sacrifices? Well our passage today is part of a longer…