Intro This letter, Written by John the Apostle (johannes) Probably written from Ephesus is modern day Turkyie Probably written later in his life to the church to encourage them in their faith. We’ll shortly see how he encouraged them. John wrote a Gospel and the Reveleation of Jesus Christ. Concerning…

Introduction Exegetical Point: Through providence Paul was protected and enabled to keep working for Jesus. Homiletic Point: Be ready to work in uncomfortable circumstances for Jesus. Where we’ve been: What happened before Paul was imprisoned? We’re jumping into Acts this morning. It’s always a little…

Intro Closing out Hebrews Jesus is greater than the greatest things of Old Jesus fulfils the OT temple system, he’s our new High Priest We have been warned to remain faithful - 3 times We have been called to endurance under trial, to follow the example of the past Saints - the heroes of the faith. Despite…

Introduction We are coming to the end of Hebrews. Next week is our last Sermon! It’s taken us a couple years to get here. In this later part of this New testament letter we have been making our way through the “Hall of Faith” then dwelling on the way that Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,…

Intro As we have been praying, we see the trials and diffucylties that you face. We have also seen the sinful ways people treat the body of Christ, and so I felt that before God i had a responsibility to speak to these issues. As a pastor, a shepherd, I have to shepherd you toward righteousness. Toward…

Intro When you take on a new role, you take on a whole way of doing things. I remember my work experience I did as a teenager - I rocked up and had no idea where to start and what to do. The guys in the mechanic workshop didn’t know either! Whenever they didn’t know what to do with me they just gave…

Intro Two options. Two ways to live. Two Mountains For you have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire and darkness and gloom and a tempest and the sound of a trumpet and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them. Recipients of a spiritual kingdom For…

Intro Trees grown without wind are weak. Trees without wind collapse under their own weight, Wind causes thicker trunks, core strength, deeper roots and grow talkler. Everything about trees that make them better is caused by the stress of the wind. So if you ahte your tree, keep it out of the wind. It…

Intro End of the Hall of Faith Faith is active - these people lived it out and acted on the basis of God’s Word. But their faith was pointing somewhere - to a Hope that bouyed them along even when they suffered greatly. Have Faith in the midst of Suffering Women received back their dead by resurrection.…

Introduction Let me tell you a story. This is a story that has been pieced together by reading letters from two Russian teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia. Their names are Maria and Varia The two Russian teenagers had once been schoolmates in a Communist boarding school. Varia, a member of the Communist…