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Reverend Heidi Petersen delivered this morning’s sermon, titled “Who is at your table?”. It is based on Psalm 23. This episode is part of the Saint Barnabas United podcast, produced as a service to the community and friends of Saint Barnabas United Church. So visit the Spudcaster page for more South African podcasts.

Charmaine Rayment is a voluntary missionary at Jews for Jesus. She has a real passion for worship ministry. Rayment has agreed to become a contributor to a podcast series called “A Life of Worship”. This is the part three in a series devoted to the Tabernacle of the Lord. In this episode we focus in on the Brazen Laver and how it applies to our journey of worship. Below, you will find some notes from the episode as well as the podcast itself. Enjoy listening.

Notes from this episode

music by Seedwatcher

Shalom listeners! Today we will be looking as the Brazen Laver and how that applies to us in our journey of worship. THE BRAZEN LAVER (REFLECTION) The Brazen Laver was made from the copper mirrors of the women and the whole purpose of a mirror is to reflect an image. The ministry of the laver points us to the Word of God that gives us a true and clear image of ourselves as we are, as God sees us. The Holy Spirit uses the Word of God to convict us of sin. Psalm 139:23 Search me, O God and know my heart! Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts, 24 and see if there be any offensive way within me and lead me in the way everlasting. We need to remember that worship is not just about singing but also about reading and studying the Word of God. It is in the Outer Court stage of our worship that we need to reflect and deal with our sin and the issues that are in our lives. We can’t progress to the next stage until we have dealt with our sin as it hinders our worship. How often do we come to a place of worship and we harbour anger, bitterness, jealousy and unforgiveness toward others? In Matthew 6:14 we read that If you forgive other people when they sin against you , your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins. This is the time to confess our sins and if necessary, restore relationships with one another. The focus in our worship at this stage is on Yeshua the Lamb of God who takes away our sin. I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive our sins, and purify us from all unrighteousness. QUESTIONS: What is hindering you in your worship? Is there sin that needs to be dealt with? Are you harboring unforgiveness? In summarizing the Outer Court, we have seen that the emphasis is on salvation (The Gate), total surrender to God (The Brazen Altar) and repentance (The Brazen Laver) all of which are necessary for a relationship with God. In our next session we will continue in the Outer Court as we look at “Entering into the Courtyard with Praise”.

Neale Quilliam delivered this morning’s sermon, themed “Belief”. Reverend Heidi Petersen is away. This episode is part of the Saint Barnabas United podcast, produced as a service to the community and friends of Saint Barnabas United Church. So visit the Spudcaster page for more South African podcasts.

Reverend Heidi Petersen delivered this morning’s sermon, on the third Sunday of Easter, entitled “Abiding in Christ”. The podcast is produced as a service to the church community and friends. So visit the Spudcaster page for more podcasts.

Reverend Heidi Petersen‘s harvest sermon is founded on Deuteronomy chapter 11: 8-15. It was created for the Saint Barnabas United Church. So visit the Spudcaster page for more podcasts.

Profile: Reverend Heidi Petersen

We take a glimpse into the life and ministry of Reverend Heidi Petersen of the Saint Barnabas United Church. This forms part of the podcast ministry set up at the church. The weekly podcast features sermons with occasional profiles on aspects of ministry. Ours is a small church community. Many find value in the podcast, as a means to re-listen to a sermon or deepen one’s spiritual walk.

At spudcaster we are always on the look out for fresh ideas for content generation. The idea for this church podcast is my way of giving back. It is challenging to get the necessary buy-in to the idea. But we are getting there slowly but surely! If you would like to subscribe to this podcast, please drop me an email. For help in setting up your own church podcast, feel free to contact me.

The Saint Barnabas United Church set up this podcast as a learning platform for its 2020 confirmation class. For more podcasts from Saint Barnabas please visit the page. Candidates are asked to please watch the video, view the slideshow and submit the form. This is episode one on The Trinity.

We take a glimpse into the life and ministry of Reverend Heidi Petersen of the Saint Barnabas United Church. This forms part of the podcast ministry set up at the church. The weekly podcast features sermons with occasional profiles on aspects of ministry. Ours is a small church community. Many find value in the podcast, as a means to re-listen to a sermon or deepen one’s spiritual walk.

Charmaine Rayment is a voluntary missionary at Jews for Jesus. She has a real passion for worship ministry. Rayment has agreed to become a contributor to a podcast series called “A Life of Worship”. This is the second teaching in a series devoted to the Tabernacle, looking at the brazen altar of sacrifice and how it fits into our journey of worship. Below, you will find some notes from the episode. Enjoy listening.

Notes from this episode

music by Petra

Shalom listeners! Today we are going to look at the Brazen Altar and relate that to our journey of worship. THE BRAZEN ALTAR (SACRIFICE) The first item of furniture we find in the tabernacle is the Brazen Altar which points to Yeshua our sacrificial Lamb. John 1:29 The next day, John sees Yeshua coming to him, and says, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” Isaiah 53:7 He (Yeshua) was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He did not open his mouth. Like a lamb led to the slaughter, like a sheep before its shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth. After accepting Yeshua as our personal saviour, the next most important step is climbing onto the Brazen Altar and dying to our will and desires. Just as Yeshua came to do the will of the Father and laid down his life as a sacrifice so that we could have eternal life, so we are to submit to the will of God. Romans 12:1 I urge you therefore, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice – holy, acceptable to God – which is your spiritual service. We have been created to worship God and to do his will not the other way around. Today we are taught to pursue our dreams and desires which are generally pleasant and that God is here to help us fulfil them. I wonder what Paul’s dreams and ambitions were. I’m sure they never included suffering for the Lord and yet because he was obedient to God’s plans and purposes, we today are blessed by his writing in the New Testament. Proverbs 16:9 The heart of a man plans his course, but ADONAI directs his steps. Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but the counsel of ADONAI will stand. Proverbs 20:24 A man’s steps are directed by ADONAI; he directs it wherever He wants. Have you fully surrendered your life to Yeshua? Are you walking in God’s perfect will for your life? Is there an area in your life that you need to die to and are you willing to get on that altar of sacrifice and be obedient? Does God’s plan for your life conflict with your own plans? Meditate upon Proverbs 16:9; 19:21 and 20:24. Remember that this is all part of our worship.

Charmaine Rayment is a voluntary missionary at Jews for Jesus. She has a real passion for worship ministry. Rayment has agreed to become a contributor to a podcast series called “A Life of Worship”. This is an introductory episode in a series exploring inside the tabernacle. Below, you will find some notes from the episode as well as the podcast itself. Enjoy listening.

Notes from this episode

Music performed by Sarah Liberman

Shalom listeners! Over the next few weeks, we are going to go on a journey of Biblical worship. We can learn much about worship by studying the Tabernacle of Moses, the Tabernacle of David and the Psalms. So, let’s begin this journey at the entrance of the Tabernacle of Moses. The one and only entry point to the Tabernacle was the gate and in the same way the one and only entry point to worshiping God is through His Son Jesus (Yeshua). John 14:6 Jesus (Yeshua) said to him, “I am the way, and the truth and the life! No one comes to the Father except through me.” Just as there was one entrance, 1 Tim. 2:5 states that “there is one mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all…” Acts 4:12 “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” In order to truly worship God, we need to have a personal relationship with Him. Worship is our response to God as He reveals Himself to us so therefore it stands to reason that we cannot worship someone whom we do not know and if we do not have a personal relationship with God, then all we have is a dead religion. The ‘Gate’ for each believer is spiritually experiencing the first of the Lord’s Feasts namely The Passover Feast which points to God’s redemption through his Son Jesus (Yeshua) who in dying for the sins of the world became the once and for all sacrificial lamb. John 1:29 The next day, John sees Jesus (Yeshua) coming to him, and says, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” This incidentally is in fulfilment to the statement that Abraham made when Isaac asked him where the lamb was for a burnt offering. Gen. 22:8 “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering….” NB. Please read John chapter 3 on the importance of being spiritually born again. John 3:3 Yeshua answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.” John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned; but whoever does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. John 3:36 He who trusts in the Son has eternal life. He who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him. John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless My Father who sent Me draws him – and I will raise him up on the last day. Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, and drive out demons in Your name and perform many miracles in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ In summarising what we have just looked at, we need to understand that it is not enough just to believe there is one God. James 2:19 “You believe that God is one; you do well. The demons also believe – and shudder!” We have to be spiritually born again and have a personal relationship with God. In our next session, we will look at the Brazen Altar and the Brazen Laver and see how that relates to our worship lifestyle.