Sermon from RN Evans on Hebrews 6:9-12 16/10/16 am – Patience of faith

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9 Even though we speak like this, dear friends, we are convinced of better things in your case—the things that have to do with salvation. 10 God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. 11 We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end, so that what you hope for may be fully realized. 12 We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Main Points

1.  Patience – to inherit the promise

2.  Patience – to labour in love

Sermon from RN Evans on Genesis 1:26 16/10/16 pm – The doctrine of man

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26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,a]" data-fn="#fen-NIV-26a">[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Main Points

1.  The original dignity of man

2.  The brevity of the life of man

3.  The purpose of the life of man

Sermon from David George on Genesis 8  9/10/16 am – The God of the covenant

Sermon from RN Evans on 2 Corinthians 9:7 2/10/16 pm – God loves a cheerful giver

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7 So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

Main Points

1.  Loving a cheerful giver

2.  Making grace to abound

3.  Sowing and reaping

Sermon from RN Evans on 2 Corinthians 8:15 2/10/16 am – The Grace of Giving

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15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Main Points

1.  The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ

2.   The principle of Equality

3.  But first a willing mind

Sermon from RN Evans on 2 Corinthians 5:19 25/9/16 am – The love of God: Part 4

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19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

Main Points

1.  Objections to wrath

2.   God was in Christ

3.  And such were some of you

Sermon from RN Evans on 1 Corinthians 15:49 25/9/16 pm – The journey through the Bible – The theme of image

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49 And as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.

Main Points

1.  Man in His image

2.  God made in ours

3.  The  Son in our image

4. In the image of the Son

Sermon from RN Evans on 1 John 4:10 18/9/16 am – The love of God: Part 3

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10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Main Points

1.  The wrath of God

2.  Wrath revealed

3.  Propitiation

Sermon from RN Evans on John 8:58 18/9/16 pm – The journey through the Bible – The story of Creation part 2

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58 Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.”

Main Points

1.  The two themes of creation and image

2.  The Firstborn over all creation

3.  Before Abraham was “I am”

Sermon from RN Evans on 1 John 4:10 11/9/16 am – The love of God: Part 2

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10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Main Points

1.  God is Love

2.  The nature of our love

3.  The nature of His love