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The Promise (Part 9) – Acts 4:1-22

In part nine of this series, Ronnie Evans looks at Peter and John’s speech before the rulers of the people and the elders. What was the response of these people to their declaration of the power of Jesus, the stone that they rejected?

Home (Part 2): Don’t Leave (1 Pet 4:1-2)

In the second of this two-part series, Stephen Evans looks at how, as believers, we should be in the world but not of the world, a light shining in the darkness.

Go (Part 3) – How Are They to Hear? (Romans 11:14-17)

Ronnie Evans concludes this series with Paul’s call for all to preach the Good News of Jesus in order that people may hear and believe.

Home (Part 1): Strangers & Exiles (Hebrews 11:13-16)

In the first of this two-part series, Phill Marsh considers how the promise of a future homeland and our current designation as ‘strangers and exiles’ in this world, should affect the way that we live now.

Dug Down Deep – Joshua Harris

Joshua Harris, Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, is still perhaps best known for his first book, I Kissed Dating Goodbye (reviewed elsewhere on this site). Harris was raised, and homeschooled, in a conservative evangelical family and came to prominence through his editorship of a national homeschooling magazine published in North America.…
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Go (Part 2) – Go Therefore… (Matthew 28:16-20)

Ronnie Evans continues this three-part series by looking at the great commission of the disciples by Jesus.

Ephesians: His Glorious Grace – Being built together (Ephesians 2:19-22)

Continuing in this series through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Andy Evans explores how God’s glory is displayed in and through the church, with Christ as the cornerstone. The notes which accompany this message (with an extended discussion regarding Ephesians 2:20) are available here.

Go (Part 1) – Pray to the Lord of the Harvest (Luke 10:1-12)

In the first of this new series examing the call of God for his disciples to go into the world and spread the gospel, Phill Marsh looks at Jesus’ sending out of 72 disciples. Who were these 72? Why were there 72 of them? What are we to make of Jesus’ instructions to them as…
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Ephesians: His Glorious Grace – One (Ephesians 2:11-22)

Continuing in this series through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Andy Evans looks at how believers who have received the gospel of peace, become members of a new body, the church. The notes which accompany this message are available here.

Scandalous – D.A. Carson

During Holy Week 2010 a few members of the Firwood congregation read a chapter every day from D.A. Carson’s excellent book; “Scandalous – the Cross & Resurrecton of Jesus”. Each evening one of them would post a short blog on the chapter they’d read that day. Whilst not technically a ‘review’, these short posts do…
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