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.
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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Ronnie Evans continues this three-part series by looking at the great commission of the disciples by Jesus.
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.
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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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.
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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Stephen Evans takes this final sermon in a series focussing on the death and resurrection of Jesus. In his letter to the Philippians, Paul draws sharp contrast between the worthlessness of a life based on one’s own merits and the surpassing worth of a life built upon knowing the resurrected Jesus, sharing in His suffering…
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Continuing in this series through Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, Andy Evans examines how the gospel breaks down the barriers of hostility that separate us from each other. The notes which accompany this message are available here.
Continuing in this series examining the death and resurrection of Jesus, Phill Marsh asks what place the resurrection should take in the life of a Christian; if we are saved by faith why should there be any change in how we live, and if we are expected to change, is Jesus’ death and resurrection more…
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