These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans on the morning of the 12 July 2009 at Firwood Church. Click here to stream or download the sermon audio. 1. INTRODUCTION Ephesians 1:1-2 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are…
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Gideon, my nearly two year old son, has learnt several new tricks. Even though he cannot yet talk (beyond shouting out random single syllable words, ‘duck’ as he points at the TV, ‘wack’ as he waves his arms madly and ‘clock’ as he points unnervingly to my eye), he has picked up a number of…
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A couple of years ago on a hot summer’s day after a particularly sweaty church service I decided that the most appropriate way for me to cool down would be to take a nice cold bath. With this in mind I duly returned home, ran the cold water tap in the bath, carried my stereo…
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Those of you who have been around the last six Sunday evenings will know that we have been working through the book of Ecclesiastes. I wanted to highlight an interesting online article available for free courtsey of Bible Study Magazine (from the team responsible for the awesome Logos Bible Study software). In this article, Miles…
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Howdy, Just a very short blog post to draw your attention to yet another way in which you can keep up to date with what is going on at Firwood Church. As we’ve recently announced, you can, via Facebook, receive updates on new content available on the website. As with the Quiz & Curry Night,…
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We intend to do something a little different in the morning services over the next few months. Those who attend Firwood Church will know that we usually preach topically in the mornings and work our way through books of the Bible in the evenings. This plan will temporarily change as we begin a new series…
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The Life Tomorrow is the 500th Anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. John Calvin was born on the 10 July 1509 in Noyon, France, just eight years before the greater reformer, Martin Luther, would pin his 95 Theses to the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg, Germany in protest against the Catholic Church’s distortion…
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The most memorable job I ever had was a temporary job just after I left the army working in a biscuit factory in charge of the cutting machine at the beginning of the production line. The upside was that this job was only four days a week. The downside was that this job involved twelve…
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On Tuesday evening this past week, approximately 20 of the young people and youth leaders in Firwood Church met to discuss their thoughts having read Chapter one of Francis Chan‘s book, ‘Crazy Love – Overwhelmed By A Relentless God‘. It was a great evening and I hope that these online blog posts will do it…
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In every husband and wife/mother and father relationship there is a strange and mysterious dynamic at work. I call this the good-cop/bad-cop dynamic. We see evidence of this in the most mundane of occasions. The gas and electric bill comes through the door and we discover that arrears have silently been allowed to build up…
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