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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Protector

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Ronnie Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of 8 March 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here. SONGS…
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Jesus, Gervais and the ‘Why?’ Game.

It’s the old nature versus nurture debate. I am a gifted annoyer, but how did I get to be so? Was I born with this gifting written into my very DNA, a moment of mutation that spawned skills of annoyance that a non-mutant could only dream of, or did I develop this gifting as I…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Rescuer

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Ronnie Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of the 1 March 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here.…
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The Word of God: How to Read the Bible, part 2 (3/5)

This is the third post in a five part series considering what the Bible teaches about itself. The previous posts in this series are 1. How Not to Read the Bible, 2. How to Read the Bible, part 1. The final two posts in this series are 4. How the Bible Reads Us and 5. Reading the Bible, a…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord is Merciful

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Phill Marsh at Firwood Church on the morning of the 22 February 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here.…
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Recommended Online Resources

I recently heard Dr John Piper posed with the question, ‘Would Jesus have used the internet?’, reply, ‘Probably, but sparingly and very carefully’ (to watch, click here). For the Christian, it is true that the internet can be a dangerous place full of temptation and opportunities to sin. To illustrate this, as I upload this…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Dwelling Place

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of the 8 February 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here. SONGS OF…
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Recession and Repentance

At the moment the world is in the grip of a terrible recession. We talk constantly about the credit crunch and the recession, which is the worst this country or the world has known for hundreds of years. There is talk of poverty and mass unemployment returning to our country on a scale unprecedented since…
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Husbandhood, Fatherhood and the Gospel

  As I watched this interview with Dr D.A. Carson in which he speaks about his family, his upbringing and his early days in ministry, there is an observation that he makes that struck me to the very core, The worst kind of Christian family to be raised in is one with high spiritual pretensions,…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Keeper

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Andy Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of the 8 February 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here.…
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