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MATTHEW 8:23 – 9:17
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- Written by Chris Balzer
MATTHEW 8:23 – 9:17
(Daniel 7:1-14)
- Perhaps you remember seeing the Dalai Lama on the TV when he was in Australia a few years ago. When he was here, he appeared at huge meetings all over the country.
- What kind of man is this?
- He’s mysterious, isn’t he? Is he man, or god, or a bit of each?
- They call this man ‘His Holiness’. That fairly obviously means that they consider him to be extra special, at the very least.
- According to the official website, Tibetans believe that the Dalai Lama is an enlightened being, who has chosen rebirth as a way of being of benefit to all living beings.
- He has millions of followers. When he escaped from Tibet into India in 1959, approximately 80,000 Tibetans followed him across the Himalayas into exile. Many have made that same trip since, and many have died on the way.
- What kind of man is this?
- That’s exactly the question that the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth asked so long ago. We read about that from the Gospel of Matthew today:
MATTHEW 8:1-22
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- Written by Chris Balzer
MATTHEW 8:1-22
(Joshua ch. 14)
- What football club do you follow?
- Most Aussies back one of them; it may be Rugby League, or Rugby Union, or Aussie Rules, or Soccer, but once that decision has been made, one has to ‘follow’ one particular club.
- At least, that’s what Aussie popular culture seems to require.
- Do you remember seeing on TV a few years ago hundreds of people crying when South Sydney Rugby League club was closed down!
- They seemed to me to be just as fanatical as the followers of Osama Bib Laden in their dedication to do almost anything for the cause.
- And the Rabbitoes fans succeeded! The team they follow plays again.
MATTHEW 7:13-28
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- Written by Chris Balzer
MATTHEW 7:13-28
(Exodus 19)
- Perhaps some of you saw on TV some time ago a programme made by Andrew Denton called: “God on my Side.”
- Denton had visited the convention of the Religious Broadcasting Association in the USA and interviewed quite a number of the people there.
- While I don’t agree with most of those interviewed about a number of theological points that were being made, and I certainly don’t agree with them about the impression that everything that the Bible says about the church applies to the USA as a nation, I was very happy with their emphasis on the Bible as the Word of God, and as the only source of our information about God.
- Denton gently pushed those whom he interviewed about Jesus being the only way to God, and those people did well, I thought, in their answers.
MATTHEW 7:1-12
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- Written by Chris Balzer
(Exodus 32:1-14)
- Do you pray?
- Recently I read a Christian writer who said something like this: “Prayer is something that marks out a Christian.”
- He’s saying, in other words, that if you’re a Christian, then you will pray.
- You might care to glance at ch. 6 v. 5. Jesus doesn’t say to Christians “If you pray, then do it like this.”
- What he said was: “And WHEN you pray….”
- And then, as he introduces the Lord’s Prayer, he says (v. 8):
“your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this:”
- Our Lord Jesus makes it very plain over and over again in the Gospels that God is not only HIS Father but also OUR Father.
- Why is it true that if you’re a Christian, then you will pray?
Easter Sunday Service - "On The Road to Life"
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- Written by David Hassan
Luke 24:13-33
Structure
o Empty Tomb, angelic & woman report, & Peter's response vs. 1-12
o The Emmaus Road, proof that Jesus has risen vs. 13-35
Today we've celebrating the resurrection of Jesus together
Easter is where everything about Jesus intersects for us
Easter is that poignant moment in time
We don't have to second guess the plans of God
Good Friday - "This is the King"
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- Written by David Hassan
Luke 22:66-23:56
Simplicity says so much
we have a saviour willing to identify with our shame
prepared to be of no reputation for our sake
with Jesus
His love for others exceeds his desire to be loved
Sometimes when we're too close to something
we can't see or recognize it for what it is.
we can be so close that we don't know
what we're looking at.
We need at those times a fresh perspective.
Old Meet New
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- Written by David Hassan
Luke 5:27-39
We rarely know the impact we have on others
Things ripple out
Just think, you may never meet the person whose life you helped change.
Like this clip I'm about to show you called "Strangers"
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