| Ref |
Title |
Date |
| PT150 |
Pragmatic Leadership |
13/04/02 |
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I don't believe you can sustain a healthy church without a healthy
leadership. There are a lot of books about leadership: how to
be a great leader, how to be a church leader, and all the rest.
They contain a lot of very important material. But in
all the detail, it is easy to miss some simple and obvious points.
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| PT152 |
Sex and Violence |
17/05/02 |
|
Looking at what we communicate to the world about Christian
morality by what we watch and what we complain about on TV and
film.
|
| PT153 |
An Eternal Covenant |
03/10/02 |
|
Answering a question which suggests the paedobaptists must be
right because God can't change His mind.
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| PT154 |
Ezekiel 37: Dry Bones |
08/06/02 |
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By Sue. What does God want to do with you, here and now?
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| PT155 |
The Right to be Happy |
02/01/08 |
|
People think of happiness as something they have a right to,
and as something they should aim for. But when you come to
consider the question, it becomes clear that neither of these
ideas is true.
|
| PT156 |
From One Man (Acts 17:26) |
20/06/02 |
|
Asked to say something about how we can
respond to people begging on the street, I approached this in the
light of something Paul said in his sermon in Acts 17.
|
| PT157 |
Daniel's Prayer (Daniel 9) |
30/06/02 |
|
Working backwards through the chapter, from the obscure to the
straightforward, then asking why the people of Israel had been
sent into captivity in the first place - is there a lesson for us?
|
| PT158 |
A Conversation about Baptism |
30/10/02 |
|
A few years ago, I posted an article about the Biblical basis of
baptism on this site. In May 2002, I received a response to it
which prompted another article on the subject of 'an eternal
covenant.' I then replied directly in an email, and the
conversation which followed is contained in Questions and Answers
Concerning Baptism
|
| PT159 |
Questions and Answers Concerning Baptism |
30/10/02 |
|
These are the questions and answers referred to in the previous
article.
|
| PT161 |
What Do We Have To Give? (Acts 3:6) |
04/05/03 |
|
Two sermons in one - the subject and the passage.
|
| PT162 |
More Questions and Answers Concerning Baptism |
21/05/03 |
|
Further discussion.
|
| PT163 |
Churches Together in Sea Mills |
03/07/03 |
|
This is a personal statement about the nature of unity and how it
is worked out among the Churches in Sea Mills. Also some thoughts
about the united prayer group, and its role in promoting unity.
|
| PT164 |
How Do We Do Theology? |
28/08/03 |
|
An alternative to the theological 'methodologies' described in the
introduction to the course at Spurgeon's.
|
| PT165 |
Ministry to Homeless People |
03/11/03 |
|
Assignment 1 for the first module of my course at Spurgeon's
|
| PT166 |
Theology of Mission |
09/12/03 |
|
Assignment 2 for the first module of my course at Spurgeon's
|
| PT167 |
Who Stays with the Stuff? |
28/12/03 |
|
1 Samuel 30:24, plus the surrounding chapters. It was a bit longer
than I intended, but I was rather struggling with the scope - what
to say and what to leave out. The 'basic truths' bit seemed
rather artificial - 'plucked out of thin air' - without the
background, and I just didn't know how much background to assume.
So I'm really glad it worked in the end.
|
| PT168 |
Hope |
10/01/04 |
|
This was given to the Saturday evening meeting at Pip'n'Jay. I
thought it was the young peoples' group, but there were plenty of
older people. I had originally prepared something based around the
idea of service, using examples from the Crisis Centre, but on the
Thursday before the meeting they gave me this title...
|
| PT169 |
Meet Your Neighbour (Luke 10:25-37) |
11/01/04 |
|
This is something I rarely attempt: to combine aspects of a
traditional sermon with information about what we do at the Crisis
Centre, and why. This is the sermon reported on by the Bristol
Evening Post (8/10) so it seems to have worked for some people.
|
| PT170 |
CCM Project Review |
01/02/04 |
|
Assignment 3 for the first module of my course at Spurgeon's
|
| PT171 |
A Practice Sermon (Ephesians 3:14-21) |
07/02/04 |
|
The sermon I prepared and delivered at Spurgeon's college during
the preaching module study week in February 2004.
|
| PT172 |
Peter's Confession (Mark 8:27-38) |
14/09/03 |
|
A short sermon for St Lukes, Brislington, given to the morning
congregation on 14 September 2003. A meditation on Peter's
confession, and what it means to follow Jesus.
|
| PT173 |
I Believe the Bible |
29/02/04 |
|
Evangelicals tend to adopt an unthinking view of scripture, which
causes many problems - especially to people who fail to understand us
and how we use the Bible.
|
| PT174 |
Getting Our Priorities Right |
06/04/04 |
|
Because of the resurrection, people matter more than things
|
| PT175 |
Questions About Forgiveness |
07/05/04 |
This article consists of some questions I prepared for the
Spurgeon's Study Group meeting 29 April 2004 on the theme of
'Forgiveness', followed by some thoughts prepared for a sermon the
following Sunday - the 'Reflections on Forgiveness'.
|
| PT188 |
Day by day like us He
grew |
01/01/06 |
Some thoughts sparked by the carol.
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