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 | Rhythms of Life - 07.03.10 - I Shouldn’t Have Said That | John Notman | | | | The power of speech is one of the greatest powers that God has given us. With our tongues we can praise God and we can praise one another; but we can also quickly change and use the same tongue, to curse, to slander, to nag, to undermine, to ridicule, to gossip, to hurt, to bully, and so on. James gives us some graphic pictures that illustrate what our tongues can do. These pictures are not just to amuse us, but to remind us, and hopefully to help us, to do something about the ways we use our tongues.
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| | Rhythms of Life - 28.02.10 - Is My Fath Real ~ or Fake? | John Notman | | | | This passage from James has caused much controversy in the church. At the time of the reformation Martin Luther, the great reformer, held the view that James should not be included in the Bible at all. He called it an epistle ‘full of straw’ and his misgivings about James focussed on the whole debate concerning faith. They centred on the question ‘How is a person saved, or put right with God?’
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| | Rhythms of Life - 14.02.10 - How To Treat People Right | John Notman | | | | Do you show favouritism? If we’re honest, most of us do. It’s something that’s so much part of our culture today. We want to be accepted; we want to fit in. We want to be respected; we want people to like us. But for this to happen, it may mean fitting into a group that by its very nature excludes others. And often, even in churches, the ways of the world dominate in the area of discrimination. And it’s so interesting to see which areas James highlights as areas of discrimination in his time because it lo | |
|  | Rhythms of Life - 07.02.10 - Habakkuk | Martin Goldsmith | | | | Is God working in our time? If so, is He working in our country? In our town? Or down our street? Guest speaker Martin Goldsmith examines part of the prophesy of Habakkuk, revealing that God is indeed working, more powerfully than we may ever realise. | |
| | Rhythms of Life - 31.01.10 - Jesus, teach us to pray | John Notman | | | | How’s your prayer life? Few of us, if we were honest, would describe our prayer lives as dynamic; but prayer is vital in the life of our church and in our individual lives as Christians. If you have a way of praying and it’s working for you, then continue with it. But if not, the model I want to suggest you try is the model suggested by Jesus, in the Lord’s Prayer. | |
| | Rhythms of Life - 24.01.10 - How to win over temptation | John Notman | | | | The Bible talks about two different kinds of testing. One is called trials. The other is called temptation. Both of them use the same word in Greek -- "peirasmos". Sometimes it's translated "trials", sometimes
"temptations". It doesn't matter because sometimes a situation can be both a trial and a temptation. But to distinguish them -- trials are situations designed by God in order to help us grow. Temptations are
designed by the devil in order to cause us to sin. Are you tempted? | |
| | Rhythms of Life, 10.01.10 - What I Need To Know About My Problems | John Notman | | | | The letter of James is one of the most practical Books in the whole Bible. The underlining premise for the whole letter is: “God is more concerned about our character than our comfort.” And unless we get to grips with this we’ll never understand James. When the Holy Spirit takes up residence in our lives his agenda is the same as God the Father’s. He wants you and me to become remarkable people. He wants us to be like Jesus. So James starts by talking about how we can profit from our problems. | |
| | Rhythms of Life, 03.01.10 - How Mature Am I? | John Notman | | | | One of the purposes of our church here at NewSong is to help everyone grow spiritually; to grow into mature Christians. But what is maturity? How do we know if we are mature? Maturity has nothing to do with what age you are. Maturity doesn’t automatically come with age, and neither is it dependent on how long you’ve been a Christian. Do you not think that some people just look mature? They have a mature demeanor. You can look spiritually mature and still be immature. Maturity isn’t appearance. So what is it | |
| | Rhythms of Life 27 Dec 09 God's Gift of Hope at Christmas | John Notman | | | | Hope is part of our makeup, so it’s not surprising that God wants to speak to us concerning hope. What is hope? Where does hope come from? Can we buy it? Manufacture it? Pretend we have it? How do we get hope? Hope is a gift of God. We’ve seen over the last couple of weeks that God wants to give the gift of power at Christmas. He wants to give us the gift of joy at Christmas. And God also wants to give us the gift of hope. In fact the Bible actually describes God as the God of hope. | |
| | Rhythms of Life 20 Dec 09 Bible Buddies Christmas | John Notman | | | | We finally found a way of getting John to speak for just 5 minutes! We introduced a 'Countdown' to create a "Finish Speaking Now" point! The message of why Jesus came to earth is simply made, but in just 5 minutes! See what you think . . . | |
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