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|  | Ever Prayed from the Belly of a Fish? - Jonah Chapter 2 | John Notman | | | | |
| | Rhythms of Life - 14.03.10 - I Have Never Committed Adultery | John Notman | | | | Friendship with the world means enmity or hostility with God. Is it possible for a believer to become an enemy of God? James say it is, and it’s all tied up with the warning he gives here against committing adultery . . . not sexual adultery but spiritual adultery.
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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. | |
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