Friendships First Steps
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Luke 10: 38-42 Date: 18 July 2010 Over the last few weeks I’ve been pondering the whole question of friends: ‘how do we make friends? How do we make better friends?’ Last week as I was looked out over the Combined congregation I was pondering that same question. We live in such an ethnically diverse community. The experts rate Auckland as...
Read MoreHospitality
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Luke 10: 30-37, Roman 12: 9-13 Date: 11 July 2010 As I look around I can see people from many different ‘neighbourhoods’ and backgrounds. One thing about these combined services is that there is a whole lot of variety amongst us. For start we have five main languages: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Samoan, and Korean. We represent many different nations,...
Read MoreSex and the City of God: More Than Just Sex
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: 1 Cor. 6:12-7:9 Date: 20 June 2010 Looking at our new sermon series today I suppose we should be talking about football. Football would be very topical at the moment (wouldn’t it), but I think the ‘Sex and the City’ movie released in NZ recently raises a whole lot of stuff that we need to talk about as Christians. How many of you will confess to seeing...
Read MoreCovering the Basics (Part 1)
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Act8: 26-39 Date: 30 May 2010 Some of you will remember that just before Christmas I gave you all a challenge. I challenged you to look at four different areas of your life (the social, physical, mental and spiritual) and to make goals in each of these. Being a man who wants to practise what I preach I did the same exercise myself. I sat down and decided...
Read MoreCovering the Basics (Part 2)
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Romans 12: 1-18 Date: 6 June 2010 Just this week I heard a joke that I quite enjoyed. Apparently there was a man who decided to get a talking parrot to keep him company. So, he went to the local pet shop and spent a fortune on a parrot that the manager guaranteed would talk. However, when he got the bird home, no matter how hard he tried, he could not get...
Read MoreWhy Mission?
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Matthew 13: 1-53 Date: 16 May 2010 If you’re interested in world missions, then this is a very exciting time in which to be a Christian. Although Christianity has remained pretty-much static as a percentage of world population there have been some profound changes happening in recent years. You don’t get to see or hear much of it here in little old N.Z.,...
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