Sex 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...
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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...
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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.,...
Read MoreThe Most Important Thing of All
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Matthew 13:44-46, 52-53 Date: 9 May 2010 As many of you will know a few weeks ago we had a family holiday down in the mighty Hawkes Bay. While we were there I caught up with an old friend from way back and noticed that he had some new paintings on the wall. We were particularly impressed by one by an artist called John Staniford, and the next day discovered...
Read MoreThe Largest Kingdom in the World
Speaker: Andrew Brown Key Passage: Matthew 13:11-17, 31-35 Date: 2 May 2010 One of the things that we all love is a good mystery. We seem to enjoy puzzles and brainteasers that challenge us to make sense out of something. The other night Wesley and I were watching ‘National Treasure’ on TV. Are any of you familiar with it? In the story actor Nicolas Cage is surprised to discover that...
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