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In a world where many are crying out for freedom and liberation, Good Friday is a message of freedom: “God brings freedom from sin and death through the death of Jesus for sin.” I preached from Matthew 27 across the day. Always encouraged by the older crew at 830. Good time with my family at 1030. And then a new Good Friday Night service and dinner at 6pm tonight. I’m thankful to God for time with our church family today.
Here’s some details from tonight: there were 3 Bible readings, Isa 53 and 2 from Matthew 27, each with live music backing. The above pic from creation swap was used as a background. The band played 5 songs: Nothing but the blood; How deep the Father’s Love; In Christ Alone; Jesus Thank You; and Stronger. They also did a great version of Lead me to the Cross as an item (here’s a short vid). We used a countdown video to kick off and another video off the back of the sermon.
Click here to have a listen to my sermon on Matthew 27.
See below for the Easter Message from the Arch Bish.
Continue reading “Freedom from Sin and Death”
Check out this short video about the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s taken from the Life of Jesus documentary featuring author and historian Dr John Dickson from CPX.
If you’ve got questions about Jesus – check out your local church this weekend.
During term 1 at St Faith’s Narrabeen we hit up Matthew8-12. Quality series. In those verses Jesus is both the one to fear, but also the one who comes to show mercy and compassion to lost people. Below are links to all the sermons. Check them out:
Jesus: Before he was famous | Matt 7:28-8:27 – Kerry Nagel
Jesus: Doctor to sinners | Matthew 8:28-9:36 – Dave Miers
Jesus: Lord of the Harvest | Matt 9:35-10:23 – Ben Molyneux
Jesus: The one to fear | Matt 10:24-42 – Dave Miers
Jesus: Don’t look for another | Matt 11:1-19 – Ben Molyneux
Jesus: The way to find rest | Matt 11:20-30 – Kerry Nagel
Jesus: The Lord of Rest | Matt 11:28-12:21 – Dave Miers
Jesus: The big brother you want | Matt 12:22-50 – Ben Molyneux
If you’ve had a listen to the series (live or via mp3) I’d would love to hear how you were impacted by them. Peaceout.
Humans are so superficial. If someone doesn’t fit a certain celebrity stereotype, we write them off. Paul Potts and Susan Boyle were a bit awkward and/or uncool, so we were shocked by their amazing performances on Britain’s Got Talent. Michael Collings is the latest ordinary person to rebuke our superficiality! Click here to check out his recent performance.
Cool story. Ordinary fella. (Even though he’s playing a cheap Ashton!) he’s got some mean skills on the guitar and an amazing voice. Boom!
(h/t Stevie G via facebook)
1 Samuel 22:2 stood out in my readings yesterday (need a reading plan? check this): “And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.” (ESV) It’s in the context of David fleeing from Saul as he tries to kill David. I love it. All the bothered, bankrupt and bitter join David’s team. This isn’t a crack team, far from it. It’s a bunch of broken people.
I love the fact that this motley crew of fellas are ultimately formed into a pretty lean mean fighting machine under David’s leadership. I don’t want to overly allegorize, but perhaps there’s a lesson here for Christian leadership. Sometimes in Christian ministry we set the bar so high for participation on a ministry team that we only allow those who’ve got it all sorted out to be part of the action. That’s dumb.
Don’t write off the bothered. Don’t write off the bankrupt. Don’t write off the bitter.
David pulled together a killer team because “the LORD was with him”. But David is only a shadow of the reality to come in Christ. On Jesus’ team, it’s only broken people allowed. He didn’t come for the healthy, but for the sick. He’s a pretty good captain!
Next time someone doesn’t measure up to your list of requirements, perhaps you could think again.
This is all time. Maybe triple all time. You know it. Beat Street Roxy Battle. Action:
If you could be in a scene from a movie… which movie? which scene?