1 April 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: Resurrection Sunday
25 March 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: The Product of Wisdom, James 3:13-18
18 March 2018 – Alan Frauenstein: Taming the Tongue, James 3:1-12
Taming the Tongue Text: James 3:1-12 (NIV) 3 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. 2 We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they sayis perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. 3 When we put bits into…
11 March 2018 – Geoff Follas: Deceptive Faith and Genuine Faith, James 2:14-26
Sorry, no audio available. James 2:14-26 WHAT IS REAL SAVING FAITH? Try and follow me because I want to give you a little bit of church history as a means to helping you understand this passage. 300 years after Christ a man named Jerome translated the Greek Bible into Latin which was the language of…
4 March 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: Love Who? James 2:1-13
18 Feb. 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: Trials – In Perspective, James 1:12-18
JAMES 1:12-18 “Trials: In Perspective” Two weeks ago we opened our series in the book of James looking at Chapter 1 verses 2-11, and discussed the Christians response to trials in 4 separate but inter-related teachings: Joy in Trials; Benefits result from Trials; Wisdom gives God’s perspective in Trials and lastly poverty and wealth…
11 Feb. 2018 – Phil Pawley: The Bible and The Treaty, Galatians 3:26-29
Bi Cultural Journey As some of you may know, after 8.5 years at Morrinsville Baptist I stepped down as senior pastor last Sunday. My wife Diane and I are in the process of moving to Te Mata on the Thames Coast where we have our own home, and at the end of the month…
4 Feb. 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: Trials – In Perspective, James 1:2-11
JAMES 1:2-11 Perhaps, we ourselves are uncertain about God and his place in trials, we question where he is, or whether he’s there at all? What we’re feeling and experiencing has no bearing on the presentness of God…there are not degrees of separation between us and God dependent on the specific nature of the…
28 Jan. 2018 – Ross Woodhouse: Introduction to James
JAMES Overview: As I was preparing these notes I was sitting in my office, in my home, with my car in the garage, with food in my cupboard, cold drinks in the fridge, etc, etc…I stop typing and pause for a moment. Because I have studying James for about a month now I am…
21 Jan. 2018 – Tony Mace: Prayer (3), Philippians 1:3-11 and Colossians 1:3-12
PLACE, PRACTICE AND POWER OF PRAYER PHIL 1:3-11 and COL 1:3-12 A little about the setting; Paul is writing to both churches and it is around 60-64 AD He is a prisoner of Rome under house arrest. He was called to Philippi by a vision Acts 16:9-12 He had a fatherly care for the…