3 June 2018 – Geoff Follas: Parable of Wheat and Weeds, Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
THE CO-EXISTING KINGDOM OF GOD The Bible tells us that the earth belongs to the Lord, He is the King over all the earth. However Satan’s evil forces have invaded our planet and they presently occupy the world and we believers are living in enemy occupied territory. Ill. When the Nazis invaded and occupied […]
8 April 2018 – Geoff Follas: The Believer’s Real Enemy, James 4:1-12
James 4:1-12 April 2018 THE BELIEVER’S REAL ENEMY A number of years ago a man was found guilty of the gruesome murder of a young woman and when he was asked in court why he did it, he answered, “The Devil made me do it.” It’s interesting today how people are unwilling to […]
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 […]
Devotional 15 April 2018
Our Reactions Thoughts from James 4:1-12 It’s interesting today how people are unwilling to take responsibility for their own actions. They call it extenuating circumstances. They blame their circumstances, their upbringing, their parents, their husbands or wives, the devil and goodness knows what else. James says that the cause of most conflict comes not from […]
30 April 2017 – Geoff Follas: Completing the Race, Hebrews 13:1-2
23 April 2017 – Geoff Follas: The Trustworthiness of God, Psalm 23
Psalm 23 April 2017 THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF GOD. Every year the commerce commission receives complaints from customers who believe they have been ripped off by various companies. In 2015 the greatest number of complaints were from customers who had been overcharged by Spark and Vodafone. It’s difficult in a culture that is moving further […]
16 April 2017 – Geoff Follas: The Empty Tomb, John 20:1-18
John 20:1-18 July 2017 THE EMPTY TOMB Ill. A scientist’s wife reminded her husband at breakfast one morning that they were moving house that day. Her last words to him as he walked out door were, “Don’t forget to go to our new address when you leave work tonight.” Sure enough he returned to […]
9 April 2017 – Geoff Follas: Getting God’s Perspective, Psalm 73
Psalm 73 April 2017 GETTING GOD’S PERSPECTIVE Ill. When I went to my first church, it was a very small struggling church of about 35 adults. For the first 3 years we saw very little growth and I used to get quite discouraged. Just up the road from us was a thriving Brethren assembly […]
2 April 2017 – Geoff Follas: Understanding the Down Times, Psalm 42
Psalm 42 April 2017 UNDERSTANDING THE DOWN TIMES In the 2012/13 New Zealand Health Survey, they found that more than half a million people living in NZ at that time had been diagnosed with depression at some time in their lives The average person has more than two hundred negative thoughts a day […]
19 March 2017 – Geoff Follas: The Blessings of the Godly, Psalm 37:21-26
Sermon audio not available. Psalm 37:21-26 March 2017 THE BLESSINGS OF THE GODLY Ill. I have a friend who owned a furnishing business in Auckland many years ago. The business was struggling financially because so many customers were defaulting on their payments. I offered to visit some of these customers to see if I could […]