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Luke 22:39-53
Luke 22:39-53 | EV Church | 1/03/2015 | Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin explains the importance of prayer in times of suffering, advising us to anticipate hardships and decide in advance how you will respond and be someone who prays that you will not fall into temptation to walk away from Jesus. Is your faith just one of the many things you are balancing in life, or is your faith the most important area of you life, an area that requires investment in prayer as a deterrent for temptation, and as a core element of perseverance and maturity?
Saturday EV - Luke 22:39-53
Luke 22:39-53 | Saturday EV | 28/02/2015 | Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin explains the importance of prayer in times of suffering, advising us to anticipate hardships and decide in advance how you will respond and be someone who prays that you will not fall into temptation to walk away from Jesus. Is your faith just one of the many things you are balancing in life, or is your faith the most important area of you life, an area that requires investment in prayer as a deterrent for temptation, and as a core element of perseverance and maturity?
Judges 2:6-19
Judges 2:6-19 | EV Church | 5/05/2013 | Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin provides an introduction to Judges. God's people finally get to inhabit the promised land, to fulfil the promises made to Abraham. And what should have been a great experience for God's chosen people, becomes a series of generations who reject God, are rescued by a Judge, then fall away into worse behaviour. As God calls his people to drive out the other nations - it's worth considering if Holy war is ever ok? 1. It was punishment for their wickedness (see Gen 15) 2. God owns all land and was fulfilling His promise (Deut 7:7) 3. To maintain the covenant relationship (Deut 7:6) What about now this side of Jesus? No - it's not ok to use these verses to justify war, we are in Exodus preparing for the new Kingdom Yes - spiritually we are at war, and need to rage Holy war on sin.
Parable of the Sower
Luke 8:4-15 | EV Church | 17/02/2013 | Tim Baldwin
Tim Baldwin unpacks the parable of the sower. Parables are not given so that everyone understands, but rather (v9) to speak like Isaiah, as a form of judgement. Truth is concealed from the casual listener, who ultimately are judged for ignoring Gods truth. God is a speaking God and His word (the seed) is delivered and heard in many ways. 1. Path - the devil takes away the word of God. 2. Rocky ground - receive the word with joy, then fall away when testing comes 3. Thorns - hear the word, but allows life's worries, riches and pleasures to take priority 4. Good soil - hear & retain the word and through perseverance produce an abundant harvest of godliness with a passion for mission. Pray that you listen to God's word and have your life shaped by it to become more like Christ.