Sermons

Eph1:1-14

Sun, Aug 17, 2008

by Chris Appleby

Passage: Ephesians 1:1-14

Series: Ephesians

God's Eternal Plan - All things United under Christ

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Wisdom for Postmoderns 4 - The Final Word

Sun, Mar 02, 2008

by Chris Appleby

Passage: Ecclesiastes 12:1-14

Series: Ecclesiastes

Duration: 20 mins 44 secs

God is not a God to be trifled with. God is not a God to take for granted. Even if our observation of the world leaves us perplexed and confused, God has revealed himself to us in his word. He's revealed his plan for the world to us. He's told us what he's like. He's told us what he desires of us. He's given us rules that help us to live in this world. He's shown us how to make sense of this world. And most of all he's sent his Son to live as one of us, to take our sins upon himself and to make it possible for us to be brought back to himself.

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Wisdom for Postmoderns 3 - Is Wisdom Enough?

Sun, Feb 24, 2008

by Chris Appleby

Passage: Ecclesiastes 7:1-20

Series: Ecclesiastes

Duration: 26 mins 16 secs

Wisdom is one of those things we all aim for as we go through life. We try to teach it to our children from an early age. We want them to avoid the mistakes that we or others have made. So what do we do? We teach them the same way people have done it for millennia: through the use of proverbs.

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Wisdom for Postmoderns 2 - Working for the man?

Sun, Feb 17, 2008

by Bill Stewart

Passage: Ecclesiastes 2:4-3:26

Series: Ecclesiastes

Duration: 27 mins 42 secs

Perhaps one of the great gifts of having Ecclesiastes in the Bible is that "the Quester" is prepared to ask hard questions and confronts life's puzzles head on. Ecclesiastes was wise enough to see that he was amusing himself to death. Many people in our postmodern world are in need of the same wisdom so they can escape from virtual reality. Others need to be released from slavery to money and find enjoyment from the hand of God. For these reasons, and many others, I believe Ecclesiastes' observations on work and wealth are certainly wisdom for postmoderns.

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Wisdom for Postmoderns 1 - First and Last Things

Sun, Feb 10, 2008

by Chris Appleby

Passage: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 & Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:7

Series: Ecclesiastes

Duration: 17 mins 3 secs

We live in a world that is often difficult to understand, where sometimes we just have to trust that God is in control, even if it seems that things are upside down, even if we find we can't straighten out the things that are crooked in this world. But we do that always conscious of the fact that God is overseeing all that happens around us and all that we do and say. We continue to fear God because that is the beginning of wisdom.

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