Garden to City: New Creation
March 27th, 2011 (AM) - By: Matt Lillicrap
So, fighting in Lybia continues, protests in Yemen and Bharain, the rest of the middle east seems ready to boil over at any minute. There’s earthquakes in Christchurch and Japan, Tsunamis, Nuclear accidents. Every day the list seems to get bigger doesn’t it? Then at home everything’s getting more expensive, job security is getting less, [...]
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Resurrection & New Life
March 20th, 2011 (AM) - By: Dan Martin
Dan Martin gives a family service talk on the resurrection. You can follow his slides by clicking here.
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Cross
March 13th, 2011 (AM) - By: Richard Blayney
This is the seventh topic in our nine-session bible overview, looking at how the bible story takes us from Garden to City, from Creation to New Creation, from Eden to Heaven. This is our first week in the New Testament. We’ve done a lot of work to get here and we’ve been left in limbo by the exile. A remnant of God’s people are back in God’s place, in Israel, but God’s blessing seems distant. The glory days under Kings David and Solomon are a very distant memory. Crucially, the big question of sin is unresolved. What is the plan that will allow a pure, holy God to relate to sinful, broken mankind, who to a man have rejected his goodness and authority?
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Exile
March 6th, 2011 (AM) - By: Dan Martin
Dan Martin delivers preaches from 2 Chronicles 36. 11-23, a message entitled “Exile”, as part of the 2011 bible overview series entitled “Garden to City”. You can follow his slides here: Exile
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Kingdom
February 27th, 2011 (AM) - By: Rob Frame
Have you ever day-dreamed about what it would be like to be king, to have total, unlimited control? Sounds like a playground game I guess but it’s not just children who pretend to be king , well maybe it is. More seriously isn’t it the same desire for power, for control that’s often behind our dreams of [...]
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Rescue
February 20th, 2011 (AM) - By: Guest Preacher
Jason Cochrane brings a message for all the family from Exodus 14.21-31.
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Promise
February 13th, 2011 (AM) - By: Dan Martin
Dan Martin continues the 2011 bible overview series entitled “Garden to City”, preaching from Genesis 12. This is the third part in the series, entitled ‘Promise’. You can follow his slides here: Genesis 12 Promise
Read More / ListenGarden to City: Flood
January 23rd, 2011 (AM) - By: Dan Martin
Dan Martin continues the Garden to City Bible Overview series, looking at the Flood from Genesis 6-9 in this monthly family service. You can follow his slides here: Flood Interested in doing some more reading & thinking about the flood? The Bible scholar Vern Poythress has written an excellent book called ‘Redeeming Science’. Thoughtful readers [...]
Read More / ListenGarden To City: Creation and Fall
January 9th, 2011 (AM) - By: Rod Earnshaw
The bible is a big, complex book. In fact a collection of 66 books, written over some 1000 years by many different authors. It covers almost every literary genre we know – poetry, history, law, parable, proverbial sayings, hymns, letters, theology, even construction manuals – and introduces some we don’t see elsewhere, like apocalyptic and [...]
Read More / Listen