PreachingInPyjamas

This second part looks at how we need to be understanding of the issues involved before we can properly respond to the question and how we should be acting on that understanding in the here and now.

Answering the question – How should we respond to survivors of the Royal Commission into Sexual Abuse who are very anti-Christian when they ask, “are you a Christian?” This first part looks at how we can be prepared for when we are asked that question.

Here we see God starting to reverse the consequences of Adam and Eve's sin in the Garden of Eden

We are looking at the powerful picture Isaiah 43:1-7 gives us of God's incredible reason for sending a Saviour to redeem us.

Message is from Luke 2:41-52. Does your family have a lost child story they love retelling? And while most of us would know Jesus' "lost" story, did you know the important message within the story?

We will be looking at why we can believe what the Bible says from the very first 1st verse to the last verse by showing how God has created these grand bookends … to demonstrate beyond a shadow of doubt that the Bible is a complete book.

No baby in the manger here in John’s mysterious opening verses of his gospel. John is letting them know there is far more to this human than meets the eye.

How many of the New Testament concepts that are found in the Old Testament do you know about? Today's reading Isaiah 52:7-10 and it's contexts give us a picture of how what we think are God's New Testament characteristics are not New but Old concepts to the Israelites.

Message is from the New Testament reading Luke 1:(46b)47-55.

Today we are looking at “The Plan” God set up to fix the mess Adam and Eve had got themselves into and how amazingly simple God's plan was at the beginning.

Did you realise that there were self-inflicted consequences as well as the consequences God pronounced as a result of Adam & Eve's sin?

Message from Zephaniah 3:14-20. Just who is Zephaniah? What does he have to say that is important to our faith? Are you prepared to find out what God has promised He Will Do?

Do you know whether your denomination's stance regarding alcohol is biblical or not? What does the Bible really say about drinking alcohol? What is the context of Ephesians 5:18?

Have you ever thought about what is the root cause of our sin? Have you ever considered how serious this is and that we need to understand this inner root cause before we can deal with the outward sinful actions

Message is from the New Testament reading Luke 3.1-1.

Have you ever thought about what it would have been like for the people listening to Jeremiah? How much there was for them to take in with just those two verses?

Did Jesus die on the cross? Did Jesus rise from the dead? Was Jesus a spirit or ghost? Who believes in ghosts? Are you positive what Jesus resurrected body was like? Is knowing this important to our faith? Have you even thought about it? If not, all good as this message explores some of the options people have considered and highlights bible verses that make it very clear what kind of a body Jesus had when he rose from the dead.

Do you know all of temptations tactics that lead Adam & Eve into sin, and how some of them came from themselves

I could be wrong … but I am pretty sure that nothing like this odd ball sermon has ever been preached before. This unusual message is the result of a challenge/dare to see if I could prove my point with a subject that isn't related to the Bible. What do you think of the challenge and the Monaffalo analogy to Jesus?

Looking at why God made Adam & Eve and what imaging God means for Christians

I found out there is so much more to God's creation of Adam & Eve than what I had been taught. Did you already know what I discovered?

Have you considered that there is more to the 7th Day of Creation, than God creating a day of rest?

Does it matter I was wrong and was reading and thinking a totally different wording to what the Creation narrative had? Well, maybe not, but I was missing an important clue given to us as to what God is like. Did you know this clue was there in the Creation narrative?

Researching the origins of people led to some disconcerting discoveries about some of the famous missing link fossils. Did you already know what I discovered? And you may find more questions than answers; but have you personally looked into the why of who you are choosing to give credit to for the origin of people.

For this message I got to research and learn about an animal that has fascinated and generated more interest across the world than any other animal - did it answer questions or generate more questions for you?