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  • Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover - Year B - Proper 18

    Contributed by Ian Bullock on Sep 1, 2021
     | 3,516 views

    How do we react to others - are we quick to judge on appearance, and can we learn to be hearers and doers of the word?

    In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. It was a beautiful sunny Sunday morning, the congregation had just settled into their service and had begun to sing the first hymn, when their attention was disturbed by a young man who was aimlessly wandering down the aisle. He was unkempt, ...read more

  • Two Kinds Of Servitude

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 20, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,634 views

    Two ways of life. Two very different masters. Two pathways: one leading to death, and one leading to life. Two very different paydays.

    TWO KINDS OF SERVITUDE. Romans 6:12-23. What we are, and whose we are, shapes what we do with what we've got. Negatively, the Apostle Paul encourages us to resist any attempt that sin makes to usurp authority in our physical lives (Romans 6:12). Even for Christians, the body and its ...read more

  • A Context For The Hymn

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 3, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 7,253 views

    The obedience of Christ elicits, draws out, the obedience of Christians.

    A CONTEXT FOR THE HYMN. Philippians 2:1-13. The word “If” that opens this passage might better be translated as “Since” (Philippians 2:1). The sense is, “If there is any encouragement in Christ (and there is), if any consolation in love (and there is), if any fellowship (sharing) in the Spirit ...read more

  • A Context For The Call To Rejoice

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 10, 2017
    based on 4 ratings
     | 6,898 views

    Exhortations, and a very important promise.

    A CONTEXT FOR THE CALL TO REJOICE. Philippians 4:1-9. ‘Our conversation is in heaven,’ said the Apostle in the previous chapter, ‘from whence also we are awaiting (as) Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ’ (cf. Philippians 3:20-21). “So, my brethren… stand fast in the Lord” (Philippians 4:1). Paul ...read more

  • A Song Of Loves

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 21, 2018
    based on 4 ratings
     | 2,762 views

    Both Psalm 45:6-7 and Hebrews 1:8-9 address Jesus as God, yet distinguish Jesus from God.

    A SONG OF LOVES. Psalm 45:1-2; Psalm 45:6-9. The mysterious word in the title of this Psalm, ‘Shoshannim’, may refer to a six-stringed instrument, or to the scattering of roses or lilies around the nuptial bed: what we might call confetti today. The word ‘Maschil’ may be a musical reference, ...read more

  • O How I Love Your Word

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Aug 28, 2019
    based on 3 ratings
     | 3,133 views

    Not just reading the Scriptures, or hearing them, but speaking them, owning them!

    O HOW I LOVE YOUR WORD. Psalm 119:97-104. Psalm 119:97. The Blessed man avoids the walk of the ungodly, the stance of sinners and the seat of the scornful. ‘But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law does he meditate (both) day and night’ (cf. Psalm 1:1-2). A similar dichotomy is ...read more

  • Tapping Into The Power

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 5, 2019
    based on 4 ratings
     | 4,552 views

    All power is ours in Christ Jesus!

    TAPPING INTO THE POWER. Colossians 1:11-20. The Apostle Paul has been speaking of his ceaseless prayer on behalf of the Colossians: that they might be ‘filled with the Knowledge of His will’ and ‘increasing in the Knowledge of God’ (Colossians 1:9-10). The fact of the matter is, that ‘all ...read more

  • Who Is This?

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Aug 30, 2018
    based on 5 ratings
     | 9,268 views

    Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Job 38:2.

    WHO IS THIS? Job 38:1-7, Job 38:34-41. After all the crying and sighing, moaning and groaning of Job (and I do not blame him for it); after all the blaming and shaming, sharing and tearing of his ‘miserable comforters’ (Job 16:2): “Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind” (Job 38:1). ...read more

  • Who Brought Israel Out Of Egypt

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Oct 7, 2020
    based on 3 ratings
     | 4,266 views

    Thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand. Exodus 32 verse 11.

    WHO BROUGHT ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT. Exodus 32:1-14. The people began by saying, “Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt” (Exodus 32:1). Then they changed their mind, saying of the molten calf, “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt” ...read more

  • The Arrival At Sinai.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 9, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,561 views

    What a privilege to be the chosen people of the LORD.

    THE ARRIVAL AT SINAI. Exodus 19:2-8a. EXODUS 19:1-2. The first thing which the children of Israel were expected to do after escaping from Egypt was to make their way to Mount Sinai, as the LORD had instructed Moses (cf. Exodus 3:12). This was not the promised land, that is for sure, but here in ...read more

  • How Long?

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 20, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,454 views

    A flow from pain through prayer to praise.

    HOW LONG? Psalm 13:1-6. This is a lament, a Psalm of complaint. This is evident from the outset, with the fourfold cry of pain, “How long?” (Psalm 13:1-2). The complaint is addressed first to the LORD (Psalm 13:1), but then seems to descend into something resembling self-pity (Psalm ...read more

  • The Sovereignty Of God And Human Responsibility. Abridged.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Apr 28, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,356 views

    The true Wisdom is revealed to the children of God.

    THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD AND HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY. Abridged. Matthew 11:16-19, Matthew 11:25-30 I). Matthew 11:16-19. The children were out playing on the streets. ‘Let’s play weddings,’ suggested the girls: but the boys would not. ‘Let’s play funerals,’ countered the boys: but the girls ...read more

  • The Omniscience Of God.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on May 11, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,339 views

    The response to "The LORD has searched me" (cf. Psalm 139:1) is “Search me and know my thoughts” (Psalm 139:23).

    THE OMNISCIENCE OF GOD. Psalm 139:1-12, Psalm 139:23-24. When we read Psalm 139, sometimes it is hard to tell whether we should read it with a sense of dread: The LORD knows me (PSALM 139:1); He knows everything I am doing (PSALM 139:2); He knows where I am going (PSALM 139:3); He knows my every ...read more

  • The Song Of Moses And Miriam.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Aug 19, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 2,013 views

    Who is like thee, O LORD, among the gods?

    THE SONG OF MOSES AND MIRIAM. Exodus 15:1-11, Exodus 15:20-21. EXODUS 15:1. The song of Moses and the congregation begins with the acclamation that “the LORD hath triumphed gloriously.” It is a celebration of the children of Israel’s crossing of the Red Sea, and the LORD’s victory over the ...read more

  • From Lament To Praise.

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Sep 20, 2023
    based on 2 ratings
     | 1,236 views

    God is, and ever has been, my protector. Why would He let us down now?

    FROM LAMENT TO PRAISE. Psalm 43:1-5. Bold prayer dares to address God in the imperative. It seems that the Psalmist, speaking on behalf of many a pilgrim since, has lost his sense of the immanence of God. Yet we cannot rely upon senses, so he falls back on what he knows about God. ...read more