Month: March 2009

Making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland

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ASK: Coming Soon

In his most recent blog (read here), Phill challenges believers to welcome, relish and ask those tough questions of Scripture and of God, confident that those who seek truth will find it in Him. This is the heart which underpins ASK, a weekly vodcast/podcast which will be launched at firwood.church from the 1 April 2009.…
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Colossians XI – The substance belongs to Christ (Colossians 2:16-23)

In the eleventh of a new 19 part series, Ronnie Evans explores how we can be fully connected to the body of Christ, not by following religious rules and regulations, but by placing Christ at the centre of our lives.   

Wifehood, Motherhood and the Gospel

This is not primarily a discussion of womanhood or of what it means to be a wife or a mother. It is important that you know this from the outset, because what I intend to write is both controversial and viewed with some disdain within some quarters of evangelicalism. If you misunderstand the intentions of…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Protector

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Ronnie Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of 8 March 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here. SONGS…
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Songs of Ascent, part VII – The Lord my Restorer

The Songs of Ascent are a collection of Psalms (running from Psalm 120 through to Psalm 135) which pilgrims sang as they travelled towards Jerusalem and up to the temple. In Psalm 126, the Psalmist’s lament is framed with a remembrance of the Lord miraculously restoring his people from captivity and an anticipation that this same…
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Keep in Step with the Spirit – J.I. Packer

There are two ends to the spectrum when we think about the spiritual gifts and miraculous moves of God. At the one end we have the faith healer waving his white besuited arms in order to distract our attention from his outrageous, gravity defying hair, his wild unsubstantiated claims and gross mangling of Scripture. We…
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Colossians X – The fullness of Christ (Colossians 2:9-15)

In the tenth of a new 19 part series, Andy Evans looks at how believers can be filled with the fullness of God through Christ.

Songs of Ascent VI – The Lord my Protector

The Songs of Ascent are a collection of Psalms (running from Psalm 120 through to Psalm 135) which pilgrims sang as they travelled towards Jerusalem and up to the temple. In Psalm 125, the Psalmist reflects upon the strength and security offered by Mount Zion.  As he does so, he comes to understand that true strength…
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Jesus, Gervais and the ‘Why?’ Game.

It’s the old nature versus nurture debate. I am a gifted annoyer, but how did I get to be so? Was I born with this gifting written into my very DNA, a moment of mutation that spawned skills of annoyance that a non-mutant could only dream of, or did I develop this gifting as I…
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Sermon Notes: Songs of Ascent – The Lord my Rescuer

These are the notes of a sermon preached by Ronnie Evans at Firwood Church on the morning of the 1 March 2009; these notes are intended to be read in conjunction with the sermon. To download or stream the sermon, click here. To download the notes for this sermon as a PDF document, click here.…
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