Westminster Presbyterian Church Belconnen Sermons
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Total Sermons: 157
Total Amens: 2
Corinthian worship - Is it right?
Corinth was not your ideal church. It was a cliquey sort of church; there was a party-spirit of one-upmanship; there was jealousy and quarrelling; they were blase about immorality; they were boastful of their enlightened liberty; they were proud of their spiritual gifts; and they had perverted the Lord's Supper to such an extent that Paul says "this is not the Lord's Supper" - He is not here. This is the church Paul is addressing in this letter. I just want to pick up on one key verse - 1 Cor 14:26. Let's try to work out how God wants us to take this; what He wants us to do with it. Particularly this matter of there being a personal vocal contribution from a number of people in the congregation.
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Dying well
I wonder what your response would be if I were to stand up here & say: "I believe in euthanasia". Would you throw me out? I hope so! However, euthanasia is actually a good word; it just has a bad meaning and very bad practice attached to it. The word is from the Greek and literally means "good death". It is all about dying well. I believe in "dying well". My point is: Why should the devil have all the good words? He's hijacked it for his own evil agenda. But this word belongs to us; only Christians have a good death; only Christians die well. What does this mean? It is well demonstrated for us in the life and death of Jacob.
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Twelve sons and twelve tribes
Some of you have experienced this already. I haven't, my time is yet to come. Some of you have been called to your parent's bedside, because they are dying. In our text, Jacob is in that bed, he is about to die. He called for his 12 sons and gave a prophetic pronouncement concerning their future for many generations yet to come. These things tend to run in families. What you say, what you do, how you live your life now, is likely to have an effect for your children and children's children, even for generations to come.
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A living legacy
I'll start today on a sombre note. Imagine you go to the doctor for a routine check-up; he tells you that you have cancer. What would be your response? Would it send you into a wild panic? Or would you be thanking God for the advance notice? News like this has a way of focussing our mind on the things that really matter. One of my responsibilities as a pastor is to encourage and challenge each of us to think deeply, to reflect on our own life. What legacy will you leave behind? Your life now is a living legacy. What legacy are you living out now? What legacy are you passing on to your children?
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O come, all ye faithful
When I did a Google search for "O come, all ye faithful" at the top of the page were versions by Katharine McPhee (runner-up in last years American Idol, and this year rated by People magazine as one of the 100 most beautiful women in the world), and by Twisted Sister (a heavy-metal band who fuse shock tactics, a mood of rebellion and heavy make-up). Apparently these word "O come, all ye faithful..." are out there. People from all walks of life know them and enjoy them. But do they understand them? More to the point, do we understand them?
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Into Egypt
Today I want us to take a bird's eye view of the next 11 chapters of Genesis, chapters 37-47. We're looking for the big picture - what is happening here in relation to God’s whole purpose with the human race, His whole scheme of redemption. It seems to me that the big picture here is the idea of "Into Egypt". The first question is: What is Egypt? What does Egypt represent? Is it not the world, the unbelieving world, the world without God, prosperous but without God?
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