Episodes
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Sunday Sep 21, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Update 3 (Church Yard Makeover)
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
An update given by Adam Taylor about the Church Yard Makeover at the Shaping Our Future Together weekend in September 2014.
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Talk 3 - 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Update 2 (Bible Study Groups)
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
An update given by Adam Taylor about Bible Study Groups at the Shaping Our Future Together weekend in September 2014.
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Talk 2 - 1 Thessalonians 2-3
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Update 1 (Outreach/Doorknocking)
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
An update given by Adam Taylor about Outreach/Doorknocking at the Shaping Our Future Together weekend in September 2014.
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Shaping Our Future Together 2014 - Talk 1 - 1 Thessalonians 1
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Saturday Sep 20, 2014
Sunday Apr 20, 2014
Jesus Brings... Real Community - Luke 24:36-53
Sunday Apr 20, 2014
Sunday Apr 20, 2014
- What makes community?
- Jesus brings real community (Ephesians 4)
- From Ephesians 4
I ... urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called ... [doing] the work of ministry, ... building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, ... we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. [So] put off your old self, ... and put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness ... - Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
- Why Jesus' community? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- Real bodily resurrection (Luke 24:36-43)
- Real prophecies fulfilled (Luke 24:44-49)
- PAST
- PRESENT
- FUTURE
- Joining Jesus’ real community
Friday Apr 18, 2014
Jesus Brings... Real Access to God - Luke 23:32-49
Friday Apr 18, 2014
Friday Apr 18, 2014
- One died reviling
- One died repenting
- One died redeeming
- Today you will be with me IN PARADISE
- Today YOU will be with me in paradise
- TODAY you will be with me in paradise
- Today you will be WITH ME in paradise
Wednesday Dec 25, 2013
What Do You Give the Man Who Has Everything? - Philippians 2:1-11
Wednesday Dec 25, 2013
Wednesday Dec 25, 2013
- Jesus: The one who had everything (v6-7)
- Jesus: Gave it all up in selfless, sacrificial service (v8)
- Jesus: The name above every name (v9-11)
- When will you bow before Jesus? (v11)
- If you have already bowed your knee before Jesus, are you living the attitude of Jesus' purposeful sacrifice?
Sunday Sep 08, 2013
Sunday Sep 08, 2013
- Can I trust the New Testament documents?
- Assumption 1: They are biased, but not distorted
- Assumption 2: They are historically suspect
- Assumption 3: They haven't been transmitted accurately
- The Qur'an and the Bible
- Islam is in the line of Judaism and Christianity
- The Bible is God's revelation
- The Qur'an and Christians
- The Qur'an and the Bible
- Dealing with the barriers: Christian doctrine
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead - Evidence 1: The tomb was empty
- Evidence 2: Women were the first witnesses
- Evidence 3: Similarities and differences in accounts
- Evidence 4: The disciples' transformation
- Dealing with the barriers: Personal barriers
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
TBW 2013 - Tough Questions for Dummies - Talk 3 - Answering Tough Questions
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
- Three broad approaches to Christian apologetics
- From what God has revealed
- From what God has done
- From what I have experienced
- What does the Bible have to say?
- What method should we use?
- Apologetics in action and the existence of God
- The cosmological argument
- The teleological argument
- The moral argument
- The religious experience argument
- Apologetics and the existence of God
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
TBW 2013 - Tough Questions for Dummies - Talk 2 - Gearing Up for Tough Questions
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
Saturday Sep 07, 2013
- Socrates, Plato and the Apostle Peter
- A definition of Christian apologetics
- The characteristics required
- Personal characteristics:
- Real
- Credible
- Prepared to fail
- Perseverance
- Christian characteristics
- Persuasive (Acts 18:4)
- Dependence on God (Acts 13:46-48)
- Flexibility - able to change approach (1 Cor 9:19-23)
- Principled - not trying to trick, coerce or force (1 Thess 2:3-4)
- Love (2 Cor 5:11-15)
- Conclusion
Friday Sep 06, 2013
Friday Sep 06, 2013
- Some barriers and roadblocks to the Christian faith
- Key Bible verse - But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behaviour in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
1 Peter 4:15-16 - Two key points:
Saturday Feb 16, 2013
St Tom’s Women’s Ministry - Women’s Event: 2013 Launch Night
Saturday Feb 16, 2013
Saturday Feb 16, 2013
Samantha Taylor speaks at the 2013 Women's Ministry Launch Night on the 16th of February 2013.
Sunday Oct 28, 2012
Sunday Oct 28, 2012
A talk by Andrew Barry at The Big Weekend 2012 on the topic of 'Resurrection Power in the Life of the Believer'. This talk is entitled 'Is There a Christian Spirituality?' (Philippians 3:4-16, Ephesians 5:8-21) and is the third in the three-talk series. Talk outline:
- What are the spiritualities "out there"?
- Which ones affect the church?
- What activities would be called "Christian spirituality"?
- What is Christian "spirituality"?
- Is there a difference between Christian "spirituality" and Old Testament spirituality?
- Is there a right and wrong approach to spirituality?
- How would you respond to this? "I'm not a Christian, but I'm a spiritual person!"
- How are you going to live differently in light of what we have discussed?
Saturday Oct 27, 2012
Saturday Oct 27, 2012
A talk by Andrew Barry at The Big Weekend 2012 on the topic of 'Resurrection Power in the Life of the Believer'. This talk is entitled 'Resurrection Power in the Life of the Believer' (Ephesians 1:15-23) and is the second in the three-talk series. Talk outline:
- The resurrection of Christ and the power of God
- An ordinary foundation for living for Christ
- The extra-ordinary foundation for life with Christ
- Our salvation includes our new life
- Let gratitude increase
- We live in light of reality
- We live by faith
- It's the basis of Christian ministry
- We're not alone
Friday Oct 26, 2012
Friday Oct 26, 2012
A talk by Andrew Barry at The Big Weekend 2012 on the topic of 'Resurrection Power in the Life of the Believer'. This talk is entitled 'Exploding our Understanding of the Resurrection' (Acts 2:22-41) and is the first in the three-talk series. Talk outline:
- The weekend talks I need to give, and perhaps you need to hear
- The resurrection
- A grave-side truth, not an everyday truth?
- A proof in argument?
- Finishing off the loose ends?
- The resurrection: the gospel (Romans 1:1-4, 2 Timothy 2:8, Acts)
- What does the resurrection of Jesus accomplish?
- Jesus' resurrection and other raisings (easier or harder?)
- The power of God
- Compared to His raw power
- The power of God in the resurrection: why so powerful?
- Let God explode our understanding and experience of the power of God in the resurrection of Jesus Christ
Sunday Jun 17, 2012
St Tom's Women's Ministry - Women's Event: Shopping For Time
Sunday Jun 17, 2012
Sunday Jun 17, 2012
Jenny Clay speaks at the 'Shopping For Time' women's event on the 17th of June 2012.
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
Sunday Oct 30, 2011
A talk by Joe Wiltshire at St Tom’s Big Weekend 2011 on the topic of 'Perfection: The Goal of God's Plan'. This talk is entitled 'Presenting Perfect' (Colossians 1:15-29) and is the last in the four-talk series. Talk outline:
- Where have we come so far?
- The 'M' word
- Counting the cost
- God's plan is our work
- Implications
- Always be looking outside the present group
- Ministry requires both personal and corporate sacrifice
- There is no magic bullet
- False teachers are the ones who look for ease and popularity
- Not all of us are teachers
- For those that are teachers, teach the negative as well as the positive
- For anyone to be saved and grow as a Christian, they have to hear the word of the Gospel
- We've got to have the right expectations:
- The world to be against you
- That God will work
- Give up your life for the sake of the glory of God, for the sake of Jesus, for the sake of others and for your own sake