Sermons & Teachings

‘Prepare to meet your God’: Amos in Advent

Amos 1-2

  • The God who roars (1:1-2)
  • Eight Oracles of Judgement (1:3-2:16)
  • Reasons for Judgement (3:1-6:14)
    • Privilege and accountability (3:1-2)
    • Causes and warnings (3:3-8, 4:6-11)
    • Opulence and oppression (3:15, 4:1, 5:7, 10-15, 6:4-6)
    • False religion and complacency (3:14, 5:5-6, 18-26, 6:1)
  • Five Visions (7:1-9:10)
  • A promise (9:8b-15) and its fulfilment (Acts 15)
  • Amos and Advent

James: Wisdom for when it’s the Lord’s will

James 4:13-17

  • Our will for our lives
    • 13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
  • The Lord’s will
    • 15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 
  • The Lord’s will for our lives
    • 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.