- God’s people in Exile
- Edom’s crimes against Judah v10-14
- God’s Judgement on Edom v1-9
- God’s Judgement on His People
- God’s Kingdom Restoration v15-21
- Living as Kingdom Envoys
- “Go and learn what this means…” Jesus and the message of Hosea
- Hosea and the Book of the Twelve
- Hosea: person , place and time
- The message of Hosea:
- Parable (Ch 1-3)
- Lawsuit (Ch 4-5)
- Response (6:1-3)
- Deliberation (6:4-13:16)
- Compassion (Ch 11)
- Hope (Ch 14)
- Taking Hosea to heart: Hosea, wisdom and discipleship (14:9)
- Words
- The Word and words
- Evil words
- Powerful words
Ourselves | Others | |
Controlled | ||
Uncontrolled |
- Saving words
- No words
- Confessing words
- Wise words
- The Law that gives freedom
- Do what the Word says
- Listening that doesn’t do
- Faith that won’t work
- What the Word says to do
- True religion
- The Royal Law
- Mercy and Judgement
- Wisdom for Waiting (Part 1)
- Introduction to Reading James
- Who wrote James?
- Who is James writing to?
- What does he write about?
- What kind of writing or genre is James?
- Things to consider while listening to James
- When he returns to a topic
- When he shifts from topics to more general observation
- Why is a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ so important
- Wisdom for Waiting (Part 2)
- Until the Lord Returns
- What context do the readers of James, and us, share?
- Wisdom from God
- What do we need so we can avoid doing nothing with, or wandering from, our faith, but instead persevere to the end?
- Wisdom for each other
- Why does saying a simple ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ matter so much
- Previously…
- Chapter 11
- Covering the Head (v2-16)
- Discerning the Body (v17-34)
- Dinner in Corinth (v17-22)
- The meaning of the meal (v23-26)
- Paul’s instructions (v27-34)
- Three commitments
- The good of our brothers and sisters (ch 8)
- The salvation of the lost (ch 9)
- The honour of Christ (10:11-22)
- Warnings from Israel’s history (v1-13)
- Two tables (v14-22)
- The freedom of a Christian (v23-31)
- In your own life (v23-28)
- In each other’s lives (10:29-30)
- A triple quest
- The glory of God (v31)
- The good of others (v23-24, 32-33)
- The salvation of the lost (10:33)
- Freedom, commitment and teh example of Christ (v11:1)
- Freedom
- Paul’s defence (v1-14)
- Paul’s example
- Labour and sacrifice (v12, 15-18)
- Flexibility and accomodation (v19-23)
- Discipline and purpose (v24-27)
- What it’s not about
- Asceticism and self-hatred
- The ‘missionary double-standard’
- What it is about
- Purposefulness in the service of the Gospel
- Self-denial for the sake of the Gospel
- An invitation…
- The Corinthian argument: Knowledge and Freedom
- Paul’s response: Love, Conscience, and the Death of Jesus
- What does this look like for us?
- Introduction
- ‘There remain with God’ (v24)
- ‘The present crisis’ (v26)
- ‘The time is short…from now on’ (v29)
- Reasons to stay single (v32-35)
- Decisions for the betrothed and the widowed (v36-40)
- Conclusions