- 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
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons by Tim Adeney
- 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
- The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Jesus and Mary
- Grief by the grave (v11-15)
- ‘Mary’ (v16)
- ‘My Father and your Father’ (v17)
- ‘I have seen the Lord’ (v18)
- Jesus and Us
- Believing without seeing
- ‘We have “seen” the Lord’
- ‘I’ll rest when I’m dead’
- Rest and Creation
- Rest and Redemption
- Real Rest
- Mission Work
- Blessing Work
- Backdrop: Full-time ministry
- Mission and Blessing Work working together
- Blessing to Mission
- Mission to Blessing
- A model for mission
- Organising?
- The Good of Working together
- Work enabling work
- When work is enabled
- The Peril of Working Together
- The peril of achieving good work
- The peril of abandoning good work
- Organising Love
- Thinking about work
- Work Created (‘Creation Work’)
- The creation mandate
- The first work (naming)
- God’s work and God’s creation
- God’s work and our work
- ‘Creation work’
- Work Frustrated (‘Fall Work’)
- Frustrated and frustrating
- Work continues
- Fall work
- The End of Work (‘Redemption Work’)
- Creation, Fall, Redemption
- The significance of wisdom
- The source of wisdom
- ‘By wisdom a house is built’
- ‘built’
- ‘a house’
- Welcome wisdom
- Coherent picture made of lots of individual pictures
- Observation, opportunities, and knowledge