- Surprising advice!
- The Dishonest Manager (& his Master)
- The Manager’s Predicament
- The Manager Acts
- The Master Commends
- Wealth and relationships (a philosophical interlude)
- Sober Stewardship
- Entrusted with riches
- For making friends
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons on Relationships
- Why letters?
- The gospel and the shape of Christian relationships
- Giving (v1-4, 23) and the grace of Christ
- Partnership (v5-9, 12) in the gospel of Christ
- Recognition (v10-11, 15-16) for those who do the work of the Lord
- Urgency (v13-14, 22) and the return of Christ
- Love (v19-24) for the Lord, and for each other
- The shape of our relationships
- 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?
- A costly welcome: radical relationship redemption through the Gospel
- The foundations of Paul’s appeal
Competing Spirits:
The spirit of Individualism vs.The work of the Holy Spirit
- When Jesus spoke to the Church (Matt 16:13)
- Confessional (Matt 16:16, 1 Cor 12:3, 2 Cor 4:5)
- The relationship between Lord and Disciple (Acts 9:1-5)
- The One Body: Christ as Head of the body of believers (1 Cor 12:12-14,27)
- The Body: the relationship between Disciples
- Gathering together (1 Cor 1:2, 11:18-20)
- Seeking the common good (1 Cor 12:7)
- Implications
- The Bible says what?
- Slavery in the 1st Century
- Colossians and Philemon
- How do these passages speak to us?