Sermons on Warning

‘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

“Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do…” Living in the world for the glory of God

1 Corinthians 10

  • 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)