- 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 on Wisdom
- 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
- Polls, Popularity and Power
- Leadership in Corinth (3:1-4)
- Reframing leaders (3:5-9)
- Reframing leadership (3:10-17)
- Careful work (3:10-15)
- Sacred work (3:16-17)
- Final warnings and reminders
- Boasting and wisdom
- Boasting and belonging
- Alexamenos worships his God
- The Wisdom of God (1:18-31)
- Foolishness…and power (1:18)
- God and the ‘Wise’ (1:19-25; cf. Isaiah 29:10-20)
- God and the ‘Foolish’ (1:26-31)
- Therefore we speak…(2:1-16)
- …not with human wisdom (2:1-5)
- …but with the wisdom revealed by the Spirit (2:6-16)
- Alexamenos fidelis
- Wisdom in Colossae
- Dying and Rising with Christ (Col 2:20-3:4)
- Putting off, putting on (Col 3:5-11)
- The Indwelling Word
- Focus and Scope
- ‘at home-ness’ in the church
- Reverberates within the church
- Words and deeds
- Application
- The significance of wisdom
- The source of wisdom
- ‘By wisdom a house is built’
- ‘built’
- ‘a house’
- Welcome wisdom
- Paul’s big Gospel
- The firstborn over all creation
- The firstborn from among the dead
- The hope held out in the Gospel
- Why we need Paul’s big Gospel
- The Gospel and the powers
- The Gospel and the wisdom
A Trustworthy Saying
- Jesus Came on a rescue mission
- Sinners need rescuing
- We’re all sinners
- In 2024
**Please note that the Bible reading and the first 2 mins of the sermon are not included in this recording