by Brendan McLaughlin | Apr 2, 2017 | Weekly News
1 John 5:14 speaks of the confidence Christians have in prayer, IF we pray according to God’s will. The problem with this thesis though is, we’re not privy to God’s secret will for our lives until it unfolds. Even Jesus left room for God’s secret will (‘not my will,...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Mar 26, 2017 | Weekly News
Across our sermon series this term we’ve been looking primarily at what kinds of things hinder the Christian from truly enjoying God. They are things like (i) elder brother syndrome (using God to get his stuff), (ii) idolatry (allowing something to rival God in our...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Mar 19, 2017 | Weekly News
Last week’s sermon passage showed us that self-mutilation is preferable to sin (Matt 5:27-30). Why? Because sin is the opposite of the meaning of life. It is rebelling against God, as opposed to ‘bringing glory to God and enjoying him forever’. Yet as we saw, our...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Mar 12, 2017 | Weekly News
Last week’s sermon looked at one of the major obstacles to enjoying God; idols. Augustine called them ‘disordered loves’. They are ‘good things’ (God’s blessings) we turn into ‘ultimate things’. The solution to idolatry is NOT to cut idols out of our lives altogether...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 26, 2017 | Weekly News
Last Sunday’s sermon outlined the first step in HOW to enjoy God; which is by realising we can’t. Well, not in our own strength anyway. In Ephesians 3:14-21 the apostle Paul prays that the Ephesians be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Eph 3:19b). Or...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Feb 19, 2017 | Weekly News
Last Sunday we kicked off our sermon series for Term 1 on ‘Enjoying God’. This is a topical series, which means we won’t necessarily be unpacking passages like we do when preaching through books of the Bible. However, as you will see in the Bible Studies that...
