26
Mar 2019

Update: March 2019

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I am very sorry to any readers who haven’t had an update in a long time.  The truth is we’ve been really busy, but we are so excited about what God has done.  There’s so much to update you on! The biggest change is that we’ve moved from an afternoon service starting at 4pm, to a morning service starting at 10am.  Three months of meeting in the afternoon was a wonderful season for us, but moving to the morning makes us look more viable as an established church to visitors.  Everyone who......

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09
Nov 2018

1 Peter 2: 6 and Isaiah 28:16 – Sorry for the Wordy, Technical Analysis

Bible, Sermon Reflections, Theology
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A few weeks ago, I preached on 1 Peter 2:6-12 and my preparation raised two controversial issues.  Incidentally, I decided to address these issues in my sermon.  In hindsight, I think my sermon got bogged down in answering these difficult questions and perhaps suffered as a consequence.  You can listen to the sermon here, if you’re interested. Anyway, here are the two controversial issues: 1 Peter 2:8 raises the question of predestination in relation to the reprobate, while 1 Peter 2:6, quoting Isaiah 28:16, poses a difficulty in how New Testament writers......

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17
Sep 2018

Update: Week 2

Sermon Reflections, Update
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Our second Sunday had a very different feel to the first, but was equally good and encouraging for us at Christ Church Fareham. We had 26 people at the service, we put on kids work for the very first time, we had two new visitors from Fareham, as well as connecting with a lady at the front who said she’d come back next week with her husband. I preached from Acts 2:42-47 and talked about Devotion to Christ and 8 Marks of Christ Church Fareham, established from the example of the early......

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14
Sep 2018

Reflections on a Fantastic First Sunday

Church Planting, Sermon Reflections, Update
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87 people joined us for our very first Sunday service as Christ Church Fareham.  The room we’re using seats just over 100 people, so we were packed.  Friends and family came from York, Watford, Woking and Portsmouth to support us and we also had a good number of people from Fareham.  We also had some non-Christians in the room and have had some really good feedback from them. There were a few things to iron out, but generally we had a really fantastic afternoon service.  I preached on Acts 2:22-41 and Peter’s......

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06
Sep 2018

“God is exactly like Jesus, since Jesus is identical with God”

Reading Reflections, Theology
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I am currently reading Union with Christ by Robert Letham.  Union with Christ is such a crucial Christian truth.  Letham is right when he begins his book “Union with Christ is right at the centre of the Christian doctrine of salvation”.  And so I really want to be able to preach it in a clear and accessible way.  I may well touch on it in my sermon on Sunday on Acts 2 – Peter’s magnificent sermon about the magnificence of Christ in his life, death, resurrection, ascension and identity (as Lord and......

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