But even more important is spiritual health, and that concern is central to this letter. Churches and Christians grow spiritually healthy through a diet of sound, health-giving teaching – and by steering well away from spiritual junk food.
"False teaching" Tagged Sermons
2 John If a junior needs negative feedback, it can feel kinder to just leave it. No-one likes to hear they’re failing, right? But if it were the other way round, wouldn’t you want to know so you could change? How can we speak with both truth and love? Shouldn’t Christians be a bit more malleable with some biblical truth, so they can be that bit more loving?
2 John Truth and love can be hard to hold together. As we speak to friends and colleagues and as we speak about gospel truth. Listen is as we see how John holds these two things together.
Luke 6:39-49 We are continually influenced by the world around us. And we can’t help but influence ourselves. What kind of influence gives a foundation that lasts? Not just through the next round of redundancies, but through all of life and beyond? Listen in as Jesus gives us the answer.
Luke 6:39-49 We are continually influenced by the world around us. And we can’t help but influence ourselves. What kind of influence gives a foundation that lasts? Not just through the next round of redundancies, but through all of life and beyond? Listen in as Jesus gives us the answer.
Revelation 12-13 Do you find the Christian life often feels like a battle? A battle to resist temptation and pursue godliness; a battle to keep going in faith and love and hope; a battle to read the Bible and pray and serve others in the church? It feels like a battle because it is a battle. We are at war. This passage gives us the perspective we need to keep going.
2 Timothy 4:1-18 You’re lying in bed in a hospice. You’ve just been told you’ve only weeks left to live. What will your perspective be as you look back on your life and look ahead to death? Will you be able to say with the apostle Paul that you have fought the good fight and finished the race and are longing to meet the Lord?
Revelation 12-13 Do you find the Christian life often feels like a battle? A battle to resist temptation and pursue godliness; a battle to keep going in faith and love and hope; a battle to read the Bible and pray and serve others in the church. It feels like a battle because it is a battle. We are at war. This passage gives us the perspective we need to endure.
Colossians 1:28Fast-forward a few years. You’ve achieved all your lifetime goals – career, finance, family. And you’re now sitting in a private nursing home aged 82, and you realise you’d never bothered to ask what God’s goal for your life might be. How would you feel? It’d be rather late to realise you’d neglected what matters most. Don’t leave it til then. In this talk we discover what God’s goal is for your life.