It was great to be together on Sunday as a church, and to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel that has brought us together and given us new life!

Sunday’s sermon from Ephesians 4:29, entitled: “New Life//New Words” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

Unfortunately, there is no “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon.

And don’t forget, there’s the weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’s Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song — “New Words (Eph 4:29)” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

The quotes from the message will follow tomorrow.

It was great to be together on Sunday as a church, and to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel that has brought us together!

Sunday’s sermon from Ephesians 4:25-5:2, entitled: “New Life//New Actions” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

Unfortunately, there is no “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon.

And don’t forget, there’s the weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’s Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song — “Be Imitators of God (Eph 4:25-5:2)” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

The quotes from the message are available here:

Bryan Chapell:
“By Christ’s reconciliation we of all nations and backgrounds are reckoned as God’s dearly loved children.  God’s imperatives, [commands] and our obedience, rest on that loving relationship; they do not form the relationship. We obey because we are loved; we are not loved because we obey.  The love of our Father precedes and stimulates the obedience of his children.  We are to forgive and live and love as dearly loved children imitating the One who already is our Father, not performing to bribe God to become our Father.”

Peter O’Brien:
“The readers have been adopted into God’s family and are his beloved children.  His love has now poured into their hearts by the Holy Spirit.  Since they have richly experienced that love, they should be imitators of Christ and reproduce the family likeness.”

Darrell Bock:
“The love commanded is not an abstract love tucked away in the person’s inner recesses, but a love that demonstrates itself in concrete action.”

John Stott:
“The essence of love is self-sacrifice.  Love is positive.  Love seeks the other person’s good.  Love leads to activity for him, even to the point of self-sacrifice.”

Brian Chapell:
“Why should the renewed person speak without falsehood?  For the sake of the body.  If one member lies to another, then the body cannot function.  Consider what happens when the eyes does not communicate the truth of a hot iron to the hand.  Fingers get burned.  The body cannot perform it functions if its members do not communicate what is true to each other.  When trust disappears, the work of the body comes to a screeching halt until that trust can be restored.”

John Stott:
“In the face of blatant evil we should be indignant not tolerant, angry not apathetic.  If God hates sin, his people should hate it too.  If evil arouses his anger, it should arouse ours also.  “Hot indignation seizes me because of the wicked, who forsake your law.” [Ps 119:53]  What other reaction can wickedness be expected to provoke in those who love God?”

It was great to be together on Sunday as a church, and to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel that has brought us together!

Sunday’s sermon from Ephesians 4:17-24, entitled: “The Unfashionable Walk” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

Unfortunately, there is no “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon.

And don’t forget, there’s the weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’s Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song – ”Put Off//Put On (Eph 4:22-24)” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

The quotes from the message are available here:

Tim Keller:
“On the cross, Christ wins through losing, triumphs through defeat, achieves power through weakness and service, comes to wealth via giving all away.”

Tullian Tchividjian:
“Our calling to be in the world but not of the world is what gives us transforming influence.  Instead of trying our best to fit in, we need to be encouraged and challenged by the biblical reminder that θ’s people have alway served the world around them best when they’ve been countercultural, shaped by θ’s unfashionable ways to such a degree that they’re distinctively different from the world.”

Tullian Tchividjian:
“The problem with the typical evangelical motivation towards radical or sacrificial living is that imperatives divorced from indicatives become impossibilities.  Or to put it another way: gospel obligations must be based on gospel declarations.”

It was great to be together on Sunday as a church, and to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel that has brought us together!

Sunday’s sermon from Ephesians 4:14-16, entitled: “Gifts for Growing” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

Unfortunately, there is no “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon.

And don’t forget, there’s the weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’s Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song – “Growing Up into Christ (Eph 4:14-16)” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

With everything that has been going on during April, the blog has been quiet as it slips down in importance on the “to do” list.  We’ll seek to rectify!

So for starters, I thought it might be helpful to post an “April Review” that ties together the sermon audio and memory verse songs.

It was great to be together as a local church to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel, and the grace of God that has brought us together!

Sunday’s sermon from Ephesians 4:1-2, entitled: “Living in a Worthy Manner” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.