During the service on Sunday (25/09/11), as we were rejoicing in the grace and goodness of God, Angi Sussex sensed that God wanted to minister through prophetic song specifically to these who were struggling with doubt, and questioning the goodness of God, because of particular situations in their lives at present. Here’s the lyrics from the song. May they serve and encourage all who read them!
Sunday 25th September 2011
Prophetic Song for those Struggling with Doubt.
I hear your cry, I see your tears in the night
You are weak and you wonder why
You feel alone but I am with you
So let my grace, let my grace be enough
Find your strength in me the solid rock
for my power never ends
For I am the God who draws near unto
Those who call on me
I welcome you to my throne of grace
To find help in times of need
I hear your cry, my promised good you cannot see
Your situation’s not what you want it to be
But it’s my design and sovereignty
So let my peace, let my peace bring calm to your soul
In stormy trials I won’t let you go
Rest in the shadow of my wings
For I’m the God who heals the brokenhearted
I stoop down to seek the lost
I’ve shown my love and compassion for you
In the mercy of the cross
I’m the father to the fatherless
The defender of the weak
Always watching over you
Put your trust in me
So lift you eyes to me your Coming King
Lift your heart and voice to sing
Hope in my love that’s unfailing
I’m the sustainer of everything
I’m your God, trust in me
It was great to be together this morning to lift up our voices in praise of our great God, who’s grace has saved us! It was fantastic to see so many new faces, and have the opportunity to serve lunch to our growing student community!
Jadie Stiven led us in singing praises to God, and rejoicing in the incredible grace of God towards sinners like us; ours through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
We sang the following songs together:
Sunday’s sermon was preached by Nathan Smith and was entitled: “A Helpful Goodbye“ from Acts 20:17-38. You can listen to or download the audio file from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.
It was great to be together on Sunday morning, to lift up our voices in praise of our great God, who’s grace has saved us!
Colin Elliott led us in singing praises to God, and rejoicing in the incredible grace of God towards sinners like us; ours through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
We sang the following songs together:
Sunday’s sermon was preached by Nathan Smith and was entitled: “Lessons from Two Cities“ from Acts 18:1-19:20. You can listen to or download the audio file from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.
Here’s the quotes from the sermon:
Charles Spurgeon:
“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies, and if they will perish let them perish with our arms about their knees imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.”
D. Martyn-Lloyd Jones:
“This is what God has done. This is what God can do. Let us together decide to beseech him, to plead with him to do this again. Not that we may have the experience or excitement, but that His mighty hand may be known and his great name may be glorified and magnified among the people.”
It was great to be together on Sunday morning, to lift up our voices in praise of our great God, who’s grace has saved us!
Jadie Stiven led us in singing praises to God, and rejoicing in the immensity of the love God has lavished upon us, displayed most incredibly through the cross of Christ.
We sang the following songs together:
Sunday’s sermon was preached by Nathan Smith and was entitled: “Gospel: Contend & Contextualize“ from Acts 17:16-34. You can listen to or download the audio file from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.
Here’s the quotes from the sermon:
D. Martyn-Lloyd Jones:
“Our Lord attracted sinners because he was different. They drew near to him because they felt that there was something different about him… And the world always expects us to be different. This idea that you are going to win people to the Christian faith by showing them that after all you are remarkably like them, is theologically and psychologically a profound blunder.”
Tim Keller:
“Contextualization is adapting gospel ministry from one culture into another by 1) changing those aspects of ministry that are culturally conditioned, and 2) maintaining those aspects of ministry that are unchanging and Biblically required. Contextualization ‘incarnates’ the Christian faith in a particular culture. It is the process by which we present the gospel to people of a particular worldview, in forms that the ‘receptor-hearers’ can understand.”
Darrin Patrick:
“Faithful gospel ministry consists of both firmness and flexibility. On one hand, we ‘contend for the faith that once was for all delivered to the saints’ (Jude 3). We are to stand fast and hold true to even the most unpopular and difficult Christian doctrines. On the other hand, we contextualize the gospel, as Paul did: ‘I have become all things to all people, that by some means I might save some (1 Cor. 9:22). To contextualize is to discern the culture’s core beliefs and then bring the truth of God to bear on them, confronting and exposing them and challenging people to embrace Christ. Both components are crucial.”
John Stott:
“Many people are rejecting our gospel today not because they perceive it to be false, but because they perceive it to be trivial. People are looking for an integrated worldview which makes sense of all their experience. We learn from Paul that we cannot preach the gospel of Jesus without the doctrine of God, or the cross without creation, or salvation without judgement. Today’s world needs a bigger gospel, the full gospel of Scripture, what Paul later in Ephesus was to call ‘ the whole purpose of God’ (cf. Acts 20:27).
It was great to be together on Sunday morning, to lift up our voices in praise of our great God, who’s grace has saved us!
Nathan Smith led us in singing praises to God, and rejoicing in, and celebrating the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, and it’s meaning and application for us today. We shared Communion together.
During Communion Nathan shared the following quote from Charles Spurgeon:
“There is nothing little in God; his mercy is like himself — it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.”
We sang the following songs:
Peter Bowley preached the next part of our “Momentum: The Unstoppable Gospel in the Book of Acts” series. His message was entitled: “The Mission Gathers Momentum“ from Acts 16-17. You can listen to or download the audio file from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.
It was great to be together on Sunday morning, to lift up our voices in praise of our great God, who’s grace has saved us!
Colin Elliott led us in singing praises to God, and rejoicing in, and celebrating the work of Jesus Christ on the cross, and it’s meaning and application for us today.
We sang the following songs together:
Peter Bowley preached the next part of our “Momentum: The Unstoppable Gospel in the Book of Acts” series. His message was entitled: “The Gospel, the Whole Gospel & Nothing But the Gospel“ from Acts 15. You can listen to or download the audio file from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.
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