Genesis 22: The Sacrifice of Isaac
Thanks to Matt Linton for preaching today from Genesis 22:1-14: After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering...
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Genesis 2: Evolution or Creation
Introduction: Where does life come from? Where does humanity come from? These are the questions that we want to consider today. The most common answer that we find in our Western context is—evolution. Life evolved from a primordial soup. Time plus chance equals everything we see today. Through a series of mutational jumps certain mutations proved advantageous, then by the process of natural selection, those with these advantageous mutations survived to produce offspring who perpetuated these characteristics. Thumbs, eyes, walking upright, no tails, etc. are the results of the process of evolution. All that we are as human beings is...
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Big Bang or Creation?
Introduction: In my last talk on apologetics we dealt with the objection to miracles, that was the first of three talks on the scientific objections to Christianity. Today we want to consider the objection to the Christians view of the beginning of the universe, and next week we will look at the objection to the Bible’s teachings on the origins of life. Today many people believe that the Bible’s view of Creation is incorrect and that a Big Bang cosmology has done away with the problem of a Creator and makes them satisfied atheists. Big bang cosmology has a...
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Genesis 6 & 7: Judgement Warnings
A big thanks to Guy McKenzie for preaching this week when Nick was away sick. We appreciate it!
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Matthew 6:12: Forgiveness
A big thanks to Guy McKenzie for preaching this week when Nick was away sick. We appreciate it!
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Traditional Arguments For God Part Two
Introduction: This is perhaps the oldest and most popular argument for God, it is the argument from design. The Greek word telos which means ‘end’ is used because if we are able to discern design because something is purposed for a particular end, this betrays an intelligent purposer, namely God.
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Genesis 4:26: First Glimmers of Worship and the Essence of Gospel Witness
We’d like to thank Michael Beck for being our guest preacher today. Mike is the pastor at Gracenet Community Church in Wellington, a sister church from the FRBCNZ.
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Genesis 22:1-8: God Will Provide
Theme Obedience Introduction Cricket Tests Abraham’s Tests Body Abraham’s Great Test Abraham Considers Abraham Obeys God’s Sacrifice God Provides Our Obedience Conclusion Obedience is better than Sacrifice
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