June - 2019

The Early Church: Moving On

The Early Church: Moving On

Acts 19: 1-10. 30/6/19 Over the last few weeks we have been looking at Paul’s missionary journeys and how the early church spread. We have seen that Paul never worked alone, and it is important for us to see that we were never meant to live our life, our faith, alone, that we are to have people that we can trust to help and support us and whom we can help and support. We have seen that different people have different expressions of faith, and that we should help people on the

The Early Church: Conditions

The Early Church: Conditions

The Early Church: Conditions Acts 15: 1-12. 23/6/19 I want to talk about the danger of, ‘not quite right.’ We often think the choices we live with are right and wrong. But I would disagree with that. I think the choices we live with are right and wrong and not quite right. And, I would suggest, one of the most dangerous of these choices is not quite right. You see the choice between right and wrong is often an easy choice to make. If we see something is clearly wrong then we

The Early Church: Why can’t we be like them?

The Early Church: Why can’t we be like them?

The Early Church: Why can’t we be like them? Acts 13: 1-13. 16/6/19 Wouldn’t it be great to be like the early church? Last week we had Pentecost...that was in Acts 2. There was no church as we know it before then. But by Acts 13, that's only 15 pages on, we have churches starting up all round the Roman Empire and people like Saul (who will become known as Paul) is going out starting new churches all over the place. He isn't scared to go out and declare his faith, he isn’t sca

Pentecost: Evening Communion Service

Pentecost: Evening Communion Service

Acts 2:1-11. 9/6/19 People always get het up about Pentecost. What is its significance? What does it mean? Maybe it is because I have spent over 30 years trying to write Pentecost sermons that I am not as phased as I used to be. I remember when I first came to Alva there was a young reader called Alan Kimmet. And a policy I had at the start of my ministry was that when I went on holiday I tried to get the best people I could to fill in doing pulpit supply. Believe it or not m

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