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Introduction Today’s talk is about a king and idolatry. This seems totally removed from our modern Australian life where if you talk about idolatry, people would look at you as if you came from Mars. We are secular, we are not religious as the ABC reminded us this week from the census. Now that Labour…

Change is hard, and often we don't want to change. Josiah had huge changes that he needed to implement for God's people. He did so, only after focusing on God's will. When we do that, we can handle any change.

Introduction Always reforming the church. This is our call as men of God. We are to reform our own character, we are to reform our theology, and this should flood over to the church. I would put forward the thought that the reformation was really about one thing and all of the other things came from…

Welcome Announcements Join us on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am for our Reformation Truths series and Wednesday evenings at 6pm for our Study on Puritan theology. October 31st is our Reformation day party at 5pm Prepare for Worship Call To Worship 126 Behold Our God Confession Prayer of Confession O Father,…

Welcome Announcements Join us on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am for our Reformation Truths series and Wednesday evenings at 6pm for our Study on Puritan theology. October 31st is our Reformation day party at 5pm Prepare for Worship Call To Worship Responsive Reading 323 Psalm 98:1-9 Confession Prayer of…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor during World War II. He was opposed to the war and the Nazi regime. He wrote prolifically about following the path of Jesus and resisting the influence of Nazism. He was eventually swept up with some people who wanted to assassinate Hitler. He was asked…

Welcome Announcements Join us on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am dor Sunday School, Wednesday evenings at 6pm for our Study on Puritan theology. Today is our Reformation day party at 5pm Prepare for Worship Call To Worship 353 O Church Arise Confession Prayer of Confession Almighty God, we acknowledge and…

Welcome Announcements Join us on Sunday Mornings at 9:30 am for our Reformation Truths series and Wednesday evenings at 6pm for our Study on Puritan theology. October 31st is our Reformation day party at 5pm Prepare for Worship Call To Worship Valley of Vision I would like to share this today as our…

Welcome Announcements Just Started our New Reformation Study this morning. Join us next week We started a new phase in our Puritan Study last Wednesday. We looked at the forming of the Westminster Confession, and this week we begin to look at specific theological aspects of Puritan thought. Starting…

When Paul or we saw or see the falling apart of traditional Judaism or our culture or the Church, he knew that God had not given up, but that that falling apart was part of a wider purpose of God, one that still has not been completed. God uses humble people to bring about his purpose, people who choose the lower place, but whom he calls up higher, but who never let it go to their heads, and who sacrifice themselves for the people of God. Thus we can rest in God even as culture falls apart around us and be content to be God's humble servants so he can use us as part of his plan for the future rather than toss us aside as part of the problem.

Here we Go again... Entice: Here we go...again. The doors are open. The seats are filled. The building resonates with joy. We are on the rebound from months of separation. I have a couple of lingering questions that I hope you can help me with this morning. How do we do this ? What is the point ? What…

3 Great is the Lord , and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. 4 One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. Introduction: Over the past four weeks, we’ve looked at the Solas of the Reformation. Sola Scriptura, or “Scripture Alone,” is…

1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires…

Delivered 10/27/24 at Formosa Baptist Church.

Delivered 11/3/2024 at Formosa Baptist Church

Text: 2 Timothy 3:14–17 16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. Introduction: In the early 1500’s, a storm was brewing in Europe’s churches.…

Anabaptist Rise and Fall: The First 100 Years Good morning! I hope you all had a wonderful week and are ready to look into the next chapter of our class. Last week we studied the beginnings of Dutch Anabaptism, and took a closer look at Menno Simons. Today we want to see what Anabaptism looked like after…

Forgetting and Returning

Today we commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. On Tuesday October 31st we recognize the day that Luther made the 95 theses public to the world and thanks to the modern conveniences of his time, like Gutenburg’s printing press, his writings were able spread and not be silenced. In honor…

Learning of the broken community of Jerusalem, Nehemiah seeks the two key influences in his life (God & King Artexerxes) to ask for success and mercy.

Songs of Worship: CALL TO WORSHIP 1. Awesome God - Rich Mullins 2. Crown Him With Many Crowns - Chris Tomlin PRELUDE SONG 3. May The Mind of Christ, My Savior - Josh Bales COMMUNION SONG 4. Great Is Thy Faithfulness - Avalon BENEDICTION SONG 5. Take My Hand Precious Lord - Jim Reeves Call To Worship…

Judah's most godly king, Josiah, was not able to bring lasting reform to Israel and Judah. Jesus Christ is the only King who can bring lasting reform, because he is the only King who can redeem us and free us from the guilt and power of sin.

–The New Yorker had a cartoon where a young boy in math class is standing at the chalk board with other students. The teacher has written the problem on the board for each student: 7 x 5 = __ . All the other students have the answer right: 35. But this boy has written 7 x 5 = 75. The teacher has obviously…

Zephaniah. Intro: Who believes the Bible? Did God write it? Is what He wrote true? – Good, well let’s read it! [P] [read Zephaniah 1:1-3 This is the message that יְהוָה gave to Zephaniah during the time that Josiah son of Amon was king of Judah. (Zephaniah was descended from King Hezekiah through Amariah,…