Sermon Outline – NT – NIV

THE CROSS

THE CROSS

“But mark this:

Second Timothy 3:1-5

Intr.:

There will be terrible times in the last days.

People will be

1.  lovers of themselves,

2.  lovers of money,

3.  boastful,

4.  proud,

5.  abusive,

6.  disobedient to their parents,

7.  ungrateful,

8.  unholy,

9.  without love,

10.  unforgiving,

11.  slanderous,

12.  without self-control,

13.  brutal,

14.  not lovers of the good,

15.  treacherous,

16.  conceited,

17.  lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God –

18.  having a form of godliness but denying its power.

End:

Have nothing to do with them.”

Quote

Quote

IT IS IRONIC THAT IN ITS SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND THE HUMAN RACE APPEARS TO HAVE OVERLOOKED THE FACT THAT WE ARE TOTALLY UNITED IN OUR SUBJECTION TO SIN, CONDEMNATION BY GOD, AND NECESSITY FOR SALVATION.

– D. Stuart Briscoe

in his book on Romans

“This is our Place”

Readers are invited to submit photos depicting the Far North’s special quailities.

I submitted the photo below:

“SERIOUS HORSEPOWER: Travelling back in time in Kerikeri.” (The Northland Age, Tuesday, October 29, 2013)

You can travel like this in KERIKERI

You can travel like this in KERIKERI

 

HALLOWEEN

When I started to look up “Halloween” in The Collins Concise Dictionary I would have never thought that I would end up reading about “the collective body of those who are righteous in God’s sight.”

HALLOWEEN

HALLOWEEN

The dictionary tells me that “Halloween” is “the eve of ALL Saints’ Day celebrated on October 31. Today is Thursday, October 31, 2013. Halloween is celebrated this evening.

And I am finding this about All Saints’ Day in the dictionary: “a Christian festival celebrated on November 1 to honor all the saints.” All Saints’ Day is tomorrow.

And what does the dictionary say about saints? There are several meanings. One meaning is “the collective body of those who are righteous in God’s sight.”

That is also what the Bible says. The apostle Paul wrote many of the letters in the New Testament and he addresses his readers as saints.

And believe it or not, I am also a saint, because I am righteous in the sight of God!