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You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger. Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those in whom his favour rests. When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, Let’s go to Bet…
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This is the last sermon in our series on the Spirit. And if you’ve been at all of these, or most of these, you could give yourself a pat on the back because we’ve travelled a long way and covered a lot of ground in this series. We’ve thought about the person and deity of the Spirit. (0:22 – 0:43) We’ve thought about the Spirit in the Old Testament.…
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Today’s reading is from Luke chapter 1 starting at verse 39. At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leapt in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed, blessed …
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Well, thank you, Nigel, and thank you for that encouraging singing. And can we turn together to 2 Corinthians chapter three, and just turn to a few verses as we begin that capture the essence of our topic tonight, which is the Spirit and the life of a Christian. 2 Corinthians chapter three, and reading verses 16 and 17. (0:34 – 1:12) Now, the Lord …
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Good morning. Our Advent series this year is Christmas Nostalgia. Nostalgia is described as a sentimental or wistful affection for the past. You know the kind of thing, rose-tinted glasses, visiting the town you were once born in, looking at old photos of your childhood, or of a wedding perhaps. For Scotland fans, after waiting 28 years to make it …
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Well, so far in this series, we’ve talked about the person of the Spirit, and we’ve started to think about the work of the Spirit, first in the life of Jesus, and then in the life of the early church. Very obviously, we’ve started in the New Testament. We started with the Gospels and Acts, rather than with Genesis and Joel. (0:28 – 1:41) And while …
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If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. If you belong to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. (0:13 – 1:31) That is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you. A servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will p…
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We’re turning now to our series in the Holy Spirit. We’ve been looking at that over the last few weeks. It’s going to be a bit like a Bible study tonight, because as we do something topical, we’re going to go to different passages. The verses will be on the screen, but just by way of setting the scene, and it’s always good just to take a bit of God…
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Exciting moment in the life of any parent when their children are old enough to leave at home. Now, this is not the debacle of the Home Alone movies, but that time when they can be safely left to fend for themselves. And when that happens, before it happens, something happens that you could call ‘The talk’. (0:31 – 0:46) Now, those of you who are p…
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Well, good evening, everyone, and welcome to the second in our series on the whole Holy Spirit. We’re turning this evening in God’s Word to Luke’s Gospel, chapter 4. I’m going to read a relatively short passage from verse 14 through to 21. These seven verses will form the basis of our initial thinking, but we’ll also refer to them as we move throug…
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And let me say again good morning and let me express my gratitude to each and every single one of you for coming along this morning to the ‘Try Church’ gathering here at Greenview. Over these past few days I’ve seen the south side of Glasgow take a number of very significant steps towards celebrating Christmas. So as I’ve said already my parents ar…
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For a significant time, they often try to soften the blow, soften the goodbye. Parent going away for a week’s holiday, tells the kids left behind, Grandma’s coming, and she’s going to take them to the cinema. Or a close friend moving to another city with work. (0:19 – 0:32) They might give you a photo of you together. It’s a small reminder, a token…
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Just a brief prayer as we start. Father, help us to open up your words and open up our minds and our hearts to what you want to teach us tonight, that your Holy Spirit indeed will lead us and teach us. And it’s in Jesus’ name we pray, amen. (0:24 – 0:43) As we start our series on the Holy Spirit, I’d like you to turn to Acts chapter five. It’s on p…
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I’ve heard just what we might call a couple of rookie mistake questions from two of the disciples, Thomas and Philip, but they actually reveal not only where they were in relation to their understanding of Jesus and his mission, and by extension of where some of us might be this morning, but they also produced some of the most amazing truths ever t…
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Good evening. Obituaries are often very poignant, as they are the last word on someone’s life. These are rarely negative and almost a hundred percent positive and affirming, as they are communicating what the deceased person meant to us. (0:21 – 0:37) We actually chatted about this in our community group a couple of weeks ago, when David Wilie chal…
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Just keep your passage open there at the end of John 13. On the night when Jesus died, he gave the world’s greatest ever seminar. We find it in our Bibles in John 13, verse 31, and it runs all the way through to the end of chapter 16. This seminar sits between Judas’ betrayal and Jesus’ prayer. And it’s sometimes called the farewell discourse, beca…
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to the seminar through reading this book. There are approximately five weeks of personal homework to do in this book to enrich and deepen your prayer life. Prayer is the greatest thing and the most noble task we do for God, for others and ourselves, is to pray. So this is back to basics, back to God, how to enrich and deepen your prayer life. There…
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Let’s bow our heads in prayer once again. Lord, author of light, wisdom and power, by the power of your spirit and through your holy word, feed our minds, enlighten our intelligence, widen our hearts, transform our attitudes, open our ears and hearts to receive your words with humility sobriety and reverence, help us to understand and apply and obe…
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One thing that makes exams a lot easier is studying. Now, I don’t know, there’s lots of different methods of studying. For me, what works best is repetition. (0:11 – 0:31) Simply just read it over and over again or have someone else go over everything with you. Paul seems to agree with me that that’s an excellent method of study. In the passage tod…
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Betrayal and then you see the message title which is The Beginning of Night and you’re probably thinking to yourself, I’m so glad I came to church this morning because what I really need is a sermon on betrayal and darkness. Well, what if actually you and I need a sermon on betrayal and darkness? And what if there’s a reason to listen to such a dar…
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Well Good evening everyone, it’s great to be back and see you all as we continue our series in 2 Timothy. Now to get us into the passage tonight in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 10 to 17. Think with me for a moment, how would you encourage a church leader or a church member who is experiencing opposition to faithfully persevere as they seek to serve C…
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Acts chapter 18, we’re five-sixths of the way through Paul’s second missionary journey. After this, he’ll go to Ephesus, and then the whole narrative of Acts will slow down alarmingly. But we’re going to look at this little event of Paul in the city of Corinth. (0:19 – 1:53) Acts chapter 18, verse 1. After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth…
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Good evening, nice to see you here. We’re going to be continuing our series tonight as Andy was saying, ‘Unashamed till the end’. This evening we’re going to be in 2 Timothy chapter 3 verses 1 to 9. Now last week Colin was speaking to us, we were considering the good and useful servant and what makes a servant good and useful. This evening what we’…
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Today we’re reading from John 12, verse 20 to 50, so if you’re using a red church Bible that’s on page 1080. Jesus predicts his death. Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. Sir, they said, we would like to see Jesus. Philip went to tell …
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