I have loads of posts brewing, half-finished, but alas this blog seems abit neglected of late…
The last couple of weeks seem to have gone by uneventfully, feels like it just passed me by, but some things must have happened…
Bit of a new look for bhmc.org.uk, also the sermons are now being updated more regularly, here’s a beauty – Phil Moon speaking on the Holy Spirit, very clear and simple, and bashing a few heresies.
I chose my project for my course last week, a website system for storing church sermons… could come in handy methinks…
At Mars Hill Church, Driscoll is into the third week of a new series on Philippians, so far at the end of each sermon they finish looking at the conversion of a hymn writer and how one of their hymns relates to the theme… then the band make it a tad more contemporary… Robert Robinson – Come Thou Fount… also for January there is ‘Ask Anything‘… Driscoll is inviting the “critics, bloggers, weirdos, nutjobs” to ask questions, people vote for the ones they want answered, then he’ll preach on them… no.1 at the moment is about the “Regulative Principle”… could be interesting…
Led CU Bible study on how the cross reveals God’s character, there were 3 of us, and I wasn’t expecting to lead, so preparing was a last minute job, but I learned loads… we are “justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus” – wow!
Talked at Global Cafe on why there’s suffering in the world… I think I avoided the hard parts of the question really, but simply: God made everything perfect, suffering was a direct consequence of the Fall (Sin), God can identify with our sufferings in Jesus, God dealt with the consequences of Sin at the cross, for the Christian there is hope of a perfect world.
Listening to Michael Ots from Lansdowne Baptist was helpful in preparing – ‘What kind of God doesn’t stop suffering?‘
Have been sad recently… looks like we’re out of the European Championships, lost the rugby world cup final (although the pub round the corner now has Staropramen on tap, which made it more bearable!), and Lewis Hamilton had a mare.
On a more happier note; great to see and meet lots of new people at church and CU, great to see God at work, building his church, although you do wonder why he chooses all the weirdos (like me)…
Man (I’ve started saying that a lot… too much Driscoll podcasting methinks) I’m tired. I need to sleep, get up early and do some work…
