Sermon Programme (am)
How well do you know GOD?
If we knew God better, and understood more about his plan for our life, we could cope a lot better with all the ups and downs that we all experience – we would see the bigger picture.
If we knew God better, and understood more about his plan for our world, this would help us be far better partners with him, giving us great joy as we learn how to pray more, and then see God using us to play an important part in the lives of people, locally and globally.
So how do we get to know God better? Well we can do it our way, and try to work it out for ourselves, using our common sense, wisdom and imagination. But Isaiah 55 says that His ways are as high above ours, as the Heavens are above the Earth. We will never work it out for ourselves. God is just too big.
Better is to do it God’s way: for he has already revealed himself to us: in his Living Word (Jesus) and his Written Word (the Bible).
But the Bible is not easy to understand! So we tend to just dip in to it from time to time – and keep to the passages we are more familiar with! The result is that we don’t get the full picture – it’s like seeing only parts of a jigsaw puzzle.
To help all of us get a real overview of the great plan of God, St Tims will be following the E-100 course. That is 100 “Essential” passages from Scripture that will help us see the bigger picture – and help us understand better where we fit in. 50 from the Old, & 50 from the New Testament.
To help us in this, we will be handing out personal study guides to everyone who would like to join in, and our Small Groups will be following E100 group notes. There will also be about 20 sermons, linking in to each theme.
We feel that this is a unique opportunity for us all to build stronger spiritual foundations. This is vital as we all face the increasing pressure of life today, and the task of being a church in the 21st Century – a Lighthouse shining in the Storm.
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| Date | 9.30 | 11.00 | 6.30 | Date | Theme | R1 | R2 | |||
| 1st Jan | FC | EW | 1st Jan | Presentation of Christ | Lk 2.22-38 | |||||
| 8th Jan | FS | EW | 8th Jan | The Visit of the Magi | Is 60.1-6 | Mat 2:1-12 | ||||
| 15th Jan | HC | FC | EW | 15th Jan | Creation & Fall | Gen 2.15-25 | Gen 6.5-22 | |||
| 22nd Jan | MP | FS | HC | 22nd Jan | Abraham, Isaac & Jacob | Gen 12.1-9 | Gen 22.1-19 | |||
| 29th Jan | HC | Fresh start | EW | 29th Jan | PRAYER – better than an
Aladdin’s Lamp! |
John 15.5-14 | ||||
| 5th Feb | HC | FC | EW | 5th Feb | Joseph | Gen 37.1-8, 17b-28 | Gen 45.1-9 | |||
| 12th Feb | Fresh-start | EW | 12th Feb | Love is an Adventure! | Song 2.16-3.5 | |||||
| 19th Feb | HC | FC | EW | 19th Feb | The Law & The Land | Dt 7.12-15,8.18-20 | Ezek 36.16-30 | |||
| 26th Feb | MP | FS | HC | 26th Feb | The Judges | Judg 2.11-3.2 | Judg 6.1-16 | |||
| 4th March | HC | FC | EW | 4th March | The Rise of Israel | 1 Sam 10.17-27 | 1Kg 3.3-28 | |||
| 11th March | Fresh-start | EW | 11th March | Spring Time? Lessons of life from mother nature… | Mark 4.1-9 | |||||
| 18th
March |
HC | FC | EW | 18th
March |
Mothers Day:
Families can be hard work! |
1 Cor 13.1-13 | Mt 11.28-30 | |||
| 25th March | MP | FS | HC | 25th March | The Fall of Israel | 1 Kgs 11.9-13 | 2 Kgs 21.1-18 | |||
| 1st April | Fresh-start | EW | 1st April | Palm Sunday:
Glimpsing the Glory |
Liturgy of palms | |||||
| 8th April | FC
10.30am |
EW | 8th April | Easter:
A matter of Life & Death |
Rom 5.1-11 | John 20.1-18 | ||||