Most of us by nature don’t like to think of God’s anger (or ‘wrath’). But sometimes we are forced to confront it, as in this passage from Lamentations. What is God’s anger, and why is it important for us to think about in our lives as Christians?
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It’s human nature to want to blame everybody else for our problems. This is doubly true in our society today, where everything is psychologised. However, the Bible says that we need to take sin seriously — we need to take personal responsibility seriously. In the first of this sermon series on Lamentations, we take a look into the darkest moment in Israel’s history to see what we can learn.
You can find the Bible Project’s summary of Lamentations here.
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In this session we look at Moses, one of the most important figures in the Old Testament. He led the people of Israel out of slavery in Egypt to freedom. However, this was not simply a historical event: this is perhaps the most significant event in the Old Testament for understanding what it means to be a Christian.
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How bad is sin, really? In this session we start out by looking at just how bad sin is, and then how God started his rescue plan through a man called Abraham. God’s promises to Abraham show what God was intended, and Abraham serves as an example for us.
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If God made a good world, why is there evil in the world? In Genesis 3, we read of how evil entered into the world. This introduces the concept of ‘sin’, as well as explaining why even the natural world doesn’t seem to work properly and why we all die at the end.
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Being a Christian isn’t a life of unbridled happiness – although we are joyful. There are struggles and sorrows. In this session we think about what it means to feel sorrow in the Christian life with respect to holiness. How should we feel sorrow as Christians?
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Many people go through their Christian lives without really treasuring Christ. What is the difference between someone who treasures Christ and someone who doesn’t? How do we get there?
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Do you find yourself struggling with sin in your life? Why is it that we seem to struggle with sin so much? In this passage, Paul illustrates the teaching of the previous section of Romans with some autobiographical information. Paul also found sin to be a struggle – but there is a reason, and a solution.
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In this passage, Paul talks about how great the change is for those who are in Christ. We are no longer slaves to sin but slaves of righteousness; we died with Christ and are raised to serve him in a new way.
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Last week we saw that what God really cares about is the heart, rather than outward things – as the Jews of Paul’s day were saying. In this sermon, Paul turns to answer an objection: what, then, is the value of being religious at all? What was the point of being Jewish? If all that matters is the heart, what’s the point of any of our religious observance?
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