Just to say I've stuck some sermons online over at www.newlifefellowship.ie should anyone be vaguely interested
Here's a list of whats there at present:
More than Conquering
More than Conquering your suffering
Lord’s Prayer (first sermons missing)
Hallowed be your name
The Kingdom under attack (Preparation for Communion)
Your Kingdom Come (Communion Service)
The Return of the King (Thanksgiving service)
Fellowship
Talks given at Calvary Mission’s weekend
The Importance of Fellowship
The Foundations of Fellowship
The Foundations (2) - How people change
The Practice of Fellowship
Individual Sermons
Come to me all you who are weary and burdened
Friday, May 18, 2007
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Another Voice - Getting Past your Past
If you had an opportunity to plan your life – would you be who you are now? Who we are is, in part, the result of the actions and influences of others.
That’s fine if only good has happened to you. But since we live in a broken world there are many who have been shaped by situations and circumstances that have left deep scars across the surface of their souls. It might have been abuse, bereavement, absent or distant parents, alcoholism, drug dependence, or countless other factors.
We only get one life. It doesn’t seem fair that the actions of others in time past can mar and ruin who we are.
Perhaps this is you, and you’ve tried to hide from the past, but you know that it doesn’t work.
It’s possible to live with the past, and yet not cope with the past. It gnaws away at us. We become trapped, thinking that we have to remain victims.
In Ireland we are very good at putting up masks, and hiding behind them, pretending everything is fine. But underneath lies a soul that is still raw. The past is real; it cannot be changed. Yet it can be conquered.
Our past might define us, but it doesn’t have to defeat us.
But how?
As a Christian, and as a pastor I believe that there is an answer. The Bible offers help to the hurting, so that they can emerge like a butterfly from the chrysalis of their past. God makes a promise to hurting people: “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
What great words: hope, future, prosper. The hope that the Bible holds out is of a God who sets us free from the shackles of our past, who takes our past and uses it for good in us and around us. Not only does he rescue us from our past, but he rescues our past as well. The years we thought were lost are turned around and made into something profitable.
More needs to be said, and I will be speaking on Sunday evening (20th) on what the Bible has to say about ‘More than Conquering your Past’ at the Day Centre off Oliver Plunkett Road, Letterkenny at 8pm. Why not come along and hear more?
Sermon audio can now we found here
That’s fine if only good has happened to you. But since we live in a broken world there are many who have been shaped by situations and circumstances that have left deep scars across the surface of their souls. It might have been abuse, bereavement, absent or distant parents, alcoholism, drug dependence, or countless other factors.
We only get one life. It doesn’t seem fair that the actions of others in time past can mar and ruin who we are.
Perhaps this is you, and you’ve tried to hide from the past, but you know that it doesn’t work.
It’s possible to live with the past, and yet not cope with the past. It gnaws away at us. We become trapped, thinking that we have to remain victims.
In Ireland we are very good at putting up masks, and hiding behind them, pretending everything is fine. But underneath lies a soul that is still raw. The past is real; it cannot be changed. Yet it can be conquered.
Our past might define us, but it doesn’t have to defeat us.
But how?
As a Christian, and as a pastor I believe that there is an answer. The Bible offers help to the hurting, so that they can emerge like a butterfly from the chrysalis of their past. God makes a promise to hurting people: “For I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jeremiah 29:11).
What great words: hope, future, prosper. The hope that the Bible holds out is of a God who sets us free from the shackles of our past, who takes our past and uses it for good in us and around us. Not only does he rescue us from our past, but he rescues our past as well. The years we thought were lost are turned around and made into something profitable.
More needs to be said, and I will be speaking on Sunday evening (20th) on what the Bible has to say about ‘More than Conquering your Past’ at the Day Centre off Oliver Plunkett Road, Letterkenny at 8pm. Why not come along and hear more?
Sermon audio can now we found here
Friday, May 04, 2007
Website for New Life Fellowship
Finally, and about time too, we've actually got a website up. Very basic. But it will have to do for starters.
I'll have to tip my hat to Ballyclabber and Limavady RP Churches - because I borrowed
some material from their sites. But since we are all part of the same denomination - it would be odd if our beliefs pages were radically different!
You'll find it here
I'll have to tip my hat to Ballyclabber and Limavady RP Churches - because I borrowed
some material from their sites. But since we are all part of the same denomination - it would be odd if our beliefs pages were radically different!
You'll find it here
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