Introducing our new sermon series after church camp this weekend. The series, as you can guess, is on the Holy Spirit. There is certainly a lot to say about the Third Person of the Trinity … Read More
Revelation 17-20 Parallels
Last Sunday I included in the bulletin an insert containing the following parallels between Revelation chapters 17, 19 and 20. The table highlights how the imagery overlaps substantially, which strongly suggests that the passages are … Read More
The Millennium: An Infographic
In Revelation 20 we’ll take a look at the much debated passage on the Millennium. Some of us have pretty firm views on it, for others it’s the first time we’ve heard anything about it. … Read More
Four different views on Revelation
For the past eleven weeks (yes, it’s been eleven already!) the book of Revelation has been unravelling before us. Pastor Ben and I have been greatly encouraged that the challenges are being heeded by some, … Read More
Some resources to follow up from today’s sermon
Here is a selection of things I’ve read in the past week in preparation for this morning’s sermon. Hardly any of the things I read makes it into the sermon (it would take hours longer!) … Read More
The Bible – miniseries on Channel 9
Did you see it? If not, here’s the site where you can catch up: http://catchup.ninemsn.com.au/thebible (note – the first two episodes will expire on the 31st of July, 2013AD). My first impression after watching episode 1 – … Read More
Extravagant Expectations
Here’s the extended quote from Daniel Boorstin’s book, ‘Image: a Guide to Pseudo Events in America‘, that I used in the sermon today. May we confess our extravagant expectations which blind us to the reality of … Read More
SLE financial update
This is what I shared with the church this morning: —————— You may have noticed that here at SLE we don’t talk about our giving and financial situation much. In a way, we don’t bring … Read More
Number Symbolism in Revelation
The fact that in Revelation certain numbers (e.g. three, seven, twelve, etc.) appear frequently, and others (e.g. eight, nine or eleven) not at all, suggests to us that these numbers are symbolic. (It would be unusual, even in … Read More
Ezekiel 16 & 23, a Pastoral Reflection
If you’ve been following our SLE Bible Reading Plan then you will have noticed that we are currently reading through the prophet Ezekiel and on Friday we hit chapters 15 and 16, and coming up … Read More