Word of Salvation - June 2011   GOD’S PALACE; GOD’S PEOPLE, John de Jongh (Sermon 4 in a series on 1 Peter)   Reading – Psalm 34:1-8 Text – 1 Peter 2:1-10 Songs – 181, 337, 145, In Christ alone   Outline   Ridding yourself of evil, crave pure spiritual milk!   As you come to the Lord, the Living Stone, as living stones you are being built into a spiritual house.   To believers, this stone is precious; but to unbelievers, the stone causes them to stumble.   You are God’s people, that you may declare his praises!   And...

Word of Salvation - August 2010   MOTIVATIONS FOR HOLY LIVING, Peter Smit (Sermon 9 of a series on Ephesians, Series title – Ephesians: Portraits of a living church)   Text – Ephesians 5:1-21   Motivation is the key to change. Without good motivation, change seems just too hard. Last time (Ephesians 4:17-32) God spoke to us about a new way of living. He called us to put off old ways and put on new ways. Now as we look at Chapter Five God gives you the reason why you should change. He gives you important truths to motivate you to...

Moving Your Church Through Growth Barriers (2) We are creatures of habit and we all tend to gravitate to the comfortable pew in church. At least this has been my tendency. When I was a student at university I always sat in the same general area or desk in the classroom. It was familiar, and most often the same people would sit next to me or around me. The same is in church. It is usually always the same pew, on the left side of the sanctuary, surrounded by the same people – each and every Sunday. Perhaps this is a...