Word of Salvation - May 2011 Live in hope, holiness, fear and love, John de Jongh (Sermon 3 in a series on 1 Peter) Reading – Isaiah 6:1-8 Text – 1 Peter 1:13-25 Songs: Be unto your name, 188, 372, Take time to be holy, 33 Outline 1: For the present & future: Live in hope & holiness! Set your hope fully on the grace to be given when Christ returns Preparing your mind for action, being self controlled Be holy, as God is holy 2: In regard to God; Fear! Live your lives...
Word of Salvation - October 2015 Holy Habits for Following Jesus A sermon by Rev. Pieter Tuit on 1Corinthians 13 Habits, we all have them. Some of them are good habits. Like bringing your husband a cup of tea in bed in the morning before he goes to work, giving your wife flowers when it is not her birthday, eating all your food on your plate, hanging up your clothes before you go to bed, giving generously to church and ministry. Other habits can be annoying like talking with your mouth full, not putting the cap on the toothpaste,...
Word of Salvation - October 2015 Love is Kind A sermon by Rev. Pieter Tuit on 1Corinthians 13 For the past 4 weeks I have been planning to preach this Sunday on these words Love is kind. However, it was only yesterday, by reading the Weekend Australian, that I found out that today is World Kindness Day. I am sure you all knew that and that each one of you is planning to make this a super kind day. The idea of a World Kindness Movement (WKM) was conceived at a Tokyo conference in 1996.The leader of the movement...
Word of Salvation - October 2015 Love is Not Easily Angered A sermon by Rev. Pieter Tuit on 1Corinthians 13:5 Here in Tasmania we do not have to fear erupting vulcanoes with all the resulting damage that they can do. Gail and I learned about the devastating power of a volcano when we moved to the Philippines in July 1991. We arrived in Manila probably one or two days after the eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Our airplane was one of the last ones able to land. The next morning, the city of Manila, even though 300 km from the...
Word of Salvation - October 2015 Love Does Not Envy, It is Not Jealous A sermon by Rev. Pieter Tuit on 1Corinthians 13:4 Holy habits for following Jesus. This is what we have been talking about the past couple weeks. How are we doing with developing these holy habits? Have we seen any changes in ourselves, in our characters? Have we seen any changes in our families. Have we seen any changes in our life together as a congregation? Are we as husbands more patient and more kind? Can the same thing be said about the wives in our...
Word of Salvation - October 2015 Love Does Not Boast, Not Proud, or Rude A sermon by Rev. Pieter Tuit on 1Corinthians 13:5 Some of you may have read the book or may have been watching The Slap. According to a newspaper review of this series, in a world that's full with unbalanced people, the angriest man of all, Harry, slaps a child, Hugo. Hugo, like so many children, lives in an unbalanced household with few boundaries, or routines, and rare adult examples of consistency and self-control. He is absorbing confusingly mixed messages of love, possessiveness and disappointment, as...
Word of Salvation - August 2017 Self-love and Neighbourly Love Sermon by Rev. John Westendorp on Luke 10:25-37 Theme: The proper understanding of the summary command to love our neighbour as ourselves.. Introd: There is no denying that love is one of the greatest themes of the Bible. And on our part that love extends in two directions. The summary of God’s law makes that very clear. We are to love God will all our heart, soul, strength and mind. And we are to love our neighbour as ourselves. The lawyer who stood up to test Jesus was...
Word of Salvation - September 2010 A PORTRAIT OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE, Peter Smit (Sermon 10 of a series on Ephesians, Series Title – Ephesians: Portraits of a living church) Text – Ephesians 5:21-33 I found some quotes on marriage that convey some very different views of marriage. Successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Germain Greer You should "keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards" Benjamin Franklin Socrates mused, "If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will...