Listen regularly to Nuneaton Christian Fellowship's Sunday Morning Talk. A variety of topics are addressed, all firmly based on the Bible. We are situated in the centre of England.
With the General Election occuring this month we are encouraged to think about how the Bible promotes three areas of justice: distributive, public justice, and personal morality. As we prepare to vote we should consider what our responsibilites are.
Let's respond to His desires for us, listening to Him all the time.
We are not Roman soldiers, but as followers of Jesus we are part of the Army of the living God. Our enemy tries to deceive us. As we saturate ourselves in the Bible (the Word of God), so we are helped to continue to stand no matter what we face. Many people have given wonderful responses after reading God's Word over many centuries. Let us decide to do the same.
We need to know Jesus as a Saviour not simply on a one off occasion, but as a continuous relationship. Jesus invites us to a daily, moment-by-moment loving relationship with Him. Sin will make us all ineffective for God, but yoking ourselves to God will give us tremendous joy in our lives. We need to be proactive and vigilant in the way we live our lives for God. He continues to lavish His love on us - going beyond the expected measure and exceeding the ordinary.
God is powerful. He can do anything! Psalm 1 reminds us that we are blessed as we delight in God and His Word.Where are we trusting? Who are we trusting? Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Let's live well in obedience to God's Word. Let's wear the whole armour - God has made it for us.
God has made the Armour we wear, so that we can all wear it every day. As we wrap God's truth about Himself, ourselves and each other around us then we are changed. God hasn't given His final word on us, NCF nor the nations yet. What we might have done or thought in the past doesn't stop us being used by God today and in the future. Ask God what He feels about you.
Just as many of us wear different sorts of 'armour' in our normal everyday lives and not just for big events like climbing a mountain or swimming fairly deep, so we need to wear God's armour of light on a daily basis. Basing the Talk on Romans 13:8-14 and Ephesians 6:10-20 we are reminded that life may not be fair, but by wearing God's Armour we are given protection spiritually and emotionally against attacks that will come our way.
Are you actively and positively abandoned to God? Have you decided to yoke yourself to Jesus and closely follow Him? We look at several examples from the Bible where people wanted to put God at the centre of their lives - both on a national and individual level. Whilst it's good to frequently visit God, we are encouraged that it is much better to abide in Him and to let Him grow in renown in our lives.
In this recording we hear quite a few parts of our Family Service. We start with the Memory Verse (1 Peter 2:9), then hear about what often happens in the Sunday School. We have a reading from John 21:15-23 and then we are reminded that God has a plan for each of us whatever our age, sex or abilities. We are all chosen and special. A craft time is explained and then we conclude with a time of prayer.
Praying means action. We're called to give our best time and greatest energy to it. We are encouraged in this Talk to know more about God's Treasures for us, to grow in them and to share them with others too. God wants us to create space in our hearts for Him and for others. At the end there are six areas for prayer that are shared.
God is in charge. How do we react righteously to that? People like Gideon (Judges 6) started off by doubting, but then God moved in their lives. Let us be reassured in our lives: God is in control.
After gaining an Overview of the Bible for the past four months, we are encouraged to really engage with the Scriptures and to not let them be like water going through a pipe. As we become more serious at spending time considering, pondering and applying the Bible to our lives, then that great investment of time and energy will change us. Action and development of character will be generated. Several practical examples are given as to how we can let our unpredictable God speak to us through the ...
Whilst the Book of Revelation does have a lot of strange imagery and symbolism, it also contains many concrete ideas that are foundational for our Christian lives today. The same truths we read about now would have encouraged the original readers/listeners (who were going through terrible persecution). We are on God's side in the battle between Good and Evil. God has won! No wonder there are so many great celebrations in heaven! In the light of this, let's actively worship and serve God together...
In this Talk we get an Overview of the eight non-Pauline letters in the New Testament. Often when reading the Bible, it is the parts we do understand that are the trickiest to read and to put into practice. As we pray whilst reading, so God helps us to be alert, revolutionary and to grow in maturity. After the Talk we hear five people praying for HyungJin (Daniel) as he is shortly to become a theological student in Edinburgh.
Paul gives encouragement and help to Timothy, Titus and Philemon. We hear the background to these books, as well as modern stories to remind us of God's Church on other continents. God was active in the 1st century. He is still active today. Some of the Talk was edited in order that specific details wouldn't be published online. The first 90 seconds are quiet, but then a normal volume is maintained.
What do we know about Paul? Why did he wrote his Letters to the Churches? Did he write more Letters than we have in our Bibles? God wants to stir us as we walk in our Christian faith with Him. He wants to use us to stir others too. We are called to be radical with God. Let's allow God to move into our nooks and crannies, as well as the main parts of our lives. Let God stir your thoughts, emotions, words and actions today.
God is alive and working. He used people when the Church was newly birthed. He still uses people today, but what things should we persue in order that God might use any of us? Unfortunately there was a short time during this Talk where there was an issue with the microphone.
The current celebrations of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 remind us that Jesus undertook a greater Mission - to come to earth and save us from our sins. We briefly look at all the Gospels and consider what emphasis the author had when he wrote it. Are we fanning into flame the gifts that God have given us? Are we learning to pray more/differently? The Jesus of the Gospels is still alive and wants to encourage us to move at His pace and in His direction. Let's not only be impressed by Him, bu...
Reading the Old Testament and the New Testament is excellent, but what happened between them? What was God doing? How was He preparing the world for Jesus to come?
What is The Wisdom Literature in the Old Testament and how should we read it?
God proves that He is overall charge in history. He was in the period of the Exile and after it too. He is still in overall charge. Due to this, let's expect to hear the Lord's heartbeat as we regularly pray and let's expect that He will start new chapters in our lives, just as He did when His Chosen People returned to Jerusalem even though it would have been difficult for them.
Hear about the Prophets who spoke and wrote for several centuries in the Southern Kingdom.
God spoke and speaks through His prophets. Elijah and Elisha had a big impact in the Northern Kingdom but didn't write things down. Amos and Hosea both wrote God's thoughts down. God is still gracious. Let us hear the prophetic voice today.
The Israelites were meant to show God's Sovereignty in their lives and their unity to other nations. They didn't really do either. Will we?
Israel was meant to be distinctive from the nations around them. We shouldn't compare ourselves to others. Saul, David and Solomon reigned for 120 years between them. Reading about them shouldn't just give us knowledge about what was happening, but should change our lives as we allow God to challenge and move us onwards.
In these two books we are considering God Promises: taking, sharing and keeping them. Treasure and protect what God has given you.
What is the Pentateuch? Why is it called by that name? Several of the PowerPoint slides that were shown have short summaries for each chapter of the five books. This is very briefly discussed, before we ponder on the two macro themes of this section of the Old Testament. These remind of us of what we are like, as well as what God is like. We think about the three Covenants to Noah, Abraham and Moses. God continues to reach out to His creation. Finally we give thought to something that Jonathan E...
Listen to how the Bible was put together. It was a complicated and very long process!
We focus on how we can love others by praying for them. Using the Bible as you pray is important, as is meeting with others. Persistently exchanging our ideas for God's ideas is the best way to pray. Near the end, five people briefly explain what they do on an average Monday morning and then others pray for them.
