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Grounded in God, Bonded by Grace, Christ-like in our Community |
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Grange Baptist Church |
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Latest Bible teaching talks. |
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Grounded in God means knowing him as Father: a Father to Please, a Father to trust, a father to ask and a Father to copy. |
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5th June 2005 |
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God wants the Church to be “Bonded by Grace”: livin a s a true body, in which we have genuine points of contact with one another. |
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12th June 2005 |
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Bonded by grace means facing up to the pain of wrong things that have happened, seeing each other change, forgiving, and trusting God to be at work (All age talk) |
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26th June 2005 |
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Bonded - being the Body of Christ means Covenanting for Commitment; Accepting Accountability; Valuing Variety in one another; and Encountering Each other. |
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3rd July 2005 |
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Grace-filledrelationships are generous relationships in how we think about , react to, forgive and give to others; and they are genuine relationships, where we are honest about our own weaknesses and our motives. |
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10 July 2005 |
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God wants us to be salt and light in our world: a personal presence, who are distinctive enough to make a difference; glowing with God’s glory and set where we can be seen. |
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17 July 2005 |
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Majesty enables meekness; meaningful meekness (not just gestures); meekness not always mildness; meekness releases ministry to each other; and mission is ministry in the community. |
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14 August 2005 |
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Compassion was Jesus’ motive. Compassion is a new way of seeing and a new way of feeling. Compassion leads to action. And compassion is something we need to receive from God |
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4 September 2005 |
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5 Principles for Christian giving: Response of worship to God; Radical beginning with a proportion; Regular as a disciplined priority; Relationship (about people not an institution); Release from materialism and into God’s purposes. |
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18 September 2005 |
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Proclamation (telling Good News) is a priority but is needs to be one-to-one; based on what we know (because it’s happened to us); it needs to be words that work with practical results. |
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2 October 2005 |
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Healing shows God’s love in action when partnered with a practical helping hand; available to “the whole town”; rooted in retreat, connecting with God’s will to heal, and shunning sensationalism. |
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9th October 2005 |
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We are called to spread the Good News of the Upside-down kingdom, which will mean taking charge; changing the rules;and the power to choose. |
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16 October 2005 |
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We have come to an awesome and gracious God. He calls us to a spirituality that gives him time to speak to us; and he calls us to respond in service that is both significant and supernaturally empowered. |
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6 November 2005 |