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Feb 05
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The Birth of the Gospel (Luke 1-2)

By Luke, Talks

Luke starts his Gospel by telling us that he has researched everything very thoroughly, and that he wants us to have certainty about everything to do with this Gospel. As we step onto this stage and start to hear this story, we see the births of two baby boys, born to two different kinds of needy families. But this is how God sets the scene for the great hope that would come to us: God is about to bring good news to the poor, and the marginalised, and the hopeless, through this child, Jesus Christ. And so the surprises begin.

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Jan 29
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Send (Acts 4)

By Talks, This is Us

In the final week of this four week series, we look at our final key commitments that we as a community want to pursue in 2019: to send. Sam unpacks the commitment of being a sending church, who are prepared to take the gospel to those who are lost, no matter the cost. Whether this is in our workplaces, families, universities, or overseas.

Jan 22
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Transform (Ephesians 4:9-16)

By Talks, This is Us

Over these four weeks, we are looking at four key commitments that we as a community want to pursue in 2019: to invite, love, transform, and send. In this talk, Sam unpacks the commitment of being a transforming church, who are growing together in love. We all have different gifts, and in Christ we can all learn from each other, and build one another up in love.

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Jan 22
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Love (1 John 4)

By Talks, This is Us

Over these four weeks, we are looking at four key commitments that we as a community want to pursue in 2019: to invite, love, transform, and send. In this talk, Sam unpacks the commitment of love, and how God’s love should shape our love for one another. And this should shape everything we do and are as Village Church.

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Jan 07
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Invite (Matthew 22:1–15)

By Talks, This is Us

Over the next four weeks at Village Church we are looking at four key commitments that we as a community want to pursue in 2019. That is, we want to be a community that’s committed to: invite, love, transform, and send. In this talk, Sam unpacks the first key commitment of inviting people to delight in God and follow his Son Jesus. This is an invitation that God extends to all of us out of an overflow of love that exists between the Father, Son, and Spirit. An invitation that, according to Matthew 22, is like being asked to join in on a Royal Wedding and share in the delight and fellowship of the King.

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Dec 23
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Jesus: God With Us

By Christmas, Holiday Talks, Joy to the World (Christmas), Talks

When we think about Christmas do we think first and foremost about joy? Because God sent his Son Jesus into the world to be with us and bring us his joy. He didn’t come merely to make us “happy” but to deal with all our miserable sin once and for all so that we can know God and experience his invincible, irrefutable joy.

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Dec 19
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A Light Has Dawned (Isaiah 9:1-7)

By Christmas, Holiday Talks, Joy to the World (Christmas), Talks

As though a switch is turned on in a pitch-black room, God promised that one day a light would dawn and turn all darkness to light. In the birth of Jesus Christ, this light has dawned, and we can enjoy the light of the world in the birth of this promised child.

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Dec 09
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A Tale of Two Sons (Isaiah 7:2-16)

By Christmas, Holiday Talks, isaiah, Joy to the World (Christmas), Talks

After King Ahaz hears about Assyria coming to attack his country, he starts running around in a panic. So God sends Isaiah and his son to remind Ahaz to trust in the Lord, like a tiny, dependent child. But after Ahaz refuses, God promises him a sign anyway: a child born of a virgin, named Immanuel, who would be “God with us,” ultimately fulfilled in the Christmas message, in the birth of Jesus Christ.

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Nov 26
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The God Who Heals (Job 42)

By Job, Talks

At first, it can seem like a studio executive stepped in to force the book of Job to get a happy ending. But there are hints in the text that this isn’t the end of the story. There are hints of resurrection, and hints that the story arc of Job will be how the whole Bible plays out. The centre of Job, and of the story of the whole Bible, is a suffering servant. But Jesus Christ, the true suffering servant, can truly suffer on behalf of others, and die on behalf of others, and defeat death to usher in an age overflowing with the hope of the resurrection.

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