Title: Squeezed or Transformed?
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Rom 12:1,2
Description: There are two forces at work in our lives: the culture around trying to squeeze us into [...]
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Squeezed or Transformed?
The Courage of Peacemaking 3
Date: 13.11.11
Title: Peacemaking 5 – The Courage of Peacemaking III
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Mt 5:38-42
Description: Rupert looks at the third of the examples that Jesus gives [...]
Peacemaking 4 – the courage of peacemaking 2
Date: 06.11.11
Title: Peacemaking 4 – The Courage of Peacemaking II
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Mt 5:38-42
Description: In often misunderstood verses, Jesus encourages us to give our cloak, [...]
Peacemaking 3 – the courage of peacemaking
Title: Peacemaking 3 – The courage of Peacemaking
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Mt 5:38-42
Description: Jesus invites us to turn the other cheek when someone hits us. This [...]
SOTM – Peacemaking 2 – The Escalating Cycle of Conflict
Title: Peacemaking 2 – The escalating cycle of conflict
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Mt 5:38-42; Judges 15:1-11; Gen 37
Description: Conflict can escalate so quickly. What are the [...]
SOTM – Peacemaking 1 – The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Date: 11.09.11
Title: Peacemaking – The Myth of Redemptive Violence
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Scriptures: Mt 5:38-42; Gen 3:16-19; Rom 12:17-21
Description: There is a dominant story in our culture [...]
Let your yes be yes 4 – A collaborative sermon
Date: 27th March 2011
Speaker: Rupert ward
Title: Let your yes be yes 4 – A collaborative sermon
Scriptures: Mt 5:33-37
Description: Rupert summarizes the previous 3 sermons, then [...]
Let your yes be yes 3 – yes and no
Date: 13th March 2011
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Let your yes be yes 3 – yes and no
Scriptures: Mt 5: 33-37
Description: Have you ever said yes to [...]
Let your yes be yes 2: Promise much and do little
Date: 27th February 2011
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Let your Yes be Yes 2 – Promise Little and Do Much
Scriptures: Mt 5:33-37
Description: Having previously looked at truth-telling, [...]
Let your yes be yes 1
Date: 13th February 2011
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Let your Yes be Yes 1 – Cross my Heart and Hope to Die
Scriptures: Matthew 5:33 to 37
Description: This passage [...]
SOTM: Divorce & Remarriage 5
Date: 28th November 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Divorce and Remarriage 5
Scriptures: Mt 5:31,32
Description: In this talk, Rupert gives a summary of some of the things that he has [...]
SOTM: Divorce and Remarriage 4: The cost of divorce
Date: 21st November 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Divorce and Remarriage 4 – The cost of divorce
Scriptures: Mt 5:31,32
Description: We live in a culture where divorce is [...]
Divorce and Remarriage 3: Marraige and Singleness – which would you choose?
Date: 24th October 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Divorce and Remarriage 3 – Marriage and Singleness: what would you choose?
Scriptures: Mt 5:31,32 and Mt 19:3-12
Description: Our culture often elevates [...]
Divorce and Remarriage 2: Except for Marital Unfaithfulness
Date: 12th September 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Divorce and Remarriage 2 – Except for marital unfaithfulness
Scriptures: Mt5: 31, 32 & Mt 19:3-10
Description: Is Jesus introducing a new [...]
Divorce and Remarriage 1: Be Reconciled
Date: 5th September 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Divorce and Remarriage 1 – Be reconciled…
Scriptures: Mt5: 31, 32, Mt 19:3-6; 1 Cor 7:10-12
Description: In the first sermon [...]
Sex & Sexuality 6 – Transforming Sex
Date: 14th March 2010
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Title: Transforming Sex
Scriptures: Mt 5:27-30
Description: Plucking eyes out, cutting hands off? What is Jesus saying here? Surely he isn’t being [...]
Sex & Sexuality 5 – Same Sex? Straight Sex?
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Date: 7th March 2010
Scriptures: Mt 5:27-30 (also Gen 1&2, Gen 19; Jud 19; Lev 18:22, 20:13; Rom 1:24-27)
Summary: In this talk explores [...]
Sex and Sexuality 4 – The Naked Truth about Bodies
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Date: 21st February 2010
Scriptures: Mt 5:28; Gen 2:7, 3:1-6;
Summary: We don’t have a body, we are a body, and in the beginning [...]
Sex & Sexuality 3 – Women, Sex and Sexuality
Speaker: Mags Bryan
Date: 14th February 2010
Scripture: Mt 5:27-30
Summary: Mags continues the series on sex and sexuality looking at lust from a female perspective.
Sex & Sexuality 2 – Why did God make Sex?
Speaker: Rupert Ward
Date: 31st January 2010
Scripture: Mt 5:27-30
Summary: Following on from the previous sermon on sexuality, Rupert outlines God’s purpose for a genital sexual [...]