Judges 19-20: A People Without a King
Sunday, 17th November 2013
Speaker: John Tucker
Study sheet
Judges 18 - Unmasking Our Idols
Sunday, 10th November 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Idolatry was the major problem for Israel in the Old Testament, and is a huge problem for us today. God calls us to shatter our idols, those things our hearts love more than him, and turn toward him with our full worship and devotion.
Study sheet
Judges 17 - Sincerely Wrong
Sunday, 3rd November 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Micah's story shows us the danger of self-deception in the Christian life. We can make ourselves less vulnerable to this trap by participating in spiritual community, Scriptural community and sacramental community.
Judges 16 - Samson and Delilah
Sunday, 20th October 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Study sheet
Judges 14 – The Untold Ways of God
Sunday, 6th October 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Samson’s story shows us that Human history is two-storied. There is the lower level of events that happen to us and around us. And there is the upper level where God works through these events to move his great redemptive plan forward.
Study sheet
Judges 13 - God's Faithfulness
Sunday, 29th September 2013
Speaker: Laura Giddey
This chapter introduces us to Samson's parents and, eventually, Samson himself. But these parents are an unlikely choice for God's plan. What does God's faithfulness look like to them? And how does it look to us?
Study sheet
Judges 11 - God's Healing Grace
Sunday, 23rd June 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Jepthah sacrificed his only child in a tragic act of dys-grace. But God sacrificed his only child in a redemptive act of grace. Jesus came to heal our dys-grace by extending God’s unconditional grace to us.
Study sheet
Judges 9 - Lest We Forget - Keeping Faith Alive
Sunday, 16th June 2013
Speaker: Carl Becker
Keeping Faith Alive. This message explores aspects of faith we can easily forget causing us to no longer walk with God, based on the story of Gideon and his rebellious son Abimilek
Study sheet
Judges 8 - Signs of Spiritual Decline
Sunday, 2nd June 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Gideon started his journey with God strongly, but he couldn’t end well. The story of his spiritual decline is a window into our own souls which are prone to wander from their anchorage in God. By observing Gideon’s spiritual decline we can better detect and prevent the same pattern from occurring in our lives.
Study sheet
Judges 7 - Trumpets and Jars
Sunday, 26th May 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
God reduces Gideon and his army to a position of weakness in order to demonstrate his strength. Weakness is something we rage against but it is so precious to God because he uses it to hack away at our pride and bring us to a place of radical trust in him.
Study sheet
Judges 6 - Knowing God's Will
Sunday, 19th May 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
This message explores Gideon’s calling and confirmation in the context of knowing and doing the will of God. Should we expect God to call and direct us today in the same way he directed Gideon? Should we put out a fleece to seek signs of God’s will? How can we know and follow God’s will?
Study sheet
Judges 4 - Courageous
Sunday, 12th May 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
The story of Deborah is the tale of two courageous women and one weak man. In the story we learn what true courage is – grounded in the story of God’s faithfulness, rising from humility and brokenness, and taking opportunities as they come along.
Study sheet
Judges 3:7-31 – Where is the Splendour?
Sunday, 5th May 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
God delivers Israel through Ehud, a man whose name means ‘where is the splendour?’ God often chooses to reveal his splendour in surprising, unusual, even disturbing ways that confound our expectations. This should teach us to look for the splendour of God in places we haven’t looked before.
Judges 2 – Succession Plans
Sunday, 28th April 2013
Speaker: Hamish Taylor
The second chapter of Judges tells a woeful tale of unfaithfulness from the new inhabitants of Israel, who so quickly turn away from God and follow other gods. Why were they so quick to lose their faith? We look at preventing the same thing happening today through the effective passing down of our faith to future generations.
Study sheet
Judges 1:1-2:5 - Faithfulness in the Land
Sunday, 21st April 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Israel’s influence by the nations around it reminds us of how easy it is for our faith to be compromised by the culture around us. God calls us to be people of depth and substance in an age of superficiality, especially in our relationship with him.
Study sheet
Judges Overview
Sunday, 14th April 2013
Speaker: Reuben Munn
Judges is popularly thought of as a book of hero stories about great leaders who trusted God. But that is not its point. Judges is about the gradual decline of Israel’s allegiance to God as it is influenced by the nations around it. And it the story of God’s gracious perseverance with his people in spite of their unfaithfulness.
Study sheet