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Nicodemus – from fear to faith

I preached this sermon in Turku Free Church in July 2009. I tell the story of Nicodemus through his own lips drawing on material from the New Testament. This was the second of this type of talks, the first being the story of John the Baptist.

John the Baptist – living with questions

I preached this sermon in Turku Free Church in June 2009. I tell the story of John the Baptist through his own lips drawing on material from the New Testament, Church tradition and the book “The Cave of John the Baptist” by Shimon Gibson (Arrow Books 2005). It was a new step for me to speak through the lips of a Bible character rather than just tell the story from the position of an outside observer. I found it made the story live. The next one in this series is about Nicodemus.

Studies in 1 John

This was a series of eight Bible expositions I gave to members of an international congregation in the early 90s. It was important for me because it started me thinking about “seeing God”, a subject I pick up again in some of my “Intimacy with God” studies. It also shows the apostle combating a form of Greek Gnostic thinking that laid more emphasis on what people believed than the Jewish emphasis on what people actually do in this world. Unfortunately too many Christians (me included) have missed this and focused on belief without taking notice of their lifestyles.