Podcasts

Every Square Inch: Christ and the Family

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: Jun 12, 2011 Duration: 36:45 mins

The family is the building block of society, but how does God want it ordered? What are our responsibilities within it, as we fulfil various roles, often simultaneously? Is Christ truly head of our households? Or is he an occasional guest, invited for special occasions, or, like an inconvenient great uncle, brought in awkwardly for a short visit when the pangs of guilt remind us we haven’t seen him for a while? The apostle Paul has sound advice for us, as we wrestle with family life in the twenty-first century.

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Every Square Inch: Christ and the State

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: Jun 05, 2011 Duration: 37:27 mins

Does God do politics? If so, where does he stand? Many from the left and right have tried to claim Christ as their own, and used, or rather abused him into baptising everything from socialism through to fascism. Still others, Christian as well as atheist, have claimed that politics is a neutral sphere, where religion has no place. At a time when Christians in the UK are feeling increasingly under pressure from the State, how should we react? Is it always a case of willing submission, or do we ever resist?

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Every Square Inch: One King, Three Kingdoms

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: May 29, 2011 Duration: 34:37 mins

Church, State, Family: who’s in charge? God? Really? Is Jesus as much Lord of England, France and Iran as he is your family or Christ Church Derby? Are church and state to be separate? Kuyper’s doctrine of ‘Sphere Sovereignty’ helps us discover the Bible’s teaching on Christ and all his kingdoms.

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Every Square Inch : Employed by Christ

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: May 22, 2011 Duration: 30:23 mins

8 hours a day (minimum), 5 days a week, 48 weeks a year, 45 years of your life (and counting), just how are we to think about our careers? Rather than hanging up our Christian brains at the door of the office in the morning and picking them up as we check out, what would it look like if we were to remember Paul’s teaching that we are employed by Christ?

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Every Square Inch : Calling and the Christian

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: May 15, 2011 Duration: 33:50 mins

Does God call people to specific jobs and opportunities? If so, how? How do we work out how and where exactly we are to serve Christ? With many of us confused, we either manically try and scan every event in life for signs of God’s guidance or give up and figure he’s probably not that fussed about the ‘non-spiritual’ parts of life anyway. The Reformed doctrine of ‘vocation’ is due a dust off.

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Every Square Inch: Blood, Sweat and Prayers

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: May 08, 2011 Duration: 33:39 mins

Even the Tiggers of this world eventually find work a burden. Our ideas fail, our projects are abandoned, our colleagues bicker, our bosses make seemingly insane decisions. Just what are we to make of all this mess? And why has an all-powerful God made everything so hard?

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Every Square Inch: Copycat Creators

Speaker: Jonty Rhodes Preached: May 01, 2011 Duration: 32:26 mins

We’re starting a new series called ‘Every Square Inch’ based on a quote by the Dutch Prime Minister/theologian Abraham Kuyper: “there is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry: ‘Mine!’”

In the past few years there has been a resurgence in the number of churches taking seriously the call to glorify God in all of life. But how does that work out in practice? How do we worship God in everyday life? Is it possible genuinely to please him when we’re not engaged in prayer, evangelism or bible reading? And just what does it mean to be made in the image of God? It’s all a matter of kids and culture…

Passage: Gen 1:26-28 & 2:15-17

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