Weekly Talks

Two Kinds of Wisdom

November 01, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

By Charlie Lacey | James 3:13-18 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. But the wisdom that comes from heaven is fi...

Taming the Tongue

October 25, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB

By Charlie Lacey | James 3:1-12 Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very ...

The God Who Changes Lives

October 18, 2020 00:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB

By Charlie Lacey | James 2:14-26 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.” Show me your fa...

Christian Snobbery

October 11, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MB

James 2:1-13 | Bev Bell & Fiona My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges w...

Listening and Doing

October 04, 2020 00:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB

James 1:19-25 | by Erika Williams My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you. Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do wh...

Counterfeit Gifts

September 27, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MB

James 1: 13-18 | by Trevor Adams When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death. Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,...

Preserving Through the Trials

September 20, 2020 00:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

By Charlie Lacey | James 1:1-12 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding f...

What Does The Lord Require? (Outdoor Service)

September 13, 2020 00:00 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Micah 6: 1-8 and Matthew 25: 31-40 The Lord’s Case Against Israel Listen to what the Lord says: “Stand up, plead my case before the mountains; let the hills hear what you have to say. “Hear, you mountains, the Lord’s accusation; listen, you everlasting foundations of the earth. For the Lord has a case against his people; he is lodging a charge against Israel. “My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me. I brought you up out o...

Running From God

September 06, 2020 00:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Jonah 1:1-3, 3:1-5, 3:10–4:3 Jonah Flees From the Lord The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord. Jonah Goes to Nineveh Then the word of the Lord came to J...

Pride Goes Before a Fall

August 30, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Obadiah 1:1-4 ; 10-15 Obadiah’s Vision The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Sovereign Lord says about Edom— We have heard a message from the Lord: An envoy was sent to the nations to say, “Rise, let us go against her for battle”— “See, I will make you small among the nations; you will be utterly despised. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ‘...

Going Through the Motions

August 23, 2020 00:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Amos 5:18-27 The Day of the Lord Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion only to meet a bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hand on the wall only to have a snake bite him. Will not the day of the Lord be darkness, not light— pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness? “I hate, I despise your religious festiv...

Rend Your Hearts

August 16, 2020 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Joel 2:11b-18 Rend Your Heart “Even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.” Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing— grain offerings and drink offerings for the Lord your God. Blow th...

Relentless Love

August 09, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Hosea 3: 1-5 Hosea’s Reconciliation With His Wife The Lord said to me, “Go, show your love to your wife again, though she is loved by another man and is an adulteress. Love her as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love the sacred raisin cakes.” So I bought her for fifteen shekels of silver and about a homer and a lethek of barley. Then I told her, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man,...

Understanding the Prophets

August 02, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Deuteronomy 18:14-22 The Prophet The nations you will dispossess listen to those who practice sorcery or divination. But as for you, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do so. The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, “Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great ...

The Redemptive Power of Christ

July 26, 2020 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Acts 9:1-19a Saul’s Conversion Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul,...

Sharing The Gospel

July 19, 2020 08:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Acts 8:26-40 Philip and the Ethiopian Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. The Spirit told Phi...

What is Our Motivation

July 12, 2020 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MB

By Charlie Lacey | Acts 8: 9-24 Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.” They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Ch...

Persecution and the Mission of God

July 05, 2020 00:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB

Acts 6:7-15; Acts 7:51-60 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith. Now Stephen, a man full of God’s grace and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people. Opposition arose, however, from members of the Synagogue The post Persecution and the Mission of God appeared first on St Andrew's Springfield.

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