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Listen to some great sermons series, based on Bible books, originally presented at Narrabri Anglican Church.

  1. 1d ago

    To Whom Do Our Bodies Belong? - 1 Corinthians

    Slogans like, “She’ll be right”, are just part of our everyday speech. But some slogans like “my body my choice” are deeper than just catchphrases, they capture secular creeds, deeply held beliefs in society. When adopted uncritically, such creeds can shape our lives in ways that are inconsistent with our Christian faith. As Paul gets to this part of his letter, he begins to expose some of the secular creeds of the Corinthian society captured in catchy slogans, that Christians there had adopted uncritically and which drove their behaviour, perhaps even unknowingly. Specifically, he challenges them on the secular view of their bodies, showing that for Christians, our bodies belong to Christ because he has bought us at a price and therefore, we must use them to glorify God rather than gratify bodily desires.

  2. Sep 13

    Dealing with Conflict as God's Mob - 1 Corinthians

    This section of 1 Corinthians can be hard to define around a single idea. As Corinth comes back into God’s mob, Paul certainly exposes the prevalence of sexual immorality amongst God’s mob. And underlying this is an exposure of their ‘judgement’ – their faulty judgement (in chapter 5), their swiftness to judgement in today’s passage, and their inability to judge clearly as we finish chapter 6. As Paul writes to them, he wants to confront them with the reality of their eschatological identity: they are God’s mob, grabbed by God, to reflect God to the world, to call the world back to God through the Lord of all things, Jesus. And so, their judgement must reflect this! Their forever identity must be expressed in their today living – and this is critical because it is God’s means to declare to the world the need to return to Jesus.

  3. Sep 6

    Being a Holy Church in an Unholy World - 1 Corinthians

    Paul has described himself as a father to the Corinthians and perhaps to us, given his writings in the New Testament. There are some great things about being a father. There’s fun like playing games, singing, running, holidays, gelato hunting, cooking and enjoying a great meal together. There’s also the part of fatherhood that is rewarding. Seeing children grow and learn. To teach them, to instruct them, to see the lights come on as they learn to love the Lord their God with their whole heart, soul, mind and strength and love their neighbour as themselves. That’s rewarding. But there’s the not-so-fun category. There are times that discipline is necessary and it’s not fun, it’s hard, it’s painful, it tears you up inside. But it is essential. It’s just the same in the church. There’s fun times, there’s rewarding times. Sadly, sometimes there are times where discipline is essential and hard. We’ll see today why Paul says it is essential in removing the old leaven. Praise God that if we are in Christ the old leaven has been thrown out because our Passover lamb has been sacrificed for us.

  4. Aug 30

    Who are You in God's Plans for the World? - Mission

    Talk 3 - 30 Aug 2026

  5. Aug 29

    Being Sent on a Mission from God - Mission

    Talk 2 - 29 Aug 2026

  6. Aug 29

    The People of God and the Nations of the World - Mission

    Talk 1 - 29 Aug 2026

  7. Aug 23

    How are We Arrogant? - 1 Corinthians

    Arrogance. I don’t know anybody who likes an arrogant person. Two things stand out about arrogance: it is so self-serving and it is so corrosive of unity within a group of people. Adam and Eve were tremendously arrogant toward their creator when they did not listen to his warning, disobeyed and committed that first sin. They put themselves over God and it resulted in broken fellowship. As Paul has responded to the report of division among believers in the Corinthian church, he has reminded them of their humble beginnings. He has reminded them of the contrast between God’s way and the world’s way. He has reminded them of the absolute centrality of Christ crucified for sins. His goal – to unite them in Christ. They are one household built on one foundation and they have let other worldly things, and their own desire for self-promotion, pull them apart. Their arrogance has been a big part of creating this division. Paul knows these folk well and would be greatly grieved by the damage done to their unity and their witness. Today’s passage wraps up Paul’s initial response to this division. He will turn to a different problem in Chapter 5.

  8. Aug 16

    Who is Our Leader? - 1 Corinthians

    Paul’s argument – that the Corinthians have let Corinth back into God’s church, and so undermined the message (‘Christ crucified’) and job (‘proclaim him to the world’) given them by God – is being examined in the context of God’s mob becoming divided by buying back into the culture of personality leadership (‘I follow Apollos…’). His dealing with this first manifestation of ‘Corinth back in’ goes all the way to the end of chapter 4. In this section – 1 Corinthians 3 – Paul wants God’s mob to get a right view of their leadership. Their unwillingness to grow in maturity as God’s mob (vs.1-4) and their self-deception about true wisdom (vs.18-23) bookend his examination of their understanding of leadership in God’s mob: true leadership in God’s mob is not about personality or influence or a power-base or which leader you might like or identify with; true leadership is serving God, with the role God has given, so ‘Christ crucified’ is proclaimed and practiced. Anything else is leadership that poaches from God, empties the proclamation of ‘Christ crucified’, and fails to enable God’s mob to be who he has made them.

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Listen to some great sermons series, based on Bible books, originally presented at Narrabri Anglican Church.

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  • Creator
    Narrabri Anglican Church
  • Years Active
    2011 - 2026
  • Episodes
    22
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    Clean
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    © Narrabri Anglican Church 2026
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