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Christian Fellowship: A Guide to Peace and Support
24:57||Season 6Can you help to keep the podcast going? We will soon have to pay our annual fees to Acast and Wordpress. Even the smallest donation can help. Respond by clicking this link:DONATEChristian Fellowship: Peace and Support1st Thessalonians 5:12-15In our last study in 1st Thessalonians, we noticed that Christians not only live for the Lord, in opposition to the world, as individuals, but we live as part of the Christian Community, as those who are equal in status, but diverse in calling. To survive as part of that community we will be:-Determined to live in Peace! – And be at peace among yourselves Responsive to the Needs of Others! 14 Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.Prepared to Replace Vengeance with Kindness! So, Paul gives the Thessalonians some specific teaching about the nature of the fellowship that exists within the local church. THIS SERMON WAS RECORDED AT TEMPLEPATRICK REFORMED CHURCH and is used here with their kind permission,READ THE NOTES HERE.
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Overseers
17:31||Season 6Living Together in Christ’s Kingdom. – Overseers1st Thessalonians 5:12-13 Paul gives the Thessalonians instructions to improve and sustain relationships in the local church, and does so in the light of the expected suddenness of the return of the Lord. The first of these admonitions is to have respect for the biblical structures that God has set in the local church, – those who are ‘over you in the Lord.’ Overseers.'Read the NOTES HERE.Can you help to keep the podcast going? We will soon have to pay our annual fees to Acast and Wordpress. Even the smallest donation can help. Respond by clicking this link:DONATE
TableTalk - Who Was Ishmael?
24:52||Season 6Who Was Ishmael?Welcome to this digital version of Table-Talk, for Tuesday 20th Jan 2026, and our topic this week is “Who was Ishmael?” Open your Bible at Galatians 4:21-31, and read the passage. Pause the recording, while you read the Scriptures, and when you have done that, start the recording again. So, we are asking “Who was Ishmael?” - it’s important for us to know a little bit about Ishmael, - to see his relevance for Christians, and learn a little about Paul’s use of Ismael as an analogy for the freedom we have in Christ, in other words, how Jesus in his sinless life and atoning death has set us free from Jewish ritual, and the bondage of the law.So, first, let’s learn Ismael’s story, and then we’ll do a little bit of Christian doctrine.Cover image courtesy of ‘Open Bible’ https://www.openbible.info/labs/ai-bible-art/
Be Ready - Take Comfort
22:12||Season 6Be Ready Text: 1 Thess 5:1-11Paul has advised the Thessalonian church that they should not be worried about the Lord’s return. In fact it should be a comfort to them, something to await with expectation, and joy, a reuniting of those who have died in Christ, as the great shout is heard and the trumpet sounds and the dead are raised and we rise to go to be with the Lord… …and thus we shall also be with the Lord, 8 Therefore comfort one another with these words!Read the NOTES HERE.
TableTalk - Who Was Melchisadek?
20:28||Season 6TableTalk - “Who was Melchizedek?”READ Hebrews 7, Genesis 14:17-24.This episode is about a strange encounter that Abraham had with two kings in Genesis 14. Beor, the now defeated King of Sodom appears in the text first, in Genesis 14:17. But there was a second king, in 14:18. His name was Melchizedek and he was the ruler of a town called Salem, which means ‘peace’ or ‘righteousness.’ Most scholars think that the town referred to was Jerusalem, which before David conquered it was a Canaanite city. Little is known about this man. We don’t know his ancestry or what became of him after this incident. He just appears on the page of Genesis over a few verses and vanishes again. Hebrews 11:3.Read the NOTES HERE.
The Dead in Christ
31:10||Season 6The Dead in Christ1st Thessalonians 4:13-17Death is a common experience for us all. For a Christian it is essential that their approach to death should be totally different from the pagan attitudes and beliefs of the world. So Paul teaches the Thessalonians four great truths about the death of the Christian...Recorded live at Ballymacashon Congregational church, 78 Saintfield Road, Killinchy, Co.Down, BT23 6RNRead the NOTES HERE.
2025 Review - Darkness and Light
25:02||Season 62025 Review - Darkness and LightIsaiah 9:2We live in dark days. It’s a deep spiritual darkness, and it’s covering these western nations and plunging many people into despair. We are walking in a deep Satanic darkness and people are wallowing in hopelessness. Yet there is Light...