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  • "Types" of Christ (6)
  • @ Orchard Baptist Church Colchester (3)
  • 1 Corinthians (13)
  • 1 Peter (13)
  • 2 Corinthians (18)
  • 2 Peter (3)
  • Abraham (6)
  • Academic Materials (4)
  • Act Justly (7)
  • Acts 1 – 8 (15)
  • Acts 9-28 (17)
  • Advent 2020 (5)
  • Amos (4)
  • Articles from Haven News (1)
  • Bible Study Notes (17)
  • Christian living (17)
  • Christmas (27)
  • Colossians (9)
  • Continue in what you have learned and believed (19)
  • Daniel (9)
  • David (8)
  • Deuteronomy (15)
  • Easter (30)
  • Elijah and Elisha (11)
  • Ephesians (14)
  • Ethics (1)
  • Evangelistic Sermons (10)
  • Events (1)
  • Everyday Christian Living (17)
  • Exile and Restoration (12)
  • Exodus (2)
  • Ezekiel (4)
  • Faith (1)
  • Family Services (2)
  • Following Jesus (8)
  • Galatians (7)
  • Genesis – In The Beginning (8)
  • Gideon (4)
  • God's Amazing Plan of Salvation (5)
  • Hebrews (13)
  • Holy Spirit (29)
  • hope (2)
  • hope and love (2)
  • Hope in troubled times (33)
  • Hosea (6)
  • Isaac and Jacob (9)
  • Isaiah (15)
  • Jesus's Final Week (4)
  • John's Gospel (38)
  • Joseph (8)
  • Joshua (8)
  • Knowing God Better (8)
  • Last Things (6)
  • Learning to pray (9)
  • Lent Reflections (1)
  • Letters of John (10)
  • Letters to the Seven Churches (8)
  • love (1)
  • Luke on discipleship (12)
  • Make me a channel of your peace (4)
  • Mark's Gospel (28)
  • More Academic Presentations (8)
  • Parables (20)
  • Pastoral Letters to Timothy and Titus (10)
  • Pastoral Sermons (17)
  • Philippians (8)
  • Praying the Lord's Prayer (6)
  • Prepared to Answer (27)
  • Proverbs (4)
  • Psalms (26)
  • Ready to meet the Son (6)
  • Recent Sermons (7)
  • Revelation (6)
  • Romans (22)
  • Science and faith (5)
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  • Spiritual pathways (2)
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  • Ten Commandments (8)
  • The Armour of God (5)
  • The gifts of the Holy Spirit (7)
  • The Moral Maze (8)
  • The Next Step 2020 (4)
  • The seed of the woman (4)
  • The Sermon on the Mount (7)
  • The Testing of God's Son (1)
  • The way to the cross (7)
  • The Whole Story (10)
  • The Wilderness Years (11)
  • Uncategorized (77)
  • Upside-Down Kingdom – the Beatitudes (9)
  • Video Sermons (9)
  • We believe (11)
  • What could I say? (9)
  • What is salvation (10)
  • What is the church? Acts 2:42 (3)
  • Work rest and play (5)
  • Worship (4)

Category: Prepared to Answer

peter

6A Preach the gospel – since it is necessary use words!

Posted on November 27, 2022

This important message started life as an article published in the ecumenical journal for ministers, Ministry Today UK. There is a striking saying you…

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Posted in Continue in what you have learned and believed, Prepared to Answer
peter

Caring for new Christians

Posted on November 20, 2016

Can you remember what life was like when you first became a Christian? Before I became a Christian when I was 16 I had…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Taking Every Opportunity

Posted on August 28, 2016

Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Didn’t he used to be dead ?

Posted on March 28, 2016

“What makes you believe that God exists?” “Is Jesus the only way to God?” Here are just two of the questions which Christians will…

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Posted in Easter, Prepared to Answer
peter

Ambassadors for Christ 2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Posted on January 18, 2016

“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” (1 Peter…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Life in all its fullness John 10:10

Posted on January 6, 2016

This was the first sermon I preached at NSBC before I became their minister. Belatedly I post it here because it fits very well…

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Posted in Knowing God Better, Prepared to Answer
peter

What makes you believe that God exists?

Posted on December 13, 2015

What makes you believe that God exists? We have been thinking about questions folk might ask us about our Christian faith and here is…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Is Jesus the only way to God? John 14:1-6

Posted on November 29, 2015

England is no longer a Christian country. Whether England ever was a Christian country where everybody went to church and everybody lived by the…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

What is the point of life?

Posted on November 28, 2015

Jesus said in Matthew 13: 45-46 “ … the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

How can we believe in God in a world so full of suffering?

Posted on November 17, 2015

Where was God in Paris on Friday evening? On Friday evening the 13th November 2015 teams of Islamic State terrorists launched three separate attacks…

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Posted in Pastoral Sermons, Prepared to Answer
peter

What happens when we die?

Posted on November 12, 2015

This morning we are going to think about a very important question. What happens when we die? It’s a question many people spend a…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

We need to talk more about Jesus

Posted on October 31, 2015

How can we help Contacts become Inquirers? A summer of sabbatical study has led me to one simple conclusion – we need conversations about…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer, Uncategorized
peter

Can we trust the Bible?

Posted on October 25, 2015

Can we trust the Bible? Sometimes people who are not Christians will say, “You can’t believe the Bible.” “It was all made up by…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Red herrings and excuses

Posted on October 25, 2015

In John 4 Jesus is talking to the woman at the well about the Living Water. He confronted her about the number of husbands…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

What makes you believe that God exists?

Posted on October 18, 2015

Here are some areas we might talk about with friends, neighbours and colleagues who ask us, “What makes you believe that God exists?” JESUS…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Sharing my story workshop

Posted on October 18, 2015

Over lunch we spent a quarter of an hour each talking around our tables about of these questions. 1. Each talk for 1-2 minutes…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Sharing my story

Posted on October 18, 2015

We live in a multi-faith, multicultural, consumer society, “Tesco ergo Sum, I shop therefore I am” (Graham Cray) where everyone demands freedom of choice…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Why we don’t and why we should talk about Jesus

Posted on September 27, 2015

Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Praying for our evangelism Acts 2:42-47

Posted on September 27, 2015

Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

“In Other Words”

Posted on September 26, 2015

As part of our sermon series Prepared To Answer we are thinking about the language we use when we talk to our friends, neighbours…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer
peter

Just what is the Good News?

Posted on September 26, 2015

Romans 116 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first…

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Posted in Prepared to Answer

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