Sermons

What I did on Sunday

by Eddie 29.07.2010
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From time to time, I have the privilege of spending time with a church community who are commissioning people to go off around the world to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Last Sunday, was just such an occasion. I drove over to Cambridge to be with Bar Hill Church as they prayed for their members [...]

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Working Together: Why We Should Do It

by Eddie 28.01.2010

This is the third in a series of three talks (in French) on working across organizational boundaries. They were originally given at a seminar planning for Bible Translation in Burkina Faso.

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Jesus Miracles: Can You Believe Them?

by Eddie 11.01.2010

The latest KouyaCast is a sermon from Above Bar Church in 2006 based on Mark 6:33-56. I linked to this sermon at the time, noting that it contains one of my best ever mistakes.

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Talking about Jesus and Being Understood

by Eddie 21.05.2009

This is my sermon at Poulner Baptist Chapel last Sunday. If you would rather just listen to the audio, it is here. Talking About Jesus And Being Understood View more presentations from eddiearthur. I apologise that I’ve not blogged much of late. I’ve been busy writing talks and articles for elsewhere and that hasn’t left [...]

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The Church: A Community in Mission

by Eddie 27.04.2009

Here is the presentation of my sermon at Christ Church Abingdon yesterday. The Church A Community In Mission View more presentations from eddiearthur. If you want to just here the sermon without looking at the slides, you can get the mp3 file here. You can also listen to the evening sermon from my colleage John [...]

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The Mission of God in the Real World

by Eddie 29.07.2008

If you’d like to hear the sermon I recently preached at Winslow Christian Fellowship you can stream it from this page, or download the mp3 file here (9,700Kb). This is how the church administrator described the sermon. Eddie Arthur (Director of Wycliffe UK) brings us a fresh insight into the meaning of Mission, and our [...]

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Interactive Preaching

by Eddie 28.06.2008

Anyone who is involved in preaching or teaching in church might like to take a look at Interactivepreaching.net InteractivePreaching.net is all about promoting the practice and values of dialogical, experimental, communal and practical preaching. Reflecting this, our site aims to be as interactive and open-source as possible. We intend to address, in numerous ways, the [...]

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A Warning to Preachers

by Eddie 30.05.2008

Facing a weekend during which I will give one presentation, one seminar and two sermons, this warning from Asbo Jesus is a timely one.

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More on Sermons and the Word of God

by Eddie 06.05.2008

Bruce Alderman has picked up on an earlier post of mine and written a thoughtful post on how the Word of God and preaching interact. You can find it here.

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Barth on Preaching

by Eddie 17.04.2008

I love this quote from Karl Barth – but you might have to read it slowly a few times! “Our initial point is that God himself wills to reveal himself. He himself wills to attest his revelation. He himself — not we — has done this and wills to do it. Preaching, then, takes place [...]

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The Bible, Sermons and God’s Word

by Eddie 14.04.2008

Has it ever happened to you that you heard something that was extremely familiar and yet all of a sudden you heard it in a new way and started to ask questions about it? Something like that happened to me in church yesterday. The man leading the service said something short and simple – I’m [...]

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The God of Bible Translation

by Eddie 25.03.2008

If you can face looking at me for so long, you can watch a thirty minute (ish) video of a talk I gave for the staff of Wycliffe UK earlier this month. The official blurb says: Eddie speaks about the essence of God’s character as Father, Son and Spirit, and how Bible Translation is a [...]

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