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G’day and welcome to Partakers Christian Podcasts! Join us for uplifting Bible teaching, inspiring readings, heartfelt worship, powerful prayers, and fascinating church history. Whether you’re new to faith or growing deeper in your journey, we’re here to encourage and equip you. 🎧 Tune in, interact, and be inspired—wherever you are in the world.
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Thursday Feb 02, 2012
Thursday Feb 02, 2012
2nd February 2012
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G’day and welcome to Pauline's Thursday Ponderings! When we are going through a difficult time it is sometimes hard to believe that you are the apple of Gods eye. God gave me a picture once. I asked God what I was worth. God tied a tag round my neck with a piece of string, the kind of price tag that they have in old fashioned shops. The tag read £10, then he removed the tag and replaced it with one that read £100, then he removed that one and replaced it with one that had £1000 on it. He replaced the £1000 price tag with one that read £100,000 and then replaced that one with a million pound price tag. The final price tag simply had ‘ONE LIFE’ written on it. I find it mind blowing that God chose to let His Son die a hideously painful death so that I can enjoy a personal relationship with him that I am so valuable that even if I was the only human being that existed, God would have allowed Jesus to die on a cross for me. Remind yourself of this fact frequently and you will get a glimpse of your father’s heart. He loves you to bits and is proud of you no matter what you have done in the past - if you have said sorry and meant it - it is forgotten. The slate is completely clean. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17 says’ Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come’ God’s love for you is unconditional. God created us with a thirst to be secure, to have self worth and to have a sense of our own significance. That thirst is intended to be quenched by God himself, by His unconditional love for us and unconditional acceptance of our work. I John 3 verse 1 says’ How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God.! And that is what we are!’ Ephesians 2 verse 10 says’ We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepares for us in advance to do.’ Unfortunately many of us try and get our security and sense of self worth from our spouses or parents. Whilst that can be okay if we have a particularly adoring spouse or an encouraging mum and dad, it goes badly wrong if we have a critical spouse or a parent that withholds praise. Our self esteem really suffers in the case of a verbally critical spouse or parent and is affected just as badly by someone who is slow to give praise. Galatians 4: 7 says Because you are sons,” God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave but a son and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir.’ Our aim should be to please God and fulfil his purposes for our lives. If it is we will discover a sense of security, value and significance in God and then it will not matter if our boss does not appreciate us or if our spouse criticises us. We should be aiming to enjoy God, to have a life of worship and to get to know God better each day. God adores us and considers us adorable, He is proud of our achievements but is so much more thrilled with our efforts to get to know Him better.Right Mouse click to save this as an audio mp3 file
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Sunday Jan 29, 2012
Sunday Jan 29, 2012
Glimpses 54 - Roger and Margaret
This is the story of how God took two ordinary people in the last years of their working life, into a situation which was challenging, rewarding and exciting! You can listen to this story below!
For the next 6 months, every Sunday, Roger will be sharing with us some studies he has prepared in the early life of Jesus of Nazareth, as recorded in Luke 1-9. We have titled this series "Luke Looks Back" and it will be starting Sunday February 5th 2012. Thank you
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Monday Jan 23, 2012
Monday Jan 23, 2012
23rd January 2012
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G’day and welcome to Partakers Thinkspot on Monday, the 23rd of January 2012. To help you into a new week, Jim shares with us about Job (a man of integrity), suffering, compassion and Gladys Ayleward! View the video or listen/download the audio mp3 to see what Jim has to say! Joy’s Prayer Lord, we are often complaining when we have nothing like the experiences of Job or others like Gladys Aylward to compare with. Forgive us for our moaning and grumbling. Help us to see as the scriptures say our 'light afflictions are but for a moment ' . When we think of Jesus and His sufferings for us we are put to shame. Thank you we have such a wonderful God as indeed You are to comfort us in our afflictions. “Bless the Lord O my soul and forget not all His benefits who forgives our iniquities, heals all of our sicknesses and diseases and whose mercy ,reaches unto the heavens. ...Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, serve the Lord with gladness” Lord help us to do this for Your names sake AmenRight Mouse click to save this as an audio mp3 file
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Friday Jan 20, 2012
Friday Jan 20, 2012
Friday Prayers
20 January 2012
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Order of Service!
Opening prayer
Praise time
Prayers for those grieving and lonely
Prayers for justice and peace
Prayers for those facing challenging situations
Prayers for churches and Christians worldwide
Prayers for healing
Time of silence for your own prayers
Benediction
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Monday Jan 16, 2012
Monday Jan 16, 2012
16th January 2012
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John Bunyan
Amazingly expanding ministry
Last Monday we looked at John the Apostle on the Island of Patmos and how although hindered in his preaching God allowed him to be placed there by his enemies for another purpose, to receive the Revelation from God of the end times which would be recorded permanently in Scriptures for the world to see for all time. His ministry was amazingly extended through prohibition. So today I want to remind you of another great Christian who was put in prison for preaching the gospel in the open air and overnight behind bars received a revelation by way of a dream which he transferred to a book which has become a best seller next to the Bible worldwide. His name is well known, John Bunyan formerly a tinker by trade from Bedford and the author of Pilgrims Progress. Pilgrims Progress is a fantastic book to accompany the Bible on your bookshelf at home. With amazing dexterity John paints word picture after picture of the Christian life from the seeker to the finder, to the sharer of his faith to the persecuted for his faith. It is full of the adventurers of a man who begins his journey leaving his home and family with a heavy load on his back representing sin and his deep longing to be rid of it. In his hands he has the Book. He comes to Evangelist who points to the house of the Interpreter (The Holy Spirit) who shows him the way to the Cross where there is a bottomless pit in front of it where when Pilgrim looks to the cross, his heavy load disappears down the hole gone for ever. Then the journey really begins with all kinds of people to be met on the road to death and glory. Some are planted by God and some by Satan. Now his name is changed from pilgrim to Christian for he is transformed. This book is still a best seller today and multitudes have been helped by this incredible dream translated to paper so we can read it and benefit from it. His ministry also was amazingly extended by prohibition. The point I am making again this week is that if you are a Christian and your path to Christian service has been hindered or you are pushed aside for another to take your place or because of your age don't think your ministry is finished. Again, If Satan isn't opposing your ministry then you probably are not where you are meant to be. Sometimes what appears to be a blocking of your path or something evil happening in your life may well turn out to be an amazing step forward for you into another more meaningful and fruitful ministry. Remember God is sovereign over all. We should never forget that. Satan has power, but God is way over the top of Satan and even uses Satan's actions to eventually further His own glory. He alone is Almighty. Keep your eyes fixed upon The Lord. He will never, no never be thwarted by our enemies.Right Mouse click to save this as an audio mp3 file
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Friday Jan 13, 2012
Friday Jan 13, 2012
John RW Stott
Pioneer Outreach Worker
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I have reposted this on Friday 13th January 2012, as it was on this day a Memorial and Thanksgiving service was held at St Paul's Cathedral, London...
Introduction
G'day and welcome to Partake! Tonight I want to give a reflection somebody who is indeed a servant of the Lord and took great delight in all of Scripture. That person, is John RW Stott. By necessity, this is just a very brief introduction of the life of Reverend John Stott, and I concentrate mainly on his role as an evangelist. John Stott holds that he is more "an activist than a thinker", which is certainly evident in his ministry as a pioneer outreach worker. From the evidence of his life, we can see that has indeed fulfilled this thought.
Life and ministry summary.
John Stott was born 27 April 1921. to Sir Arnold and Emily Stott. John Stott became a Christian as a schoolboy at a youth camp led by Eric Nash. Nash discipled the young Stott post-conversion with letters over a five-year period, encouraging and rebuking. This was good groundwork for the future ministry of Stott. Graduating from Cambridge University, Stott was ordained in 1945. Initially as assistant curate at All Souls, Stott served as Rector from 1950 to 1975. His role since has been as Rector Emeritus. At All Souls, Stott instituted home groups, workplace ministry, student outreach, prayer meetings, lay evangelism, Guest Services and new believers follow-up. Catherwood comments that Stott's expository preaching was a "new phenomenon" in the Anglican church. Michael Green calls him "the nations most gifted evangelist at the time." He was the evangelicals' prime mover within the Anglican communion, showing that someone could be both evangelical and Anglican. He has conducted over 50 missions to universities in Britain and abroad. Stott is also the author of over 40 books.
Pioneering Outreach Worker
The impact Stott has had on Christianity in Britain and abroad, can not be underestimated. Despite facing calls to leave what some evangelicals called an apostate church, Stott refused by saying that it was better to fight the evangelical cause from within the Anglican church. He has spurned the opportunities for "promotion" to archbishop. He has eschewed the offers of luminary evangelical theological colleges of Moore and Wycliffe Hall. His reasons for not accepting these varied, however it was more due to his humble nature. Stott appears never to seek honour for himself, but rather to deflect it upon Christ.
Stott's Outreach Theology.
Stott's maxim is "Balanced Biblical Christianity" or BBC for short. Through this, social action is interminably linked with evangelistic outreach. Fred Catherwood cites Stott's observation regarding Luke 16:19-31, that the rich man was punished for "being scandalously indifferent to the poor around him". While the majority of evangelicals tried to categorize evangelism and social action differently, Stott did not. Stott's evangelism formula is evangelism equals gospel plus social action, which is evident in Acts 6.
Local Outreach
We only need to see the changes he made at All Souls, to observe his biblical convictions regarding outreach. Stott exemplifies innovative evangelism, unafraid of new methods, whilst sticking to the biblical Gospel. Green attributes this to an openness to the Spirit's working. Guest services of this type were almost unknown before the 1950s, according to Green. Today it is almost de rigueur for churches to have regular Guest Services and for new Christians to be followed up and discipled. When Stott started them, it was a new concept. The service focused on a single point - to present Christ to those who don't know him. The church members were actively encouraged to bring non-believers to these services, and hence lay evangelism was in action with training provided. Until Stott came along, evangelism was seen as the job for the ministers, pastors and professional Christians. Stott sees Christ as the master of Christians and hence, Christians should obey what Christ has said. Ergo, Matthew 28:18-20 was for all Christians and not just ministers. It is this motivation of lay people that helps see the Great Commission being fulfilled. As for the nurture of young Christians, Stott believed new Christians should also have some form of training in Christian belief. Hence the birth of ‘Nursery Class', where new believers were given three months training in their new faith. Invariably, these new believers were also taught in evangelism and helped with the Guest Services.
Global Outreach
Stott founded the Langham Trust, which arranges for solid theological training of Third World church leaders. London Institute for Contemporary Christianity seeks to help people to relate Christ to the contemporary world. Another Stott founded organization, Evangelical Literature Trust, distributes books based on solid theology to church leaders in needy countries, financed mostly to on his books royalties. These groups marry Stott's activist mentality with concern for Christianity and social action evangelism.
Twenty First Century
For church leaders today, there is much to emulate in Stott. Stott has an accountability group to help him make ministry decisions. Leaders should be prepared to talk to others about their biblical beliefs, with people from all theological persuasions. Stott has shown that if we desire the Father's will, have Christ as our centre, the Holy Spirit guiding our steps, the Bible to hand, combined with an attitude of love, then we can argue our evangelical position against any other theological position. Whatever our ministry is, we can continue to give the church fresh impetus in evangelism. Twenty-first century Christians should be prepared to use innovative outreach, without Gospel compromise. Whereas Stott could rightly assume that most of his congregation had some bible knowledge from Sunday School, today that is not an assumption we can make. With the fall in Church attendances, society now is much more oblivious to the character of Jesus. With the advent of multiculturalism came a pantheon of religions now in Britain. These two things combined have seen the ‘Jesus consciousness' of Britain fall since Stott's day. It is a challenge to us to raise this ‘Jesus conscience'. To do this will require Spirit-led innovation and willing leaders.
However...
However a warning to be heeded. In Why I Am A Christian, Stott writes regarding CS Lewis' conversion, categorically claiming this to be Lewis' Christian conversion. However, if we follow that reference, it actually refers to Lewis' Theistic conversion. Lewis' denies it was a conversion to Christ. Lewis states his actual Christian conversion was some time later. If a non-believer was to have read Stott's book and follow the reference, that non-Christian may actually think a belief in God is enough to be a Christian, and then stop reading the book. We know this is not what Stott subscribes to. Therefore as leaders, we need to constantly review what we write and say, so that nobody can be led into error through us. He has also recently courted controversy by saying he is agnostic towards a literal view of hell and eternal suffering and leans more towards a view of annihilationism where the soul is destroyed. For this he was heavily criticized by Christian leaders the world over and supported by others.
Conclusion
John Stott's life exemplifies radical outreach and innovation, blended with a desire to serve Jesus Christ as Lord. He is truly one of the twentieth centuries master servants of Jesus Christ. To the staff and many members of the congregation of All Souls Langham Place down through the years, he is simply known as "Uncle John". He is unique in the Anglican church in that he has always been associated with the one church throughout his life and ministry. In 2006, When on his way to preach at All Souls, John Stott fell and broke his hip. This saw him announce his retirement from ministry at the age of 86 and he now has moved from his Central London flat to a retirement village for Anglican Clergy in the south of England. Time Magazine in 2005, named him as one of the 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century. As we have seen here briefly, he was certainly one of them, and it is all to the glory of God that He raised up his servant, Uncle John.
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Friday Jan 06, 2012
Friday Jan 06, 2012
Friday Prayers
6 January 2012
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Order of Service!
Opening prayer!
New Year Prayer!
Confession
Thanksgiving Prayers
Prayers for jobseekers and workers
Prayers for those grieving
Time for your own prayers/petitions!
Closing prayer
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Monday Jan 02, 2012
Monday Jan 02, 2012
2nd January 2012
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Friday Dec 30, 2011
Friday Dec 30, 2011
Friday Prayers
30 December 2011
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Order of Service!
Opening prayer!
Praise time!
Time for your praise
Prayers for healing
Prayers for those going through challenging times
Prayers for churches around the world
Time for your own prayers/petitions!
Closing prayer
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Saturday Dec 24, 2011
Saturday Dec 24, 2011
Partakers Nativity
Part 2
Readings from:
| Birth of Jesus Christ | Luke 2:1-7 | Milly |
| Shepherds visit Jesus | Luke 2:8-20 | Toby |
| Magi visit Jesus | Matthew 2:1-12 | Sharona |