The early section deals with church leaders exploiting the congregation, with parallels in today’s church strongly emphasised.

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TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON

This will be uploaded … soon

There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). See below (“PS0” for full info)

PS2: ::: The latest development on the “Transcript” section is that the text-file will be subject to far less preparation than before – less editing and correction. It will still be converted to sentence-column form as before, but any trimming and polishing will be left to the user. Any shortcomings in the transcription software should be pretty obvious and so not a problem in getting the meaning (and the audio file will provide the necessary clarification if required )

PS1: ::: {not-so-}NEW FORMAT of the transcript.
To ease the processing and preparation of the transcript, and we hope improve the readability of the text, a new format was been adopted in mid October. This breaks the text into sentences instead of arbitrarily-sized “paragraphs”. When the reader opens the file in a program such as Notepad (in MS Windows), then the appearance can be just like a newspaper column. The format is such that the user has many options available, depending on preferences and what software they like to use.
Any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.

PS0 ::::: TRANSCRIPT OF THE SERMON
There is a “button” labelled “Save Video” (or “Download Video” sometimes). This actually links to a text-file to download. It is a transcript of the sermon. At present it is at an experimental stage: it is an aid to getting the most out of the sermon audio. There is no substitute for listening to the verbal delivery of a sermon. However, searching through an audio file lasting the best part of an hour can be somewhat difficult. When you approach the search knowing that you’re sure there is something about “redemption”, for example, then a transcript text-search can take you right there and show you the time in the recording where you will find it! The file is simple “text” rather than a more sophisticated form so that you can edit or reformat as you prefer. This transcript is in 2 forms (in the one file). One half consists of normal text arrangement. These ‘blocks’ were at purely arbitrary boundaries (boundaries were inserted at about 800 character intervals, purely to avoid having one huge unbroken deluge of text, i.e. no attempt at grammatical accuracy). The format has now been changed as described above in PS1. The other section is short bunches of words (8 to 12 nomally) beneath the TIMES at which they occur (for the whole sermon).
This facility is in development (“experimental” as mentioned above) so any feedback on usefulness, improvement suggestions, or whatever, would be most welcome.

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In this study Jim continues looking at the journey of the Ark of the covenant, from the opening chapters of the book of First Samuel, and the lessons we can learn from it.

May you be blessed and encouraged by this study.

The post The Journey of the Ark – Part 2 first appeared on Calvary Chapel Portsmouth.

In this teaching by guest speaker, Pastor Antonye Holyde, we look at the courage of Jonathan (Saul’s son) to step out in faith, leaving behind the compromise that surrounded him, and take a stand for the God of Israel.

Pastor Antonye encourages us to reach out to this lost and dying world with the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Antonye and his wife Suzanne have planted 30 churches in their ministry to date, and in March 2019 will be returning to California to begin a new work, following the LORD’s leading. For the last 8 years they have been ministering in Camden (London) at Calvary Chapel Shoreline and have seen God’s grace transform countless lives.

May you be challenged, strengthened and encouraged by this teaching!

The post 1 Samuel 14 1-23 first appeared on Calvary Chapel Portsmouth.

May you be encouraged and strengthened by this study.

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In this study of 1 Samuel 27 and 30 Ilir Begaj highlights how David, the man after God’s own heart succumbed to the counsel of his own heart rather than seeking God’s will. David subsequently ended up living in the land of the enemy (the Philistines). Fleshly choices can lead us astray but as David “strengthened himself in the Lord His God” we see how God restored everything which the enemy had stolen.

You can listen to the audio on this web page, or save it for listening to later.

We hope and pray this teaching will bless you and encourage you to undertake your own personal study and adventure in God’s Word!

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Ilir grew up in a Muslim family in Kosovo but came to know the love of Jesus for himself. In this study, Ilir shows from scripture the danger of impatiently seeking what we think we want right now, rather than patiently waiting for God’s best.

Ilir also highlighted the lure to be like the world when we should instead recognise we are not of this world. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world”. (1 John 2:15-16)

May you be blessed, challenged and encouraged by this teaching.

The post Waiting for God’s Best first appeared on Calvary Chapel Portsmouth.

The books of 1st and 2nd Samuel take us from one of the darkest times in Israel’s history to their ‘golden era’, under the rule of king David. We will be introduced to Samuel, the last of the Judges, then see Saul, Israel’s 1st king, and finally see this shepherd boy become a man after God’s own heart and lead a nation.

Although much of this book is historical narrative, there are many lessons for the Church, and for all believers, all subtly left for us to glean as we pass by.

We must never look upon the Old Testament as purely the history of the Jewish nation, and we are not ‘New Testament Christians’ and should always be mindful that “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Rom 15:4)

May this overview prompt you to undertake your own study of these divinely inspired books.

The PDF slides are from the PowerPoint presentation used during the teaching session.
You can listen to the audio on this web page, or save it for later listening.

The post Session 15 – 1 Samuel 19 – 2 Samuel 24 first appeared on Calvary Chapel Portsmouth.

The books of 1st and 2nd Samuel take us from one of the darkest times in Israel’s history to their ‘golden era’, under the rule of king David. We will be introduced to Samuel, the last of the Judges, then see Saul, Israel’s 1st king, and finally see this shepherd boy become a man after God’s own heart and lead a nation.

Although much of this book is historical narrative, there are many lessons for the Church, and for all believers, all subtly left for us to glean as we pass by.

We must never look upon the Old Testament as purely the history of the Jewish nation, and we are not ‘New Testament Christians’ and should always be mindful that “whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” (Rom 15:4)

May this overview prompt you to undertake your own study of these divinely inspired books.

The PDF slides are from the PowerPoint presentation used during the teaching session.
You can listen to the audio on this web page, or save it for later listening.

The post Session 14 – 1 Samuel 1-18 first appeared on Calvary Chapel Portsmouth.