Tregear Presbyterian Community Church

Bible Reading: Philippians 1:1-11

Preacher: Mike Goheen

This Sunday at Tregear we begin a series on the letter to the Philippians. Our passage, Phil 1:1-11, is a most wonderful expression of warm friendship from Paul to the Philippian church, forged through their partnership in the gospel. Christ is exalted, and their warm relationship is celebrated. It is a reminder to us of what a gift God has given to us in our own church family, as we partner in the gospel together.

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Bible Reading: Deuteronomy 29:2-21

Preacher: Mike Goheen

“You are standing here in order to enter into a covenant with the LORD your God, a covenant the LORD is making with you this day and sealing with an oath, to confirm you this day as his people, that he may be your God as he promised you and as he swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I am making this covenant, with its oath, not only with you who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God but also with those who are not here today.” Deuteronomy 29:12-15

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This is the second of two lectures given by Mike Goheen on covenant at Tregear Presbyterian Community Church.

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Bible Reading: Exodus 33:12-23

Preacher: Mike Goheen

Have you ever wondered about the purpose of the Old Testament tabernacle? God’s presence is with His people Israel through the tabernacle. In Exodus tabernacle is built and God comes to dwell with his people. Importantly, God’s dwelling with his people gets increasingly intimate throughout the biblical story—tabernacle, temple, Jesus, Spirit, full presence of Triune God in new creation (Rev. 21:3). This Sunday we will see that the tabernacle is not only a symbol of God’s presence, but a symbol for the mission of the church - for it is God’s presence that makes His people an attractive people for their mission to the world.

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This is the first of two lectures given by Mike Goheen on covenant. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties the first 15mins of the lecture were not recorded. The recording picks up from the beginning of Mike’s second section - Historical Unfolding of Covenants. The full set of notes can be made available but here is what is missing from the recording, with some extra notes in italics:

Introduction 

• Personal relationship not enough
• Covenant relationship: central image  (one of, if not the most important ways our relationship with God is described.)
• Two problems: 1) unknown (People don’t talk about it)   2) familiarity (used so much it has lost its meaning)

Historical Unfolding - Quick Overview

• Noahic Covenant (Gen. 6:18; 9:1-17)  - preserve and redeem the earth
• Abrahamic Covenant (Gen 12, 15, 17)  - God promised to make Abraham’s descendants into a great people -  to bless them and others through them.
• Siniatic Covenant (Ex. 19-24)
• Davidic Covenant (2 Sam. 7)
• New Covenant (Jer. 31:31ff; Luke 22:20ff; Heb. 8-10)

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Bible Reading: Exodus 20:1-21

Preacher: Mike Goheen

Have you ever wondered what relevance the Old Testament law has for Christians? This Sunday Mike will be showing us that the Old Testament law was designed to shape a community that was distinctive in its love and justice, that would shine in the world, displaying the glory of God. The Old Testament law still speaks to us today, forming a Christian community of worship and justice.

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Bible Reading: Exodus 19:1-8

Preacher: Mike Goheen

This week we heard the second talk in Mike’s series on Exodus: The Formation of God’s People.

“You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” Exodus 19:4-6a

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Bible Reading: Exodus 6:1-12

Preacher: Mike Goheen

This Sunday at Tregear Mike Goheen will begin his 5 part sermon series, ‘Exodus - The Formation of God’s People‘. Mike lectures at Regent College, Vancouver, in Biblical Theology, Mission and Worldview.

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Bible Readings: John 14:5-10; Romans 4:1-3

Preacher: Peter Crickitt

This Sunday we will address the question: ‘With so many religions in the world, how can you be sure Christianity is the right one?’  The challenge isn’t new. Jesus claim to be the unique Son of God, the Creator and Restorer of the world, has jarred with the competing claims of culture since the 1st century: ‘Into the Roman Empire of the first century, shaped as it was by the humanism, rationalism, secularism, and naturalism of the pagan Greek world, stepped Jesus of Nazareth. (Goheen and Bartholomew)’.

Yet those who encounted Jesus’ majesty and love, and whose eyes the Holy Spirit opened to see His glory, proclaimed with Thomas, ‘My Lord and my God’.

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Bible Reading: Romans 1:18-25

Preacher: Daniel opdeVeigh

“To the believer all things speak of God; the whole universe is the mirror of his perfections. There is not an atom of the universe in which his everlasting power and deity are not clearly seen… This witness of God is so powerful, accordingly, that almost no one denies its reality. All humans are peoples have heard something of the voice of the Lord.” Herman Bavinck

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