Talks by Tim Johnson
Why Tim LOVES this Church || Tim Johnson || 1 Corinthians 1:1-9
Ten years is an incredible milestone, and one we celebrate today. Tim’s bringing a look at part of Paul’s letter in the new testament to the church in Corinth – from 1 Corinthians chapter 1, on just why Tim loves this church.
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Standing Firm in Prayer & Work || Tim Johnson || 2 Thessalonians 3
For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been thinking about holding on, and standing firm in our faith. Today, Tim wraps up our series in 2 Thessalonians with the end of Paul’s letter, encouraging the church in Thessaloniki to stand firm in prayer and work…
St John’s Extra: The End of Suffering
The Christian faith, including the Christian understanding of suffering, centres on the good news of Jesus: his life, death and resurrection. Last episode we discussed the amazing truth that God experiences pain and suffering in the person of Jesus. God understands our suffering, not in a merely theoretical way, but experientially. But the Christian faith offers us more than a God who has experienced our pain. That is amazing and comforting but it doesn’t solve the problem of suffering and…
When will suffering end? || Tim Johnson || Job 42
When will it end? When we’re in the midst of suffering, it seems to go on forever. But today, we’ll see the end of Job’s suffering, as we also come to the end of the book of Job, and the end of this series on the problem of suffering.
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St John’s Extra: God’s experience of Suffering
The heart of the Christian faith is the good news about Jesus: his life, death and resurrection. It is this which shapes the Christian understanding of suffering too. Perhaps the key thing that Christians can say about suffering is that God is not remote or removed from human suffering. Christians believe that God himself took on human flesh in the person of Jesus. He lived as one of us, he experienced all the highs and lows of human existence, and…
What would you ask God? || Tim Johnson || Job 38:1-21 & 40:1-14
When you get to heaven, what’s the first question you’ll ask God?
In today’s talk, we’re looking at Job’s questioning of God. Why has God allowed suffering to run rife in Job’s life, and more broadly, why is there suffering in the world at all?
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St John’s Extra: Suffering within our Story
As we wrestle with the problem of suffering, we need to think about how suffering fits within the story that we are living in. Humans are storytellers and we understand the world we live in through a ‘big story’ (the fancy name is a metanarrative) which provides a framework for understanding and interpreting reality. For Christians, our big story is contained in the bible and the first two ‘episodes’ of this story helps us understand the problem of suffering in…
Are you allowed to shout at God? || Tim Johnson || Job 30
Jesus shouted “MY GOD MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME!?” as he hung on the cross. But are we, as God’s created beings, allowed to talk to God in that way? Are we allowed to shout at God, get angry at God, lament with God?
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St John’s Extra: Taking God out of the Equation
In these episodes of St John’s Extra we are wrestling with the problem of suffering. Last week we acknowledged that suffering is a real problem but not everyone would agree with this. For an atheist suffering is not a problem at all because it is just the way things are in a materialistic universe and there is no point trying to grapple with it and explain it. This is the way that the prominent atheist Richard Dawkins puts it: ‘In…
What do you say to someone who is suffering? || Tim Johnson || Job 2:11-13 & 4:1-21
What do you say to someone who is suffering? It’s a privilege, but a hard situation to be in – to care for someone in their time of need. As we continue our series in the book of Job, exploring the problem of suffering, we’re about to meet Job’s friend…
St John’s Extra: The Problem of Suffering
We need only look at a news feed or social media to see that the world is full of suffering. Around the world there are wars, violence, sickness, and starvation. There are natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and tsunamis. Closer to home, we experience serious sickness and disability, relationship breakdown, and the death of people we love. Suffering is very real. The challenge for us as Christian people is how we respond to this suffering. Let’s be honest, it’s…
The Problem of Suffering || Tim Johnson || Job 1:1-2:10
You don’t have to look far to see suffering in our world. But how could an all-loving and all-powerful God allow suffering to continue?
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God’s work of Reconciliation || Tim Johnson || Acts 1:1-8
God’s gift of the Holy Spirit reconciles us to him, bringing us into relationship with our creator. Empowering us for his mission, carrying us through the quagmires and bogs of life.
The Holy Spirit also works through us for the ministry of reconciliat…
Crazy Beliefs || Tim Johnson || Acts 25:23-26:32
Is it crazy to believe in Jesus’ resurrection from the dead? Are the claims of Christianity too far flung to be reasonable, justifiable, and above all, true? That’s the question Paul was asked in his ongoing legal drama that we’re following through in …
Mission on Trial || Tim Johnson || Acts 24:1-27
Paul, who was Saul before he encountered the risen Jesus, was a busy man. He’s responsible for writing half of the booms found in the new testament of our bibles. The book of Acts follows his journey most closely, and today we’re picking up our long ru…
Dear Church, Worship the Lamb || Tim Johnson || Revelation 5:1-14
Who is worthy of worship? In Revelation 5, we get the answer: The Lion of Judah. Except, this lion is actually a Lamb?
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Dear Church, Worship the Living God || Tim Johnson || Revelation 4:1-11
What do we worship? We were wired for worship, and what we worship matters.
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Dear Church of Sardis || Tim Johnson || Revelation 3:1-6
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Dear Church of Pergamum || Tim Johnson || Revelation 2:12-17
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Dear Church of Ephesus || Tim Johnson || Revelation 2:1-7
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Dear Church || Tim Johnson || Revelation 1:1-20
Starting out a new year is a great time to find new rhythms – God-created ways to help us flourish.
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Who does God choose to use? || Tim Johnson || Luke 2:1-20
God’s audacious plan was to send his Son to Earth to live amongst humanity.
So who did God choose to use, and to tell about this infinite infant? Not who you’d expect the ruler of all creation to pick.
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Waiting For A Prophet || Tim Johnson || Deuteronomy 18:14-22
Who is Jesus? A good teacher? A prophet with wise things to say?
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus.
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Thanksgiving 2022 || Tim Johnson || Philippians 4:4-9
It’s been 155 years since our foundation stone was laid, and St John’s continues to proclaim Christ crucified for the forgiveness of sins.
What good news that is!
Saul’s Performance Review || Flawed Leadership || 1 Samuel 13:1-15
We’ve all got stories about a bad boss. In this series, we look at Flawed Leadership in Israel’s history.
It’s coming to the end of the year, so you, like me, might be about to undertake a performance review at work. You’ll sit down with your boss, and…