A sermon by Rod Benson Proverbs 29:20 There’s a lot you didn’t know about your tongue. The human tongue is the main sensory organ for taste, with between 3,000 and 10,000 taste buds. There are eight muscles in our tongues, four of which are attached to the bone, and the other four are the only muscles …
Wisdom for church planning
A sermon by Rod Benson Proverbs 21:5 As a small child I lived for six years in Wollongong, an industrial city south of Sydney. Ours was the last block of land in the street to be built on. Some Sundays after church, we would go to the site and observe the progress: concrete foundations, plumbing, …
Wisdom for church health
A sermon by Rod Benson Proverbs 15:8 This is the first of three sermons on aspects of church life, drawing on wisdom from the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament. Today we will reflect on what Proverbs might say to us regarding church health; next week we will look at wisdom for church planning,and …
The path to peace and tranquility
A sermon by Rod Benson Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a …
A happy ending
A sermon by Rod Benson Ruth 4:1-22 Call me David. And let me tell you a story from the time before my birth, in the days when the judges ruled Israel. Life is closing in for me, and I’m not long for this world. As you know, I am the second King of Israel, the …
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