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Jeremiah: Lifting up the Downcast: Dealing with Depression – It Is All Too Much!

Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 20:7-18

SERMON NOTES
IT  IS  ALL  TOO  MUCH!
Jeremiah  20:7-18;  2 Cor. 4:7-18

– depression  affected  even  the  genial  Charles  Spurgeon.  Jeremiah  was  isolated  as  God’s  prophet  (15:17-18;  20:1-6)

1. Jeremiah  is  torn  between  God’s  Word  and  the  world’s  opposition.

– 20:7-10;  in  the  midst  of  

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Jude: Pockets of Gold: The Short Books of the New Testament – Proud Spiritless Grumblers

Peter Barnes | Jude 16-19

SERMON NOTES
PROUD  SPIRITLESS  GRUMBLERS
(Jude  16-19)

– grace  is  being  turned  into  immorality  (vv.3-4)

1. People  of  grace  are  gracious.

– v.16;  these  false  teachers  are  grumblers  and  faultfinders  (malcontents,  complainers),  like  Israel  in  the  desert  (Ex.15:24;  17:3;  Num.14:26-29;  Ps.106:24-25)

– see  Luke 15:28-32;  …

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1 Timothy: Leadership in God’s Covenant Community – Principles of Charity

Peter Barnes | 1 Timothy 5:3-16

SERMON NOTES
PRINCIPLES  OF  CHARITY
Leviticus  19:1-18;  1 Timothy  5:3-16

– the  widows  seem  to  have  been  helped  and  in  turn  to  have  helped;  Calvin  sees  them  as  women  deacons;  note  Dorcas  in  Acts 9:39-41

1. Widows  are  to  be  cared  for.

– 5:3;  …

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Acts: Leadership in God’s Covenant Community – The Work of Deacons

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Peter Barnes | Acts 6:1-7

SERMON NOTES
THE  WORK  OF  DEACONS
Isaiah  1:1-18;  Acts 6:1-7

– no  deacons  in  the  church  in  Acts 1-5;  like  no  elders  at  Crete  until  Titus 1:5;  but  both  elders  and  deacons  in  Phil.1:1

1. The  Church  is  to  be  …