St John’s Diamond Creek Talks

Israel Asks for a King || Flawed Leadership || 1 Samuel 8

We've all got stories about a bad boss. In this series, we look at Flawed Leadership in Israel's history. What we want and ask for isn't always in our best interest. God's got a plan, and as hard as it can be, we need to trust Jesus' way.
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Dealing with Judgement || The Kingdom of Heaven || Matthew 13:47-52

Jesus loved to talk in parables - using fictional stories to demonstrate real truths. Delle wraps up this series with an uncomfortable topic - God's judgement.
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Where are your Priorities? || The Kingdom of Heaven || Matthew 13:44-46

Jesus loved to talk in parables - using fictional stories to demonstrate real truths. In this talk, Joel examines what gets our priorities in life.
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Two Tips to Read Parables || The Kingdom of Heaven || Matthew 13:24-35

Jesus loved to talk in parables - using fictional stories to demonstrate real truths. These parables aren't always the easiest to understand, so Andi brings us two tips on reading and interpreting parables.
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Hard Hearts || The Kingdom of Heaven || Matthew 13:1-23

Jesus loved to talk in parabales. Using fictional stories to demonstrate real truths. This series will explore a few of these parables, with Kirk starting with the parable of the weeds.
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Where is God in the Mundane? || God in the Everyday || Colossians 1:9-14

In today’s talk, we’re wrapping up our God in the Everyday series, and through it, we’ll be exploring what actually takes up the vast majority of our every-day – the mundane ebb and flow of our lives. Where is God when we’re on autopilot? By the end of this service, I hope you’ll be equipped to think about your routine activities, and how you might leverage your routines to help you to show more thankfulness, to ground your days in Jesus, and to ultimately love God more.
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What Does God Say About The Environment? || God in the Everyday || Genesis 1:27-31

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations.
Tim continues our series by asking what God says about His creation, and how we should care for it.
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Where is God in Conflict? || God in the Everyday || Romans 14

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. Kirk continues our “God in the Everyday” series.
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Where is God in Work & Study? || God in the Everyday || Genesis 2:4-15

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. We're continuing our “God in the Everyday” series.
The creation story reveals God as someone who creates and puts energy and time into his creation. Work isn't just paid - it's any purposeful activity involving mental, emotional or physical energy. Whether it's paid work or not is beside the point. God is our ultimate boss, and we can use the jobs that we do – paid and unpaid – to be generous towards others, redeeming work through good use of power. Work is important and good- but also broken and corrupted.
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Where is God in Suffering? || God in the Everyday || Romans 8:18-30

Going through our daily lives, as we work, study, rest, as we disagree and face conflicts, as we go through hard times, as we interact with our natural world – God is with us in all these situations. Today we begin a new series – “God in the everyday”. We’ll be spending the next five weeks exploring how God is present in our lives through every season, and how following Jesus isn’t isolated to being at church on Sundays. How we live and look at our world needs to be done through the lens of Jesus’s life, death and resurrection.
Today Joel begins our series looking at how God is with us through the hardest of times- and why God even lets suffering in our world continue.
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