Sermons & Devotionals by Ernest O'Neill

INTRODUCTION 1. There are two words in our language that cause all of us here more unhappiness, depression and frustration than any others. Do you know what they are? "I CAN'T". Probably all of us here have found ourselves lying under the ton of depression and defeat that these two words can lay upo... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. "If you leave your key in your ignition you deserve to be fined because you are putting temptation in the way of some young teenager who might then steal your car and hurt himself or others." I would just point out two assumptions underlying this accepted axiom: i. The wrongness of s... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Let's look together at the next verse we're studying in Romans 9:20 and let's talk about a principle that is pretty obvious but on that we, in our own self-importance and our rebellion against authority, tend to ignore. The principle is that we are NOT the Creator-we are just creatur... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Let's discuss this morning the subject "Accepting God's Judgement" in connection with this next verse that we're studying in Romans 9:21. 2. Now, do you realise that most of us here have the same negative response to this verse? We have-and the reason is that even we Westerners have ... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Romans 9:22-let's discuss 'Autonomy and Providence. What are you going to do with the rest of your life? Whether you're 20 or 60? i. Who knows? I may take off and just sell the few possessions I have and just travel-just go! ii. Oh, I suppose I'll carry on doing what I've been doing.... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Why did God let Hitler live? That's one of the questions that we all usually categorise under the general title "the problem of evil"! Another one is "Why does God let little innocent children die of dreadful diseases or persecutions or wars? What we mean is "how can such things happ... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Well, I'd believe in a loving God if it weren't for the problem of evil - but that's just too hard to swallow. I mean, I can't accept that a loving God would allow thousands to die in the Soviet archipelago of prison camps or would allow Hitler to gas millions of Jews! " That is the ... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Will you look up Romans 9:24? Let's talk about the question: "Who are God's people?" We've often shared together that though all of us seem to be in the same boat here as far as our futures are concerned, yet there is really a great division among us. Some of us are just creatures-li... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Now, this is just an illustration because you know God has shown us we should never ask for money but work hard and trust His Spirit to guide all of us what we should give and when, but let's suppose we are going to open up another station-say, in Australia-a restaurant and hotel whe... 阅读更多

INTRODUCTION 1. Have you ever thought how significant it is that history is divided into BC and AD? Those of us who think of Jesus as just another human being explain it as simply the result of Western civilisation dominating the development of our present civilised world, but those of us who hold t... 阅读更多

We're talking about a gyro-compass that each of us has within us. However corrupt you may have become through the years, this compass continues to register the direction for which you were originally created. It is your maker's stamp of origin -- a personal homing device that constantly exerts an in... 阅读更多

Happiness is wanting what you have - not having what you want ! But most of us think happiness is "having what you want". As little babies, we grabbed our teddy bears whenever we wanted them. And - as the years passed - we felt this was our human right - to make things the way we wanted them. Many o... 阅读更多

A World of Parasites For thousands of years we human beings lived off each other. We depended on each other for the food and money we needed to stay alive. We depended on each other for whatever emotional satisfaction or thrills lifted life a little above the ordinary. We were enslaved to each other... 阅读更多

When you think of yourself as the little boy or girl that was created by your mother and father, you're living in a little corner instead of the great expanse of reality! Certainly the Maker used them to beget you here on earth, but you yourself were created by the Creator inside his Son - that's wh... 阅读更多

The Light Inside Has Gone Out Many of us feel that we've lost something that we used to have. When we were children we seemed to have a spontaneous, carefree delight in living. But that has been crushed by the adult responsibilities of making a living and succeeding in our careers. We comfort each o... 阅读更多

For centuries we human beings have been living everyday life as if we happened here by chance and have to make the best of it. This has produced in us a restless drive to survive by getting from the natural world around us whatever food and shelter we need. It has also produced in us a dreadful need... 阅读更多

The Normal Way "In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God". This is what happened at the beginning of all things - the Being whom we know in human history as Jesus of Nazareth - expressed God. He was God's Living Word - He was God Himself separate from Himself in a... 阅读更多

How did this whole world come to exist at all? Have you ever wondered about that? Most of us have been forced to think this kind of thought at some point in our lives. Perhaps our mother or friend dies or we suddenly face some crisis in our own lives: momentarily we find ourselves wondering "Why are... 阅读更多

Drugs Heroin enables us to pretend that we are transcending this narrow little physical sphere in which we live, but it ties us fatally to the earth. Marihuana gives us a sense of "flying" but it enslaves our inner aspiration to the body. Alcohol seems to relieve us of what Shakespeare called the "h... 阅读更多

For generations we human beings have lived off the earth. We have kept alive through eating its produce and we have made homes for ourselves from its wood and stone. Nevertheless the earth hasn't been able to give us a sense of self-worth, and we have felt vaguely dissatisfied with the extent of the... 阅读更多