Overview Sermon Series breakdown documents

Download the "Romans 8" outline below.

Devotionals or Bible Study (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders):

These studies are designed to be done as a response to the sermon, if you have members in your group from across Blaxland or Mount Riv, it is recommended you use the Distress and Hope Studies first. They are application heavy and aim to promote discussion about how we live as Christians. 

The first 3 are available now, others will become available as we go

Commentary/Book suggestions (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders and Preachers):

  • Paul E. Miller, J-Curve - Dying and Rising with Jesus in Everyday Life. Crossway, 2019.  - this will be mentioned at the start of the series
  • John Stott, The Message of Romans. BST, Leicester: IVP, 1994, ch 11. Also John Stott in The Cross of Christ (esp. Ch 13) gives a helpful treatment on cross shaped endurance.
  • F. Bruce, Romans. Tyndale, Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1985 (revised), pp. 148-171.
  • Douglas J. Moo, The Epistle to the Romans. NICNT, Grand Rapids: Eerdmanns, 1996, pp 467-547.
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship. London: SCM Press, 1937, translated 1948, 59, Ann Ed 2015.

A Musical Journey through Romans 8 with sermon interludes - well worth a listen:

Resources  (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders and Preachers):

  • The Mental Health and Pastoral Care Institute https://mentalhealthinstitute.org.au/?v=8bcc25c96aa5 – resources, factsheets, recordings and upcoming events centred around a Christian understanding of pastoral care and mental health. A good introduction.
  • Down Not Out by Chris Cipollone – a mix of lived experience and theological insight. A good introduction.
  • Mental Health and Your Church A Handbook for Biblical Care by Helen Thorne and Dr Steve Midgley - sections introducing different types of mental ill health and practical steps for caring well for each other.
  • Finding Lost Words: The Churches Right to Lament edited by Geoff Harper and Kit Barker – a more technical series of essays on Lament in the Psalms.
  • Wayfarers: A Christian Approach to Mental Health Care by Warren Kinghorn– a more technical read on a Christian approach to mental health care including history, theology, philosophy and psychiatry.
  • Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop - a guide to expressing sorrow and pain to God through lament, finding solace and trust in His grace during life’s darkest moments. It looks at lament in general and then specifically at some of the lament Psalms as well as Lamentations.

Bible Studies (for the benefit of Growth Group Leaders):

  • Julie Haddon Distress & Hope (5 Studies - with Leaders Notes and Participant Booklets)
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