Category: Sermon Notes

  • Proverbs 8: Wisdom’s final call

    This is Wisdom’s final call! Seek wisdom, avoid injury, and obtain life and favour from the Lord. Our passages today: 1 Cor 2:6-16 & Proverbs 8. Mark Harrison, Sunday 20th August. Sermon outline Introduction So what does it mean to be wise? Wisdom is a concept that’s often overlooked in Christianity, as well as in…

  • Judges 9:22-57: Downfall of the Wrong Leader

    God does not always strike with lightning or fire and brimstone. Sometimes, God judges through decline and self-destruction. Sometimes, God uses evil to destroy itself. Sometimes, judgement comes from within, not just from outside a nation.

  • Prayer: Luke 22:39-46 – Christ, our example

    In Jesus’s final hours before arrest, he prayed as no-one has done before, such that his sweat “became like great drops of blood”. In extreme anguish, well-practiced prayer comforted and sustained him as he faced unimaginable punishment for our sin. In our passage today, Luke 22:39-41, our saviour gives us an unforgettable lesson in the…

  • A Christian’s Life: Ephesians 1:15-23 – A church family prayer

    We’re picking up our series in Ephesians again looking at what it means to be a Christian. In the second half of Ephesians Chapter 1, Paul prays for the church family. This is a model for mature Christian prayer.

  • James 3:13-18 – Wisdom for life

    In order to encourage our spouses and families we need wisdom for life! Our guest preacher: Steve Williams takes a looks at how to respond to challenges of life, and how to test whether our thoughts and the advice of others can be trusted. How can we tell wisdom is from God?

  • Remain alert VI: a heavenly perspective

    As we round off our series, it’s important to keep our life in perspective. Specifically: a heavenly one – our life is temporary. In our struggle to remain alert we need to focus on heaven and life to come.

  • Remain alert V: filled with the Holy Spirit

    Perhaps remaining alert feels too much? We have an important ally in our struggle: the Holy Spirit. Today we’ll look at how to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

  • Remaining Alert IV: Satan’s snare

    We are continuing our series looking at antidotes to bring snoozy or lukewarm Christians. How to hold fast to the gospel and not focus on our comfort. Today there’s one more dimension we must consider: the Devil, Satan, and his plan to dull our senses.

  • Remaining Alert III: Remember the Cross

    We continue our mini-series: making sure we’re awake and alert, especially as we enter 2021. It’s easy to get complacent. Today we’re looking at another antidote to Christian slumber: the Cross. How can we snooze at the foot of the most awful event in history: with blood, gore, and all of humanities sin laid on…

  • Remaining alert II: How to practice Godly conversation

    In our comfortably safe country, we can be tempted to become sleepy Christians. This week we’ll look at the second method to stay awake: having good conversation. Why is this so important and what does this look like?