Date: 07 October 2018, 10:10 by Load Audio & Video

In these verses Paul finishes exposing our great problem as humans and the various ways it shows up. In chapter one we saw people in open rebellion, at the beginning of chapter 2 Paul exposed the self righteous, this week he looks at people who appear to be following God, but are still living in

Date: 11 November 2018, 10:11 by Load Audio & Video

This morning Israel will bring us a message from Genesis 3. Chapter 3 tells the story of that paradise lost; the result of the first willful human sin. The consequences: immediate shame and lifelong separation from their home with God. Come listen to Israel as he deals with the question ‘Where Are You?’

Date: 02 December 2018, 10:12 by Load Audio & Video

Over the last two weeks we have seen the mystery, as we examined the Trinity, and the majesty of God as creator. In doing that, one can be left with the impression that God is distant and unapproachable. So different from us that any real relationship is impossible. That is not what we find in

Date: 23 September 2018, 10:09 by Load Audio & Video

In Romans last week we were reminded that the gospel is God’s power to bring salvation to all people. As we speak it to other, God will transform lives. Not only will people change their destination (hell to heaven), but God will change the way they live. The question is, why is that such good

Date: 30 September 2018, 18:09 by Load Audio & Video

As foreigners in a foreign land followers of God will often find themselves under pressure to conform. At times, threats will be made and we will face loss of some kind if we don’t. How will we face that fear of loss? Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego give us an insight into how we can continue

Date: 04 November 2018, 10:11 by Load Audio & Video

This whole passage contrasts Adam and Jesus, each of whom fixed the future of all the people in the age they initiated. Adam brought in the age of sin, and all who are descended from him have found themselves trapped in sin and death. Jesus brought in the age of grace, and all who trace

Date: 18 November 2018, 09:11 by Load Audio & Video

This week we begin a short series looking at some of the big truths the Bible teaches us about God. Perhaps one of the most well known, but not always well understood truths is that God exists as Trinity, three in one. But why is that even important? Sure the Bible tells us, but does

Date: 28 October 2018, 18:10 by Load Audio & Video

We often use the cliché, ‘The writing’s on the wall’ when we refer to something that is obvious, ominous and imminent. Well this phrase comes from this strange and intriguing story from the book of Daniel. The Medes and Persians have besieged the city of Babylon, the empire is falling and the king holds a

Date: 23 September 2018, 18:09 by Load Audio & Video

When people don’t know God it is easy to worry about the future. You wonder what will happen and it can cause a great deal of stress and anxiety. This was the case for Nebuchadnezzar. Here was the most powerful ruler of the day having bad dreams. Yet through the whole story we read of

Date: 07 October 2018, 18:10 by Load Audio & Video

Once again Nebuchadnezzar had a frightening dream and called Daniel to interpret it. This time the dream was directed against him: The king would be a victim of madness until he acknowledged the sovereignty of Daniel’s God. The dream warned him to personally submit to the Lord, urged by Daniel to repent. Yet he thought

Date: 17 February 2019, 10:02 by Load Audio & Video

Before Jesus returned to heaven he gave his disciples a mission, ‘go into all nations and make disciples.’ This was a mission they passed onto those new disciples and therefore onto us. But what does that look like for the average Christian? Not all of us are gift￾ed to be evangelists, but we do have

Date: 25 November 2018, 18:11 by Load Audio & Video

This week we will be finishing off the book of Daniel. It is three chapters, but it’s all one vision and the explanation. In these chapters we once again get an insight into a reality we never normally witness. Here we see angels that protect and daemons that cause havoc. How does this help us

Date: 02 December 2018, 18:12 by Load Audio & Video

This is a beautiful Psalm written by people who were present in the Temple, who served there. In it they are expressing just how intensely they desired to be there. But this desire was not because they were separated from it but because they were exactly where they wanted to be. They felt blessed to

Date: 09 December 2018, 10:12 by Load Audio & Video

If we took a survey of everyone and asked ‘What is your favourite text in the Bible?’ probably none of you would say ‘Matthew 1:1-17. Instead you are more likely to ask, ‘Why would Matthew begin his account of the life of Jesus with a boring genealogy?’ That’s a great question and one we will

Date: 30 September 2018, 10:09 by Load Audio & Video

One of the problems we can easily slip into is a feeling of self-righteousness. We look out at the sinful world and see the grievous sins that are committed and we begin to think of ourselves as better than them. It is these attitudes that seems to be Paul’s concern as he moves into chapter

Date: 14 October 2018, 18:10 by Load Audio & Video

All of our Christian life we are told that listening to sermons and taking part in Bible study is important. The foundation to this belief is that the Bible is important to the Christian. But what does it really do? Are we just listening to an ancient documentary of a bygone era? Is it a

Date: 21 October 2018, 10:10 by Load Audio & Video

Last week, Paul finished his prosecution and offered a defense, the righteousness that God gives by faith. But what does it mean to live by faith? If we are justified by faith alone, does it matter how we live? How can we live a new life? How can we be sure of our faith and

Date: 16 December 2018, 10:12 by Load Audio & Video

Babies are cute. They’re not supposed to inspire awe. Maybe that’s why people find it so easy to trivialise Christmas. Baby Jesus lying helpless in a manger can be viewed with mild affection. People are unlikely to be offended by a baby and it’s why they can quickly move on with life. But who is

Date: 06 January 2019, 09:01 by Load Audio & Video

To find a psalm in which the psalmist is distressed in not unusual. What is unusual about psalm 102 is the comfort that the psalmist finds. While he does call on God to hear him, he doesn’t ask for anything else other than to continue living. He spends the whole psalm recalling who God is

Date: 23 December 2018, 10:12 by Load Audio & Video

This is a sad story. Yes God rescues His son, but many babies are killed by the evil king Herod. Jesus was born into a world of evil, not to condemn it first of all, but to rescue people. To rescue people from the evil we perpetuate and are enslaved to. He came to create

Date: 30 December 2018, 10:12 by Load Audio & Video

Date: 04 November 2018, 18:11 by Load Audio & Video

As we continue in the book of Daniel, we once again find him in danger because of his faith. Now his colleagues set out to trap him and he will have to choose between safety and faithfulness to God. God will protect him and so work through Daniel to glorify His name among the nations.

Date: 09 December 2018, 18:12 by Load Audio & Video

Psalm 101 is a psalm of commitment. In line after line, David speaks to God, and those who listen, and tells Him what he will do. It almost comes across as bravado or arrogance. Yet, it’s worth asking whether this is something we should be doing? How does committing fit with grace? Do we imply

Date: 14 October 2018, 10:10 by Load Audio & Video

In the last couple of weeks Paul has being diagnosing the human condition and the news is not good. We are all doomed, without excuse. Nothing is hidden from God, not out thoughts, our hearts, our intents or our motives. So, what is next? Paul now brings to light God’s remedy for our sin; his

Date: 10 July 2016, 17:07 by aiims

Philip Ryken, in his commentary on Exodus, writes,’In the end Pharaoh was defeated by mighty forces like darkness and death. But long before the sky turned black over Egypt and the angel of death snatched the firstborn son, it was the little things that got to Pharaoh – little things like lice and flies. One

Date: 21 February 2016, 17:02 by aiims

The evening series has had us looking at the “I AM” statements of Jesus. We have already talked about Jesus being the Light, the Gate, the Bread of Life, the Good Shepherd and the Way, the Truth and the Life. Each of these sayings reveals some aspect of who Jesus is. Today Jesus takes us

Date: 24 July 2016, 17:07 by aiims

When hardship strikes some people will try and bring comfort with the saying, If you have your health, you have everything’. The idea is that you can cope with things that annoy, some economic hardship and some inconveniences as long as you are healthy. People might have been encouraging Pharaoh that way but the next

Date: 14 February 2016, 17:02 by aiims

C.S. Lewis once wrote: “There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven, but more often I find myself wondering whether in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else…” Mankind’s greatest efforts and greatest desire in history have been to have what Christianity calls ‘heaven’, a place where among

Date: 17 July 2017, 11:07 by Jamez

Often we hear people finish prayers with the words “for the glory of God” or “so that You may get the glory, God”. And everyone says a “hearty amen” to that. Why do we do that? Why has it evoked positive emotions in us or in Christians from the past ages, to be motivated by

Date: 23 August 2015, 09:08 by aiims

What does it mean to glorify God? Why should we glorify God? How can we glorify God? These are the questions that come to mind when we reflect on the last point in our church’s core values which reminds us that we do everything to the glory of God. “Glorifying” means feeling and thinking and

Date: 20 January 2019, 18:01 by Load Audio & Video

Date: 07 August 2016, 14:08 by aiims

We all like to feel useful in some way or other. No one wants to feel like they are useless. So it is good news that as the gospel of Jesus Christ changes us it makes us useful in a whole new way. We see that in a delightful way in Philemon, Paul’s shortest and