Online Sermon Archive

2 Oct 2011

God has spoken and acted in Jesus Christ. Christianity is not just a philosophy or a religion – it is a declaration of what GOD has done in the incarnation and it is an invitation to respond to the implications of the person and work of Christ.

Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! The Gospel of John: So that you might believe 

25 Sep 2011

Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! 28th Anniversary 

11 Sep 2011

These two little known or read New Testament letters have a couple of curly questions that can arise: what is all that stuff about the archangel Michael disputing with the devil over the body of Moses (in Jude), and is the Bible in favour of slavery (in Philemon)?
Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! Little Letters You Rarely Read 

3 Jul 2011

This sermon series that goes through Paul’s second letter to the church in Corinth has been called "In Christ." This seems to be the major theme that runs through the entire letter. It's a very emotional letter written by the Apostle Paul who loves the Corinthian church deeply and is thus hurt deeply by their treatment of him, under the influence of his opponents who played both the ball and the man. The criticism of Paul as weak and foolish and a fake broke the heart of the Apostle who had loved and nurtured these people into the faith. In this letter Paul explains himself and works through the issues of what it means to live a life "in Christ", with his heart on his sleeve.
Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! 2 Corinthians: In Christ 

8 May 2011

1 & 2 Samuel are concerned with God’s sovereign work in his world; with and for his people. The people, rejecting God as their king as seen in the preceding book of Judges, are reminded of God’s relationship to his people Israel through the offices of prophet and king, established in these books.

Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! 2 Samuel: God's plan, God's King 

10 Apr 2011

The Psalms have been aptly described as "both God’s words to us and our words to God.” The Psalms speak to the total person and demand a total response. Martin Luther said, "In the Psalms we looked into the heart of all the saints, and we seem to gaze into fair pleasure gardens – into heaven itself, indeed – where blooms in sweet, refreshing, gladdening flowers of holy and happy thoughts about God and all his benefits.” Not quite the way I would put it, but you get the gist of it. John Calvin has said, "What various and resplendent riches are contained in this treasury, it were difficult to find words to describe ... I have been wont to call this book not inappropriately, an anatomy of all parts of the soul; for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror.”

This series is a selection called Psalms of the King. The Psalms themselves have different genres, Tremper Longman III has identified them as being: hymns, laments, psalms of remembrance (redemptive-historical), psalms of confidence, wisdom psalms and kingship psalms (royal). Psalms "of hope” is not a genre as such but a thematic approach to a sermon series on some selected Psalms. These psalms would obviously fall into the category of royal psalms.

Reading the Psalms from a New Covenant perspective means that we can and should sing these words of God to God because of Jesus. That is, when the Psalms sing of praise to the LORD, we know that LORD is Jesus. Also, when the Psalms are messianic we know that Messiah as Jesus. The Pslmas of the king are essentially about God’s promised once and for all time King, Jesus. The New Testament cites Psalms more often than any other Old Testament book, so it is right for us to look at them and use them and preach on them!

The final word I will leave with Tremper Longman III: "As we read the Psalm as Christians, two errors need to be avoided. The first is that we neglect a psalm’s original setting ... the second error, though, is to miss the anticipation, the expectation of the Psalms. The New Testament transforms our understanding of the Psalms as we read it in the light of the coming of Jesus Christ.”
Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! Psalms of the King 

13 Mar 2011

Titus is about the 'civilising effect' of Christianity. It's about how the gospel transforms the lives of those who believe, as the gospel is 'truth that leads to godliness' (1:1b).
Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! Teaching Cretans 

23 Jan 2011

This series is a selection of Psalms of Hope. Whilst many Psalms end on a note of hope, these ones have been chosen as a representative sample.

The Psalms have been aptly described as "both God's words to us and our words to God." The Psalms speak to the total person and demand a total response. Martin Luther said, "In the Psalms we looked into the heart of all the saints, and we seem  to gaze into fair pleasure gardens – into heaven itself, indeed – where blooms in sweet, refreshing, gladdening flowers of holy and happy thoughts about God and all his benefits." Not quite the way I would put it, but you get the gist of it. John Calvin has said, "What various and resplendent riches are contained in this treasury, it were difficult to find words to describe ... I have been wont to call this book not inappropriately, an anatomy of all parts of the soul; for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror."

Click here to listen to the sermons in this series! Psalms of Hope