As the Pharisees challenge and seek to undermine Jesus, he teaches them about the true purpose of the Sabbath and shows his amazing compassion to a man with a withered hand. The Pharisees, in anger, decide to put him to death.
Author: Duncan Sills (Duncan Sills)
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Rest for the Weary – Matthew 11:20-30
Jesus offers rest to the weary and the opportunity to learn from Christ. This promise comes after he pronounces woe to the Pharisees revealing the need for repentance and then shows that God is sovereign in salvation.
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Persistent Prayer – Luke 18:1-8
Jason calls us to persistent prayer, using Jesus’ parable about the persistent widow to challenge us.
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Praying in Hope – Lamentations 5
Lamentations 5 teaches how to pray in difficult circumstances, inviting God to look, remember and see, to call upon God’s sovereignty and to ask for restoration in hope.
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Sin tarnishes Beauty, but Christ Restores Value – Lamentations 4
Focusing on Lamentations 4:1-2, Duncan shows how Christ restores what was broken in Jerusalem, how the New Testament Gospel mends the damage done by sin in the Old Testament.
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Return to the LORD – Lamentations 3:33-66
A call to repent, a call to return to God from sinful ways, ignoring God. In the midst of sorrow and suffering return to the LORD and he will receive you with mercy.
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When Hope & Endurance Fail – Lamentations 3:16-33
After Gemma shared the really difficult circumstances in UK hospitals at the moment, we consider whether there is any comfort from God for those whose endurance and hope is failing.
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God’s Action & Attitude to Sin – Lamentations 2
How does the writer of Lamentations understand the defeat and destruction that has come upon Jerusalem? He knows it’s God’s just response to the sin of the nation.
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How to mourn loss with God? – Lamentations 1
As we go through the Covid pandemic together, we begin a new sermon series in the book of Lamentations. How can we involve God as we mourn the loss we are experiencing right now.
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The Angel’s Song – Luke 2:8-20
Angels appear in glory to the Shepherds at Jesus’ birth and sing to them of the peace which Jesus brings to those whom God wills.