This sermon through the story of Abraham calls us to embrace times where our faith is tested. To see these as opportunities to reveal and deepen our heart commitment to God. God makes an extraordinary request of Abraham that tests his faith. He asks him to sacrifice his son and the heir of God’s long...
Sermon Tag: Hearts
God’s Generosity and Our Hearts
This sermon stirs Christian hearts to live generously for God including with our finances. For we have an incredibly generous God! Everything in the world belongs to him but he chooses to gracefully give to us these possessions to steward. Nowhere greater is God’s generous grace shown than in the giving of his Son and...
Forgiveness That Refreshes Hearts | Philemon
This sermon encourages all Christian’s to imitate our amazing God excelling in forgiveness. For where forgiveness is abundant the hearts of the saints are refreshed. For this is what gives Paul the confidence to make these extraordinary requests of Philemon that require him to forgive Onesimus. For he knows Philemon’s heart has been refreshed by...
Beautiful Feet | Romans 10
This sermon is a call to ALL Christians to be preachers of the good news! To fulfil this call we must have our hearts desire reshaped to imitate Paul. His heart had an unceasing anguish and sorrow for the plight of those that didn’t know God. This desire must then surely lead us to pray...
How Precious is the Son of Man | Matthew 26:1-16
This sermon speaks into the question of how precious is the Son of Man to you? There are two responses shown in these verses. The first is viewing Jesus as a person to gain things from and to use to store up treasures for ourselves as done by Judas. This response falls well short as...
Hearts Close to God | Isaiah 29
This sermon encourages us to live lives where our hearts are close to and fully committed to God. For Jesus came so that we could draw near to God in our hearts and know him intimately. The Holy Spirit helps us live lives like this.
Doctrine of Regeneration | John 3 v 1-8
We were reminded that regeneration is the work of the Holy Spirit giving birth to new life in the hearts of all believers. The act of regeneration is solely done by God and we cannot evoke this process through our own actions. This sovereign act allows our sins to be cleansed by the Holy Spirit...
The Fruit of our Mouths | Matthew 12:33-37
Jesus teaches the Pharisees and us that what we say reveals what is in our heart. Since our words are sinful, we need forgiveness from Christ and we need to fill our hearts with the treasure of Christ – what we love in our hearts, is reflected in the things we praise with our lips.