This sermon unpacks Jesus’ words of challenge and encouragement to the Church in Sardis. This is a Church that has been influenced by its cities culture of complacent and negligent self-reliance on external activities & perceptions. Jesus the one who holds the Church in Sardis and every other Church in his hands is not fooled...
Sermon Tag: Mercy
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The Fear of Easter Sunday | Matthew 28:1-10
What are you scared of? How does fear stop you from being yourself? How does fear rob you of the joy of knowing God and of your certain eternity with him? This passage and the Easter Sunday narrative is filled with fear. There is evident fear of reprisal, of the unknown, and of terror. These...
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The Glory of the Shepherd | Matthew 26:30-75
This sermon looks at these verses from the perspective of Jesus. Jesus, fully God & fully Man displays his perfect humanity in this passage. He is sorrowful at the impending cup of wrath he will drink in our place that will see him temporarily separated from the Father. Yet, he prayerfully responds in his humanity...
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The Sin of the Scattering Sheep | Matthew 26:30-75
On the night he was arrested, when the Shepherd is struck, the sheep scatter. Peter, brashly and proudly, says he would never fall away or deny Jesus, but he does. How can we learn from Peter’s mistakes? And how does Peter’s sin reveal Jesus’ strength and mercy more gloriously?
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Peter Package – The Atonement
This sermon address questions such as “Why did Jesus have to die?” and “Couldn’t he have died another way?”. This systematic overview reminds us that the problem of universal sin we were all born into & have contributed to created an insurmountable problem. God being just and holy could not overlook this debt caused by...
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Total Forgiveness | Genesis 45:1-10
This sermon encourages us to receive God’s forgiveness fully today! To move on from carrying around our shame and guilt of not being good enough. Instead, laying down these thoughts at the cross fully accepting the freedom Jesus has won for us and living in this truth. It also encourages us to fully forgive ourselves....
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Sermon Of Woe | Matthew 23
This sermon outlines Jesus’ seven declarations of woe on the Pharisees. For those that give themselves to these behaviours the dire ending will be eternity in hell separated from God. However, this sermon is also addressed to his disciples, and acts as a sobering reminder of how the disciples of Jesus should live. It ends...
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Satan, Sin & Death | Genesis 3
This sermon addresses one of the most significant events in the bible. The story of Adam & Eve and the fall in the Garden of Eden. We were reminded from this chapter the way in which Satan through the serpent tempted Adam & Eve to sin. He subverted and twisted the commands that God had...
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The Favour of God | Ruth 2
We can trust fully as children of God that he abundantly pours out his favour and blessing on us. God does this in his mercy and grace.
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Grief and Repentance | Ruth 1
The first chapter of Ruth see’s Naomi experience much grief. Yet, in spite of this and Naomi’s running away, we see God’s mercy and grace displayed. We also see the amazing conversion of her daughter-in-law Ruth.