This sermon unpacks Jesus’ words of encouragement to the Church in Smyrna. They are experiencing abject poverty, blasphemy, imprisonment, and death. Jesus encourages them first by introducing himself as the eternal, suffering, and death conquering one. It is by remembering these truths about who Jesus is that the Christians in Smyrna and Christians today can...
Sermon Tag: Tribulation
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Patient Endurance | Revelation 1:9-20
This sermon addresses the reality that Christian life is a marathon not a sprint. Believers are called to patiently endure pain and suffering in this life pressing on in faith for the eternal glory that awaits. It is a consequence of our perfect union with Christ through the Holy Spirit that we share in all...
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Signs of the End of the Age | Matthew 24:1-35
This sermon unpacks the double fulfilment of these verses. There is one area of fulfilment to be found in the destruction of the temple in 70ad. But there is also future fulfilment to be found and completed when Christ returns. There is lots going on in our world today, earthquakes, famines, wars, and rumours of...