Read the text – Matthew 22:15-46
In this sermon in our sermon series, ‘Clash of Kingdoms’, Paul Hallam speaks on the challenges brought before Jesus in the form of questions. Paul us walks through 3 questions asked of Jesus and 1 question he asked of his attackers, where he highlights the futility to fight the king and his kingdom.
Read the text Matthew 20:29-21:27
Jesus reveals himself as the Son of David. The crowds acknowledge his identity, while Jerusalem’s leadership resist this revelation. How do we respond? Dave Swan explores the identity of Jesus, encouraging us to not resist the revelation about who he is.
Read the text – Matthew 20:17-28
In this sermon Dave Swan speaks on what it takes to be great in the Kingdom of God. Dave walks through 2 talks between Jesus and his disciples, where he reveals his coming death and how authority would look in his new Kingdom.
Read the text – Matthew 19:13-20:16
In this sermon, Paul Hallam guides us through three interactions people have with Jesus. In these conversations, Jesus reveals the way into the kingdom, that is, how someone can have eternal life. Only those who humble themselves and follow Jesus will enter the kingdom, and we must think about what might be hindering us from following him.
In this sermon, Ken Noakes tackles Jesus Christ’s words on marriage and divorce. In Matthew chapter 19, Jesus is asked, ‘can someone get divorced for any reason?’ Ken talks about the meaning behind marriage and what it means to get divorced through how Jesus answers this contentious question, which remains relevant to this day.
Read the text – Psalm 84
The Psalms have been described as ‘both God’s word to us and our words to God’. The Psalms speak to the total person and demand a total response. Generally, the book of Psalms has been divided into five books and this ‘Psalm of Hope’ number 84, comes from Book III. We are encouraged to find hope in God alone through his Son, our Saviour and King, Jesus Christ.
In this talk, Ken Noakes helps us to think about all the good things that might make life good, and yet also recognize that those good things pale into insignificance compared with the hope of the glory of heaven. May this Psalm, and this talk, help you to sing for joy because of your hope in Jesus.
Read the text – Isaiah 9:2-7; Matthew 4:12-17
Christmas is a time for Christians to proclaim Jesus the Light of the World. This series looks to show the development of the ‘Light’ theme as it unfolds through the passage of salvation history.
In this Bible Talk, Dave Swan helps us to see the how the promises of Isaiah are fulfilled in Jesus and that forgiveness and eternity is on offer with the coming of this new dawn.
Read the texts – Matthew 9:35-38 & Matthew 28:16-20
‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few’, Jesus observed as he then called his disciples to prayer. In compassion he shows us a great need. ‘Go out and make disciples of all nations’, Jesus directed as he sent his disciples to work. By commission he gave all disciples a job to do.
In this talk Ken Noakes helps to show that it was by compassion for the lost that drives what disciples of Jesus do, and it is by commission of Jesus that we do it.
Read the text – Matthew 18:15-19:2
Sin and hurt come hand in hand with the human experience – forgiveness not so much. For how hard it is to forgive when you have been hurt by others? Jesus taught his disciples how to deal with sin among believers such that the sin is not swept away or forgotten, but so that believers might know how to truly and genuinely forgive those who trespass against them.
Gary Haddon carefully handles this personal and tricky teaching of Jesus – and in doing so helps us to see the value of forgiveness.
Read the text – Matthew 18:1-14
‘Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven?’, the disciples famously ask. And the answer given, is to look at the child. For the little child, the little ones as this passage will highlight are the ones who come in humility before God.
In this Bible talk, Dave Swan will help ‘those who believe’ in Jesus to understands what it is to stand before he who is in fact the greatest in the Kingdom of heaven – he who in grace makes it possible for all to come to into the kingdom of heaven confident in their forgiveness.
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