Read the text – Luke 15:1-32
The last sermon of the sermon series, ‘Startling Stories’, we go back a bit in Luke to the parable of the prodigal son. This story is another of Jesus’ parables of the Kingdom of God. Ken Noakes talks on what it is to be separated from God from two perspectives displayed in this parable, and ends with a challenge. Do we fall under either of these perspectives and what do we do about it?
This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Evening Service.
Read the text – Luke 18:9-14
In this sermon of the sermon series, ‘Startling Stories’ we look at the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, the seemingly good guy and the bad one. In this sermon, Ken Noakes explains what this parable means for us and encourages us to think again if we think our own ‘goodness’ will save us.
This sermon was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Evening service.
Read the text – Luke 8:4-15
In this mini-series ‘Startling Stories’, we will work through some of the most well known parables in the Book of Luke, starting with the parable of the Seeds. This series aims to reveal the secrets of what Jesus spoke of in these stories and what it means for us today. This message was given by Ken Noakes at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Evening service.
Read the text – Luke 2:1-20
Through Jesus, God offers endless and overflowing grace to sinners that transforms our lives for eternity. In this special Christmas sermon of the series “Deeper than you think”, Ken Noakes focuses on the incredible grace of Jesus and what it means for us, especially on Christmas Day. This sermon was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook.
Read the text – Psalm 23, Luke 15:1-10
In the final sermon of the sermon series ‘Jesus Transforms’, David Swan speaks on Jesus’s love and mercy, and how it can transform us from being far away and lost to close to Jesus.
Read the text – Psalm 46, Luke 7:11-22
This is the first sermon in the sermon series ‘Jesus Transforms’. In this sermon, Joshua Schroder speaks on the hope we can find in Jesus, and how he can transform hopelessness to hope, fear into courage, and death to life.
Read the text – Psalm 139; Deuteronomy 30:11-20; Isaiah 65:17-25; Romans 14:1-9
God ends life. God is the author and sustainer of life – from conception to eternity. How does the Christian person live by his timing and determination until he brings you home. In this Bible Talk, Ken Noakes aims to help us think Christianly (Biblically) about the value of life under God’s hand when it comes to dying and death – especially as we live in a world where life can be quietly ended or painlessly prolonged. Our topic: Thinking Christianly about Euthanasia.
Read the text – Psalm 139; Luke 1:39-45
God gives Life. We are fearfully and wonderfully made by God – and we need to make choices to protect the sanctity of life (mother and child) even in hard or unwanted circumstances.
In this talk, Ken Noakes looks at the wonderful, sometimes difficult, and always emotive topic of start of life matters with particular reference to decisions about medical termination (abortion).
The approach here is pastoral as the Christian response should always be one of embrace and comfort as we draw towards both mother and child in Christian faith.
The Lower Mountains Anglican “Big Day Together” brought members from all our locations together for a wonderful day of Bible teaching, Fellowship, Communion, Training and Prayer.
In session 1, we were encouraged by hearing William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London speak about the confidence we can have in the truth of the miracle of the virgin birth. We are ready for Christmas.
In Session 2 of ‘Big Day Together’, Ken Noakes and Dave Swan highlight the Mission Plans for LMAP and what we are aiming for under God in the next 5 years.
For the final session of ‘Big Day Together’, William Taylor ran a workshop on what ‘Gospelling’ is and can look like and showed us how to use The WORD One to One tool to read the Bible with another. See below for details of how to download the app.
Forget crowns and castles! What does it REALLY mean to be a king? This Easter, it’s time to rethink everything you thought you knew about power, sacrifice, and the true King who changed the world forever. We are “RethinKING Easter.”
Read the text – Zechariah 9:9-17; Luke 19:28-44
We can define a king as one with the power to raise an army yet Jesus defies this kind of kingship because he comes as one who is “gentle and riding on a donkey”. The kingship that he brings is one of peace in the face of war. We need not be threatened by Jesus but welcome him with praise.
In this talk Ken Noakes helps us to see the long-term fulfillment of what was long proclaimed about God’s King – and story that spanned 500 years from prophecy to fulfillment.
Read the text – Exodus 12:14-28; Luke 22:1-37
We can define a King as one who people serve, yet Jesus defies this kind of kingship by being the one who came to serve, laying down his life for his friends.
In this talk, Gary Haddon helps us to see in Jesus a sovereign King who suffered and a king who suffered in order to save.
Read the text – Luke 23:50-24:35; Acts 2:22-39
A way to define kingship by succession – yet we still recognize that for every king, no matter his power, or influence, or riches – they will one day die. Yet Jesus defies kingship in almost every way – not least of all in his death and then resurrection. A king, who in death gave his riches as an internal inheritance for all who trust in him. That is Easter.
In this talk Neil Atwood will help us consider the significance of Jesus’ resurrection as a certain indicator of Jesus’ true kingship over all of life.
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