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.
Category Archives: Old Testament
Sermon – Jesus Transforms: Blindness 2 Sight
Read the text – Psalm 36, John 9:1-41
In this sermon of the sermon series, “Jesus Transforms”, Neil Atwood speaks on what the book of John says on being spiritually blind. This sermon analyses Jesus’ interaction with the blind man and what it means in our own search for truth and meaning, as Jesus transforms even blindness to sight.
Sermon – Jesus Transforms: Death 2 Life
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.
Sermon – God & Life: End of 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.
Sermon – God & Life: Limitations in Life
Read the text – Psalm 139; John 9:1-34
God shapes life. Disability is a normal and good part of God’s creation and whilst that may mean there are limitations placed upon a person (including their reliance on others), Christians should embrace the God’s gift of each person.
In this talk, Ken Noakes opens a discussion about how Christians can think about disability in our fallen world now and suggests a different approach to thinking about disability in our coming perfect world. This will create discussion – agree or disagree – let’s together recognize that we can take steps now to care well for those who live with disabilities as we all wait for heaven.
Sermon – God & Life: Start of Life
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.
Sermon – God & Life: Made in God’s Image
Read the text – Psalm 139; Genesis 1:26-2:4; Colossians 1:15-23; Revelation 21:1-4
We see ourselves as choosing individuals. Our strength is measured by our ability to stand on our own two feet and make decisions (we value agency). And we live in a society which views the autonomy of the individual as sacrosanct and defining, and that any challenge to that autonomy is regarded as a threat (we value choice). In addition, we live in a consumer culture, which tells us that we deserve to have whatever it is we want (we value entitlement). Yet, Christians hold to the biblical view that God makes men and women in his image. He gives life, shapes life, and takes life – and we experience that life both individually and collectively.
This ‘God & Life’ series looks at some of those key and ethical life matters where we, as choosing individuals, are now able to make decisions that will impact our life or another’s life: Abortion, Disability, Euthanasia (to pick three examples).
In this first talk, Ken Noakes sets the scene which help us think theologically about life matters over the next three talks. The purpose: to start a conversation – how can we value humanity as created by God and so in our care for ourselves and others, how do we think Christianly?
Sermon – Hope 25: Hope for the heart (John 3:1-16)
Read the text – John 3:1-16
In the final sermon of ‘Hope 25’, we look at the meeting of Nicodemus and Jesus. John Lavender speaks on this example of a hardened, misguided heart, and how we all need Jesus to heal our own hardened hearts.
Sermon – Hope 25: Hope for the lost (Ezekiel 34:1-16)
Read the text – Ezekiel 34:1-16
As we continue in the year 2025, it becomes more apparent that we need hope. In this mini-sermon series ‘Hope 25’, John Lavender look’s at the book of Ezekiel to find where we should put our hope, and why we desperately need it.
Sermon – Christmas: Find Hope (Matthew 1:18-21)
Read the texts – Isaiah 9:2-7; Matthew 1:18-21
In the midst of a disconnection epidemic, God connects with us through the birth of his son at Christmas. In this sermon of our ‘Christmas series’, Ken Noakes shows us the hope we can have because of the birth of Christ. Because Christ’s birth was the opening act of God’s salvation plan for mankind, which culminates at the cross where our sins are finally and completely paid for.
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