Sermon – Kingdom Coming: Forgiveness (Matthew 18:15-19:2)

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.

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Sermon – Kingdom Coming: Sign Language (Matthew 15:29-16:12)

Read the text – Matthew 15:29-16:12

How do we read the signs today? Are we willing to see, hear and respond – especially when it is for our own good? In this Bible Talk, Gary Haddon, looks at how Jesus shows who he is in a most extraordinary way (the feeding of the four thousand). Yet those who saw, still questioned. The Pharisees and Sadducees asked for a sign! The disciples wondered! So Jesus helped them to see.

Sermon – Kingdom Coming: One Seed, Four Soils, One Sower (Matthew 13:1-23)

Read the text – Matthew 13:1-23

In this Bible talk, Gary Haddon observes that how we listen and respond to the Gospels will reflect our understanding of the Lord Jesus. The Christian person should be eager to deepen their understanding and focus on God, and resist the distractions that can easily take them away. And in growing in faith, it is right to expect God to do his work in the person.

Sermon – Easter: Transforming Life (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)

Read the text – 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

The resurrection really happened – it changed Paul’s life and it changes us, because it changes death itself. In this Easter Sunday Bible Talk, Gary Haddon, helps the listener to see the transforming power of the resurrection so they can choose to accept and in turn live out their resurrection hope. Listen to hear the gospel preached, the gospel received and the gospel upon which Christians are called to take a stand.

Sermon – How to go to Church: Loving ALL the Church (1 Cor 12:12-31)

Read the text – 1 Corinthians 12:12-31

This Bible talk is about how the church is like a body – it has many parts with different gifts that all act to serve each other, where a missing part affects every other part. As a church in unity under Christ, do not let our selfishness exclude others and bring division. Instead let us all care for one another, suffer together, and rejoice together.

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Sermon – A Confounded World: Jesus’ Directive (Matthew 9:35-10:15)

Read the text – Matthew 9:35-10:15

In this Bible talk, Gary Haddon, speaks about how Jesus had compassion on those who did not know him, those who were lost. And how Jesus helped his disciples to see the need, pray and then go and show them Jesus. Do as I have said and done – save the lost sheep of Israel. Save those who have long awaited the kingdom of heaven, and waited for their messiah, their good shepherd – for in Jesus, the time had come.

How do disciples today, proclaim the good news, not as an apostle, but as a disciple commissioned by Jesus to go out to the nations.

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Sermon – A Confounded World: Jesus’ Mission (Matthew 9:1-17)

Read the text – Matthew 9:1-17

Jesus is confounding. Reading through the Gospel of Matthew, we see Jesus do some extraordinary things and the result is that some follow and some turn their backs on him. That is not so different from today. We often expect the extraordinary before we allow ourselves to believe something. As such we settle for the normal and mundane, all the while wishing for the extraordinary. Jesus came into the normal and mundane, but he did that which was extraordinary. He does what we hope by doing what we find hard to believe! How confounding.

In this Bible Talk, Gary Haddon looks at how Jesus’ mission was to save sinners, not the righteous (or those who think that they are righteous!) – after all “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick”. Yet how do we know that Jesus could indeed save sinners?

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Podcast – Behind the Apostles’ Creed (Ep. 3 of 3)

Dr Jacqui Service talks with Gary Haddon to discuss the origins that lie behind the formation of the Creeds. In this fantastic discussion, Jacqui talks about the heresies which were addressed in the formation of the creeds and why that may still be relevant today.

They discuss:

The trinitarian form of the Apostles’ and Nicene Creed.
Plato, Aristotle and how their thinking contributes to Gnostic and Marcian heresies.
What Gnosticism and Marcion rejects of established theology
How the creeds aims to address and safe guard theological truth
Modern day issues that the Apostles’ Creed helps address.

Listen here on the LMAP Leader Link Podcast

Podcast – Behind the Apostles’ Creed (Ep. 2 of 3)

Neil Emerson talks with Gary Haddon to discuss the origins that lie behind the formation of the Apostles’ Creed. They discuss questions like:

Are there other denominations that use the Apostles’ Creed?
How has declaring the Apostles’ Creed been good for the church?
Should we continue to declare the Apostles’ Creed when we gather in church?
Is there room to create new creeds or confessions of faith today?
Why do we often stand to declare the Apostles’ Creed?

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Podcast – Behind the Apostles’ Creed (Ep. 1 of 3)

David McKay talks with Gary Haddon to discuss the origins that lie behind the formation of the Apostles’ Creed. They discuss questions like:

Where did we get the Apostles’ Creed?
When was the Apostles’ Creed first used in Christian churches?
Are there interesting changes or additions that have been incorporated into the Apostles’ Creed?
Are there particular reasons why the creed is called ‘The Apostles’ Creed’?
Who now uses the Apostles’ Creed?
What value is there in having the Apostles’ Creed?

Listen here on the LMAP Leader Link Podcast