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 – Matthew 28:1-20
In this special Easter series, we explore the Death of Jesus Christ, the events that proceeded it and what it means for us as Christians. For Easter Sunday of 2025, Gary Haddon speaks on why we need Jesus as our hope.
Read the text – John 17:1-5
In this sermon, Paul Hallam looks at the prayer of Jesus in John 17, in particular the focus that Jesus has on the glory of God, that underlies all the work that Jesus has been performing on earth.
Jesus’ disciples ask of Jesus: ‘Tell us… what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age?’ (Mt 24:3). His answer to the first part of the question (his coming) was answered in the rest of Chapter (see last post), the answer to the second part of the question (the end of the age) is found in Matthew 25.
Here are two Bible Talks looking at the whole of Matthew 25. Whilst both start the same way – the content of each looks at the chapter in two parts.
Talk 1 – Matthew 25:1-30. The Parable of the Bridegroom & the 10 Virgins + The Parable of the Master and the 3 Servants.
Read the text – Matthew 25:1-30
Talk 2 – Matthew 25:31-46. The Shepherd King & the Sheep and the Goats.
Read the text – Matthew 25:31-46
What Jesus teaches as recorded in Matthew 25 is not complicated, but it can be very hard to hear. What will the end of the age look like? The answer will involve a division. In these two Bible talks Ken Noakes unpacks this extraordinary chapter – to help us hear what can be very hard to hear.
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.
Read the text – 1 Corinthians 15:35-16:24
This is not the age for the self-fulfilment and glory of human beings – there is an eternity for that (we will be changed and given a new resurrection body). This is the age for the work of the LORD – our labour in the Lord, though it looks weak now, is not vain (like the death of Jesus and like our bodies).
In this talk Dave Swan, warns us from the last section in the first letter to the Corinthians, to not be driven by the present age and by what we see. For now is not the time for the work of the gospel to look splendid, it is the time for gospel work and that work will look weak (v58).
Listen to this world, have your life shaped by the resurrection, so that when you do experience death you might also know the wonder of the resurrection.
Read the texts – Isaiah 25:6-9; Ephesians 3:1-21
The final talk in this Apostles’ Creed series and we consider the final lines which help us to recognise that the Christian Life (life in the Spirit) is the best life now and forever. Why?
Nick Lindeback helps us to see the importance of the forgiveness of sin, the comfort of the Christian community, and the hope that is eternal.
Read the texts – Daniel 12:1-4; 1 Corinthians 15:1-34
We continue in our Apostles’ Creed Bible Talk series and in this talk consider the line which says ‘On the third Day, he rose from the dead’. This gives us opportunity to spend some time looking at the importance of the resurrection of Jesus for us.
In this talk, Ken Noakes looks at some of the evidence for the resurrection, then at what might be lost if the resurrection didn’t happen, before considering why the resurrection is so significant for the believer.
Some people see Christianity as a gamble. If we are wrong about Jesus, we simply live a good life. If we are right about Jesus, everything changes. We aren’t condemned, we have life and peace, and we are co-heirs with Jesus Christ.
The message of this Bible talk is simple – turn to Jesus, and accept him as Lord and Saviour.
Read the text – Romans 8:1-17
churchcentralonline.com 