Read the text – Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8
This sermon is a part of the ‘Will God help his people?’ sermon series. God calls us to draw near, promises an everlasting covenant, and calls us to live in response. Ken Noakes gives this sermon on living as a Christian at Lower Mountain Anglican Church, Glenbrook evening service.
Read the text – Isaiah 52:13-53:12
In the old testament, God showed us more than a plan for judgement, he showed us his plan for salvation. In this sermon of the sermon series “Will God help his people?”, Paul Hallam reveals God’s plan for saving us through his perfect ‘servant’ mentioned in Isaiah.
Read the text – Isaiah 50:4-51:16, Isaiah 52:7-10
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship. Ken Noakes reminds us that Jesus knows our pain. His arms are a picture of suffering, yet with those arms he will gather in the nations, break the chains of the oppressor, and gently comfort all who come to him.
Read the text – Isaiah 49:1-26
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship, but did Jesus himself find hardship? Ken Noakes tells us that God’s global salvation comes through the suffering servant—Jesus, the true Israel—who speaks with divine authority, endures rejection, and brings light not just to God’s people, but to the ends of the earth. We need to see the goodness and power of Jesus as the one who speaks God’s word like a sharpened sword (Rev 1), who is a covenant between God and people, and who suffers as he brings salvation to the world.
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 – 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.
Read the text – John 17:20-26
Who am I? We can have many answers to this, most of which we make ourselves or garner from those around us. In this sermon on ‘Speaking to God’, David Swan argues that the answer is who we are in Christ, and is shown in Jesus’ prayer in John 17. Listen to how we’re supposed to relate to God, each other and ourselves in Belief in the One that was sent.
Read the text – Jude 1-4, 17-25
Jude is a short little letter which packs a punch. It is written to those who know what faith in Jesus is about – and urges them to ‘contend for the faith’ in the face of what are known challenges. This letter is as valuable today as it would have been for those who originally received it and will help equip believers to persevere as we walk in Jesus.
In this sermon, Ken Noakes encourages us to “be in it to win it”, because there is an urgent, pressing need that we fight for our faith. But we aren’t left to our own devices: we have the firm foundation of God’s word, and we have the power of the Holy Trinity behind us, so we can be built up by God’s word, pray in the Holy Spirit, keep in God’s love and wait on the Lord Jesus.
Ken Noakes preaches this Father’s Day message.
Aware of false teachings, the Apostle Paul encourages the church to resist these teachings and continue preaching the gospel messages as originally taught.
There is great encouragement here for all Christians to remain rooted in the Gospel as first delivered by the apostles, not following the lies and “clickbait” of our world.
Read the text – 2 Thess 2:13-3:5
In this, the first of five sermons, Des Smith explores “the strangest book in the Bible”. In what appears to be a graphic and intense love poem Des explains how human romantic love points to a bigger love story for the whole world – between God and people. Song of Songs is indeed about one man and one woman, as well as men and women, and way they love each other. But that reality – romantic love and life-long commitment that is reflected in marriage – is a picture God placed in world to point towards the ultimate reality of his love for us. A love shown in the gospel as His Son died on a cross. In this sense Song of Songs is book for everyone because it ultimately points to the love of God for everyone.
Read the Bible text: Song of Songs 1:1 to 2:2 , Genesis 2:15-25
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