Read the text – Isaiah 66
The final sermon of the sermon series ‘Will God help His people’, ends with a challenge. Nick Lindeback speaks on the culmination of Isaiah’s prophecy about Jesus and the coming Judgement, as well as the evidence of grace from God, to answer if God will help His people. And the final important question: will you choose to accept and worship God? This sermon was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook evening service.
Read the text – Isaiah 46:8-47:11, Isaiah 48:1-22
In this sermon series, ‘Will God Help his People?’, we worked through a few questions on struggle, pain, and loneliness when following God. This time, we will answer the question ‘Are you too comfortable?’. Nick Lindeback talks on worldly and Godly comfort, and what it means to be comfortable in God in a world set on material comforts.
Read the text – Isaiah 43:14-44:5, Isaiah 44:21-45:7
This sermon of the “Salvation for God’s People” sermon series, focuses on the hope and promise of Restoration that is found in Isaiah’s book. Nick Lindeback looks on the promises made in Chapter 43-45 and shows that even when we’re far from God he has plans for redeeming us.
Read the text – Isaiah 42:1-9, Isaiah 43:1-13
Often times we feel alone and forgotten. In this sermon of the sermon series ‘Salvation for God’s People’, Nick Lindeback once again looks at Isaiah to answer: Has God forgotten me? Nick gives the argument that God is powerful, and he redeems us, and he has remembered us even if we don’t feel it.
Read the text – Isaiah 40:1-31
In this new sermon series, Salvation for God’s People, we look back to the book of Isaiah chapter 40 to 66. This sermon, spoken by Nick Lindeback, focuses finding hope even in hard times. That even during difficult periods God is in control and he provides Salvation and comfort for His people.
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 – 1 Peter 4:1-19
Following on from ‘in Suffering’ of this sermon series, Nick Lindeback talks on what it means to Stand Fast in God through the suffering. We now go through 1 Peter 4.1-19, where we are called be alert and weather our suffering well, for from suffering, God brings glory.
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 20:29-21:27
Jesus reveals himself as the Son of David. The crowds acknowledge his identity, while Jerusalem’s leadership resist this revelation. How do we respond? Dave Swan explores the identity of Jesus, encouraging us to not resist the revelation about who he is.
Read the text – Isaiah 38:1-39:8
The people of Judah face a number of crises from within (their own sin) and without (the alliance of Israel and Syria, the power of Assyria). Who will they trust to rescue them? Themselves? Foreign Nations? or God Almighty?
“The word of the Lord is good.” Hezekiah grappled with this statement on his deathbed. When the word doesn’t give the best outcome, do we still trust that it is good? Nick Lindeback unravels this mystery as we read about Hezekiah’s journey and prayer in this final bible talk of “Pictures of Judgement and Grace”.
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