Tag Archives: Mission

Sermon – Reasons to Believe: The Saviour of the World (John 4:1-42)

Read the text – John 4:1-42

In the sermon series ‘Reasons to Believe’, we analyze the signs provided in John that point to Jesus being the Messiah. In this sermon, Dave Swan speaks on the the meeting between Jesus and the Samaritan woman and shows that Jesus, despite his distance from us, have come to save everyone. He encourages us that there is still work to be done for Jesus’ mission and that we can help give the good news. This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook evening service.

Sermon – The Passion of the King: Deserted and delivered (Matthew 26:36-56)

Read the text – Matthew 26:36-56

In this sermon series, we’re going through the events before Jesus’ Crucifixion. In ‘Deserted and Delivered’, we look at his betrayal. Everyone have moments they feel strong, and moments when they are weak. In this sermon by Paul Hallam, we look at the weakness of ourselves, and the strength of Jesus’ character and passion nearing his gruesome end.

Sermon Outline Matt 26.36-56

Big Day Together

The Lower Mountains Anglican “Big Day Together” brought members from all our locations together for a wonderful day of Bible teaching, Fellowship, Communion, Training and Prayer.

In session 1, we were encouraged by hearing William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, London speak about the confidence we can have in the truth of the miracle of the virgin birth. We are ready for Christmas.

Big Day Together 2024 Handout

In Session 2 of ‘Big Day Together’, Ken Noakes and Dave Swan highlight the Mission Plans for LMAP and what we are aiming for under God in the next 5 years.

LMAP Vision 2025-2030

For the final session of ‘Big Day Together’, William Taylor ran a workshop on what ‘Gospelling’ is and can look like and showed us how to use The WORD One to One tool to read the Bible with another. See below for details of how to download the app.

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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Sermon – Therefore Go…(Matthew 28:16-20)

The resurrected Jesus gathers his disciples together to give them his commission. A timeless commission (at least until he returns). An important job (to go, call, baptism and teach). This sermon looks at the one of the most well known gospel passages (and one of the hardest to apply)

Read the Bible texts – Matthew 28:16-20 Daniel 7:13-14

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