Read the text – Matthew 26:57-75
In this sermon series, we’re going through the events before Jesus’ Crucifixion. In ‘The Truth on Trial’, Dave Swan explores what it takes to stand by the truth, and why we need Jesus when we feel pressured to lie or deny our faith.
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.
Read the text – Matthew 26:17-35
In this next sermon of the series, ‘Passion of the King’, Joshua Schroder talks on the famous Last Supper. And through the events of that fateful evening we see how Jesus knew all the troubles he shall face, and the promises he will fulfill.
Read the text – Matthew 26:1-16
In this sermon series, ‘Passion of the King’, we analyze Jesus’s passion for his mission, life and death in the final chapters of Matthew. Dave Swan speaks on the preparation of Jesus’s death, and what it means for us to honour his sacrifice ourselves.
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.
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.
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.
The final talk in our Matthew 8-10 Bible Talk series. In this talk, Bishop Gary Koo considers the costs that comes with following Jesus. As Jesus sends his disciples out into the world, he makes no promises that they will find it easy, but he does promise that it will be worth it. And he wants them to be ready.
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.
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?
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
We love satire when it comes to political cartoons. Often we see our national leaders’ faults comically exaggerated. But what about satire when it comes to God’s prophets? Jonah is a famed biblical story where we find God’s hero, the prophet Jonah, neglect his responsibility and flee from God. Meanwhile, the city of Nineveh, famed for their evil, turn to God after a surprisingly short sermon!
This is not a story about a giant fish, but rather a God who shows grace and mercy to wicked people, despite his prophet’s rebellion.
This talk will focus on God’s faithfulness in saving Nineveh, despite Jonah’s begrudging obedience. The question remains… are you glad to see God save evil people?
Read the Bible texts – Jonah 3-4; Luke 11:29-32
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