Read the text – Isaiah 60:15-61:11
Ken Noakes speaks on Isaiah’s prophecy about Jesus and the coming salvation. In this sermon series ‘Will God help his people?’, Jesus, the Lord’s anointed, has begun to fulfill Isaiah’s promise of freedom and restoration—and we rejoice in the chains he has broken while longing for the day he completes that work forever. This sermon was provided at Lower Mountains Anglican Church Glenbrook, evening service.
Read the text – Isaiah 59:1-60:3
In this sermon series, “Will God help his people?”, we look through Isaiah to find the purpose of God’s Salvation in our lives and what it means for how we live. In this sermon, Nick Lindeback takes it a step further, that we need to see the seriousness of our sin and the amazing grace God has to step forward and fight for us as Jesus. This sermon was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook Evening Service.
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”.
Hope is a funny word. It’s such a positive thing, and yet it can seem so fragile.
Psychologists tell us that hope is crucial for healthy functioning. People without hope die, while people with hope thrive. We all want something to look forward to; something to live for; a ‘destination’ in life.
And yet, who can predict the future? Life can often seem like little more than a wrecking yard of dashed hopes. What do we really have to live for? Can anyone have any certainty about what’s to come?
The fantastic message of the Bible’s letter to the Romans is that we can! – and not just a vague sense of wishful thinking, but real, grounded, impregnable confidence! – not just for now, but for all eternity!
Read the Bible Text – Romans 5:1-21
– Ken Noakes
The second characteristic of the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22) is ‘peace’ and for Christians it may be helpful to consider the idea of ‘letting go and letting God!’ Often the reason why we are not ‘at peace’ in situations is because we are holding the reigns too tightly as if that was the way to ensure we get our own way. Whether you get your own way or not is secondary to the attitude which we bring to any conflict situation. What we need to ensure we do in all circumstances is honour God and so ‘letting go and letting God’ is a good rule of thumb.
Three questions you may find helpful to ask yourself:
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