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 – John 17:6-19
In this sermon of the sermon series ‘Speaking to God’, Dave Swan speaks on our mission to show the world The Good News. He also looks into the delicate question on who is capable of spreading the Good News, and those who feel they do not know enough. Find out what Jesus prayed in John 17 discussing these points.
Read the text – John 17:6-19
All Christians face opposition, but that doesn’t mean we are without defense. In this sermon, Paul Hallam speaks on our most powerful weapon against opposition: Prayer.
Read the text – John 17:1-5
In this sermon, Paul Hallam looks at the prayer of Jesus in John 17, in particular the focus that Jesus has on the glory of God, that underlies all the work that Jesus has been performing on earth.
Read the text – Colossians 4:2-18
Any teaching that wants to suggest that Christians need Jesus PLUS … (anything else) to be a Christian or to live as a Christian is guilty of contradicting the supremacy of Christ. Being told we need more than him (either for salvation or to live as a Christian) means that we are being taught that what he has done is not enough. We need to stand firm in our faith in Jesus as all we need for this life and the next.
In this sermon, Dave Swan encourages us to talk to God about people, and to talk to people about God.
Read the text – Colossians 1:1-14
Any teaching that wants to suggest that Christians need Jesus PLUS … (anything else) is guilty of contradicting the supremacy of Christ. Being told that believers need more than him (either for salvation or to live as a Christian) means that they are being taught that what Jesus has done is not enough. So how does a Christian person stand firm in faith in this life?
In this talk Ken Noakes introduces us to the letter written to the church of Colossae. He wants to encourage them and in doing so tells them what he is praying for them. And we are given a wonderful model in how to encourage and pray for those engaged in living out their faith in Christ.
Read the text – 2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Jesus is the light of the knowledge of God’s glory. In this second talk of this Christmas Series, Gary Haddon helps the Christian family consider both the message and the manner in which the Christmas message is proclaimed – challenging the listener to set forth the truth plainly.
This talk will help prepare the Christian person for the Christmas season.
Read the texts – Matthew 9:35-38 & Matthew 28:16-20
‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few’, Jesus observed as he then called his disciples to prayer. In compassion he shows us a great need. ‘Go out and make disciples of all nations’, Jesus directed as he sent his disciples to work. By commission he gave all disciples a job to do.
In this talk Ken Noakes helps to show that it was by compassion for the lost that drives what disciples of Jesus do, and it is by commission of Jesus that we do it.
For the fifth and last time in Matthew’s Gospel Jesus speaks of what ‘little faith’ might look like – and he offers yet another description of what will happen to him as he heads into Jerusalem where he will be delivered into the hands of opposing men, killed, and then on the third day rise.
In these Bible talks both John Lavender and Ken Noakes look at what faith in the life of a believer might look like – it is not about the quantity of faith (as if that could be measured), but about the genuineness of faith in Jesus.
Read the text – Matthew 17:14-27
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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