Read the text – Romans 8:18-30
‘The Goodness of Suffering’ is a sermon series that works through Chapter 8 of Romans to see what it takes to follow Jesus and how our suffering can lead us closer to Him. In this sermon Nick speaks on how even in our sufferings God is helping us and moving us onto the right path. This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook Morning and Evening Service.
Read the text – Romans 8:1-17
In this sermon of the sermon series, “The Goodness of Suffering”, Nick Lindeback speaks on the harsh reality of suffering, but also comfort that we do not suffer needlessly. Join us as we find the meaning of suffering and hardship in Romans 8. This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Church, Glenbrook Evening Service.
Read the text – Romans 8:1-14
In this sermon series, “The Goodness of Suffering”, we explore what it means to die with Christ and how it will reshape our lives. This sermon by Nick Lindeback focuses on our new life in the Spirit and how by the Spirit we put our sin to death. This message was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Parish, Glenbrook morning service.
Read the text – Romans 8:1-9
The Goodness of Suffering is a new sermon series on Romans 8 and walks through how suffering and setback are chances to reshape our lives and depend on God. This first sermon, by Nick Lindeback, focuses on how Jesus had taken away condemnation for us and that we no longer have to justify ourselves. This was given at Lower Mountains Anglican Parish, Glenbrook Evening Service.
Purpose of the Series is to encourage our church family: We can have deep and abiding hope in the Lord Jesus even in the midst of the distress, uncertainty and unjust circumstances which are often associated with Mental Health.
Distress and Hope – Bible Studies – Participants
Distress and Hope – Bible Studies – Leaders Notes
Sermon 1: Image Bearers
Read the text: Psalm 8, Hebrews 2:5-18
In this first sermon, Ken Noakes looks at the central theme of who we are: We are creatures of dust, made in the image of God, for relationship. We are integrated, whole and beloved children of God, no matter how dark the valley is we are passing through.
Sermon 2: Presence
Read the text: Psalm 139, Hebrews 4:14-5:10
In the second sermon of this series, Ken Noakes and Julie Haddon explore the reality of God’s presence in every circumstance in our lives. They explain that God know each of us deeply, and empathises with us, thanks to what Jesus did in becoming human and experiencing life here on earth, including suffering. Where the circumstances of our lives and emotions can shift, God is constant.
Sermon 3: Lament
Read the text: Psalm 42, Matthew 26:36-46
In the third sermon of this series, Ken Noakes and Olivia Bush look at what the Bible says about lament. Is it OK to be in a mess when we come to God? How can we express our deepest distress to God? We have, in Jesus, both a mediator and a model of how we can approach God when everything in our lives is falling apart.
Read the text – Isaiah 50:4-51:16, Isaiah 52:7-10
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship. Ken Noakes reminds us that Jesus knows our pain. His arms are a picture of suffering, yet with those arms he will gather in the nations, break the chains of the oppressor, and gently comfort all who come to him.
Read the text – Isaiah 49:1-26
For the sermon series, ‘Will God help is People?’, we have been discussing what Isaiah says on Christian Hardship, but did Jesus himself find hardship? Ken Noakes tells us that God’s global salvation comes through the suffering servant—Jesus, the true Israel—who speaks with divine authority, endures rejection, and brings light not just to God’s people, but to the ends of the earth. We need to see the goodness and power of Jesus as the one who speaks God’s word like a sharpened sword (Rev 1), who is a covenant between God and people, and who suffers as he brings salvation to the world.
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 5:1-14
In this sermon series, ‘Stand Fast’, we dive into the realities of suffering and Christianity. This sermon, Ken Noakes will discuss the motivation we have for suffering well as Christians, and that the glory of God is worth what we have to face in life. Spoken at LMAP Glenbrook, the evening gathering, the final sermon of ‘Stand Fast’ is a call to hope and perseverance in the face of suffering.
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.
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