Sermons

We finish our series on James by looking at 5:13–20, a challenging passage on prayer, sickness, healing, and faith. What does it mean to pray in faith? Join us as we consider how living faith responds to suffering, joy, sickness, and sin with wholehearted dependence on God.

“Patience is a Virtue” Yes. Yes. {Eyeroll.} We’ve all had someone say this to us before as we get irritated at waiting for something (and it doesn’t usually decrease our irritation, does it?). Yet, as James comes back to the place of patience and perseverance in the Christian life, you’ll see that he gives it unparalleled importance – along with lots of motivations to make patience THE key virtue that underlines our entire lives till Jesus’ return. **This video is audio only.

EOFY sales promise comfort and control, but James exposes what our spending reveals about our hearts. In James 5, we are confronted with the danger of hoarding wealth, forgetting judgment, and trusting possessions more than God. But the passage does not leave us there: in Christ we are given true riches, and called to steward what we have in light of eternity. God’s Word asks: “Are we storing up treasure on earth, or treasure in heaven?”

Today we will be looking at James 4:13–17. James confronts ordinary planning and calls it what it often is: arrogant presumption about tomorrow. He points us to Christ, the one who perfectly submitted to the Father’s will, and calls us to plan humbly under his rule, saying, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

We continue on in our sermon series on the book of James.

In a world marked by relentless pressure and self‑seeking rivalry, James 3:13–18 holds out a very different kind of wisdom, one that is pure, peace loving, gentle and full of mercy. This morning we will consider the two competing wisdoms that shape our lives, and the very different harvest they produce: disorder and hurt on the one hand, or a quiet “harvest of righteousness” on the other. You are warmly invited to join us as we gather around God’s Word, look to Jesus Christ as the true source of wisdom, and worship him together.

Our words feel small, but James says they carry far more weight than we admit. They reveal what’s underneath, and left to ourselves they do damage. This week we face an uncomfortable truth: the tongue isn’t simply hard to control; it’s beyond us. But James does not leave us there. Christ speaks perfectly, forgives freely, and begins to change what comes out of our mouths from the inside out.

James says, “Faith without deeds is dead.” But doesn’t the Bible say we are saved by faith alone?  How are we to make sense of this? Join us as we look at one of the most debated and misunderstood passages of scripture.  As we unpack this, we will be answering the question: What kind of faith saves?

James pulls no punches: if we belong to our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, mercy must mark us. We’ve received mercy at the cross—Jesus moved toward people like us who had nothing to offer him. But we still slip into favouritism and cliques, quietly deciding who is “worth” our time. James calls that what it is: sin against the royal law to love our neighbour as ourselves. One day, mercy and judgment will meet— and in Jesus, mercy triumphs over judgment. Join us this Sunday at 9.30am as we see how the mercy we’ve received in Christ must reshape the way we see and treat each other.

Green‑slip time for the Christian life: in James 1, God puts our tempers, tongues and ‘religion’ up on the hoist to expose self‑deception—and to change us by his word, not just hand us a checklist.

Today we look at James 1:12-18 where James shows us two kinds of births that lead to two very different results. Join us as we find out the right way to see temptations.

Trials feel like pointless interruptions, but James says they’re actually God’s gym to grow us up in Christ. Today we’ll see why, if God’s judgment has already fallen on Jesus at the cross, the trials we face now can never be His punishment but His fatherly training. Come and hear how the risen Jesus turns even your hardest seasons into a pathway to the “crown of life.”