Sermons

Continuing our series on the Apostles’ Creed, we focus on the confession that “I Believe the Forgiveness of Sins.”

We look at the question: How do I know that the Bible is true? How would you answer that question? What arguments would you use to defend the sufficiency and authority of Scripture? And if the Bible is true, what does it mean for me as a Christian? What does it mean if I’m not yet a Christian?

Continuing our series on the Apostles’ Creed, we focus on the confession that “I Believe in the Communion of Saints.”

It’s God church that we consider as we come to “I believe in the holy catholic Church.” in the Apostles Creed. Why do we confess these words? What does it mean that we are a catholic church? Whose church is it? Join us as we consider how Jesus and the Apostle’s teaching impacts how we see church, and be church.

We proclaim: I believe in the Holy Spirit. But what does that mean? Who is the Holy Spirit? A person or a force? What is the main way that he works? And what difference does, or should, the Holy Spirit make in my life? Join us as we unpack John 16 together.

Continuing our series on the Apostles’ Creed, we focus on the confession that “Jesus rose again from the dead.” What does it mean to say, “I believe in the resurrection”, and what are the implications of that belief? The creed makes it clear: Christ has risen, Christ reigns today, and Christ will return! Join us at 9.30am on Sunday.

We consider objection 7 –”A loving God wouldn’t send people to Hell’. There is a lot in that statement. Does Hell exist? Does God send people there? If he does (he does!) does that mean that he isn’t loving? Join us as we seek to answer these questions through Jesus’ words in Matthew 25.

We continue our journey through the Apostles Creed. We will be looking at the parts of the Creed that deal with Christ’s Humiliation. How he humbled himself for you and for me.

We continue looking at the Apostles’ Creed. Jesus is the true light in a world that is characterised by darkness. Through God’s only son, we become children of God. What does it mean to you to proclaim this, and what impact does this have on how we make his glory known?

We begin a journey through the Apostles’ Creed, thinking about what we believe and what difference those beliefs make to the way we live. As we begin with the first line we are reminded that our heavenly Father knows what we need and cares for us. In Luke 12, Jesus challenges us not to live like the world, worrying about food, clothing and the things we have, but to trust our Father and seek his kingdom. Do we really believe that God will provide for us, and are we prepared to store up treasure in heaven?

Join us as we look at the final chapter we don’t find a nice tidy ending. The book ends with God questioning Jonah. God has been working in Jonah, and here he gets to Jonah’s heart. We don’t know Jonah’s answer to the question that God asks, but the hanging question brings us to a question: What about us? How do we see God’s grace to us? What does God’s grace to us mean as we show grace to others?

God’s grace does more than rescue sinners. It changes them. In Jonah, we see a stubborn prophet brought back to obedience, and a great city humbled by the Word of the Lord. We’ll see again that salvation comes from the Lord, and that His grace warns, restores, and welcomes us home.

Was Jesus just a man?  Many people think so!  But what does the evidence say? We explore one of history’s biggest questions: Who is Jesus?  And why does the answer to that question change everything?

We all know well the story of Jonah in the belly of the fish and the miracle of it all, but what is often overlooked is just how much is packed into the prayer Jonah prays from inside the fish. Join us as we unpack a prayer from the depths of the ocean.

As we continue our short series in Jonah, we’ll see that although Jonah is running from God, God is relentlessly pursuing him. Along the way, we’ll discover how this remarkable story points us to Jesus Christ, who endured the storm of God’s wrath so that the nations might receive God’s mercy and blessing through him.

Jonah is often remembered as a children’s story about a man and a big fish. Its real focus is God’s grace toward people who don’t deserve his mercy. This morning we are going to trace how Jonah receives God’s Word as a privilege, then refuses God’s clear call. We will see that anywhere apart from obedience is down, even when life looks calm on the surface. As we follow his flight, we will see how God’s gracious pursuit exposes where we have been hearers but not doers. We will also see how the risen Christ, who did not run from the Father’s will, frees runaways to start obeying.

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.

A few years ago, there was a TV ad that asked the question: “Have you done enough for a Mallowpuff?” Have you earned the privilege of eating a bit of Griffin’s goodness? And the answer was yes! But when it comes to eternal life, some people ask the same question: Have I done enough? Does my good outweigh my bad? If the answer is yes, then why bother with Christianity? What does it mean to be good? Join us as we unpack these questions, and see that what really matters is not our standard, but God’s Standard.

“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.

Join us as we open John 6 and heed Christ’s warnings and exhortations.

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.”

Stories of rank hypocrisy always leave us feeling somewhere between upset and ragingly angry. It depends a little on how close to the hypocrisy we are and its impact on people we love. But what about when it surfaces in the church? Is this common enough to legitimately dismiss the whole church as a bunch of hypocrites? Is it right for people to avoid Jesus because of hypocrisy in his church? Thankfully Jesus has something to say to both hypocrites and those impacted by hypocrisy.

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.

People say, “All roads lead to heaven,” and it sounds generous… until you realise some of those roads flatly disagree with each other. In John 14 Jesus doesn’t shrug and offer to be one spiritual path among many; he looks his friends in the eye and says, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” This Sunday night we’re going to poke at the idea that “it doesn’t really matter what you believe” and ask whether that’s kind, or just comfortable. We’ll also see why Jesus being the only way isn’t bad news for the world, but very, very good news for people like us. John 14:6  “Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6 NIV)

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.