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Category: Sermons

Stand Firm In Embracing Life

If we are to be pastors to those around us, how can we make sure that we show what a full life looks like, rather than allowing people to believe that Christianity leads to a reduced, limited life?

In other words, how do we make the good news look like good news?

Stand Firm As A Leader

Timothy is given extensive guidance about what Christian maturity looks like, and how the mature folks can lead in church.

These are the people we are becoming, so how do we grow in those characteristics?

Stand Firm When Gender Roles Are The Battlefield

Gender, sex and identity. Knowing what to say and do can be a problem for all of us. Does Paul’s advice to Timothy help us in any way today?

Stand Firm When People Fight

Paul has left Timothy in Ephesus, a place where there are people who love controversy & arguments, to be a man who can make a difference…

Returning to the Old Ways

Like most true stories, the book of Ezra has no happy ending – in fact, quite the opposite.

It also leaves us with questions, such as what lengths are we prepared to go to in order to stay faithful to God?

Recognising Our Interdependence – We Need You

The people are gathering ready for their return to Jerusalem. However they can’t commence their journey until everything, or maybe more appropriately everyone, is in place.

Recognising Our Interdependence – We Need Teachers

There’s more to being a Christian than just some sort of personal religious experience. It’s about a way of life that is shaped in a certain way – a cross shaped way.

It’s why after the prophets have spoken we need the teachers.

Recognising Our Interdependence – We Need Prophets

The work of rebuilding the temple had stalled for 16 years and it seemed like the work that God might not get finished.

It’s into this situation that two prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, come to share a message from God to the Jews.

What can we learn from this for our situations today?

Launch Day

Every new chapter that begins for a church is a chance to renew their connection with everything that has gone before so that we can step into an unknown future with confidence.

The Return of the Church – Resisting Frustration

You start doing something significant. You know it will make a difference and then it begins. It might start with small bugging frustrations but they all pile up until it would be easy to walk away.

How do you keep going?

Ezra 4-6 is a long story of a community finding a way to manage the oppositions, hold ups and snags along the way.

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