Luke 2:21-24 — Luke records three rituals that Mary & Joseph performed in accordance with the Law of Moses. Jesus was circumcised, Mary was purified and Jesus was presented to the Lord. Are these merely minor historical details? Or is there some deeper significance? …In this sermon we discover how these details lie at the very…
Colossians 2:3 — This is perhaps the greatest text in the Bible about Jesus. All that Paul has said in chapter one about the Person and Work of Christ has been leading up to this incredible claim. This is what the Colossians desperately needed to understand and to acknowledge and so do Christians everywhere! Christ…
Romans 14:1-4 — It is inevitable that when Christians come together in the church there will be differences of opinion over matters of conscience. Wherever the Bible is not prescriptive the Christian has liberty to come to their own conclusions and this is why these differences arise. Thankfully this is not a new phenomenon! The…
I Corinthians 9:1-23 — There were some in the church at Corinth who questioned Paul’s motives. They accused him of ministering only for material gain. In his answer to these accusations, Paul provides us with some powerful lessons concerning the use and surrender of our Christian liberty. He tells us what it means to really…
Esther 3:1-6 — Right from the Garden of Eden, Satan had endeavoured to destroy the Messianic line, the “seed of the woman” who would one day crush his head. …The first two chapters of Esther have set the scene, the opening verses in chapter three reveal yet another episode in Satan’s war against God’s plan…
Proverbs 1:10-19 — With sad regularity we hear reports of young people committing serious crimes in groups. No doubt some instigate these crimes while many others are pressured or drawn into doing things they never planned to do. …In this passage, Solomon addresses this issue directly. He explains how the call to sin comes, the false…
Luke 2:8-20 — Some of our favourite Christmas carols recall the visit of the angels to the shepherds on the night Jesus was born. This is a very intriguing part of the Christmas story – we’re left to fill in many of the details with our imagination. While this is true, there are also many…
Exodus 12:1-37 & I Corinthians 5:7-8 — In his first letter to the Corinthians the Apostle Paul dealt with many serious issues in the church, none more serious than the problem he addressed in chapter 5. When we study this chapter we see him draw from the Old Testament to make a profound point concerning the misconduct of the church. The exhortation…
Acts 14:8-20 — The missionary team had faced opposition upon opposition but now finally there was an opportunity to receive some personal honour and glory. Would the missionaries take that opportunity? Would they place a greater emphasis on God’s glory or their own?
Genesis 10 — In this sermon Steve continues to unfold to us the names and nations recorded in this chapter. He then moves to a discussion of the way we ought to interpret this passage and indeed all of Scripture.