Luke 12:4-7 — “Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do…“ As Christians, sometimes fear gets the better of us and we don’t speak a word for Jesus when we should. Sometimes we’re not clear about what we believe when we’re asked by our…
Psalm 37:1-40 — “Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.” When we read the Psalms we discover that God’s people have been grappling with the same things for a very long time. We have a wonderful example of this in Psalm 37. The Psalmist speaks to the…
Isaiah 53:10-12 — “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days…” Isaiah chapter 53 contains the clearest explanation of the meaning of Jesus’ death in the entire Bible. It…
Romans 5:8 — “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” How do you know someone loves you? That’s a very important question! They can tell you they love you, but that’s not enough. They need to demonstrate their love for you to know for…
John 12:16 — “These things understood not his disciples at the first…” The events of Palm Sunday are well-known but initially they were misunderstood, even by Jesus’ own disciples. In this sermon we see how the disciples eventually came to understand the events they themselves were part of. As we consider the experience of the…
John 16:32 — “Behold, the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall leave me alone…” Loneliness is one of the most difficult human experiences and it touches all of us. It was something that Jesus experienced, especially in the hours before His crucifixion. He told…
Luke 12:4a — “And I say unto you my friends…” Jesus called the disciples His “friends,” which, when you think about it, was a rather remarkable thing to say! The disciples experienced friendship with the Son of God and so can we. In this sermon we think about how a person becomes a friend of…
Luke 12:1-3 — “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy…” In these verses Jesus gave a severe warning to his disciples. He warned them against the sin that characterised the Pharisees – those who claimed to be the most devoted to the Law. He told them that: (1) hypocrisy cannot be contained,…
Luke 11:49-54 — “Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.” In Jesus’s day, people looked to the lawyers for the answers to life’s most important questions. Being experts in the Word of God, the lawyers were…
Micah 3:1-12 — “Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity…” In this chapter, God’s servant brings a message of judgment against the princes and prophets of…