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Weekly sermons by Rev. David Henry
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Sunday 11th December
What use is a gift that is never opened?
2000 years ago God sent a gift wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
Jesus is God’s Christmas gift to you. The greatest gift of all. Christmas isn’t about the gifts that we give. Christmas is about the gift that has been given to you. You will never experience Christmas joy until you personally receive God’s gift, The Lord Jesus Christ.
November 2022
Guest Speaker from Kids4School
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OCTOBER 2022
Sunday 9th October
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Harvest Service
Sermon by Rev. David Henry and singing by Claudia Clendinning
SEPTEMBER 2022
Sunday 4th September 2022
Over the past four weeks we have been looking at our heart condition. Today as we commence a new series within the book of Ezekiel it points us to the place that each of us need a new heart and new spirit!
This morning we’ll be looking at verse 1 specifically. Today I want to lay the foundation and the context of this great book that we hope to study in the weeks that lie ahead.
JUNE 2022
Sunday 5th June
A.W Tozer said, ‘ Anything God has ever done, He can do now. Anything God has ever done anywhere; He can do here. Anything that God has ever done for anyone, He can do for you. “ In the light of that statement would your life be different if you realise that God sees and knows everything you do? Would your thoughts and words be more restrained, and more God centred if you were aware that the living God reads your mind and hears your words?
MAY 2022
Sunday 1st May
He healeth the broken in heart… He telleth the number of the stars. (Psalm 148:3, 4)
What a surprising combination is found in this twin attribute of God; active pity/compassion and mercy in the circles of human experience and unmeasurable power in the great realms of creation! Here is God revealing Himself in both the remotest and the nearest things of which we have much and little knowledge of the universe and knowledge of who we are as human beings.
APRIL 2022
Sunday 17th April
The important and central message of Easter is that Christ is risen! What a special day we celebrate. What Love. What power. The power of the resurrection of Christ changed history. The power of the resurrection of believers will one day change everything. The power of the resurrection can change lives today. It can change your life, and it can change my life.
The resurrection of Christ from the dead is the foundation of the Gospel itself. Without the resurrection we have nothing. So, Today we celebrate the victory that we can have through Jesus.
MARCH 2022
Sunday 6th March
Once again in the gospel of Luke, Jesus tells another story, another parable. This particular parable is found only in this gospel, and it focuses on the type of person God blesses. V9 says, “He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and regarded others with contempt.” We see that the story is aimed at those who trust in their own righteousness, and regard others with contempt. In other words, the very people arrogantly nodding to each other, sure that they have what it takes to stay faithful to Jesus, even if others fail.
Jesus describes someone who, by all appearances, should be one of the most holy and devoted Jews around: as a Pharisee. Pharisees get a lot of negative attention in the gospel stories, so we might need to adjust our thinking about them to understand how they might be seen through the eyes of first century Jewish culture. Pharisees were extremely devout, and highly disciplined in their religious practices. A pharisee was obedient to the Law, even going above and beyond what the Law required.
FEBRUARY 2022
Sunday 6th February
When was the last time you got an invite to a meal, maybe a birthday celebration, an anniversary or just a social occasion with friends or family? An invite asking you to join others at the table for lunch or evening meal. If you accepted the invite hopefully it was a good experience? In our passage today, the entire section is centred around a meal at a table.
The scene shows a prominent Pharisee has asked Jesus to eat at his home. A number of things took place at the table, none of which were very pleasant. It was not a time of friendly conversation neither of warm hospitality. Rather it was a time of silent hostility, of treachery, of self-seeking on behalf of those Pharisees who were present. Equally it was a time of rebuke and sober warning from the lips of our Lord Jesus. No, it was not a pleasant meal to say the least.
JANUARY 2022
Sunday 2nd January
Happy New Year! This is the first Sunday of 2022! IT is hard to believe we are progressing into the third decade of the 21st Century! 2021 is over. 2022 is here. As we stand here at the beginning of a New Year it is a good time to reflect on the year that is ending and look forward to the year that is soon to begin. It is also a good time for God’s people to take inventory of their walk with the Lord. We should take a very close look at where we are in our relationship with Him. We need to examine ourselves and see where we have been, where we are, and where the Lord wants us to be.
DECEMBER 2021
Sunday 12th December
Advent season expresses something that is both beautiful and mysterious, yet at the same time there is something unsettling, and almost threatening about it. The advent mood is hard to put into words. It is often captured better by its hymns, which are often dark and brooding, sung in a minor key. Hymns like; O Come O come Emanuel or Hills of the North rejoice!
The scripture lessons for Advent set the tone with their continued prophetic calls for repentance, the dire warnings to, “wait and watch,” the urgency of preparation for what is coming. We hear about those who are unprepared for God, tenants who are surprised by the sudden appearance of their long-absent landlord, sleepy bridesmaids waiting with their empty oil-lamps for the bridegroom to come.
NOVEMBER 2021
Sunday 7th November
One of the things I love most about celebrating the Lord’s Supper together is that it presents so many different aspects of Jesus, past, present, and future. It is certainly appropriate that we use the Lord’s Supper as a reminder of what Jesus did for us when he died on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. The bread and cup are a powerful object lesson that remind us of the price God paid in order for us to have a relationship with Him.
OCTOBER 2021
Sunday 3rd October
In the middle of our trouble and tribulations, acknowledging God’s role in our lives will enable us to redirect our thinking. From the hurts within our hearts, we need to refocus not on the problems but the solutions to the problems, and so allow us to consider the greatness of our God. David knew trouble. He faced the threat of enemies, the consequences of his own sin, and the challenges of sorrow. Yet, he also recognised the healing power of praise.
SEPTEMBER 2021
Sunday 5th September
“How did you learn to skateboard?” someone asked the winner of a competition. “By getting up every time I fell down,” was the reply. The Christian life is also a series of new beginnings, of falling down and getting up again. When we stumble, we often think, “I’ve failed again. I might as well give up.” But God is the God of new beginnings. He not only forgives our sins, but He also uses our failures to make us wiser.
AUGUST 2021
Sunday 8th August
To date within the book of Psalms, we have looked at two sets of Psalms. Psalm 1 & 2 act as an introduction to the other 148 Psalms, and we observed that God blesses the person who walks uprightly and delights in the Law of the Lord. In contrast, God laughs with derision at those who try to contest his power and Lordship. The opening Psalms encourage us to listen to His voice and to ignore the voices of the world that compete for our attention. These two Psalms reveal to us that God delights in blessing His children, but we must prepare ourselves for His blessings by first appropriating the resources He has given us; His Word, His Spirit, His name, His power.
JULY 2021
Sunday 4th July
Today we begin a new series that I’ve entitled, “ Psalms for the summer and Beyond!” Each Sunday, we are going to look at a different psalm, and learn what it teaches us about praying and praising. The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible. Psalm 1 is unique among all the Psalms because it isn’t a prayer rather it is there because alongside Psalm 2, it acts as a prelude or introduction and explains how the rest of the Psalms work.
The psalms have been classified in a variety of types or genres, about seven of them, and one of them is “wisdom psalm,” which is what this is. It portrays the way the wise man chooses!
JUNE 2021
Sunday 6th June
To date Peter has alerted us to the existence of these false teachers. He has also outlined their popularity, their false operations and their eventual judgment.
2nd Peter is a book that sets out to disturb the soul. Whilst 1st Peter is there to comfort the afflicted, 2nd Peter is there to afflict the comfortable.
MAY 2021
Sunday 2nd May
Fakes or copies can cause great problems. Fake news, fake paintings, fake money, can make fools of people and can undermine what people believe is real. That’s why Peter stresses that we need to hear the real thing, to know the real thing and believe in the real thing! Our world is full of fakes, we find them in politics, (we’ve just completed 4 years of fake news with Donald Trump) and we are currently being bombarded with false allegations of false accounting and quotations concerning Boris Johnston who denies everything. Falsehood is rife in business and likewise in the music industry. In fact, we can find fraudulent people and their fraudulent actions displayed in most areas of life including church, and that’s the point that Peter is making.
Throughout the history of the church there has always been those who would try to lead God’s people astray. The scriptures have much to say about how God views false prophets and teachers, those who pretend to be friends but really represent the enemy. Here in chapter 2, Peter greatly highlights such concerns as he writes to the Christians scattered around the Gentile world. This letter serves not only as a warning to them, but also as a warning to us. As 21st century Christians, we too must fight against false teachers who would infiltrate our churches. 23rd MAY
April 2021
Sunday 4th April
The very heart of Christianity is the resurrection of Jesus Christ! Did it really happen? Well that question is far more than academic because if Jesus Christ really died on a Roman cross and was raised again to life, it changes everything. We live in a world of facts, but most of the facts we know have little, if anything, to do with who we are and how we choose to live. The resurrection of Jesus is different. It may be easy to believe Jesus was raised, as though it were just another fact for a history exam. But this fact is not like other facts. It changes everything!
MARCH 2021
Sunday 7th March
Today is the third Sunday in Lent and it is only four weeks until Easter Sunday. The day of celebration that marks the miraculous resurrection of Jesus from the dead. However, in order to reach Easter Sunday we must first travel the road of the cross with all its suffering. It is in these text verses today that Peter returns to the cross and in the remainder of his letter Peter focuses once again on the topic of ‘suffering’. Our willingness to suffer for the sake of Christ is grounded in the wonder of Christ’s willingness to suffer death for our sake.
FEBRUARY 2021
Sunday 14th February
Today is Valentine’s Day. A day when spouses, couples and partners celebrate their love for each other. Often marking it with gifts and gestures that reflect their true feelings and commitment to one another. All relationships are important to God and none more so than the marriage relationship between a husband and wife! Since marriage is God’s idea, it makes sense to consult him for directions on how to make it successful. The first part of this sermon deals with Christian marriage as Peter gives advice to Christian wives in (3:1-6), and the second part relates to Peter’s advice to Christian husbands in (3:7). You can already see there appears to be a discrepancy, since he devotes six verses to the wives and only one to the husbands. Why is that?
JANUARY 2021
Sunday 10th January
The opening verses of chapter 1 caused us to look hard at our salvation and exactly what that means. We saw that salvation is initiated by God, in that: He chose us. The Holy Spirit spoke to our Hearts, convicted us of our sins and caused us to reach out to Christ. He in turn cleansed us from our sin the moment we accepted him. We saw this salvation was planned before the creation of the world and how the Old Testament prophets wrote about it but did not understand it personally.
We also saw that while we have received this gift in full, we have not full grasped what we have and we won’t until Jesus returns. Chapter one is about hoping in Jesus in the midst of suffering.
Chapter 2 begins unwrapping what we are to become in Christ! How we should Act, Talk, Live now that we have been redeemed.
DECEMBER 2020
Friday 25th December
Good news comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s good news when someone gets that job they’ve been waiting on. It’s good news when someone passes those exams they worked hard for. Its good news when someone overcomes cancer and goes into remission. If ever there was a year in which we need to hear good news it is 2020!
If ever there was a Christmas to hear good news - it is this Christmas!
If ever there was a time to hear good news it is now at this very moment!
NOVEMBER 2020
Sunday 8th November
Today in our Act of Remembrance we have honoured those who fought in the 1st and 2nd World Wars as well as every other conflict where life has been lost in bitter war and combat. Shortly we will meet around the table and celebrate communication together. Thinking about God’s love for us and His plan of salvation. There is one word that connects both of those special acts of remembrance and that word is SACRIFICE.
Sacrifice means different things to different people. The word sacrifice is used almost every day. We make financial sacrifices, salary sacrifices, we sacrifice luxuries for our children’s education. Other people sacrifice time and money and energy to help others in volunteering acts of kindness for the poor, the homeless, the deprived of society.