Hebrews 9:1-22 How do you deal with a guilty conscience? We saw that the new covenant provides the context for security. But what gives us confidence that the covenant is secure? When doubts linger and failures weigh on us, it’s easy to wonder whether that security could ever slip away. In this talk we look more closely at the foundation of the new covenant and why it offers real assurance for troubled consciences.
John 3:1-21 One of the best-known verses in the New Testament, John 3:16, begins with a ‘For’, connecting it to the previous verse: which is from the Old Testament! We can’t fully-understand, or fully-appreciate, the one without the other. John the gospel-writer introduces us to Nicodemus, a teacher of ‘the scriptures’ (what we now call the Old Testament) in order to tell us the good news of God’s love in sending Jesus, the Light of the World.
Hebrews 8:1-13 How do you deal with a guilty conscience? When it keeps you awake, or keeps God at arm’s length? We’re good at staying busy and moving on, but we need something better than denial or distraction. In this talk, we consider real help for troubled consciences.
John 1:43-51 How clear is your view of Jesus? As we start a new series looking at encounters with Jesus in John’s gospel, we will be challenged to ‘see’ him more clearly. Like Nathanael, are we prepared to have our vision of Jesus expanded? Are we willing to move ever closer to the light that shines in the darkness?
Hebrews 7:1-28 When challenges come our way, the promises that Jesus makes can seem unlikely to be true. God’s antidote: the reason why anyone can be certain of these promises, the best promises ever heard.
Jesus’ parables tell us about the values and shape of the Kingdom of God. For us, Luke 16:19-31, challenges us to examine how deeply Kingdom values inform our lives.
Hebrews 4:14-5:10 Whether we’re looking into faith or have been following Jesus for many years, we can be uncertain about how we could possibly keep following Jesus to the end. Hebrews tells us that we have one hope of making it to the end: Jesus. He has already made it and he will give us the help we ask for.
Luke 16:1-15 In this sermon, Phil Williams explores Jesus’ challenging parable of the dishonest manager and asks what it means to live with urgency, faithfulness, and generosity when eternity is real. Speaking into the realities of money, stewardship, and discipleship, the sermon calls us to examine who or what we truly serve and to use what God has entrusted to us for eternal good.
Luke 15:1-32 The parable of the prodigal son famously emphasises that there’s no-one too lost or too far from God. But less well known is its shocking challenge to the religious and the respectable.
“Why did Jesus need to become a man?” It’s a classic theological question with a surprisingly practical answer. In Hebrews 2:5-3:6 we will see how Jesus being “one of us” changes everything.