in Easter
Easter Sunday: Revelation 5: The Resurrected Lamb
INTRODUCTION: Jesus Christ is risen from the dead! But what is the significance of this? Is it merely a miracle to prove Jesus is who He said He is? Is it only relevant to prove that...
in Easter
Good Friday Sermon: Matthew 26:36-46: The Prayers Of Gethsemane
INTRODUCTION: Today in our Good Friday meditation we will be considering Jesus under the shadow of the cross in the Garden of Gethsemane. The name Gethsemane means ‘oil press’ and seems a very appropriate name...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 23:1-7: David’s Last Words
INTRODUCTION: In death all our masks are stripped away. Any appearances of power are taken away as we impotently die; all apparent beauty disappears in rot; our deathbed tends to bring out of our hearts...
Envy: Proverbs 23:17-24:2
INTRODUCTION: Today I would like to speak to you about what has been called one of our ‘respectable sins’, envy. Envy, jealousy, coveting, illegitimate wanting, sinful desiring, etc.; this is a sin you and I...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 22: The Deliverance and Exaltation of the King
INTRODUCTION: Imagine for a moment that you are in your old age, in the closing years of your life and you decide to write a song to summarise the Lord’s working in your life. What...
Romans 13:6-7: Fulfilling Our Obligations
INTRODUCTION: “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” (Mark 12:17). These have been called the most important political words ever spoken, and rightly so. Jesus was...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 21:15-22: Nephilim, Rephaim, Anakites and the Seed of the Woman
INTRODUCTION: As soon as you do any investigation on the internet about the bible and giants, you immediately run into the cliqued garbage about overcoming your giants. In the text we have before us in...
Romans 13:5: Conscience
INTRODUCTION: Living by a conscience informed by the word of God before the face of God is the basic posture of Christian holiness. We know this well, here is the famous quote of Luther demonstrating...
Colossians 3:1-17: Fixing our minds
INTRODUCTION: If you want to be a better Christian, you need to (fill in the blank). What is it that you think you need to do? What is it that some voices are telling us...
Romans 13:3-4: Capital Punishment
INTRODUCTION: The death penalty is a matter that causes great controversy. We live in a country that has put away the death penalty, any country today seeking entrance into the EU will have to ban...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 21:1-14: God’s judgement on sin
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to what I consider to be the hardest portion in 1 and 2 Samuel to interpret. What might have been a fairly straight forward chapter in ancient times is to us a glaring...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 20: Worldliness in the kingdom
INTRODUCTION: This chapter has no mention of God but only one incidental references to Abel being the heritage of the Lord in v19. That captures well the tone of our chapter today. It is a...
Romans 13:2: Obeying and Disobeying the Government
INTRODUCTION: Michael Cassidy, the founder of African Enterprise visited P W Botha in South Africa on October the 8th 1985. ‘It was the time of the National Initiative for Reconciliation, and Michael hoped for signs...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 19: 9-43 The King’s Gracious Return
INTRODUCTION: In Christianity there are two types of happily ever afters. There is the final happy ending where Jesus will return and all enemies will be put under foot. All evils will become undone and...
Romans 13:1: God’s sovereignty over bad government
INTRODUCTION: Christians can and should submit to bad governments. They are not submitting to the devil but God. How is this possible, because God has given the authority relationship of government to man, and He...
in 1 & 2 Samuel
2 Samuel 18:1-19:8: Judgement on Absalom
Introduction: Love made a god becomes a demon. This is a paraphrase of a point C S Lewis makes in his book The Four Loves. When we love something too much, when we make a...