Sermon Archive


Matthew 26:36-46: The Plan of God for the Cross

Can you remember a time, when you didn’t associate the word Jesus or Jesus Christ with a cross? Even before you understood the gospel, you probably knew that Jesus had something to do with a cross. We live in a society that has been built on the Christian worldview, and the largest, professed anyway, religion in New Zealand is some form of Christianity. There are crosses in some schools, on war memorials, on emblems and coat of arms. Perhaps you may have seen an image of a Jesus crucified upon it on a church window or on a necklace...


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Easter Sunday: John 18:1-11: The Arrest of Christ

INTRODUCTION: I had a completely different sermon planned for this one, but in my meditations this week I was drawn to the passage where Jesus is arrested in John 18:1-11.  John’s gospel is unique among the four gospels and tends to focus our attention on the glory of Christ as the Son of God.  For this reason we see John not lingering on the garden of Gethsemane when Jesus was toiling in His weakness to submit Himself to God’s wrath for our sins. No, instead we see John brushes over that in v1-2, ‘When Jesus had spoken these words, he...


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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 for the place where Jesus would pray the hardest prayer any human has ever prayed.  As we proceed to the Garden to look not only into another’s grief, but the grief of the Holy One who is submitting Himself to His Fathers punishment for our sins, we must beg the aid of the Spirit, we are not only treading on mysteries but holy ground. ...


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