RECENT SERMONS
Catch up on our sermons for the last few years below. Sermon Series and Topics are on the right, and you can use the Search bar to find key words within sermon overviews. Please contact the website manager if you can’t find what you’re looking for.
Category: Luke / Speaker: Nick Clevely
October 25, 2020
Jesus Christ is the greatest example and the greatest teacher of humility in human history. And the disciples like ourselves are in constant need of teaching on the evil of pride and the value of...
Category: The Doctrines of Grace / Speaker: Nick Clevely
October 18, 2020
The main reason why people reject the teaching of God’s free sovereign and gracious election, is not so much because God is sovereign in showing mercy, but that He is sovereign not only in election...
Category: Luke / Speaker: Nick Clevely
October 18, 2020
There is a saying in Christianity: the devil does not attack you on the mountaintops, he is waiting for you at the foot of the mountain. This is literally what happens in this section where...
Speaker: Alfie Orr
October 11, 2020
Thanks to Alfie Orr for preaching this afternoon at our new building at 20 Archer Street, Timaru. Alfie pastored our church from August 1986 – November 1998 when it was still known as Marchwiel Reformed Baptist...
Speaker: John Leevers
October 11, 2020
Thanks to John Leevers for preaching this morning at our official opening of the new building at 20 Archer Street, Timaru. John pastored our church from December 1998 – October 2006 when it was still known...
Speaker: Joe Fleener
October 04, 2020
Thanks to Joe Fleener from Rolleston Baptist Church for speaking to us this afternoon from Luke 10:25-37, on how we make ethical decisions as Christians. 25 And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him...
Speaker: Matt Linton
October 04, 2020
Thanks to Matt Linton for preaching today from Genesis 22:1-14: After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.” 2 He said, “Take your son, your only...
Category: The Doctrines of Grace / Speaker: Nick Clevely
September 27, 2020
Most people do not realize this but the doctrine of God’s sovereign grace in election is brought up by Paul in Romans 8-9 to give assurance of salvation. Paul wants to ground the faith of...
Category: Luke / Speaker: Nick Clevely
September 27, 2020
The transfiguration is one of the most important Christological events in the Bible.1 It establishes the identity of Christ as the Messiah and the divine Son, and the nature of the mission that He had...
Category: The Doctrines of Grace / Speaker: Nick Clevely
September 20, 2020
I became a Christian in my late teens and had not been brought up in the faith. I came cold to all things Christian and was dependent upon my youth pastor and pastor and bible...
Category: Luke / Speaker: Nick Clevely
September 20, 2020
Would you become a Christian knowing that it would probably get you killed? Throughout Church history many have had to make the choice to follow Christ knowing that it would possibly result in their deaths. ...
Category: The Doctrines of Grace / Speaker: Nick Clevely
September 13, 2020
Imagine with me two different religions, but both are called Christianity. One flows from man’s reason, not that Spirit illuminated Bible taught reason but reason driven by man’s sinful self-confident ability to rationalise everything out...