BRBC Sermons

Text: Genesis 30:25-43 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin Last week we explored Rachel’s hardship and learned how to respond when our plans don’t work out. This week, we’ll see the opposite. Jacob’s plans do pan out, just as he intends. We’ll see how he learns how to respond when things go our way. We’ll ask ourselves, How should we respond when our plans work out?

Text: Genesis 30:1-24 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin Yet again, in the life of Jacob, we’re standing at the crossroads of human mayhem and God’s mercy. This week, we’re going to explore the raw, painful situation Rachel finds herself in. Her struggle deserves buckets of our compassion and understanding, but we’ve got lots to learn from her bad response when she doesn’t get what she wants....

Text: Genesis 29 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason Today, Jacob ends his journey in the wilderness only to find himself entangled in another highly dysfunctional family and involved in another act of deception. Caught between human mayhem and divine mercy, we will look specifically at Jacob’s wife Leah and her struggle for love and acceptance, the deepest desire of her heart, and perhaps ours...

Text: Genesis 27:1-28:5 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason Why does a man’s dream of angels walking up and down a ladder in the wilderness of the Middle East, thousands of years ago, have anything to do with us? Today, we are looking at a well-known story that we have grown up with and tell to our children, but often don’t know what to do with: Jacob’s Ladder. As bizarre as it seems, this drea...

Text: Genesis 27:1-28:5 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason

Text: Genesis 25:19-34 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin Enter Jacob. A conniving, manipulating deceiver who can’t seem to get it all together, right? Maybe not. In this series, we’re going to take a closer look at the life of Jacob and find out what his life really shows us about God’s mercy and about the mayhem of human existence. This week, we’ll begin by exploring the first scene of Jaco...

(Evening Service) Speaker: James Martin This evening we’re going to be taking a look at the life of the well-known politician, Christian and Liberator, William Wilberforce. We’ll explore what it was that made him the history-maker we know him to be. His story may be a revisit for some and new ground for others, but for all of us it’ll be a reminder of the power of God’s grace and an example of wha...

Text: 1 John 5:13-21 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason The gift of eternal life often sits untouched on a dusty shelf in our mind, while we wait for the day when we will “cash in” and enter into the glory of heaven. The end of John’s letter will challenge our misconceptions, as he helps us to unwrap the gift of eternal life for today. Until we take a somber look at the power of sin in the wor...

Text: 1 John 5:6-12 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin This morning we’ll find John reminding his readers about the ultimate importance of standing on the truth of Jesus Christ. John writes to Christians who are being pushed and pulled by different claims and shows them what God has already said and where real life can be found. John’s first readers needed to hear his words and today, we do t...

Text: Galatians 6:11-19 (Evening Service) Speaker: Peter Mason What are you especially proud of? Maybe an academic degree you hold, or your well- earned career, a shiny new car, your friend- group or your family. As we come to the end of Galatians, we will see that Paul takes pride in the most humiliating act in history - the crucifixion of Jesus. What is it about the weakness of the Cross that Pa...

Text: 1 John 4:7-21 (Morning Service) For the third time in his letter, John turns to the matter of Christians loving each other. This shows us it’s obviously a non-negotaible and something he wants to elevate even more. But, what happens when people like you and I read John and think, “Thanks again, John, we get it, but we just find it really hard to do”? The truth is, there are plenty of occasio...

Text: Galatians 6:1-10 (Evening Service) Speaker: David Stannard There is no shortcut to a holy life! The Bible is clear about the role of the Spirit and the responsibility we have to fight the sinful nature. We all know the conflict we have between the flesh and the Spirit, and as followers of Jesus Christ, we are neither bound by the law or free to live as we please. This evening, in Galatians 6...

Text: 1 John 4:1-6 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason Do you have good vision? Or do you wish it was better? Glasses and contacts can help, but as we look at John’s letter this morning, they might not help this perception-test. In the midst of multiple gospels and false teachers that blur the lines of our Christian confession, how good is our spiritual vision to discern the True Gospel from th...

Text: Galatias 5:16-26 (Evening Service) Speaker: Stuart R As we continue our study of Galatians Paul spells out to the churches in Galatia what attributes ought to mark out the lives of the believer if we have really embraced the freedom that Christ has purchased with his own sacrifice. This evening we will take a look at those attributes and behaviours but we will also consider how it is that we...

Text: Galatians 5:1-15 (Evening Service) Speaker: Bryan Hassler The gospel of Jesus Christ is the source of freedom for a Christian. But do we actually feel free? For many of us, we feel a constant pressure to perform, to do, to accomplish, and to earn. And we spend our lives trying to measure up, yet always seeming to fall short. This struggle has left us feeling tired, heavy, fearful, fake, guil...

Text: 1 John 3:11-24 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason How do you know what you know? Simple, take a test and find out. This morning we are continuing our series in 1 John, as John gives us the ultimate test in order to find out what we really know and love most in this world. He gives us the Test of Love - a test many of us think we will Ace, but as we will see, this test might not be as eas...

Text: Galatians 4;8-20 (Evening Service) Speaker: Chris Gourlay Do you remember being told by your parents, “make good habits” or “stop that bad habit?” This week we dive deeper into Galatians chapter 4: 8-20 where Paul tells us not to return to one of the oldest habits we have. Find out why we shouldn’t go back to works.

Text: 1 John 2:28-3:10 (Morning Service) Speaker: Pastor James From his Antichrist warning, John moves on to show us that The Uncommon Community is made up of the children of God. Following his previous warning, John wants to reassure them that those who remain in the Christian community really are God’s children by showing them what characterises a child of God. This morning we’ll ask: What is it...

Text: Galatians 4:1-7, 21-31 (Evening Service) We’ve been conditioned to earn for as long as we can remember — earning praise and affirmation from parents, earning grades from teachers, earning playing time from coaches, earning attention from boys or girls, eventually earning paychecks from employers. We learned how to earn before we learned how to speak or even walk. This evening, we’ll look at...

Text: 1 John 2:18-27 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin Today we come to the main reason why John wrote his letter to the church. It appears some people had got some wrong ideas about Jesus and had left the church, so John firmly and pastorally exposes the thinking of those who left and calls the remaining church to remember who they are by reminding them what they have already heard. This mo...

Text: Galatians 3:15-29 (Evening Service) Speaker: Mitch Fossum Why do Christians have a new identity in Christ? What of the old promises, the purpose of and plan for the law, and the myriad of other factors and traits which once divided - or still split - God’s people? For this evening’s service we’re going to get into the second half of Galatians 3 and follow Paul’s line of reasoning straight to...

Text: 1 John 2:15-17 (Morning Service) Speaker: Pastor James This morning we’re going to explore John’s instruction, “do not love the world” and the reasons he gives to prove why we should not love it. Importantly, John doesn’t write about what we do or what we have, rather he wants to go deeper and for us to discern where our true values lie - he writes about what we love. Let’s join John’s origi...

Text: Galatians 3:1-14 (Evening Service) Speaker: James Baker In Paul’s letter to the Galatians, he is correcting a false understanding that acceptance with God can only be achieved by their efforts. Do we fall into this trap? Do we burden ourselves with trying to make ourselves more acceptable to God? Tonight, Paul will show us the futility of this thinking and how the gospel frees us from such a...

Text: 1 John 2:3-14 (Morning Service) Speaker: Peter Mason Do you know if you’re going the right way? A question many back-seat drivers love to ask, but a question we often ask ourselves after we park the car and think about our life. Inthemidstofachurchsplitandaconfused church community, John writes to address uncertain Christians in order to help them answer that question. Today, we stop and pon...

Text: 1 John 1:5-2:2 (Morning Service) Speaker: James Martin This morning we’ll be thinking about what it means to walk in the light. John is keen to show us that God is light and in Him there is no darkness, but he’s just as keen to show us what God’s light means for our lives - we’ll see how God’s light influences the life of the Uncommon Community.