Chatswood Baptist Church

Well friends here we are on Christmas Morning. What a day we celebrate today. We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the most important birth in history. The most important birth that has or will ever happen. Our plans don’t …

Today we will conclude our short three sermon series on Generosity from Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians in Chapters 8 & 9. Paul has been urging the Corinthian church to be generous and finish the good work they had …

Announcing the birth The birth of a child is something that people usually want to share with others. We want to let others know the good news. We want to get the news out there so that others can share …

Making arrangements How are you at making plans and arrangements? You Are you the sort of person that makes meticulous plans, that has everything planned down to the “nth degree”[i] a long way in advance of whatever it is that …

The need for it 8:1-15 My prayer is that through this text today you will see that “We are to be generous because God is generous beyond our comprehension.” Introduction Last century, Robert Gilmour LeTourneau (1888-1969) committed his life to …

Lessons learnt the hard way. Some lessons in life are not easily learnt. Some of us insist on learning things that hard way. We resist what others want to point out to us, not heeding what they are teaching us. …

My bathroom scales and Moses This morning I have something to confess. I have this love/hate relationship with my bathroom scales. In one sense I really appreciate the bathroom scales. They tell me what I really need to know about …

Introduction If you have ever been on any type of cruise, then you would be aware that within a couple of hours of boarding the ship you must attend a safety briefing. This is not something that you choose to …

Following instructions How are you at following instructions? Do you follow them to the letter? Or do you treat them more like they are just a guide? Do you do everything that you are instructed to do, or do you …

Forgetting How quickly we forget! It doesn’t take long for even the important things to be forgotten, the things that we shouldn’t forget, that shouldn’t be overlooked, or left behind do get forgotten. We all forget things, and sometimes the …

I am scared of cockroaches. I have a fear of them. For some of you here this morning who used to go to our evening service, this is not a new piece of information for you. In fact, some of …

Love your Neighbour as yourself Introduction What do you think about when you see the 10 commandments? You might be thinking along the lines of some of the following: Aren’t they something that you learn in Sunday School?  They’re just …

Whose rules? We live in an age where people largely believe that they are free to think and behave anyway they feel like behaving. Western society or culture having rejected God and divine revelation “has now largely rejected the concept …

 Introduction Kendra Cherry the author of “The Everything Psychology Book” has written a helpful article on “Reasons why people forget”. Now I don’t have time today to go into the 4 reasons that she suggests. However, one of the techniques …

Our fears What are you afraid of? What is it that you fear most?  Sadly, sometimes our own fears are the very things that tend to immobilise us in life to the extent that they end up imprisoning us so …

Thrown in the deep end Often in life you find yourself being thrown in the deep end. What I mean is that you find yourself being dropped into a situation that you feel unready for and ill equipped for.  I …

Starting over There are times in life where you find yourself starting over again. You may have gone on a diet but before you lost all the weight that you were hoping to lose, you started piling it back on. …

By the end of this talk my hope is that like David you will enlist this prayer as you live as disciples of Christ. In Psalm 19 King David ends this psalm of praise. Of praise to God for his …

1. Treasure stories We all love stories of people finding hidden treasure whether it be the discovery of a sunken Spanish treasure ship or someone unearthing buried treasure. We love to hear how someone found treasure that has been hidden …

A few years ago, my wife and I went on one of our most adventurous hikes. We decided to go ‘tramping’ or hiking in New Zealand. We did a 2-night hike on the Routeburn Track, where parts of the track …

Hearing but not listening. We all probably know what it is like to talk to someone who might hear what we are saying but they aren’t really listening to us. They aren’t paying attention and don’t heed what we are …

Introduction I remember in my childhood seeing the boxer Muhammad Ali on the television. We knew of this man who was obviously a great boxer. What I remember more though were his words. To say that Muhammad Ali was full …

Forgiveness Forgiveness is a big part of our faith as believers in the Lord Jesus. Through Jesus we believe that have the forgiveness of sins (Col 1:14; Eph. 1:7). The apostle Paul wrote: “In him we have redemption through his …