Christchurch Sermons

In this message we watch as Jesus  confronts those who  knew the Scriptures inside out but had missed the heart of God. The Sabbath, a gift meant to reveal God's mercy and invite his people into rest, had become another burden to carry and another weapon to judge others with. As Jesus announces himself as  Lord of the Sabbath—weary sinners are invited to enter into  God's endless Shabbat Shalom th...

Jesus encounters Levi, the tax collector, whom many would have written off as 'beyond redemption'. In this glorious salvation story, Jesus 'sees' with eyes of grace and love, a God-image bearer so broken and ruined by sin and chooses him to be in the bride of Christ!

You think you know what you need. Jesus says you might be wrong. Four friends drop a paralysed man at the feet of Jesus, fully expecting a miracle. What they get is something far more surprising, and far more costly. In this message Lewis Roderick takes us to chapter 5: 17 - 26 as learn what it tells us about the identity of Jesus, the nature of our deepest need, and why the cross is where these t...

In this standalone message, Pete Greasley encourages us to respond to a broken world with grace and humility and to fix our eyes on our ultimate hope- our eternal inheritance with Christ.

In Luke 5:12–16, Jesus encounters a man suffering from leprosy—a disease that had left him isolated, excluded, and declared unclean. Desperate and out of options, the man throws himself at Jesus' feet and pleads for mercy. What follows is one of the most beautiful pictures of the gospel in Luke's Gospel. Jesus reaches out and touches the untouchable. He doesn't simply heal the man; he restores him...

Continuing our series in Luke, we heard about the miracle of the great catch of fish, Peter's realization of Jesus' divine holiness and how he experienced Jesus' life redeeming and transforming grace.

At Pentecost, the Spirit of God descended in wind and fire, as the risen Jesus poured out his Spirit and his people went proclaiming the gospel to all nations. As Christchurch Newport celebrates this momentous occasion, we consider what it all means, and how the Spirit is leading us today to make Christ known to all people. "Let the nations be glad!"

As the global Church celebrates the ascension of Jesus Christ, Christchurch Newport welcomes Daniel Hames and hears why Christ's enthronement at the right hand of the Father is such good news for sinners like you and me.

When Jesus stood up in Nazareth and proclaimed liberty for the captives, did he really have the power to deliver on that proclamation? Listen in as Luke sends us a battlefield report from Capernaum to answer that very question!

Christchurch Newport continues Liberty for the Captives   as Lewis Roderick explores a dramatic shift that gook place in  Nazareth—why did the people move so quickly from  at Jesus to outright rejection. Why did those who knew Him best refuse to believe? In this message we consider  five hidden barriers to faith : familiarity, skepticism, entitlement, self-righteousness, and offence at the widenes...

From April 2026, Christchurch embarks on a multiyear study through Luke's gospel, beginning with chapters 4 - 6, 'Liberty for the Captives'. In this message from Luke 4: 14 - 22, Lewis Roderick preaches Jesus' inaugural address and we hear his liberating words of grace and jubilee to the poor, the blind and the oppressed.

How sure can a Christian be of eternal life with Jesus? Bob shows us from this text that the answer to that question comes not from within but from God's testimony about his Son. The only real question is whether you have the Son!

Pete Greasley starts our new series looking at scenes from the gospel of Luke. Adam, our representative failed in the garden. Jesus, our new champion won against Satan when tempted the same way in the wilderness. The implications for us are glorious and eternal.

As the whole world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christchurch witness his continuing power to save as four young men are baptised. In this message, Lewis Roderick takes us to Matthew 28 and shows us the global significance of Christ's resurrection and the impact it can have on each of our lives.

It's the week to define all weeks in Jesus' ministry culminating in the seismic events of his crucifixion and resurrection, and the long-anticipated King finally comes to Jerusalem, but how does he come and for what purpose?  

"Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?" So wrote Leo Tolstoy, and so might we say when we realise how brief our lives can be.  Yet in the resurrection of Jesus Christ there is hope that our dust will turn to glory, and nothing in life is in vain.  Listen in as Lewis Roderick concludes our series Human: Dust and Glory, as we turn to Genesis 3: 19, a...

"Of all the splendidly ridiculous, transcendently fulfilling things humans do, it's sex that most confounds understanding. What in the world are we doing? Why in the world are we so consumed by it? Why should this be so? Did nature simply overload us in the mating department, hot-wiring us for the sex that is so central to the survival of the species, and never mind the sometimes sloppy consequenc...

As we continue our series considering what it means to be human, we arrive at the culturally hot and pastorally loaded subject of gender. In this message, Lewis Roderick teaches from Genesis 1+2, and shows us the Reality, Compatibility and Pain of Gender. And the  love of Christ for the whole world. 

In 'we are communal' we hear that God has made us to be in community with him and with others. But that communion has been ruined by sin which shows itself in estrangement from God, others, and ourselves. In Christ we are wonderfully redeemed and reconciled to God and to another which we get to experience in the church, the body of Jesus.

Built into the human psyche as a result of the Fall is the desire to be autonomous & independent. We see finitude as a flaw and dependence as a deficiency, just like Adam & Eve did, which plunged mankind into sin & alienation from God. Listen in as Bob McCan shows us how the perfect finite man Jesus Christ gloriously redeems our corrupted finitude and restores us to joyful God-dependence.

"How are you feeling?" As we continue 'Human: Dust and Glory', Lewis Roderick unpacks the role emotions play in our humanity; where the come from, why they're good and why they shouldn't be obeyed. And shows us how a right vision of Jesus can lead to emotional health.

When God creates humanity, he gave them a mandate: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it;" In this sermon, Pete Greasly takes us into how our God-given purpose was ruined by sin and is restored in the gospel of his Son Jesus.

What is a human body? A shell that houses the real you? Or is it the sum total of all we are; just matter, molecules and mucus? In Genesis 2 we glimpse a glorious picture and a profound reality: every person is both an embodied soul and ensouled body. Listen in as Lewis Roderick shows us why the human body is so good (even in all its brokenness) and how the gospel leads us to a truly embodied life...

What is a person worth? It's a deceptively simple question. As Lewis Roderick continues the series 'Human: Dust and Glory', Lewis Roderick shows us how Scripture gives a radically higher answer than our culture of economics ever could, and why the Image of God is the answer to our tribalism and despair.

What does it mean to be human? In the lead up to Spring at Christchurch Newport, we'll be considering that question in light of Genesis 1 and 2, reflecting on the significance of our being created, imaged, physical, commissioned, emotional, communal, limited, gendered, sexual and dust. As we begin our series, Lewis Roderick takes us to our origin story and shows us what it means for us to 'created...