Everyday Church Sermons

Today we remember the woman who anointed Jesus with expensive perfume. Her act of worship was costly, but it was an expression of deep love and devotion. Jesus valued her offering, not because of its material worth, but because of her heart. Are there areas in your life where God is calling you to give sacrificially in love and worship? How can you honour him with your time, talents, and treasure?...

In our verse today, Jesus teaches the greatest commandment: to love God fully and love our neighbours as ourselves. Love is the essence of the Christian faith. Take some time now to reflect on your relationship with God and how you express love toward others. What does it mean for you to love the Lord with your whole heart, soul, and mind? As we pray, ask God to help you grow in love for him and o...

In today’s verse we see Jesus cleansing the temple, showing his zeal for true worship. The temple was meant to be a place of prayer and communion with God, but it had become corrupted. Today, let’s take some time to examine our hearts and lives. Are there areas where we need Jesus to come and cleanse? May we allow him to restore our focus to what truly matters — a relationship with God.

On Palm Sunday, we remember the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, where the crowds shouted, "Hosanna!" – literally ‘God saves!’ They celebrated him as the King, but many misunderstood the kind of king he was. Jesus came not as a conquering ruler, but as a humble servant, bringing peace. Take a moment now to reflect on the nature of his kingship — one of humility and self-sacrifice. Are we w...

We are at the start of the most important week of the year: Holy Week, when we focus on the days leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday and when He rose again on Resurrection Sunday. These events may be incredibly familiar for many of us, but let’s ask the Holy Spirit to give us a fresh revelation of our Servant King.

We will look at five corporate applications of God’s better story for community: Marriage, Singleness, Friendship, Biblical integrity, and Worship. Through corporate commitment to these areas, we will build an answer to our key question: “How do we continue to build a biblically orthodox and radically inclusive community?”

We are starting to unpack what God desires for his community – his church – in the world. How do we continue to build a community which is inclusive and welcoming to all whilst holding on to God’s better story when it comes to identity, sex, sexuality, and gender? How do we continue to build a community that is biblically orthodox and radically inclusive?

Our existence as two sexes is central to our image bearing. We have the freedom to express our masculinity and femininity in culturally sensitive ways across a very wide bandwidth. But not to mask it. Distinctions in role are limited to the church and the family – and only work when they reflect the sacrifice, honour, and love displayed within Trinity. We are to honour, serve and help one another....

There’s certainly a lot of sex in the Bible. There are lists of don’ts as well as many bad examples to learn from, such as the dysfunctional family caused by Jacob’s polygamy, the mess caused by Abraham’s rape of Hagar, David’s adultery of Bathsheba. But there are also many positive stories about romance, relationships, weddings, pregnancies, and children. In fact, the Bible's mega narrative start...

Scripture is clear, my identity is not in my relational status, my sexuality, my gender, my profession, my ministry, or my position in society. My identity is in God. An identity based on my culture will always be flawed because every culture has been infected by the power and brokenness of sin. An identity based on my internal dialogue and emotion will always be flawed because I am flawed – loved...

We are recapping and refreshing ourselves in the things that Paul tells us to eagerly desire; namely Spiritual Gifts. We spent time looking at this topic in our Eagerly Desire series and then in our series through 1 Corinthians. So we're going to recap by asking and answering a few questions: 1 - What is a spiritual gift and Why does God give them to the Church? 2 - What are the spiritual gifts (a...

When Jesus looks at His Church, He is able to view it in 3 ways – eternally, globally, and locally. The purposes and the promises of God will encourage us to have a growing hope and anticipation for the Church. But as we partake in something incredibly local and often ordinary looking; it can be very easy to overlook the greatness and beauty of it, because of its apparent simplicity. Belonging to...

Church is the body of people who belong to Jesus. Church is not a building, contrary to what many people think. Your church family might have a building where you meet, but church is people, a body of people who belong to and follow Jesus. You might have heard it said that you're not a Christian just because you go to church. And that is true, and important to know - you're not automatically a Chr...

We live in two kingdoms – the Kingdom of God and the dominion of darkness ruled by Satan whom Jesus has defeated on the cross. We are engaged in a war as the army of God. We are advancing God’s Kingdom and taking territory. Don’t be fearful, the devil is powerful but nothing against the power of God. The devil can’t read our minds but can listen to what we say about ourselves, God, and others. He...

If you throw a stone into water, you see ripples starting at the centre of where the stone hits the water. That is how the Kingdom life works. Kingdom life starts with you and affects the way you think, talk, do, and live. Just imagine how this world would look if everywhere there is darkness, it is replaced with light, love, and righteousness. Don’t we all want to see that?

Generosity reveals God's character. He is a generous God, doing more than we could ask or imagine (Ephesians 2). For God so loved the world that He GAVE. When we choose to be generous, we cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit as He transforms us from one degree of Glory into another. As believers, we know that the Holy Spirit is constantly at work within us, transforming us into the likeness...

Understand some wonderful, foundational truths about what it means to be a Christian: In Christ, you are a new creation (our dirty clothes exchanged for his clean clothes), you are a child of God (you have a new birth certificate). You are no longer under law (like a spirit level), but grace, and that grace can help you live victoriously (trophy). Grasp these truths, get them deep into your thinki...

Foundations are important. If we are going to build we need to pay a lot of attention to them. It is always tempting to rush on but you will regret it. This is the same with the Christian life. Some key principles are in place at the start. Been a Christian for a while? Sometimes a bit of underpinning is timely. In the Book of Acts, Peter’s answer is foundational for all of us. Just like a chair n...

Fasting on the day of atonement reminded the people of their dependence on God. We need to remind ourselves of that dependence. Our need for food means that when we fast, we do get hungry. That hunger reminds us of how dependent we are on God. When we are well fed, we can feel very powerful and independent. Hunger quickly reveals we are not as together as we think we are and we are quickly reminde...

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.

Count down the days to Christmas with us and during this Advent take time to wait on God and make space for him to speak into our daily lives as image bearers and Kingdom bringers.