First Ards Presbyterian Church Sermoncast

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches James 5:13-18 at evening worship on Sunday 24th August 2025 in First Ards. We know we should pray, but does it actually change anything? In this final message of our Faith FAQs series, James reminds us that prayer is God’s chosen means of working in the world, shaping our hearts and deepening our relationship with Him. Prayer matters, not because our words are powerful, bu...

Voddie Baucham (President of Founders Seminary in Cape Coral, Florida, founding Dean and Senior Lecturer in the School of Divinity at the African Christian University in Lusaka, Zambia) preaches 2 Timothy 1-6 at evening worship at the Bangor Worldwide Missionary Convention on Sunday 17th August 2025 in Hamilton Road Presbyterian Church.

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Obadiah 17-21 at evening worship on Sunday 17th August 2025 in First Ards. In a world where trouble feels endless, Obadiah lifts our eyes to God’s promise of restoration, reversal and reign. What’s lost will be restored, wrongs will be put right and the final word is not despair but hope. “The kingdom will be the Lord’s.”

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 2 Corinthians 4:1–6 and Acts 17:16–34 at evening worship on Sunday 10th August in First Ards. Paul knew resistance to the gospel was normal and so should we. In a spiritually blind world, our task isn’t to edit God’s message or control the results, but to faithfully proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, trusting Him to open eyes. Looking at Paul in Athens, we learn to see our com...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Obadiah 14-16 at morning worship on Sunday 10th August 2025 in First Ards. Obadiah lifts our eyes from one nation to all nations, declaring, “The day of the Lord is near.” This is not a distant theological concept, but a certain day of justice when every deed will be brought to account. Yet for those in Christ Jesus, the judgment we deserve has already fallen on Him, He ha...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and 13:8-13 at evening worship on Sunday 3rd August 2025 in First Ards. Are tongues, prophecy and healing still for the church today, or were they for a particular time and purpose? In this message from our Faith FAQs series, we turn to God’s Word to see how the Spirit worked in the early church and how He continues to work now through the ordinary me...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 at evening worship on Sunday 27th July 2025 in First Ards. In this sermon from our Faith FAQs series, we face one of life’s most personal and profound questions: what happens when we die? While the world offers confusion and sentiment, Scripture speaks with clarity, warmth and hope. We see that for those who are in Christ, death is not the end. It’s go...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Obadiah 5-14 at morning worship on Sunday 27th July 2025 in First Ards. We continue through the book of Obadiah and see how the Lord calls out Edom, not just for what they did but for what they failed to do. As we reflect on their silence, indifference and eventual cruelty, we’re reminded that gospel people aren’t called to stand at a distance but to step in. Because Chris...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches John 14:1-7 at evening worship on Sunday 20th July 2025 in First Ards. Is it arrogant to believe Jesus is the only way to God? In this sermon, we listen to Christ’s own words, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and explore why His exclusive claim isn’t narrow minded, but deeply loving and gloriously true.

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Obadiah 1-4 at morning worship on Sunday 20th July 2025 in First Ards. As we begin our Sowing Seeds summer, Obadiah confronts us with the needed warning that pride blinds, isolates and deceives. But God humbles the proud not to crush them, but to prepare them for grace, for growth and for mission. Real gospel work begins on our knees.

Rev. Michael Bostock preaches Revelation 19:11-18 at evening worship on Sunday 13th July 2025 in First Ards. Jesus is our prophet, priest and king. What does it mean that Jesus is our king?

Rev. Michael Bostock preaches Psalm 110 and Hebrews 4:14-5-10 at evening worship on Sunday 6th July 2025 in First Ards. Jesus is our prophet, priest and king. What does it mean that Jesus is our priest?

Rev. Michael Bostock preaches Deuteronomy 18:15-22 and Luke 24:13-27 at evening worship on Sunday 29th June 2025 in First Ards. Jesus is our prophet, priest and king. What does it mean that Jesus is our prophet?

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Romans 8:18-39 at evening worship on Sunday 22nd June 2025 in First Ards. Suffering raises some of life’s hardest questions and the Bible doesn’t avoid them. In this message, we consider what Scripture says about a world marked by pain and a God who meets us in it. Not with easy answers, but with real hope: a Saviour who suffered for us, walks with us and will one day make...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 6:1-5 at morning worship on Sunday 22nd June 2025 in First Ards. As Jesus walks through a grainfield on the Sabbath, a quiet moment becomes a striking revelation of who He is. In this passage from Luke 6, we see that Jesus isn’t just correcting misunderstanding, He’s claiming authority. He is the Lord of the Sabbath and in Him we find the true rest our hearts were mad...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 5:33-39 at morning worship on Sunday 15th June 2025 in First Ards. When questioned about fasting, Jesus responds with three vivid images: a wedding; a patch; and a wineskin. Each of them reveals that He hasn’t come to improve religion but to replace it. In this sermon from Luke 5, we see that Jesus brings joy, new life and a fresh start, not something to sample, but S...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 2 Timothy 3:16-17 at evening worship on Sunday 8th June 2025 in First Ards. This sermon kicks off our new series, Faith FAQs, where we’re asking and answering some of the big questions of the Christian faith. Is the Bible reliable? Can we really trust what it says? In this sermon, we consider the Bible’s own claims about its authority and truthfulness and we explore the re...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 5:27-32 at morning worship on Sunday 1st June 2025 in First Ards. Jesus’ call to Levi wasn’t about worthiness or reputation, it was a call of pure grace. In this sermon, we see how Jesus not only calls sinners but shares His table with them, welcoming the unlikely and the unwanted. And we’re challenged to respond: will we grumble at grace, or will we open our homes an...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 2 Samuel 10 at evening worship worship on Sunday 25th May 2025 in First Ards. David extends kindness to the Ammonites, but his peace offering is rejected, his messengers shamed and a war erupts that didn’t need to happen. In this sermon from 2 Samuel 10, we explore what happens when grace is misread as a threat, how pride escalates conflict and how David’s battles point us...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 5:17-26 at morning worship on Sunday 25th May 2025 in First Ards. When a paralysed man is lowered through a roof to Jesus, the crowd expects a miracle of healing, but Jesus sees a deeper need. In this sermon from Luke 5, we explore how Jesus’ authority goes far beyond restoring broken bodies; He forgives sin. This isn’t just a story about a man who walked again, but a...

Rev. Michael Bostock preaches Psalm 74 at evening worship on Sunday 18th May in First Ards. Psalm 74 is a contemplative prayer in the face of spiritual ruin. With the temple destroyed and God’s name dishonoured, Asaph pleads with the Lord not for comfort, but for God’s glory to be restored. This sermon reflects on the relevance of that prayer for today’s church, in a time of confusion, compromise...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 5:12-16 at morning worship on Sunday 18th May 2025 in First Ards. A man covered in leprosy comes to Jesus with a desperate request, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.” What unfolds is a powerful moment of grace. Jesus touches the untouchable and speaks cleansing with divine authority. This passage reveals not just the compassion of Christ, but His willingness...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches 2 Samuel 9 at evening worship on Sunday 11th May 2025 in First Ards. In this account from 2 Samuel 9, we see King David reach out in kindness to a forgotten, broken man named Mephibosheth. It’s a picture of grace: covenantal, undeserved and deeply personal. David’s mercy mirrors the greater mercy of God, who seeks out sinners, not for what they offer, but for the sake of H...

Ricky Ferguson (ruling elder in Ballyhenry Presbyterian Church in the presbytery of North Belfast and Ireland Team Leader for Wycliffe Bible Translators) preaches Isaiah 55 and shares about the work and witness of Wycliffe, one of our mission partners, at morning worship on Sunday 11th May 2025 in First Ards. What happens when people hear the Word of God in their own language? Lives are changed. H...

Rev. Craig Lynn preaches Luke 5:1-11 at morning worship on Sunday 4th May 2025 in First Ards. Peter thought he knew what he was doing, until Jesus stepped into his boat. This isn’t just a story about fish. It’s about a call that confronts, convicts and transforms. Jesus interrupts Peter’s ordinary day with a command that makes no sense, “let down the nets” and Peter obeys. The result? A miraculous...