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Sunday, 27 May 2018 | Keith Cooper // Genesis 2:18-25 | Perfect Match // // This is the first time in Genesis we see that something is ‘not good’. God himself knows what Adam needs in order for creation to be complete. Adam needs a helper. And none of the animals was a suitable helper. // // God has not made us to be alone. In marriage, he makes provision for us, knowing our needs. But more than t...

Sunday, 20 May 2018 | Emma Beddoes // Genesis 2:15-17 | Good & Evil // // Unlike us, God’s knowledge and understanding good and evil is not through his experience. God knows what is good, because it’s like him. He knows what is evil because it’s not like him. In eating the forbidden fruit, mankind attempted to stand in the place of God, deciding what is good (for himself) – believing the lie of th...

Sunday, 13 May 2018 | Rob Pomeroy Genesis 2:4-15 | How humans flourish What was God’s design and purpose, in shaping the world the way he did? When we look at today’s passage, what can we learn about ourselves and about God? In today’s sermon, Rob considers the who, what and why of the creation account in Genesis 2.

Sunday, 6 May 2018 | Dave Brown Genesis 2:1-3 | True rest “Rest” in Genesis 2 means cessation of activity. God rests, to model a pattern of behaviour for us. We can be sure that the world is safe in his hands while we rest. And God’s rest is the first “it is finished” moment in the bible. He declared that the work of creation was done. Rest is God’s gift to us and it is essential to our pattern of...

Sunday, 29 April 2018 | Keith Cooper Genesis 1:26-31 | God’s Image ‘Us’ here is not a matter of grammar; it’s matter of theology. God is one in three persons. We are the image and likeness of the living God. This includes a duty for us to act with dominion and responsible authority over his creation. The truth that we are made in God’s image is so important it’s repeated three times in this passag...

Sunday, 22 April 2018 | Keith Cooper Genesis 1:14-25 | From Form to Filling We are to worship the one true God who made the heavenly hosts. There’s a very small step between admiration and worship. Even today people head in the direction of worshipping or over-emphasising the stars and creation (at the expense of worship of the Creator). In this passage we discover a God who delights in his creati...

Sunday, 15 April 2018 | Dave Scotland Genesis 1:3-13 | From Chaos to Form We need God’s light on our life. But we can’t just have God’s glory in his life; we also need his governance. We see in this passage how God brings his rule and order to the planet, just as we should allow his rule and order to come in our lives. Jesus Christ is the light giver; he is the Light of the world. God is the God o...

Sunday, 8 April 2018 | Rob Pomeroy Genesis 1:1-2 | The beginning "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters." The full story of God’s creation is thus: in the beginning, God created everything, through Christ. Then we are remade, through the...

Sunday, 1 April 2018 | Andy Lawrie 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 | The great exchange ‘Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favourable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favourable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.’ The Corinthian church was spoiling the gospel. They were b...

Sunday, 25 March 2018 | Keith Cooper 2 Corinthians 5: 21 | The great exchange “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” Have we become desensitised to sin? We’re liars and cheats and gossipers. And we things that’s okay; we overlook it. Adam’s great sin in the garden of Eden was doing nothing – nothing to prevent the sin of Eve....

Paul Jackson preaching on 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 - Reconciliation. Hebrews 9:15 - Christ is the mediator of the new covenant. We are now ambassadors for Christ - his representatives to the world where we live. Ambassadors live in an embassy, where the ambassador's country and culture are promoted. We the church live in the embassy of heaven, promoting the lifestyle and morals of the kingdom. The fi...

Sunday, 11 March 2018 | Rob Pomeroy 2 Corinthians 5: 16-17 | A new creation and a new life “We no longer regard people according to the flesh.” In this passage, Paul shows us the reality of the new life found in Christ. As we continue our journey to Easter and the message of the cross, we see how the entire message of the bible points towards the Kingdom of God, via the sacrifice of Christ.

Sunday, 4 March 2018 | Nathan Paylor 2 Corinthians 5: 11-15 | The message of the cross – one died for all Paul has enjoyed a long and complex relationship with the Corinthian church. Prior to this letter, he’s written a painful letter of discipline. This has brought some strain into the friendship. The letter of 2 Corinthians is written against this background. Paul is engaging in his work because...

Sunday, 25 February 2018 | Keith Cooper So often we don’t make the gospel good enough. We sprinkle it with fear and we sprinkle it with death. Paul reminds us that there is joy in the gospel; joy in the preaching of the gospel. And we do it for God’s glory and because of his grace. In this final stretch of Romans (15:25-16:27), Paul emphasises: - The practical impact of the gospel - The essential...

Sunday, 11 February 2018 | Graham Webb – Love God – Encourage One Another – Transform Chester Do you love God? Do you love Jesus? In Joshua 22:5, Joshua is told to be very careful to love the Lord. In Matthew 6:33, Jesus tells us to seek first his kingdom; to put God’s purposes first. Are we careful to love the Lord? Do we put him first? We should. But there is no need for us to feel that this is...

Sunday, 4 February 2018 | Keith Cooper Mark 10:13-16. Jesus’ attitude here may have been a shock to the Jews. Boys were not considered significant until the age of 13; girls never so. Jesus’ counter-culture attitude reveals his loving heart. Further, Jesus demonstrates that salvation comes through a dependent, childlike faith.

Sunday, 28 January 2018 | Rob Pomeroy For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. (Romans 14:17-19, ESV) Rob takes us through the fourteenth chapter of Romans as we consider the practi...

Sunday, 21 January 2018 | Dave Scotland In Romans 13, Paul shows of three duties to which we are called: - to the state - to each other - to Christ

Sunday, 18 February 2018 | Dave Brown Paul echoes Jesus’ “new commandment” for us to love one another. A body that’s in a state of dysfunction is not a body that can work effectively – whether a human body or a church congregation. Jesus intervenes to correct this dysfunction, this separation within the church. In Romans 15:1-24, Paul raises a really cry for a unified, missional church.

Sunday, 14 January 2018 | Andy Lawrie Paul was passionate about the Gospel. In Romans 12 he shows what Christianity should look like, based as it is on a living relationship with God.

What else could go wrong? Lectern drops in the middle of preach to roars of laughter!

Paul Jackson Psalm 119:1-8 Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord!

Sunday, 24 December 2017 | Emma Beddoes Isaiah 9:6-7, ESV For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it...

Dave Brown Today Dave talks about God's divine design in the rescue of humanity. The tabernacle is shown as a divine picture of the coming of Jesus as our atoning sacrifice for sin.

Keith Cooper Romans 9:30-10:21. In this talk we discuss the paradoxical relationship between God’s sovereignty and our human responsibility. One moment, Paul is explaining the 100% Sovereignty of God and a moment later he tells us that we have complete responsibly for how we behave. The conclusion, it is God’s action alone that saves someone and secondly, it is because of people’s rejection of the...