Liberti Sermons

At Easter we celebrate that Jesus died for us and rose again for us, but the gospel accounts don't end there - Christ also ascended in bodily form to the right hand of God the Father. Surprisingly, Jesus said that "it is better" that He departs from earth and goes to Heaven. Listen as we unpack why it is good news for each of us that Jesus Christ is now ascended, and the impact &amp...

As Jesus stands before the women at his resurrection, he shows us that life in him isn't constrained by death, it brings peace beyond the grave and is more powerful than the sin that held him to the cross 3 days earlier. An impossible story of life from death.

What does the complete church look like? It finds its completion in Christ.

God's command for submission is not about stealing your joy, it is a path towards joy and we're in good company we do submit, for our example is Christ.

Now that we've put off sin, we hear the call to put on Christ. In this part of the letter we see the new clothes given to God's people - righteous clothes that make the right kind of impression in a sinful world.

The wrath of God is coming 4 sin - so put it away. Come to Christ, receive his grace, fill your heart with love for him and put off your sin.

The old self is dead, the new life in Christ is alive because he is alive. How do we walk well in this new life? Set your mind on things above - set your mind on Christ.

Nothing grows well in the shadows and yet we are lured towards them with empty promises of growth and fullness. If we want fullness, we need Christ.

Jesus is the only path to spiritual fullness and we can be convinced that he is because he fills his people with his power, saves his people from spiritual death and brings them eternal life through his resurrection.

The minister of Christ joyfully toils for the maturity of the church. Are we prepared like Paul and Christ before him to give our all for the sake of the church?

The world is constantly trying to de-stabilise the Christian from their faith. What is the remedy? Look at who Christ is, Christ he has done and we are in Him.

In some of the most important verses on Christ in the bible, we are given what the Apostle Paul knows is the most effective remedy for strengthening the weak believer - a picture of the supremacy of Christ.

The world presses in on us all time pushing us to conforms and submit. Suffering always seems to lurking around the corner. Struggle is a daily battle. What should the christian do in the difficulty of life - just keep on going? There is a better way - keep on remembering.

Hope and faith come to us in Christ Jesus through the Gospel and this Gospel of love moves us to be a people of love.

Prayer is an act of dependence on God and its act of defiance against Satan. We are demonstrating that more than anything we want to see him push back the darkness and shine the light of the glory of the gospel into the hearts of more and more people across this city. darkness & shine the light of the glory of the gospel into the hearts of more and more people across this city.

Isaiah looks forward to our today and sees a people overflowing with thankfulness. That is a distinctive mark of God's people - drawing up joy from the well of our salvation and overflowing with thankfulness.

There is no better way to end this year then looking to Jesus and putting your hope firmly in him. Eternal joy, safety and peace is ours because of Him and so much of it is our to have now as his Spirit dwells in us. Put your hope in Jesus this advent season.

We wait in the darkness with hope because the light of life has come!

Waiting is one of those human experiences that is a real struggle sometime. We all experience it, in the every day irrelevance to the significant life moments and how we wait matters. The Advent story leads us to wait with hope in the promises of our faithful God.

How do we work through the frustration of slow or no fruit in the christian life? We tend to our spiritual life so the fruit of the Spirit can grow unhindered through clearing out sin, soaking in the gospel, watching out for our enemy and seeing God's hand in the season of suffering.

When we're struggling to live the fruitful life that God calls us into, we can look to his character and see that he is faithful to finish the race for us.

An impatient and unkind christian is one of the ugliest things you can see because a heart filled with the love of Christ wouldn’t act like that. If you want to grow in godly patience, goodness and kindness, fill your heart with the love of God. What that look like? It’s listening to his voice in his word, looking to his cross and walking by the Spirit

A look at how the first three characteristics of the fruit of the Spirit show us the path to inner fruitfulness

"By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit." We can bear nothing of eternal worth outside of Christ - but there is a profound beauty that flows from our union with Christ - the glory of God, the very thing that we were created for. Would it be our joy to pursue that and celebrate it in our lives and others this week.

Those who are saved have not just been saved to be free, we've been saved to be free to follow the Spirit. What does it look like to follow the Spirit? Firstly it is to put away the desires of the flesh.