Open House Church Sermons

During Israel's darkest spiritual hour, when every king had turned from God and idolatry reigned, God raised up Elijah from an insignificant backwater town to stand alone against evil. His very name declared his allegiance to Yahweh. God often works through surprising, unlikely people, and He still calls men and women of courage and integrity to stand firm in their own situations today. Bible...

The gospel offers the most powerful message in the simplest terms: believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. We stumble over this simplicity, either adding requirements to earn salvation or dismissing it as worthless because it comes free. Yet grace demolishes both objections. The Philippian jailer discovered that true freedom comes not through effort but through trusting in Christ, the One...

This sermon tackles the question of whether Christians can lose their salvation by examining passages like John 10 and Hebrews 6. The speaker explains that eternal life, by definition, cannot end and that no one can snatch believers from God's hand. Those who appear to fall away may never have truly trusted Jesus as Lord. The message offers assurance to believers that God's grip is unbre...

Genesis 15 reveals how God established His covenant with Abraham through a remarkable ceremony. When God alone passed between the severed animals, He took full responsibility for keeping the agreement, even if His people failed. This points forward to Christ bearing the covenant curse on the cross. Salvation is certain not because of human faithfulness, but because God Himself guarantees His promi...

God provides miraculously for those in desperate situations, but His provision flows through faith and often through the kindness of an intercessor. The widow received oil as long as she had jars to fill, revealing that God's grace exceeds what we often dare to believe. Jesus Christ is the ultimate intercessor who, through His death and resurrection, pleads eternally before God on behalf of a...

The peace of Christmas rests on fulfilled promises. Hundreds of years before Jesus, God declared through Micah, Isaiah, and Jeremiah that a king would be born in Bethlehem, of David's line, to a virgin. In Luke's account, every detail comes true. This king came not for a nativity scene but to rescue His people through sacrifice. Believers receive forgiveness and share in communion with H...

When facing terrifying uncertainty, Mary responded not with panic but with worship, declaring who God is: Lord, Saviour, mighty, faithful, and merciful. This pattern transforms how believers face their own fears and doubts. Rather than being stuck on our sin and struggles, we are called to lift our eyes to God's character and join the celebration of His goodness. True worship reminds us that...

After 400 years of prophetic silence, God broke through to announce the birth of John the Baptist, fulfilling Malachi's promise of one who would prepare the way for the Lord. This miraculous gift to elderly Zechariah and Elizabeth demonstrated that God had not abandoned His people but was actively preparing for something magnificent. Even when we experience seasons of silence and confusion, w...

In Luke 24, Jesus walks with two grieving disciples to Emmaus, explaining how Scripture pointed to His death and resurrection. Yet they only recognise Him when He breaks bread with them at the table. This final meal before His ascension reveals that hospitality is where we most closely imitate Jesus' ministry. The sermon challenges us to practise radical, grace-filled hospitality as the pract...

Luke 22 reveals the Lord's Supper as the central meal of redemptive history. It looks back to the Passover lamb whose blood brought freedom, and forward to the great banquet when Christ returns. Through eating and drinking together, believers remember the cross, experience unity as one body, participate tangibly in salvation, and are formed into a people who rest on Jesus' finished work...

When religious leaders challenged Jesus' authority while He taught in the temple, they hoped to discredit Him before the crowds. Jesus responded with a question about John the Baptist that exposed their hardened hearts and refusal to seek truth. This confrontation, just days before His crucifixion, forces us to reckon with who Jesus really is. We cannot dismiss Him as merely a good teacher. H...

Luke 14 reveals God's kingdom as a lavish banquet where the poor, crippled, and outcast receive the invitation the self-righteous refuse. Grace transforms how believers view outsiders, calling them to open their homes and tables to those who cannot repay. Sharing meals creates space for the gospel to be experienced as love, acceptance, and welcome. Mission happens in the ordinary as Christian...

Jim unpacks Psalm 146, one of five closing psalms that end the Psalter with uninterrupted praise. He challenges us to move beyond treating prayer like a wish list and to genuinely adore God for who He is: the maker of heaven and earth, the one who keeps His promises, and the King who reigns forever. This sermon reminds us that no person, possession, or circumstance deserves our ultimate trust. Onl...

When Jesus feeds five thousand people from five loaves and two fish, He reveals His identity as the promised Messiah who will host God's great banquet. This miracle is a glimpse of God's coming kingdom where hunger, pain and death will be swallowed up forever. The invitation to this lavish feast is free because Jesus Himself paid the price through His death. Every time believers share me...

Luke 7 reveals the stark contrast between a woman who knows her desperate need for grace and a Pharisee who sees no need for forgiveness. Jesus welcomes the messy and broken while exposing self-righteous hearts. Through Christ's death and resurrection, radically different people become one family, called to extend the same scandalous grace to others around real tables and in real relationship...

Jesus' habit of eating with tax collectors and sinners reveals the heart of God's kingdom: radical grace extended to those on the margins. Through His table fellowship with Levi, Jesus demonstrates that salvation comes not to the self-righteous but to those who recognise their need. His welcome transforms outcasts into honoured guests, and His example calls believers to extend the same h...

Through Naomi's journey from bitterness to blessing, God reveals how He transforms empty, broken lives into instruments of His redemptive purposes. Self-pity keeps us focused inward, but God calls us to trust His sovereignty, wisdom, and love even when circumstances make no sense. He works all things for good, ultimately pointing to the redemption found in Jesus Christ, who came through this...

Ruth 3 reveals God's sovereign protection even when human plans go sideways. Naomi's risky matchmaking scheme could have ended in disaster, yet Ruth and Boaz navigate the perilous threshing floor scene with remarkable integrity and faithfulness. Through their story, we glimpse the beautiful truth that Jesus is our ultimate Kinsman Redeemer who gladly paid the price to rescue us from the...

Isaiah 40 marks a dramatic shift from judgement to comfort, announcing that God will rescue His exiled people. The promise finds its ultimate fulfilment in Jesus, who came to bring captives home from the greater exile of sin and death. God's glory endures forever while human glory fades like grass, grounding all hope in His unchanging word and faithful rescue. Bible Reference: Isaiah 40:1–8 P...

Ruth chapter two reveals God's sovereign provision for two desperate widows who had nothing. Through Boaz, a man of standing who reflects God's loving kindness and goes beyond what the law required, Ruth and Naomi receive protection, provision, and hope. This beautiful story points forward to Jesus, our ultimate Redeemer, who lavishes grace upon us and restores what sin had taken. Believ...

Ruth 1 reveals how pain and suffering can either drive us away from God or draw us closer to Him. Elimelech's family fled famine by trusting their own plans rather than God's promises, and tragedy followed. Yet Ruth, a Moabite outsider, clung to Naomi and to Yahweh despite every reason to turn back. God is sovereign over all circumstances, but He is also good, and He works redemption eve...

Jim uses the London 2012 Olympics to illustrate the Christian life as a race requiring discipline, self control, and perseverance. Drawing on 1 Corinthians 9, he urges believers to run with the same passion athletes show for a perishable crown, but in pursuit of the imperishable prize of eternal life with Christ. This sermon speaks to anyone struggling with complacency or wondering how to live fai...

Psalm 18 reveals that God rescues His people not from obligation but because He genuinely delights in them. Even when life feels like drowning in floodwaters, God reaches down and draws us into a spacious place of freedom. This truth dismantles shame and low self-esteem, replacing them with the liberating knowledge that we are deeply loved and pursued by the God who sent Christ to rescue us from s...

Acts 12 reveals how God's sovereign power works alongside the humble prayers of His people. Though James was executed and Peter faced certain death, the church prayed earnestly and Peter was miraculously delivered. God's plans cannot be thwarted by any earthly power. We are invited to approach the throne of grace with confidence, knowing that our prayers matter to a Father who listens an...

Jesus teaches that His followers are already salt and light in this decaying, darkened world. Salt preserves against moral rot; light reveals and shines visibly for all to see. This is not self-improvement but outward focus. Christ has dealt with sin, freeing believers to live intentionally so others see good deeds and glorify the Father in heaven. Bible Reference: Matthew 5:13–16 Preacher: KJ Tro...