Open House Church Sermons

Habakkuk ministered during a time of national crisis, seeing evil and injustice reign in Israel while God seemed absent. His bold, honest wrestling with God models how believers should face evil times: clinging to God's grace without pretence, yet never walking away. God's answer pointed beyond Babylon to the cross, where He brought salvation out of the greatest injustice the world has e...

Psalm 1 presents two ways to live: the path of the righteous and the path of the wicked. The righteous delight in God's word, flee from sin, and prosper in their relationship with Him like a tree planted by streams of water. The wicked are like weightless chaff blown away, destined for destruction. Yet we cannot achieve this righteousness on our own. Only through Christ, who bore our sins on...

This sermon examines what it means to embrace a distinctly Christian worldview in a pluralistic, secular age. Tracing how Western society has abandoned its Christian foundation, the message calls believers to be transformed by renewing their minds, testing all things against Scripture. Christians are urged not merely to hold right doctrine but to live it out, engaging culture with conviction roote...

When we run from God, we create pits of distress and separation that we cannot escape on our own. Jonah's three days in the great fish reveal that God pursues His wayward children with relentless grace, bringing them to recognise that salvation belongs to Him alone. This account points to Jesus, who entered the deepest pit of death and rose again so that all who turn to Him receive forgivenes...

Ephesians 1:1-6 reveals the breathtaking reality that God chose His people before creation, not because of anything they offered, but out of His good pleasure and fatherly love. This eternal choice carries a transforming purpose: to make believers holy and blameless, adopted as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ. The passage anchors Christian confidence in knowing that the God who began this...

In Isaiah 52 and 53, God promises to send a servant who will succeed where we have failed. Jesus came to carry the burden of our rebellion against God, willingly stepping in front of divine justice to be crushed for our sin. Though it looked like defeat, His suffering was victorious: He bore our guilt, disposed of it completely, and rose to restore us to the Father. For believers, Christmas is cau...

Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, a real event in history that occurred in Bethlehem during the reign of Caesar Augustus. The angels announced good news of great joy: a Saviour has been born to rescue us from sin and restore us to God. This message brings two profound outcomes—glory to God and peace to those who believe. When we grasp how much we have been forgiven, God's peace...

Mary's song of praise reveals the Lord as the eternal God, Saviour, and Mighty One whose name is holy. He regards the humble, shows mercy to those who fear Him, and does great things for His people. Adoring God involves magnifying Him by declaring His greatness, rejoicing in His salvation, and offering our whole lives in worship. Bible Reference: Luke 1:46–55 Preacher: Josh Hartog

Drawing from Ephesians 2, this sermon challenges us to rethink what church really is. Jesus is building a unified community from all backgrounds, tearing down walls and making us one family. Rather than approaching church as consumers looking for the right product, we're called to show up like a working bee, ready to serve and build each other up. Our motivations and expectations shape everyt...

In Jesus Christ, God did not remain distant but took on human flesh to identify with us completely. He suffered and died to bring lost sinners into His family, and He is not ashamed to call believers His brothers and sisters. This truth transforms how we live: because Christ became vulnerable for us, we can get involved with others at personal cost. His courage in facing the cross for the joy of s...

Jacob's deathbed blessing becomes a warning when he reaches Dan, calling him a snake in the grass. Seeing his own failures and Dan's future compromises, Jacob cries out the Bible's first Advent prayer: "I wait for your salvation, O Lord." This sermon traces the tragic trajectory of compromise from Jacob's deception to Dan's entrenched idolatry, culminating in the...

Romans 8:29-30 reveals what has been called the golden chain of salvation: those God foreknew, He predestined, called, justified, and glorified. Because each link connects the same people, none are lost along the way. This means Christian assurance does not depend on human steadfastness but on God's unchanging purpose and faithfulness. Believers can face life and death with confidence, knowin...

Jesus addresses a man seeking help with an inheritance dispute, but refuses to play judge. Instead, He confronts the real issue: where we seek security and significance. Through a parable about a rich fool who hoarded wealth yet lost his soul, Jesus exposes the futility of living as if this world is all there is. He calls both disciples and seekers to a radically different life, one rooted in God&...

This sermon traces the covenant through Scripture, from Abraham to Pentecost and beyond, showing how covenant theology holds all of Reformed belief together. It demonstrates how the Old and New Testaments are united in God's promise to be our God, fulfilled perfectly in Christ. Through Jesus' blood, believers enter a new and better covenant, gaining full access to God with complete assur...

This sermon examines Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch from Acts 8, showing how God orchestrates salvation for an unlikely seeker. Despite being a Gentile, a eunuch excluded from temple worship, and a wealthy official, this man searches for the God of Israel. God sends Philip not as a messenger with all the answers but as an ordinary believer to explain the Scriptures. Through Isaiah 53, Philip pres...

Every sin incurs a debt to God that we can never repay, yet through faith in Jesus and honest confession, God blots out our transgressions completely. This radical forgiveness transforms how believers relate to those who have wronged them. Rather than seeking revenge or nursing bitterness, those who have received such undeserved grace are called to extend that same gift to others, cancelling debts...

This sermon unpacks the second commandment and the regulative principle of worship central to Reformed identity. It traces how the early reformers rediscovered this commandment and insisted that God, not human invention, must direct our worship. The message warns against shaping God in our own image and challenges us to worship Him in spirit and truth, as revealed in Jesus Christ. With the golden...

From James 5, this sermon examines what it means to pray with expectant faith for healing. Phil addresses the tension between God's power to heal and His sovereign wisdom when healing does not come. He unpacks the role of elders, the use of oil, the connection between sin and sickness, and how even frail, ordinary believers like Elijah can pray with confidence. The message calls us to trust n...

Stephen's defence before the Sanhedrin traces God's saving work from Abraham to Christ. He shows that our faith is not a human invention but revealed by the God of glory who enters into covenant with His people. Throughout history, this revealed religion has always been resisted, from Joseph's brothers to Jesus' crucifixion. Yet the Bible tells one unified story of redemption,...

This sermon challenges common misconceptions about the end times, explaining that when Christ returns, fire will purify the earth rather than destroy it. Believers will meet the Lord in the air to bring Him back to a renewed world where righteousness dwells. God created the world for Christ and placed humanity as stewards to care for it. Despite sin's damage, God's redemption extends to...

Jesus tells His disciples a parable about a servant and master to show what it means to exercise faith and live as servants in God's kingdom. Through the story of ten lepers who were cleansed as they obeyed, we learn that true faith acts on God's commands even when we do not understand or feel ready. A Christian is someone who recognises God owes them nothing, yet serves joyfully out of...

Jonah's flight from God reveals how easily hearts can harden against His call through bitterness, resentment, or simply not wanting to do what He asks. Yet God remains sovereign over creation, sending storms and mercies to pursue His people. No one can outrun His presence or His grace. The ultimate expression of that relentless mercy is Jesus Christ, who stops our running and hiding by offeri...

In Luke 5, Jesus heals a paralyzed man lowered through a roof by desperate friends. But before healing him, Jesus declares his sins forgiven, sparking accusations of blasphemy from religious leaders. Jesus proves His authority to forgive by healing the man instantly with just words, revealing Himself as the promised Son of Man who came to bear our sins. This passage calls us to trust Jesus with ou...

Acts 6 introduces Stephen, a deacon whose life displays three marks of Spirit-filled living: wisdom grounded in Scripture that opponents cannot refute, total focus on the gospel truth that Jesus has fulfilled all that the temple and Moses represented, and a visible reflection of God's presence that even his accusers could see. When life centres on God's glory rather than our circumstance...

Ephesians 2 reveals the ultimate transformation: from spiritual death and slavery to sin into resurrection life and heavenly victory in Christ. This stunning reversal flows entirely from God's rich mercy and great love, not from any human effort or merit. Believers now live with purpose, walking in good works God prepared in advance, while all boasting is excluded and all praise belongs to Hi...