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Today we are going to meet men who come and bow before a king, not in a grand palace but humbly on the floor, recognising the Kingship of a baby. As this saviour is recognised as a king, we are both surprised, and reassured as Matthew points us to the Old Testament consistency of Jesus’ reign which calls us to {slide} i) recognise the king! As we see the responses of Herod and the Magi to this Kin...

Today we continue in our Advent series 'the Coming of a Saviour.' Zane Elliott takes us to a prophecy given around 7-800 years before Jesus was born, which pointed to how God would fulfil his wonderful promise to gather people who had rejected him back to himself as God's people, they would live in god's place enjoying God's blessing.  Today we explore God's Plan to d...

As we continue working through the big series for Advent called The Coming of a Saviour we've already considered Our Problem and God's Promise. This morning Jean Palmer is helping us look to the glorious future we have with God as we think about the theme 'God's Place.'

Today we continue the four part Advent series called: The coming of a Saviour. Last week we spent time considering Our Problem; and highlighted why we need a Saviour in the first place.  Today John Palmer is going to help us consider God's Promise as he preaches on Genesis 12:1-8, and 2 Samuel 

We don’t have to look far to recognise this world isn’t a world of perfection right now. If you’ve ever wondered why everything feels so messed up, why we find ourselves in conflict with other people, why God feels distant. Zane Elliott helps us see why, as we tackle the theme  ‘Our Problem’ and asks ‘why do we need a saviour?’

This is the final sermon in the series we've been working through in 1 Peter.  Last week we saw how leaders can do that; by emptying themselves, and following the example of the Good Shepherd. Watching over the flock by exercising a servant leadership under the great shepherd, the Lord Jesus.  In this last section Zane Elliott help's us follow Peter’s train of thought  which moves from l...

The failures of Christian leaders are often high-profile, and always deeply harmful to a Christian church, and its members.  In 1 Peter 5:1-4 Peter helps Christian people think through how leaders can model the Lord Jesus as they watch over the flocks entrusted to them.  As Zane Elliott opens 1 Peter 5:1-4 we are going to see how leaders are not exempt from the trials of the Christian life, but Ch...

Over the next three weeks we'll finish the series we started earlier in the year in 1 Peter.  As we work through this passage today  we’re going to anchor the very real suffering we experience in i) The Pattern of Jesus vv.12 &13, we’re going to consider the purpose of ii) Suffering for Jesus vv.14-18 and how we are sustained by iii) The Example of Jesus v.19, so that we can not only endu...

Today we are joined by ECM Mission Partner Féy Cotter who works to mobilise mission work in Europe. She will open Matthew 9:35 -10:8 and 28:18 -20. She will help us consider when Jesus commissioned his disciples and sent them out to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom to the ‘lost sheep of Israel, and then anchor this within the Great Commission.

Heading back into the Gospel of Luke, we will be exploring Luke 17:11-19 with John Palmer

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' Zane Elliott walks us through Chapter 9, focussing on verses 18-36, 44-51. Right through the first nine chapters, Luke has been pointing us to Jesus’ identity. The big question, on everyone’s lips has been “who is Jesus?” its the question even Herod was asking in v.7, which goes to the heart of the chapter.  Today, we’ll see the def...

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' Eric Geiger opens chapter eight of Luke's Gospel for us. He will major on the parable of the Sower and point us to Luke's absolute certainty that 'Jesus is Lord over all' through the rest of the chapter.

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' John Palmer opens chapter six for us and helps us consider the Kingdom of God - it is a Radical Kingdom.

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' Jean Palmer opens chapter seven of Luke's Gospel for us

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' Zane Elliott shows us how Luke answers an important question: Who is qualified to enter the Kingdom God? Who is qualified to be a disciple? To help us answer that question we are going to focus in detail on two disciples. The first is Simon Peter who has the best day’s fishing ever witnessed. vv.1-16 The second is a man with the ter...

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' Jean Palmer is opening Luke 4:14-44, and helping us think about Grasping the Good News of Jesus.  We'll be thinking about i) Grasping the good news in the sense of understanding how Jesus saw his mission. Rooted in the Old Testament (Isaiah 61) And then ii) Grasping in the sense of us taking hold of the Good News and running wi...

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty' we think about the Identity of the Messiah, Jesus.  Identity  has become fundamental to how Western people define themselves, it's almost sacred, something that is self defined, and should never be transgressed.  Today, in Luke 3 and 4 we are going to consider what is revealed to us of Jesus’ Identity, as he begins his earthly...

In this next sermon in the series 'Know with Certainty'  Luke takes us to the birth of a child  i) In Bethlehem, during a census. It looks like the decision of the Roman Emperor, but it's not what you'd expect. He also takes us  ii) to the temple in Jerusalem for the presentation of a first born son. This was a totally normal act of worship in any devout Jewish family, but the...

In this series a series exploring the Gospel of Luke, called 'Know with certainty.'  Zane Elliott will walk us through some key points in chapter 1 of Luke, and help us connect with Luke's goal of purpose - that his readers would  know with certainty the things that have been handed down to them about Jesus. He wants his hearers to have full assurance that despite the difficulties o...

Neels Janse van Rensberg the CEO of the Bible Society of New Zealand opens Romans 10:14-18, and helps us think through the commission Christians have to participate in the Great Commission.

We come to the end of our journey with Abraham. As we come to Abraham’s final days we are going to see that he was singularly committed to the purpose of God, in a way that comes with a great cost. Like Abraham, believers, are called to pursue God’s purpose at great cost. He hadn’t seen the promises of God to him fulfilled, only in part, but he trusted God was as good as His word and would keep hi...

Today Zane Elliott walks us through the longest chapter in Genesis. Chapter 24 has a whopping 67 verses, and takes around ten minutes to read aloud. Because it is such a huge chapter we won't be giving it a thorough line-by-line explanation, we are going to be touching down in a few places as we journey with Abraham’s servant, to find Isaac a wife. We are going to stop along the way on his jo...

This week we are back in Genesis with Abraham, and we'll be thinking about the steadfast promises of God as we join Abraham in a time of great sorrow. Following his wife Sarah's death Abraham stands on a precipice: it’s a crisis moment which reminds us i) God’s people suffer loss before receiving his promises vv.1-2.  As we look at the way that Abraham deals with the Hittites to secure a...

In this sermon Simon Martin, the Vicar-General for the Diocese of Nelson opens 1 Peter 4:1-7 and helps the church think through what it means to live as Christian people in the light of the end - Jesus victorious return.

The theme, as we gather to remember the death and resurrection in the Lord's Supper is; Confidence in Christ's Example. Zane Elliott opens 1 Peter 4:1-6 and helps us think through how Christians can arm ourselves with the mind of Christ as we face i) Pagan Opposition vv.3-4, then we'll see how we should live as exiles as we make ii) A Christian response vv.1-2 and then we'll  r...