St Matts Anglican Church Sermons

20250406 6PMp JB Spiritual Forgetfulness Are we forgetful?  Do we forget what God has done for us in Christ? 5 points We are adopted we are sons, as children of the Creator and Sustainer of the world. Children of the Father, not just slaves. Brought into the family as an heir, we have an inheritance. It also brings security and an intimacy with the Father. “Abba, Father.   We are co-heirs with Chr...

20250323 6PMp RI Romans 6 – More Really Good News Dead & Free from the Penalty of sin.  Free from the Dominion of sin. And now alive in Jesus --- Who are we? .. how do we describe ourselves? In Romans, Paul talks about sin … and he also talks about grace. He talks about sin increasing, and about grace also abounding. “How do we define ourselves in terms of sin and grace?” In our experience, do...

20250316  as 6PMp CD Romans 5 Really Good News Justified, by faith. It’s a scary thing if your hope is in politics or in technology, or in industry, or in institutions etc… Our culture is creating ambient anxiety. We live in world where optimism is being replaced by anxiety. We are worried about many aspects of our society and lives. But we have Romans 5 – really good news. Romans zooms out to giv...

Continuing our sermon Series on the Book of Romans.  This sermon considers Paul's argument on who would be judged righteous whether Jew or not, circumcised or not, (even Christian or not), based upon what they have done and even on how they judge others. It uses an analogy of how "coloured dye can penetrate and get into chalk" to point out that sin really does get in! And it points to the Really G...

20250126 6PMp CD Speaker: Chris Donald. Using tools the wrong way, leads to broken tools.    So, “What is our purpose?  What are you here for?” Christopher Morley wrote: “There is only one success: To spend your life in your own way,” Sums up our culture: just about self The Bible explains our purpose – created in the image of God, but fallen through sin, redeemed through Jesus’ sacrifice for us....

Speaker: Rob Denham Are we living as a Caterpillar or as a Butterfly?  Are we living as before or are we living a transformed life?

20241201 6PMp RI Vision and Hope On Vision Sunday, we look forward to what lies ahead.  In a year, or in the next four years.  There are various kinds of Hope. “Wishful thinking” type hope, or “Wait and see type hope”  e.g. Christmas,  exams, growth of children.   What is your hope?  What is your hope in Christ? In times of blessing, or in times of agony? Do we yearn for God himself, or just yearn...

20241124 6PMpDT Some final exhortations Many exhortations, but 3 to be considered here: Respect your leaders: But respect is to be earned, not just demanded. It is correct that leaders should be respected, because of their good leadership. Be patient, with everyone.  Compassionate, slow to anger.  Patience is a characteristic of God.  Paul urges Christians in many places in his letters to be patie...

Meet Secular Scott. Secular means "of this world". In 1 Thessalonians ch 5 verses 1-11, Paul reminds them to live for the return of Jesus, and the Day of The Lord.  Speaker: John Batten.

20241027 6PM CD 5 Qualities in Kingdom Relationships w QandR Background to the Thessalonian Church is from Acts 17. In a setting of persecution during the beginning of the Thessalonian church, Paul flees to Athens but wants to go back and spend more time with the new converts.  He sends Timothy who brings news, and Paul writes to the Thessalonian Church. From his letter, we can learn 5 qualities i...

20241020 6PMp RI How should we measure ministry? Paul discusses his ministry among the Thessalonians, measuring it not by earthly standards, but before God.  Shall it be measured by fruitfulness? Jesus’ ministry ended on a cross! What looked like failure turned out to be very fruitful – we are part of that fruit!  God determines outcomes. Some, like Jeremiah, did not see the fruit of their labour,...

20241013 6PMp RI Anticipation of what is coming. Term 4 in school is the last before Christmas. For many, it may also mean exams, or the prospect of the time after the exams. Anticipation requires action. Thessalonians anticipates the return of Jesus, but how do we see this? Anticipation for the Thessalonians, led to action. It radically changed their lives. The Thessalonians turned, they served a...

20241006  We don’t know what it is was in this psalm that the Psalmist,  David, was seeking security from, but we know that for much of his life, he was escaping from people who wanted to kill him, We can’t say to Jesus, “You don’t know what it is like", because he does know. He suffered for us.  Furthermore he is in heaven pleading on our behalf.  We learn that God counsels us. David says, “I kee...

20240929 6PMp DT Psalm 22 The writer of this psalm wrote this down a thousand years before it happened.  At least 9 specific events that were predicted and then happened a thousand years later.    My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? The broken relationship between Jesus and his Father is expressed here. He says, “I am a worm”, … Christ becomes unworthy, because he takes the sin of the world...

20240922 6PMp JB Psalm 40 Psalms and songs and words and meanings – we can all experience the meaning these can have upon us. Psalm 40 was written by David, who became king in Israel. It expresses a time turmoil and difficulties for David.  But in this time of trouble, David found comfort in God. David looked to the past, when God had been his helper and comfort.  He looked to the future, for the...