Sunday Talks

If you are a Christian, you’ll hear both these calls from the last part of Hebrews 10 as the writer urges Christians never to give up! Remember all you’ve endured, if you quit now it’s all been a waste Look forward to all you stand to gain if you just keep going! There’s also a third element the writer weaves into his call to keep going as a Christian. And that’s: A severe warning in verses 26-31....

Hearing these words from the Bible, they are challenging calls to action for Christians as you walk out of here and go home and to work and to school. Are you a Christian? Then here’s how to live that out. 

Andrew preaches from Psalm 121.

Conscious of it or not, we are all switchers at some level (energy providers, mortgages, favourite food!). We are all deeply yearning for a better deal in life. If you’re a Christian, there is a straight-up warning here: Switching from Christ is not prudence, but madness! And if you are still wondering about what to think about the Christian gospel – there’s an all-out showcase of the good news he...

Did you ever think about the fact that the Bible makes a really big deal about something we tend not to want to talk about much? Sin. The Bible’s urgent diagnosis of you and me is a deep-seated, fatal, constant sin issue. Sin is no minor issue as far as the Bible is concerned. As far as God is concerned. Sin stains and sin destroys and sin separation us from God who is holy. You might be sceptical...

We’ve had a mortgage with the bank for some years now and I started to wonder if it really was the best deal in terms of rates and repayments – so I filled out the online form requesting more info and pressed submit. A few days later I received a phone call from one of their employees. But it ended up being a very short phone call, because, as she explained, we already had the best deal. Better th...

As the announcements came in on Friday that the government would finally lift most pandemic restrictions, one of the comments I heard on radio really struck me. Go live your lives – said one of the government ministers – urging people to enjoy their new freedoms. The old system of restrictions is gone, so go and live your lives. I was deep in Hebrews 7 at the time, thinking about the message from...

We might just be facing the perfect storm in 2022. I’m not talking weather events like storm Barra. Instead, I’m suggesting metaphorically that the cultural revolution that has engulfed us at full force these last ten years coupled with the pandemic-exhaustion that’s literally surging through our national and personal psyche has left Christians struggling. Now you add in the hard things going on p...

This year when we’ll all have the opportunities to make small, daily presentations to friends and family and the people we work with, so these four words will be the slogan that points us to that which is of first importance. A slogan that urges us and those we know to take the journey that leads to life - We preach Christ crucified. 

This week we welcome Lucas da Costa as he opens up 1 John 1:1-10 for us. 

The Call of Emmanuel - Matthew 16:24-28

The run up to Christmas this year has left us a bit weary. It’s been less dashing through the snow and a bit more dashing of our hopes . Less frosty the snowman , more NPHET the no-man . Are your nerves jingled, are your tempers jangled? Perhaps it’s this current weary context - coupled with the stuff about life that’s routinely distressing – that brings us here longing, hoping, craving to be remi...

Oz from our sister church, Ballycullen Community Church, joins us again this week to open up Psalm 56 with us. 

The first in our Christmas Series - Emmanuel: God With Us.  When is the last time you got into a panic? You might have forgotten a deadline or missed your bus, or ran late for an appointment. You might have been late to pick up the children from school – that happened to me this week. Yet, when panic strikes at a deeper level – at the level of what you could call spiritual panic – Christians...

This week Oz Muwaniri, from our sister church - Ballycullen Community Church, joins us in asking the question How Do We Hear? as he digs into Luke 8 and the Parable of the Soils .  

The image this week was really shocking, if you saw it... the foreign minister from the Pacific island of Tuvalu was dressed in his best suit, but there he was, standing knee deep in seawater as he spoke a video message to the COP26 conference in Scotland. His point was that rising sea levels are threatening his people’s very existence. That’s the power of a negative example for you. And the write...

Richard Philips, in his book on Hebrews describes how people feel when a preacher starts to get a bit more personal than they would prefer. When he speaks in general terms, he is, of course preaching – and that’s fine... but when he starts tackling real sin and stuff going on in their lives – that is not preaching but meddling. The writer to the Hebrews here in chapters 5 and 6 is definitely not j...

This week Tom Campbell teaches from Matthew 25:1-13 and the need to be ready for Christ's return. 

This week, Matthew Campbell, Director of Baptist Youth, joins us and shares from Romans 8, unpacking how God has told us as his children the end of the story - Jesus wins and how that radically transforms our perspective. 

What do we do when we feel like giving up? Enduring as a Christian means we need to get to grips with who Christ is and as we've seen so far in Hebrews there is a read danger of giving up, we need to hold on to the Son of God. The writer to the Hebrews shows us that we need to understand Jesus' high priestly ministry. Hold on to Jesus - Your Great High Priest. 

The author to the Hebrews invites, the Christians in the 1st century and us to reinstate the true image of Jesus Christ in our understanding. For years grim or tarnish or a lack of biblical teaching, beyond surface level and even the pull of cultural profanity where Jesus is concerned, they have left us  with a botched image of who Jesus is and what he's done The author of Hebrews knows well...

Today is decision day. That might not be how you feel right now. But it’s the repeated message of the writer of Hebrews. The message to the Christians in the first century, and to us as we read the Bibles open in front of us. Hearing his voice, the Bible – God’s powerful word read out and taught, proclaimed… today is decision day. And if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

Visiting speaker, Mark Ellis - Director of Christian Unions Ireland (CUI) shares with us from Exodus 15, where Israel seem to have lost sight of their past and God's salvation from Egypt, and they can't see there future - they are fixed on their present. They are in the widerness, where things are tough, and it's not long before they start to grumble amongst each other. They take their problems ho...

You’re under fire. You’re tired. A lot of things have changed in your life during the past 18 months or so. But, like to the recipients of this powerful letter in the 1st century, God’s word via this spokesman is to stay faithful to Christ . I think you’d agree that life as a Christian is a bit like a journey with the maps app activated on your phone. You are headed forward, towards Christ, the di...

One of the saddest things we can say about people is that most live without hope. There is a craving for hope in our world which we see in how often themes of hope are depicted in movies and stories. But God has spoken loudly and clearly through His Son - He became one of us to rescue us. God's supreme Son is the one who lived among us, identified with us and died for us. Do you see him?