Truth Is The Word

“If Jesus is not the Jewish Messiah then He is nobodies Messiah” Dr Michael Brown. For the last several weeks we, in Lonehill Village Church, have been preaching through John’s Gospel using a first-person narrative style as posted in my last message, but, If you missed the message I preached on John 4 (from the woman at the well's perspective) then click here. One aspect of this is the effect it h...

Preaching delivery can generally be categorised into one of 3 styles: Narrative, Expository, and Topical. Narrative preaching is basically a fancy name for biblical storytelling. Expository preaching consists of taking a portion of scripture and expounding (presenting and explaining) it's meaning. Topical preaching consists of selecting a specific subject and then applying the major biblical texts...

We have come to the end of the Revelation Revisited series which started in April 2015 and consisted of over 60 articles. For those of you who journeyed with me through this wonderful last book of the Bible – thank you. I do hope this series has been of benefit to you. I will be videoing a summary of the last half of the book, as I did for the first half, but in the meanwhile HERE is a printable d...

It is often said that sex and politics should be taboo topics in the church, so should politics be off-limits for preachers? Politics is commonly defined as ‘the activities associated with the governance of a country or province’. If this is how we understand ‘politics’, then of course all Christians should be interested and concerned with how their country is governed. In Romans 13 Paul instructs...

Why do bad things happen to good people? Shouldn't God be stopping them? I preached on this topic in a sermon titled ‘In the World, trials and sorrows; In Jesus, peace’ when I realised that I had been asked this question more times than I can remember and yet my response has always been the same. John 13-16 is the last long conversation Jesus had with His disciples before His crucifixion, and  we...

Jacolene Spangenberg Actually, ‘winner’ is not an appropriate word because this wasn’t a competition. Rather, I wanted the guitar to go to someone who would appreciate it and use it, and I also wanted it to be a truly Spirit-led exercise. Thank you all for writing in – if I had half-a dozen more guitars available I would have been delighted to give them away because your stories were so sincere an...

The Bible is full of music from Exodus 15 right through to Revelation 15.  Of course, the book of Psalms is the richest portfolio of songs in the scriptures, and Psalm 139 is among its greatest. The problem for us when it comes to the music of the Bible is that we are given the lyrics but not the melody, key, or tempo; we have to decide these for ourselves. For example, Psalm 139 can be sung slowl...

The second beast of Revelation 13 is connected to the constellation Taurus, the great earth monster of the night sky. This ‘load of bull’ depicts Religion in all its forms and anyone who has been following this series already knows what I think of religion. The word 'religion' itself is mostly used in a benign way as a label for the various ways humans worship God and seek to serve Him, but I use...

Last week I published THIS POST, a Word of Witness, which I feel is so very vital and relevant to us in today's uncertain times. On Sunday, I preached a similar message under the title of 'Isaiah Speaks to Our Nation'. The other sermon offered here, 'The Great Victory', was preached on Resurrection Sunday and is also designed to give hope in our current circumstances. . Isaiah Speaks to Our Nation...

I had the privilege of preaching at our local church on Resurrection Sunday and I picked up on the victorious aspect of the Cross and the empty tomb. It is quite easy to miss this aspect when we read the Gospel accounts but not when we read Paul’s letter to the Colossians. My sermon was a partial exposition of Colossians 2:13-15 and I linked it to the portion of Revelation Chapter Twelve that I co...

Hi there! In case you missed any of the sermons I have preached recently I have uploaded them to The Sermons Page. Additionally, here are some more of my published articles. Sermons The whole of the Great Commission I have summarised what this means by referencing  Matthew 28; Mark 16; Luke 24, and John 21. Our Great Commission may seem daunting, BUT God has equipped us to join with Him in His Mis...

Hello everybody. I have uploaded some more sermons onto THE SERMONS PAGE. These are also accompanied by the SERMON NOTES I used while preaching them for those of you who prefer to read rather than listen. The sermons are: The Gift of Fire  Luke 12 verses 49 and 50. What is the gift of fire exactly? Are we to embrace or resist fire? Jesus said  “I have come to bring fire on the earth, and how I wis...

My last regular Revelation Revisited post before Christmas concerned the second of the Woes described in Chapter Nine, and I asked you to consider the following graphic:   If you have not yet caught up to where we are in the book of Revelation, please have a look at the video overview on the website HERE or YouTube HERE. You can also view the summary as a pdf HERE Some readers might have recognise...

Hi folks, as we are going to continue going through our Revelation Revisited Series, I thought it would be a good idea to do a summary of what we have discussed so far. If you have fallen behind, please use this week to catch up so that we are up to date when we re-commence next week. There are a number of ways you can do this, for example, going through the posts on the Truth Is the Word website...

  The year 2016 is likely to be a challenging year for Christians all over the world, and particularly in South Africa. Here in my home country things are heating up politically and cooling down economically, and when fabric, even the fabric of society, is pulled at both ends it tends to tear. How will we cope with a rip-roaring year? Our ability to surthrive (thrive as we survive) will surely dep...

On the 25th December each year we choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. The incarnation of God the Son in the person of Jesus of Nazareth is the most profound supernatural intervention this world has ever experienced. I truly hope that the wonder of this miracle, this Good News, will grip your hearts and light up your eyes this Christmas time, and that you will be BLESSED! I have added so...

Hi there I've uploaded some new Sermons along with a few Articles which were published in Joy! Magazine. Please have a listen or a read, and as always your comments are welcome.   SERMONS: LUKE 15 'Lost and Found' The Prodigal son, the lost sheep and the missing coin are a trio of Jesus' parables. I realise these are well known and loved verses, but I would like you to listen to them with new ears...

Hi, I do hope you are gaining a lot from www.truthistheword.com. My goal is to let as many people know the glorious truth about the centrality of the Lord Jesus Christ as I can...  but I need your help.   How can you help? I have designed a Newsletter TruthNews in pdf format which contains highlights of various sections of my website, what's new in TITW world, Information on the current series, an...

Click here to access my latest sermon, the title is Jehovaha Shamma which means 'God is there'. The message is about the importance and dynamics of a gathered meeting of the church. Alternatively you can listen to it by simply clicking the play button below http://truthistheword.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20150614-10h00-Chris-Jehovah-Shammah-2.mp3   54  

I have added two new sermons to the site. Both are designed to encourage and inspire. The desires of your heart is based on Psalm 37:3-6 - Trust in the Lord, roll your burdens onto him, and find your satisfaction in a personal relationship with Jesus… and he will give us the desires of our hearts. Circles of influence is a collection of stories about four biblical characters know by few; men and w...

This article was published in Conspectus, the peer-reviewed journal of the South African Theological Seminary. The paper deals with same-sex marriage from a Biblical Christian perspective. It is not a treatise on homosexuality from either a Biblical or sociological point of view. The article deals with homosexuality, per se, only in as much as is necessary to examine the question of the Biblical C...

. It is hard to describe my 16 day experience of building the guitar of my dreams – a once in a life-time experience will have to do. . It started at 08h00 on a Tuesday morning. Three men, all over 60, committed to building a guitar and eager to accomplish this. The other two were very experienced carpenters but I was not – let’s say I knew that a chisel had a sharp end and a handle but I had no i...

  The word ‘new’ is being attached to many philosophies and movements nowadays. One of the newest News is a militant form of atheism promoted by people such as Richard Dawkins. . I have written this short article to provide some background reading into one of the better known books coming out of the New Atheist camp; ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins. . I am not an apologist; and I make no apo...

Published in SATS 'Pastor to Pastor' Harold Camping is the Calvinist radio Bible teacher based in California. He has sprung to notoriety by predicting that the Rapture would occur at 6 pm on 21st May, 2011. The day has come and gone and the Christian world is left puzzling over the question of how he could have got it so wrong. . Apart from radically reinterpreting Jesus words, that no one knows t...

Published in SATS "pastor to Pastor' I grew up in a conservative Methodist home and during my childhood years would sometimes hear disparaging comments about ’holly rollers’ who, I was told, were Pentecostals who rolled wildly on the floor talking in tongues. At the age of thirty I ‘got saved’ and my wife and I started attending an Assemblies of God church. I didn’t see anyone rolling on the floor...