SLE Church Sermons

When Christians gather together, they speak the gospel into the lives of both believers and unbelievers so that Jesus’ church is built up.

Without love, even the most impressive gifts and sacrifices are nothing, because love is the Christlike way that builds the church now and lasts forever.

The Holy Spirit makes all Christians essential members of Christ’s body and empowers them to serve others in various and interdependent ways.

The Lord’s Supper proclaims Christ’s self-giving death for his one body, so we must not receive it in ways that divide or despise that body.

When the church gathers, our conduct must not preach against the God we worship – obscuring His created order, dishonouring Christ, or dishonouring one another.

The gospel warns God’s people not to presume on spiritual privilege, but to flee idolatry and live with wholehearted loyalty to Christ.

Psalm 102 is a psalm of lament that teaches us how to go to God in the worst times of our lives and it teaches us how to pray when we don’t have the words ... Read More

Gospel-shaped freedom is not the right to serve ourselves, but the freedom to lay down our rights so others are built up and saved.

In these last days believers should hold their earthy things lightly and pursue undivided devotion to the Lord.

Since you belong to Christ, live faithfully with Him in the life he has given you.

People who belong to Christ must live in line with who they are in Him: pursuing purity, wise judgement, and righteousness.

Division in the church is caused by pride and jealousy, but the gospel humbles and unites.

God’s wisdom is Jesus Christ crucified, and God gives us his wisdom through his Spirit so that we can live for him.

The resurrection is not just the happy ending to the story of Jesus – it is the truth that holds the whole Christian faith together. On Easter Sunday, we’ll see why Paul insists that if ... Read More

The church in Corinth was full of division, pride, confusion, and compromise. Yet before Paul answers their many issues, he takes them to the cross. This Good Friday, we begin our series in 1 Corinthians ... Read More

Sometimes we look at those who prosper without God and wonder if we would be better off without God as well. Follow Asaph in Psalm 73 as he works through his thoughts and feelings of ... Read More

The LORD saves his people from judgment through the blood of the lamb and calls them to rightly remember his salvation.

Through his judgments, Yahweh reveals that he alone has power over Egypt, its gods, and Pharaoh’s heart.

God’s promises to save cannot be stopped by unbelief, opposition, or circumstances.

The LORD is determined to save His people and will not be thwarted by resistance, filling us with awe that He has come and revealed Himself, giving us assurance that His purposes cannot be stopped, ... Read More

We marvel in awe as God’s quiet covenant faithfulness cannot be stopped in the face of tyrannical power which threatens God’s covenant people.

Nahum closes by warning that when God exposes the true foundations of human power, collapse is not just deserved it is also unavoidable.

The future of God’s people is secure because the destruction of God’s enemies is assured.

Because of who the Lord is, he will judge injustice and become a refuge for those who trust him.

God sovereignly preserves his people through unseen means, even through unlikely, hesitant and imperfect servants.