"gospel" Tagged Sermons (Page 5)

"gospel" Tagged Sermons (Page 5)

Gentle Restoration

Paul has continually pleaded with the Galatians not to live under the slavery of the Law but to embrace the freedom of the gospel and this week we see another reason why he cares so much about this.  If we live under the Law we are tempted to view other people who get caught in sin as inferior.  Maybe we are even tempted to profit of their sinfulness by letting it justify our own sin, “at least I’m not that…

No Condemnation

We broke from our Galatians series to serve in our local community during our normal church time.  Instead we had an evening service where Pastor Joe looked at the encounter between Jesus and a woman caught in adultery.  One of our worst fears is to have all of our worst moments, greatest mistakes and darkest thoughts exposed for others to see.  We fear that we will be judged and that no one will ever forgive us.  Well when we meet the…

Not just a happy story

As Christians we often face the accusation that our faith is just a happy story that we tell ourselves… a fairytale we tell children… or a happy ending to calm our fear of the afterlife.   Basically they say the gospel is a people-pleasing message that placates the Christian masses.  Paul was also accused of being a people-pleaser with the gospel he preached in Galatia… accused of preaching salvation by grace alone as a way of getting the Gentiles to…

No Other Gospel

As an Apostle Paul had the unenviable job of planting churches across the Gentile world and having to leave them to on and plant other churches.  He would appoint elders and entrust them to the Lord and then just have to pray and hope that they followed in the way of the gospel.  So you can imagine Paul’s distress when a report arrived that some of the churches he planted in the province of Galatia had abandoned the gospel and…

Community that participates in the gospel

Over the last two weeks we have seen what the role of leaders in the church is but this week we move on to look at what the role of every Christian is in the church.  What motivates you to come to church services?  Is a sense that you are the gatekeeper of how you like things to be?  Is it because you want to get something out of the church?  Are you just floating about trying to find something…

Gospel saturated leadership

Last week we saw that God’s plan for the church was for elders to be the leading group.  This was because they were the ones who pointed the sheep to their great shepherd Jesus.  This week we see what the life of one of these elders needs to look like and how a church should treat them.  As we seek to be a church that amplifies the gospel it is vital that our leadership is saturated with the gospel and…

Community led by the Gospel

Thoughts on church leadership are many and varied.  In our heart of hearts we feel that we should be looking at the New Testament to discover who should lead the church but when we do we can easily get confused.  There we see the unique group of men, the Apostles, leading the church and having Christ-given authority; but with no Apostles in the church today who should lead?  This morning we are going to look at who it was that…

Community that makes disciples

The Great Commission is one of the most famous commands of Jesus Christ and yet if we are to be honest we have to acknowledge that for some reason the church has struggled to keep it.  But we have to see that this command was given by Jesus off the back of the most amazing event in history – the resurrection!  It was with resurrection authority that Jesus gave the church this commission and we should be moved by this…

Community that preaches the gospel to one another

The call to love one another is as old as Christianity itself.  Jesus said that it is how the world will know that we are His disciples.  What what does it really mean for the church to love one another?  As we examine Romans 12 we will see that the kind of community Jesus is calling us to is one of radical love… one where we treat one another as brothers and call one another holy.

Community that worships through the gospel

Worship… one of those easily spoken but hard to explain terms that gets thrown about all the time in church.  And yet worship is probably the definitive call of God on our lives… He longs for our worship… our devotion… our love… heart, soul and strength!  When we think of “an awesome worship time” we normally think of an experience where we feel we connected with God… but the worship that God demands is not about a felt experience of…