Healing & Hope
'Love' tagged sermons
This sermon examines the biblical evidence for the personal nature of the Holy Spirit and then, from that foundation, uses Romans 8 and Galatians 5 to see what the hallmarks of a Spirit-filled are. What does it look like when a person is filled with the Holy Spirit on an ongoing basis. This is what…
Using entertaining and inspiring personal testimonies, Matt Parsons from Lifeline Ministries in Cornwall, explains how baptism in the Spirit and fire can radically impact the way we see people’s lives transformed as we go about our daily lives.
We see how God longs to forgive and this is particularly relevant when we realise how we have done wrong. This desire to forgive is realised in the death of Christ on the cross. This message is foundational to being able to fully understand forgiveness and move on to forgive others.
Can we make God happy? This is a question that is examined, with a starting foundation that as God’s children and totally forgiven, nothing can make God love us more or love us less. However, there are things that we can do to please Him and in fact we are encouraged to find out what…
From a God-given vision (in Isaiah 61 ) and a ‘no strings attached’ reaching out of love to the community, Steve and Yvonne Yates and their church in Bootle, Merseyside, have seen their area transformed and at the same time their church grow. You will be inspired and challenged as you listen to their story…
This sermon addresses two issues. A core belief we have as a church is that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus. However, it is also clear that salvation leads to a changed lifestyle. This sermon examines what this new lifestyle looks like and the sort of behaviour that is associated with being…
This is the first in a 3 part series on ‘Partnership’. Previously this was referred to as ‘Membership’. This series looks at what is involved in making Partnership meaningful. This sermon looks at how the New Testament describes the church as a body and a building and what this means in terms of Christians’ relationships…
When we consider the Christmas Story we see both weakness and timing. Jesus, in his weakness, from birth through to death, is able to identify with all our weaknesses and save us from the fear of death. Also He came at the perfect time, had perfect timing during His lifetime and also in His death.…
Based on Genesis 26:18 we see that we can build on what has gone before by re-digging wells. We see how we can re-open the wells of evangelism, healing, creativity, worship and love for the community which are part of our identity as a church. These wells can be blocked and we focus on ‘discord’…
This straight-talking sermon shows how small seeds of unforgiveness if not dealt with can lead to large roots that block our vision and wreck our lives. This is really worth listening to, whether you have longstanding problems with forgiveness or just to prepare you for the next time you will need to forgive!