Healing & Hope
'Love' tagged sermons
This sermon examines the significance of the sinless Son of God becoming sin on the cross so that believers may become the righteousness of God ( 2 Corinthians 5:21). Scriptures written over a timespan of around 1000 years are used to show the depth of what God did in sending His Son, Jesus for a…
Taking a look at the response of the two men crucified either side of Jesus this sermon addresses the issue of having a hard heart and how Jesus is the cure.
After a recording of the 2016 graduation Debbie tells us about God’s goodness to her and how she got involved in Blackpool. We are glad she is here!
Paul Calvert tells us some good news and prayer pointers. He has worked in Israel for 16 years as a journalist and runs a Christian Community radio station in Bethlehem. Paul has a radio program which goes to England and Canada interviewing people in the holy land, Both Arab and Jew, looking at life, the…
This sermon focuses mainly on 1 Corinthians 12 and examines the list of gifts, the context for their inclusion and a challenge to believers to accept their own responsibility to seek the gifts so that they can fulfil their role in the Body of Christ.
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…