Sermons on Resurrection

Sermons on Resurrection

Skeptics & the Sovereign Saviour

Skeptics & the Sovereign Saviour – John’s Gospel chapter 6, verses 41 to 59 Who Do Some Believe and Others Don’t? Hearing the same message – “I am the bread of life”? Yet God’s plan cannot be thwarted. Grumbling Skeptics 41 At this the Jews [that is, the Jewish religious leaders] there began to grumble about him because he said, ‘I am the bread that came down from heaven.’ 42 They said, ‘Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father…

The Controversial Claim of Christ

The Controversial Claim of Christ – John’s Gospel chapter 5, verses 16 to 30 2 Things: Jesus, a controversial figure 16 So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him. John 5:16 Just before this He provoked controversy by healing an paralysed man on the Sabbath. Jesus’s controversial claim 7 In his defence Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working.’ 18 For…

4 Testing Questions

4 Testing Questions – Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 22 verses 15 to 46 3 Trick Questions to Jesus, and all over-turned. 15 The Pharisees got together and planned how they could trick Jesus into saying something wrong. 1 Serious Question by Jesus. 46 No one was able to give Jesus an answer, and from that day on, no one dared ask him any more questions. Matthew 22:15-46 Contemporary English Version (CEV) Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV,…

The King Revealed

The King Revealed – Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 16 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say the Son of Man is?’ 14 They replied, ‘Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.’ 15 ‘But what about you?’ he asked. ‘Who do you say I am?’ 16 Simon Peter answered, ‘You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.’ Matthew 16:13-28 New International Version –…

An Exalted Saviour – Easter Sunday

An Exalted Saviour – Philippians chapter 2, verses 9 to 11 9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Philippians 2:9-11 New International Version – UK (NIVUK) Holy Bible, New International Version® Anglicized, NIV®…