Sermons from November 2025

Sermons from November 2025

The Sign

The Sign – Isaiah chapter 7 The Christmas Surge! No need to panic.  Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14 The birth of Jesus is seen in the birth of this child 700 years before. Fear  Now the house of David was told, ‘Aram has allied itself with Ephraim’; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the…

God Our Refuge, Strength and Help

God Our Refuge, Strength and Help – Psalm 46 The Setting The Assyrian King Sennacherib with a huge army besieges Jerusalem (2 kings 18-19) – “God cannot help you” he says to taunt King Hezekiah. But God delivers Jerusalem, and the Assyrians are all slain. It is thought that Hezekiah commissioned this Psalm as a memorial. We have a God to run to, who can never be defeated.  The Power of God  God is our refuge and strength,    an ever-present help…

Don’t Be A Judas!

Don’t Be A Judas! – John’s Gospel, chapter 13, verses 18 to 30 History is full of betrayals, but don’t you be a Judas! Judas’ betrayal revealed ‘I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfil this passage of Scripture: “He who shared my bread has turned against me.” 19 ‘I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who…

The Servant King

The Servant King – John’s Gospel chapter 13, verses 2 to 17 A staggering humility 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in very nature God,    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;7 rather, he…

Loved to the End

Loved to the End What does Jesus think about me?  Here is the answer: John 13:1.  It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. John 13:1 Without God there is no love.  Loved eternally: “his own”. Loved completely: “to the end”. God is love: 1 John 4:8 “his…