Preached on Sunday 1st December 2024 by Pete Dickson, one of our elders.
The first in our advent series.
Introduction
This is God’s purpose
Knowledge of God’s purpose gives confidence
Confidence of what we know enables us to please the Lord
Easter: THE Great Game Changer (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
Preached on Sunday 31st March 2024 by Gavin McGrath, one of our elders.
A one-off sermon for Easter Sunday
The resurrection of Jesus is at the very heart of the gospel (vv 1-4)
The resurrected Jesus was seen by eyewitnesses (vv 5-7)
The resurrection of Jesus is the future certainty seen in part now (vv 8-11)
28. Pucker up, buttercup (1 Corinthians 16)
Preached on Sunday 10th October 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-eighth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
1. Follow me:
Love with a cost (v1-9)
2. Follow them:
The love right under your nose (v10-18)
3. Follow us:
Love with a kiss (v19-24)
27. The Life of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:35-58)
Preached on Sunday 3rd October 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-seventh sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
On meaning and emptiness
1. What an astonishing world teaches:
God’s work is full of radical reversal (v35-41)
2 What an astonishing Gospel confirms:
Our future in Jesus is one of radical reversal (v42-49)
3. What an astonishing God gives:
Glory and value to a life of lowly toil (v50-58)
26. The League of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:12-34)
Preached on Sunday 26th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-sixth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
How to win: Paul’s answer
1. Your hope is pitifully small (v12-19)
2. God’s project is wonderfully big (v20-28)
3. So fall in with the league of the dead! (v29-32)
25. The Lord of the Dead (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)
Preached on Sunday 19th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-fifth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
Where does Jesus fit in the Corinthian picture of the Christian life?
Chapter 15: bigger on the inside
What is it actually about?
Why leave it till last?
1. What you received:
A once-dead Messiah, sacrificed for you (v1-7)
2. Who you believed:
A deathly Apostle, spent for you (v8-11)
24. For the Many (1 Corinthinans 14:20-40)
Preached on Sunday 12th September 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-fourth sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
1. Love teaches grownups to think of others (20-25)
2. Love teaches grownups to hold our tongues (26-35)
“tongues” (27-28)
Prophecy (29-33)
Questions (34-35)
3. Love teaches grownups how much we owe (36-40)
23. Building Back Babel (1 Corinthians 14:1-19)
Preached on Sunday 27th June 2021 by Rupert Hunt-Taylor.
Our twenty-third sermon in the series "How to win at Christianity" .
On muskets and pikestaffs…
Divisive speech: pride, confusion and judgement
1. Two gifts, and two goals
“Tongues”
“Prophecy”
The heart of the matter (v4)
2. Self-Directed Worship: Building Babel
Lifeless (when we were made for life and meaning)
Alienating (when “barbarians” are meant to be brothers)
Elitist (when “idiots” are meant to be insiders)