Seeking Worshippers – Part 1 – John 4:15-26
2 Lessons of our Lord, who turns adulterers into worshipers.
Preaching through the Gospel of John. The series commenced on 12 January 2014 and was completed on 2 April 2017.
2 Lessons of our Lord, who turns adulterers into worshipers.
When’s the last time you had to worry if you might die of thirst? Probably never. NOT SO in biblical times. If you couldn’t get access to water, your crops would fail, your flocks would perish, and you and your family would die…
Jesus called him the greatest man who ever lived. – Surely also one of the greatest preachers who ever lived! – YET, most of his preaching was never recorded or preserved. Only a few brief snippets given in the Gospels.
~ C.S. Lewis: “Well, now, we have come to the center. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is pride. Unchastity, anger, grief, drunkenness and all that are mere flea bites in comparison. It was through pride that the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice. It is a complete […]
(A sermon preached on the 20th of April). Whosoever believes – Part 1. 6 portraits of Christ – the Saviour of the world, calling all to come to Him by faith alone.
…I saw at once the way of salvation. Oh, how I did leap for joy at that moment! I know not what else [the preacher] said, I did not take much notice of it. I was so possessed with that one thought. Like as when the brazen serpent was lifted up, they only looked and were healed. I had been waiting to do fifty things, but when I heard this word, ‘Look!’ what a charming word it seemed to me! Oh, I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away; and in heaven I will look on still in my joy unutterable.”
Continuing our feast on the classic biblical text about the new birth: Jesus Meets Nicodemus for a night-time theology class on regeneration, and some 1-on-1 personal evangelism with the most religious man in Israel.
We’ve come to perhaps the most famous & best loved chapter in all the Bible. – YET it also contains one of the most neglected and misunderstood Christian doctrines: the doctrine of regeneration, the new birth.
Does Jesus believe in your faith? 2 warnings about false vs. real faith: 1- Beware of a superstitious faith. 2- Beware of a superficial faith.
“You would be safer in a swimming pool in a lightning storm, than to be in church with the wrong attitude and motives.” A Man with a whip drove out those who profaned His temple with goods for sale – and yet, how many today come to church on a Sunday for the wrong reasons? […]