Sermons

Free Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermon

October 27, 2011

The Martyn Lloyd-Jones Recordings Trust have made available another free sermon on their website. It is the one recording that they have of MLJ preaching from the Book of Judges – a sermon titled ‘A Right View of Life’. Click to listen to or download ‘A Right View of Life’ Also check out a previous [...]

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Guest post: Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermon downloads

August 29, 2011

Following the popularity of the 9 Pensacola sermons that were published for free download in 2010, we have now made a different set available. It includes 8 sermons that Martyn Lloyd-Jones (MLJ) preached in 1963 at the Summer Bible Conference held by the Hawthorne Gospel Church in New Jersey, USA. Several of them are similar [...]

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Popular posts: 10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.

August 3, 2011

During Adrian’s month away from the blog, he has hand-picked a selection of the most popular posts of the year so far to re-run. Today we feature, “10 Ways a Christian should respond to the earthquake in Japan.” As the world was reeling from the astonishing news from Japan, this post proved quite popular as [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work – The ‘such a time as this’ moments

June 16, 2011

This is a further post in my series on the attitude of the Christian to work. Other posts in this series and the sermon itself are also available here. Looking for your moments So far we have seen that we’re firstly called to be humble and submissive at work. Secondly we are to be identified [...]

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Standing up for Jesus at work

June 15, 2011

This is a further post in my series on the attitude of the Christian to work. Other posts in this series and the sermon itself are also available here. Act 3, of Esther, makes the point that it’s all very well to fit in, and to do good, and that’s very important. But there may [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work – Three kinds of workers

June 14, 2011

This is a further post in my series on the attitude of the Christian to work. Other posts in this series and the sermon itself are also available here. There are three types of workers. What are you? 1. There are those who wont do anything and they just get fired ultimately. Although in some [...]

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Serving Jesus at work – being a friend and ambassador in enemy territory

June 13, 2011

This is a further post in my series on the attitude of the Christian to work. Other posts in this series and the sermon itself are also available here. In the previous post, I made my first real point in this series: that we must deal with our attitudes, and have an appropriate attitude to [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work – A contrast of attitudes

June 9, 2011

This series of posts is an edited transcript of  a sermon you can watch or listen to right here on my site. Esther, is divided into seven acts and the first act gives us my first key point of the sermon. We can title the first portion of the book, “A new queen is chosen.” [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work- My Story

June 7, 2011

As we begin the second part in this series based on an edited transcript of a sermon I preached at Jubilee, we must remind ourselves that each of us has a vocation. We have a role, we have a job to do. It doesn’t really matter whether you are a top businessman or whether you [...]

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Serving Jesus at Work – Lessons from the Career of Esther Part One

June 6, 2011

Today I begin a new series which is taken from an edited transcript of a recent sermon I preached at Jubilee Church.  Here is the video of that sermon: Downloads:  audio,  video,  HD I have referred quite a bit to two sources while preparing this. We’ve often said that at Jubilee, it’s as though we live [...]

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Future Glory – Final Part of a Sermon on John 2

November 26, 2010

3. Future glory I am deliberately going to break every rule of exegesis and take a verse wholly out of context hear because I believe the balance of scripture tells us that God always keeps the best wine till last Its a Glory that improves with age…its like wine we can taste. Jesus first miracle [...]

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Are You an Expert in Filling Pots with Water? Part Three of a Sermon on John 2

November 25, 2010

In this part of the sermon, I was focused on the third aspect of what happened when Jesus’ glory was revealed. There was …. A POWER With the command of Jesus going forth there comes a power. As they obeyed the wine came.  Power from God To some of us as we hear  ”stop sinning” [...]

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The Glory Revealed – Part Two of a Sermon on John 2

November 24, 2010

This is the second part of my notes from which I preached the above sermon. 2. Glory revealed / Active Glory: When the glory is present and powerful. A moment comes. A crisis in their lives. They know Jesus. And yet does something amazing. Provides wine. Takes away their shame before it really happens. Powerful [...]

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The Hidden Glory of Jesus – Part One of a Sermon on John 2

November 23, 2010

Here is the first part of the notes I preached from, lightly edited: This story ends with the idea “Jesus showing his glory” It’s the goal of the story and the goal of this message! I want us today to catch just a glimpse of the glory of Jesus. If we can lift our eyes [...]

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Conclusion of the Barnabas serialization

October 16, 2010

One aspect that we haven’t talked much about is this: Barnabas may well have single-handedly prevented a damaging split in the early church between Antioch and Jerusalem. If you go back and read it, you will see that he was the ‘go-between’ for Peter and Paul-between Antioch and Jerusalem. It wasn’t always easy in that [...]

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Barnabas Part Five – Mistakes turned round for good

October 15, 2010

Barnabas is an encouragement to us in another way: Like so many heroes of the Bible, he wasn’t perfect. Don’t you find that encouraging? God is in the business of using servants who are not perfect, people who blow it, people who make mistakes. Maybe you’re sitting here this morning and you’ve mentally disqualified yourself [...]

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Barnabas Part Four– Receiving prophetic encouragement that propels

October 14, 2010

The Gift of Encouragement from Jubilee Church on Vimeo. In Acts 13 Barnabas himself was encouraged by others. Remember the purpose of prophecy is encouragement. Remember when we say encouragement, we’re not just talking about a warm fuzzy feeling. We’re talking about sometimes being thrust out, our passage begins “and in the church of Antioch, [...]

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Barnabas Part Three – Encouraging a baby church and an emerging leader

October 13, 2010

Very soon, Barnabas’ encouragement finds another outlet, another opportunity. We see, in Acts 11, that Barnabas begins to encourage a baby church. A few people don’t wait for the apostles to send them or tell them what to do, they run because of persecution and when they arrive in Antioch they begin to share the [...]

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Barnabas: The Prophetic Gift of Encouragement Part Two

October 12, 2010

Downloads: HiDef.  LowDef , DVD Quality or Audio Here is the continuation of an edited transcript of the above sermon which began yesterday: Who did Barnabas Encourage? First of all, and it may seem like a slightly funny place to start, he encouraged his leaders. Have you ever thought about that, that leaders need encouragement too? I [...]

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Barnabas: The Prophetic Gift of Encouragement Part One

October 11, 2010

I have not forgotten my series on Feelings and Faith and will be returning to it shortly. But in the meantime, I want to share with you a sermon I preached over the summer. Video is available to watch online here or you can download both video and audio.  But thanks to the work of [...]

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