Author: Sarah
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Prelude to The mystery of God’s Providence
A prophecy: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi. Israel Doubts God’s Love “I have loved you,” says the Lord. “But you ask, ‘How have you loved us?’ “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”…
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The First Commandment
Brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ, People are incurably religious.“You have got to serve someone.” You have to have something or someone to trust in, to live for, to give your life meaning and purpose – otherwise everything is vanity and meaningless. A life lived without true meaning or purpose quickly destroys the…
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Prelude to: The First Commandment
People are incurably religious. We have got to serve someone; we have to trust in, to give our life to something; in order to give life it’s meaning and purpose. If not, everything is vanity and meaningless! A life lived without true meaning or purpose quickly destroys the essential nature of the human being. All…
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Worshiping and praising our glorious God
Brothers & Sisters in Jesus Christ, This morning we look at the last two verses of Jude – perhaps the most well known part of this short letter – we could also say that Jude is a short sermon – just 25 verses. The verses are well-known to us because we often sing the last…
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Prelude to: Worshiping and praising our glorious God
As the new year of 2026 has well and truly begun, it makes for a fitting start to this years series of sermons to focus on worship. We can thank God for this new year and recognise that when we worship God, we are not doing so half-heartedly. Our God is an awesome, all glorious…
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Prelude to The right to Be the Children of God
By V. Watson In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness…
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Prelude to Live Life: live for the Lord!
By Ron v. Leerdam I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet…
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Living for Jesus – putting off the old, putting on the new
By Ron v. Leerdam Brothers & Sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ,We live in a troubled world where there are so many people in trouble.Every day 7 men and 2 women commit suicide.Some have said “It takes a village to raise a child.”I think it takes a community to help those who are struggling to…
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Prelude to Living for Jesus – putting off the old, putting on the new
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in…
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Walking with God by faith, honouring him always!
By Ron. v. Leerdam Brothers and sisters in our Lord Jesus Christ,I want to suggest that sometimes we spend our lives being reactive instead of proactive. We react to the circumstances and situations we face, rather than thinking through what God would have us do and how He would have us respond towhat ever it…
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