St. Luke's, Ramsgate - Sermons

Rebuild: To Lead is to Care (Nehemiah 2:11-20)

13/6/2021

Leadership is one of the gifts given to some people for the sake of the church (Romans 12:4-8), but how are we to lead well? What does it mean to govern diligently? What kind of leadership is caring? What kind of leadership should we give? What kind of leadership should we look for and encourage? How do we support caring leadership? Nehemiah gives us a great example of leadership

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Rebuild: Prayer is Foundational (Nehemiah 1:1-11)

6/6/2021

As Christians how do we respond to the challenges we face? When Nehemiah heard about the state of Jerusalem, he saw it as a challenge to deal with. His foundational response was to pray. In this talk we look at Nehemiah’s prayer and what we can learn about praying as we face challenges today.

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Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:1-8)

30/5/2021

What does it mean to say God is ‘holy’? Why is it important to understand the holiness of God? These questions are answered in this talk as we look at Isaiah’s amazing vision of God

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Can these bones live? (Ezekiel 37:1-14)

23/5/2021

At times the people of God face moments when they feel like they have been totally abandoned or rejected by God. The Israelites felt like that when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians and they were left languishing in exile. It felt like there hope was gone, they were cut off. Ezekiel’s vision reminds them that no matter how desperate their situation, God is able to bring them back.

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Love is... eternal life (1 John 5:9-13)

16/5/2021

Does it matter what we believe? Sometimes it does. Sometimes it can be a matter of life and death. John here shows us that what we believe about Jesus is a matter of eternal life and warns us against some of the lies that may risk our salvation

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Love is... carrying out God's commands (1 John 5:1-6)

9/5/2021

Why should we love other Christians? What does this love look like? How easy is it to love in this way? What has all this to do with true faith? These are questions that 1 John keeps coming back to and answering in slightly different ways as he strengthens our desire to love one another more and more

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Love is… from God (1 John 4:7-21)

2/5/2021

If we belong to a church does it matter if we really believe in what God has done for us in Jesus? If we have a ‘personal relationship with God’ does it really matter if we go to church? Should we just carry on watching services in the comfort of our home once the restrictions are lifted on church services? All of these questions are answered by the simple statement: “God is love.” Check out this talk to see why.

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Love is laying down one's life (1 John 3:16-24)

25/4/2021

We talk a lot about love and its importance, but do we ever ask ourselves what we mean by ‘love’? In 1 John we are called to love one another as Christians, but we are also shown what love is through the lens of the cross.

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Encounters with Jesus: Peter - Do you love me? (John 21:1-19)

18/4/2021

Often to show things are definite and certain they are said or done three times. In this epilogue to John’s gospel not only does Jesus certify his resurrection by appearing for the third time to his disciples, but he has a three-fold conversation with Jesus to undo Peter’s three-fold denial.

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Encounters with Jesus: Thomas - Unless I see, I will not believe! (John 20:19-31)

11/4/2021

Many people find the idea of Jesus being resurrected from the dead completely unbelievable. It is just not possible for dead people to come alive again. Thomas one of Jesus’s closest disciples was one of those people. He had been told by ten other disciples that Jesus had risen from the dead, but he refused to believe. Then the risen Jesus appeared to him.

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