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Sermons on Psalms

Starting With God: You Are My God

This Sunday we celebrated the baptisms of Abs and Luke, two people who have decided to make the outward declaration of their faith and follow Jesus through the waters. We hear from both of them as they share their testimonies with us, of how God has led them both in their lives and helped them make the decision to publically profess their faith.

Elsewhere in the service Chris (who has been relegated to the second paragraph this week – I’m sure he won’t mind!) continues in our Starting With God series by looking at David’s declarations that God is his God. We see that what we choose to worship reflects our deep-rooted priorities and how we too can join David in his declarations.

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

Rivers in the Desert

In our August all age service Chris (standing in for Peter) looks at the opening verses of Psalm 1 and explains how we need to be deeply rooted in the Spirit, like a tree planted near streams of water, to truly flourish in our relationship with God and allow Him to work through us.

Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

Psalm 1

James and Chris lead our all age service for March, where we’re looking at Psalm 1 in the context of our year text. In the Psalm we’re told that someone who delights in the word of God is like a tree planted by a stream and that gets all it needs from that stream. Like the tree we also need to be constantly beside that stream of living water to ensure that we don’t miss out on God’s sustenance.

Mike and Lynne lead our sung worship this week.

Thanksgiving

Karen leads us in our final service for 2023 as we look back on the year and give thanks to God for His provisions to us. Several of the congregation share what they have to be thankful for and share their prayers for the coming year.

Pete leads us in our sung worship with many of the songs also chosen by members of the congregation.

Prayer

Andrew Dalwood looks at David’s prayer in Psalm 26 and asks whether this would meet Jesus’ model for humility and repentence in prayer explained in Luke 18. Are we like David, too self-righteous in our prayers, too confident in our own abilities and forgetting where that righteousness truly comes from?

James leads the rest of the service, focussing on prayer for our country as the Coronation of Charles III is just around the corner, whilst Mike leads our sung worship.

Listening to God

As Chris begins his sabattical we have (for the next few months) a series of guest speakers, many of whom will be familiar to you. This week we welcome back Kevin Burdett who was minister at this church between 2000 and 2013. Kevin speaks to us about his experiences listening to God through the natural world. But are we listening?

Andy leads the rest of the service as we share communion together and Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Science Sunday 2022

There is a fallacy within the general public, often promoted by atheistic scientists, that science and faith are incompatable with one another. This is categorically not the case! For our Science Sunday 2022, we have invited Dr Ruth Bancewicz from the Faraday Institute to speak on her experiences on the subject and how she believes that science and faith can – and should – go hand-in-hand.

Chris leads the rest of the service and Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.

Love Is Not Easily Angered, Keeps No Record of Wrongs

Anger. It’s something that, if left unchecked, can take over our lives. We can be angry with each other, angry with ourselves, even angry with God. In the latest in our series on love, Chris looks at how love can overcome anger. The agape love that the Holy Spirit brings us allows us to forget our anger and forgive.

Karen leads the rest of the service as we hear how our mission of the month YWAM is helping with the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. Mike leads our sung worship.

Remembering

This week we re-start a series we last looked at in May 2021, looking at Psalm 119: Life From A to Z. And quite appropriately, Chris’ focus for this service is remembering. Can we remember what we learnt over a year ago, and more importantly do we remember God’s promises that he’s made to us?

Susan leads the rest of the service whilst Pete and Nick lead our sung worship.