Month: June 2025

Sunday 29th June 2025

Read: Mark 4:35-41; Psalm 107

Sermon: Psalm 107

Introduction

Covenant background

Psalm 107 Yhwh saves
1-3 General principle: Yhwh redeems from trouble

4-9 a place to dwell for the thirsty soul

10-16 destroying the prison doors for enslaved rebels

17-22 deliverance from the destruction of foolish sin

23-32 deliverance from many toils and snares: grace will lead me home

33-43 For the wise: consider Yhwh’s covenant faithfulness in judgment and salvation

Mark 4:35-41 Who is this, even the wind and sea obey him!

 

Sunday 22nd June 2025

Read: Titus 3:1-8; Deuteronomy 32:1-20; Matthew 17:14-27

Sermon: Matthew 17:14-27

Introduction

Matthew and the kingdom of God

Matthew 17:14-21 Failure of the disciples to understand the kingdom of
the Christ in its power
17:14-16 a failed healing

17:17-18 Jesus and his disciples

17:19-21 impoverished faith

Matthew 17:22-23 Failure of the disciples to understand the kingdom of the Christ in its nature

Matthew 17:24-27 Failure of the leaders to understand the Christ in his person

 

Sunday 15th June 2025

Read: Psalm 2; (Isaiah 42:1-9); Exodus 34:29-33; Deuteronomy 18:15-18; Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon: Matthew 17:1-13

Introduction: Towards the mountain

Matthew 17:1-8 On the mountain

Matthew 17:9-13 Down from the mountain

Conclusion: Our transfiguration
2 Peter 1:16-21; Romans 12:2; 2 Corinthians 3:17-18; 1 Corinthians
15:50-58; Philippians 3:20-21

 

Sunday 8th June 2025

Read: Psalm 49; Daniel 7:1-14; Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon: Matthew 16:21-28

Introduction

Matthew and the kingdom of God

Matthew 16:21-23 From rock to stumbling stone
16:21 what the Christ must do

16:22-23 Peter rock and stumbling stone

Matthew 16:24-28 Losing what cannot be kept to keep what cannot be lost
16:24-26 what profit to gain the world and lose the soul?

16:27-28 the final accounting

 

Sunday 1st June 2025

Read: Psalm 2; Daniel 7:1-14; Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon: Matthew 16:13-20

Introduction

Matthew and the Kingdom of God

Matthew 16:13-16 Perspectives on Jesus
16:13-14 popular view: a prophet of some sort

16:15-16 Peter/Apostles: Son of the living God

Matthew 16:17-20 How the Christ will build his Church
16:17-18 Apostolic witness to the Christ

16:19-20 keys of the kingdom and a properly understood Christ