Month: October 2025

Sunday 26th October 2025

Read: Psalm 25; Matthew 11:25-30; Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon: Jeremiah 6:1-30

 

Introduction

1-9 Disaster & destruction; disgust & desolation.

10-15 No peace without blushing.

16-26 The bitter fruit of transgression.

27-30 Rejecting God’s prophet is rejecting God

Conclusion: Don’t reject God’s true rest

 

Sunday 19th October 2025

Read: Psalm 14; Romans 3:9-31; Jeremiah 5:1-31

Sermon: Jeremiah 5:1-31

 

Introduction

Jeremiah and the Babylonian Exile

Jeremiah 5:1-9 Finding one who is just that all may be pardoned
5:1-5 looking for someone who does justice and seeks truth

5:6-9 turning God’s kindness to idolatry

Jeremiah 5:10-19 If you love foreign gods to their land you will go
5:10-13 false prophets are windbags and will be blown away

5:14-17 God’s true words are a consuming fire

5:18-19 serving foreign gods in a foreign land

Jeremiah 5:20-31 What will senseless people do when the end comes?
5:20-25 blinded by idols and not seeing from where good comes

5:26-31 Yhwh will avenge himself on his people who love falsehood and wickedness

 

Sunday 12th October 2025

Read: 1 Kings 22:1-28; Jeremiah 4:5-31

Sermon: Jeremiah 4:5-31

 

Introduction

Jeremiah and the Babylonian Exile

Jeremiah 4:5-18 The certain coming of judgement and its impact
4:5-10 the certainty and suddenness of judgement

4:11-18 the thoroughness and bitterness of judgement

Jeremiah 4:19-31 The grief of judgement and its devastation
4:19-22 the anguish of judgement

4:23-28 judgement as a desolated creation

4:29-31 there is no glamour in judgement

 

Sunday 5th October 2025

Read: Psalm 51; Deuteronomy 10:1-22; Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

Sermon: Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

 

Introduction

Jeremiah and the Babylonian Exile

Jeremiah 3:6-11 Faithless Israel compared with treacherous Judah

Jeremiah 3:12-18 Repent faithless children, that the Shepherd may rule in Jerusalem

Jeremiah 3:19-4:4 What true repentance looks like

3:19-22a God’s faithfulness and response to the repentant

3:22b-25 An ideal repentance and confession of sin

4:1-4 The fruit of repentance