Month: November 2025

Sunday 30th November 2025

Read: Luke 2:22-38; Judges 13:1-25

Sermon: Judges 13:1-25

 

Introduction: “That’s typical”

Judges 13:1. Typical Israel

13:2-7. The promise of a saviour

13:8-20. Waiting for the saviour

13:21-25. Seeing God and fearing

Conclusion: Meeting the saviour – seeing God and rejoicing (Luke 2:22-38)

 

Sunday 23rd November 2025

Read: Hebrews 11:1-19; Genesis 11:1-9; Genesis 11:27-13:1

Sermon: Genesis 11:27-13:1

 

Introduction

Genesis 1-11 The seed of the woman and the pattern of grace

Genesis 11:27-12:9 Abram: God’s grace to the nations
11:27-32 God’s grace through the line of Shem

12:1-3 God’s gracious promises to Abram

12:4-9 God’s grace to Abram in the land

Genesis 12:10-13:1 God’s grace in Abram’s unbelief
12:10-16 Abram’s unbelief (fall) in leaving the land and giving his wife

12:17-13:1 God graciously returns Abram and Sarai to the land

Genesis 12-50 and the covenant with Abram and his seed

Hebrews 11 The city built by God must be built by God

 

Sunday 16th November 2025

Read: Psalm 87; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 (1 Corinthians 13:11-12; Galatians 4:8-11; Matthew 7:21-23); Jeremiah 8:21-9:26

Sermon: Jeremiah 8:21-9:26

 

Introduction: Knowing and being known

8:21-9:6. The incurable wound of God’s people

9:7-11. Yahweh’s alien work (Isaiah 28:21)

9:12-16. Know God or know scattering (a)

9:17-22. Professional weeping for the people who can’t blush

9:23-26. Know God or know scattering (b)

Conclusion: Know God, know peace; No God, no peace

 

Sunday 9th November 2025

Read: Luke 13:1-9, 19:41-48; Jeremiah 8:4-9:1

Sermon: Jeremiah 8:4-9:1

 

Introduction

Jeremiah and the Babylonian Exile

Jeremiah 8:4-12 No peace for those who fail to return
8:4-7 Judah’s failure to return is unnatural

8:8-9 the scribes turning Yhwh’s law into falsehood is shameful

8:10-12 the consequences of treating the wound of God’s people lightly

Jeremiah 8:13-17 Looking for healing but finding terror

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 lamenting for Jerusalem who refuses healing

Luke 13:1-9, 19:41-48 Weeping over fruitless Jerusalem

 

Sunday 2nd November 2025

Read: Psalm 125; Matthew 7:21-27; Jeremiah 7:1-8:3

Sermon: Jeremiah 7:1-8:3

 

Introduction: false hopes (Matthew 7:24-27)

7:1-4. Jerusalem’s choice: repent or trust in lies?

7:5-15. Choices and consequences…
a. 5-7. Return and rest.

b. 8-15. Continue and be cast out

7:16-34. Why it’s too late to pray
a. 16-20. Provocative idolatry

b. 21-29. God has been put on mute

c. 30-34. Detestable worship

8:1-3. Ultimate indignity, beyond the point of no return

Conclusion: “Our hope is built on…”? (Matthew 7:21-27)