Warragul Presbyterian Church

Sunday 7th December 2025

Read: Psalm 113; Luke 1:46-55; 1 Samuel 1:1-2:11

Sermon: 1 Samuel 1:1-2:11

 

Introduction: the God of the unexpected

1:1-8. Hannah’s grief and irritation

1:9-18. Hannah’s prayer

1:19-20. Hannah remembered and heard

2:1-10. Hannah’s prophetic prayer

Conclusion: Mary’s prayer: rejoicing in God’s wonderful salvation (Luke 1:46-55)

 

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)

 

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