Located at St Luke's – Corner of Hazeldean Road & Korumburra-Warragul Rd, Ellinbank. P.O Box 23, Warragul, 3820
Sunday 20th July 2025
Read: Job 28; Jeremiah 9:12-24; Zechariah 4:6; 1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5
Sermon: 1 Corinthians 1:26-2:5
Introduction: “From where does wisdom come?”
1:26-28 Cross-shaped wisdom
1:29-31 Acceptable boasting
2:1-5 Truly powerful preaching
Conclusion: The search is over: Wisdom has found you
Sunday 13th July 2025
Read: Isaiah 29:1-16; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Sermon: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Introduction
Corinth and the message of the crucified Christ
1:18-25 God’s power to save: a crucified messiah
Sunday 6th July 2025
Read: Deuteronomy 12:1-14; Acts 18:1-17; 1 Corinthians 1:1-17
Sermon: 1 Corinthians 1:1-17
Introduction: reading someone else’s mail
1:1 The sender
1:2 The recipients
– “Church”?
– “Saints”?
1:3 The greeting
1:4-9 Thanksgiving and a hint of what’s to come
– “Fellowship”?
1:10-17 The problem of a divided fellowship
Conclusion: to the church of God in Warragul
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
Sunday 25th May 2025
Read: Jonah 1:1-2:10; Matthew 16:1-12
Sermon: Matthew 16:1-12
Introduction
Jonah and the sign
Matthew and the kingdom of God
Matthew 16:1-4 Interpreting signs
16:1 Pharisees signs of testing
16:2-3 interpreting weather
16:4 interpret the sign of Jonah
Matthew 16:5-12 Beware the Pharisees’ failure to interpret the signs
16:5-8 bread and the leaven of the Pharisees
16:9-10 perceiving the meaning of feeding bread in the wilderness
16:11-12 failure to perceive turning to understanding
Interpreting signs now
Sunday 18th May 2025
Read: Psalm 146; Jeremiah 50:1-7; Matthew 15:21-39
Sermon: Matthew 15:21-39
Introduction: True D.E.I.
Matthew 15:21-28 Lost sheep and hungry dogs
Matthew 15:29-31 Gentiles confess Messiah’s God
Matthew 15:32-39 Gentiles welcome at Messiah’s feast
Conclusion: Messiah’s ultimate table (Revelation 19:6-9)