Category: Sermons
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The Ten Commandments #1 — No Other Gods (Exodus 20:1–3)
The first commandment is short — and ruthless. Exodus 20 starts with rescue, then demands exclusive allegiance: no rival gods. Mark 10 shows how a respectable life can still be ruled by a functional god. The only way through is Christ — fulfilment, forgiveness, and new desires.
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Mark 6:1-29 – from the archives from 2016!
Mark 6 is a chain of previews: Jesus rejected at home, disciples sent into rejection, and John’s death under a cowardly “king”. It’s all pointing forward — to the cross, and to the kingdom’s advance despite refusal.
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Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control
Self-control is not willpower with a Christian sticker on top. It’s the Spirit pressing the grace of Christ into an ordinary life until a new steadiness grows.
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Jonah 1 — The Reluctant Evangelist (Mona Vale, 18 Sept 2016)
Jonah 1 — The Reluctant Evangelist Preached at Mona Vale Anglican — 18 September 2016 This sermon opens the Jonah series with three fears in the passage: • The fear of Nineveh — a brutal, violent superpower whose cruelty was legendary. • The fear of the sailors — terror that becomes worship when the storm…
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Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness
Gentleness isn’t weakness, softness, or avoiding hard truths. In Galatians 5 it’s the surprising strength of a life carried by the Spirit — the steadiness that flows from belonging to Christ rather than performing for him. This talk presses into what gentleness really is: not how we get into the kingdom, not how we stay…
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Psalm 90:12: Teach us to number our days
Sermon on Psalm 90:12: The verse that inspired The 9012 Project