Category: Sermons

Sermon: Sunday, 29th September, 2024 Speaker: John Johnstone Scripture: Romans 2:1 – 3:8 It can be heart-breaking when people trust in the wrong things or

Why is the gospel such good news? Because all people need to be saved. None of us is righteous. Pagans aren’t righteous and respectable and moral people aren’t righteous. How much we all need God’s righteousness! Why then will you not come to Jesus and ask for it?

We often think of God’s love, sending his own Son to die to pay the price for our sin and to gift us his goodness. But there’s also a more unpopular truth – the wrath of God. God will not be mocked. When God is rejected, what happens? Society starts to unravel.

What makes the gospel powerful for all who believe? It drives us to the lowest place as it reveals a righteousness we don’t have and then it lifts us to the glorious heights of God providing it for us on the basis of faith in Jesus Christ. Place your faith in him and in him receive the righteousness that is by faith.

Jesus has saved us: and there is nothing we can add to this. He did it all. He paid it all. If you rest on what Jesus did on the cross – paying off our moral debt of sin – God sees us as his forgiven and clean children.

Who is your king? Who do you serve? Don’t be like the soldiers who mock the true king. Do not be like the religious leaders, who care more about self-interest than about the allegiance the true king deserves.

Jesus will come like a thief in the night; we don’t know when it’s going to happen. Put your hope in him now, seek him now, and be found in him so that when he comes again, you will not be separated from him in eternal darkness but you will be with him in eternal light.

Sermon: Sunday, 14th July, 2024 Speaker: John Johnstone Scripture: Mark 10:45 What is Christianity all about? What is the message of Jesus in a nutshell?

When it comes to being a follower of Jesus, our motives matter. God is not just concerned with what we do with our time and resources; he is also concerned with why we do what we do. In other words, God is concerned with the workings of our hearts. May we be constrained by Christ love for us and a holy healthy fear of God.

Think for a moment about all the wrong you have done in your life. Is this good news? Can you say God has forgiven you? Do you trust in the death of Jesus?
Then understand this: God removes our sins as far as east is from the west, he puts them behind his back, he hurls them into the depths of the sea, he wipes them out, he remembers them no more. This is his amazing grace.