It was great to be together yesterday morning to join our voices to celebrate the good news of the gospel.

Yesterday’s sermon from Ephesians 2:11-22, entitled: “The Walls Come Tumbling Down” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

The “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon is available here.

And don’t forget, because we’re back into our Ephesians series, there’s a weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’ Word. This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song – “Brought Near By the Blood of Christ” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

And finally… For all those who like to have the quotes from yesterday’s sermon, here they are:

John Stott: [Referring to Galatians 3:28)
“When we say that Christ has abolished these distinctions, we mean not that they do not exist, but that they do not matter.  They are still there, but they no longer create any barriers to fellowship.  We recognise each other as equals, brothers and sisters in Christ.”

John Stott:
“It is marvelous to look back and trace the sequence of the apostle’s teaching.  He paints on a large canvas with bold brush strokes.  Once, he reminds his Gentile readers, you were alienated from God and from his people.  But Christ died to reconcile you to both.  So now you are no longer the aliens you were, but the kingdom over which God rules, the family which he loves and the temple in which he dwells.  More simply still: you were alienated, you have been reconciled, and Christ has brought you home.”

It was great to be together yesterday morning to join our voices to praise and magnify our great God and rejoice in the glorious, transforming truth of the good news of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday’s sermon from Ephesians 1:1-2:10, entitled: “Let’s Recap Ephesians!” is available to listen to or download from here, or via our iTunes podcast feed.

The “Take-It-Home” Sheet for this sermon is available here.

And don’t forget, because we’re back into our Ephesians series, there’s a weekly memory verse song you can download to help you memorise portions of God’ Word.  This week’s Ephesians Memory Verse Song – “The Exceeding Greatness of His Power” is available now!

(To download this song to your computer… For Mac Users, ctrl + Click and download linked file. For PC users, right click the link and “Save As” the file.)

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

And finally… For all those who like to have the quotes from yesterday’s sermon, here they are:

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones:
“Paul’s great concern here is to give the Ephesians, and others to whom the letter is addressed, a panoramic view of this wondrous and glorious work of God in Jesus Christ our Lord.”

Puritan Thomas Brooks (Heaven on Earth):
“I am His by purchase and I am His by conquest; I am His by donation and I am His by election; I am His by covenant and I am His by marriage; I am wholly His; I am peculiarly His; I am universally His; I am eternally His. Once I was a slave but now I am a son; once I was dead but now I am alive; once I was darkness but now I am light in the Lord; once I was a child of wrath, an heir of hell, but now I am an heir of heaven; once I was Satan’s bond-servant but now I am God’s freeman; once I was under the spirit of bondage but now I am under the Spirit of adoption that seals up to me the remission of my sins, the justification of my person and the salvation of my soul.”

John Calvin:
“In Christ every part of our salvation is complete. As all mankind are, in the sight of God, lost sinners, we hold that Christ is their only righteousness, since, by His obedience he has wiped off our transgressions, by his sacrifice appeased the divine anger, by his blood washed away our sins, by his cross borne our curse, and by his death made satisfaction for us. We maintain that in this way man is reconciled in Christ to God the Father, by no merit of his own, by no value of works, but by gratuitous mercy.”

O the riches in the Gospel! (By Kevin Hartnett)

O the riches in the Gospel!
Purposes no man conceived!
Grace unfailing; love astounding,
Given those who have believed!

Pardon full for helpless sinners.
Justified- though guilty be!
Jesus cursed for our transgressions;
We made righteous by decree!

Peace with God, oh timeless marvel!
Christ’s blood our security!
Holiness at one with Favor;
Heaven opened wondrously!

Purpose in the Master’s kingdom;
We, His worksmanship by grace,
Cleansed to serve; alive in conscience;
Spirit-filled to run the race.

Pleasure in His highest priv’ledge:
Sons of God by name are we!
Heirs with Christ through God’s adoption;
Called in love eternally!

O the riches in the Gospel!
Purposes no man conceived!
Grace unfailing; love astounding,
Ever theirs who have believed!

It was great to be together yesterday morning and join our voices together in joyful praise to our great God, who has saved us and transformed our lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday’s sermon, the fourth and final part of our “Worship His Majesty” series, entitled: “The Spirit, the Body & The Worship of God” is available to listen to or download from here, via our iTunes podcast feed.

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

Here’s the quotes from the sermon:

Donald Whitney:
“God will manifest his presence to you in congregational worship in ways you can never know, even in the most glorious secret worship.  That’s because you are not only a temple of God as an individual, but the Bible says – and far more often – that Christians collectively are God’s temple.  God manifests his presence in different ways to the living stones of the temple when they are gathered than he does to them when they are apart.”

Donald Whitney:
“How is your service quotient?  Is your church stronger because of you?   Nutritionists speak of “empty calories”; in order for these calories to be processed the body must use some of its nutritional resources, yet empty calories do little or nothing to nourish the body in return.  Calories from other types of food however, not only take from the body’s strength as they metabolise, they replenish it.  Do you receive more ministry from the church than you minister to it?  God intends for every member of the church body to be served by it, and there are times when even the most spiritually mature members will receive more ministry than they give.  Nevertheless, the goal for each of us should be to serve in the church in such a way that it is stronger because we are there.”

Sam Storms:
“Prophecy is not based on a hunch, a supposition, an inference, an educated guess, or even on sanctified wisdom.  Prophecy is not based on personal insight, intuition, or illumination.  Prophecy is the human report of a divine revelation.”

It was great to be together yesterday morning and join our voices together in a joyful response of praise and worship to our great God, who has saved us and transformed our lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Yesterday’s sermon, the second part of our “Worship His Majesty” series, entitled: “The Expression of Worship” is available to listen to or download from here, via our iTunes podcast feed.

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

Here’s the quotes from the sermon:

Nancy Leigh De Moss:
“Worship is a believers response to God’s revelation of himself. It is expressing wonder, awe and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness and the goodness of our Lord. It is the appropriate response to God’s person, His provision, His power, His promises and His plan.”

John Piper:
“Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.”

John Piper:
“Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. It is not a mere act of willpower by which we perform outward acts. Without the engagement of the heart, we do not really worship. The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.”

Jonathan Edwards:
“If the great things of religion are rightly understood, they will affect the heart. He who has only doctrinal knowledge and theory without affection, is never engaged in the goodness of faith. We find that people exercise the affections in everything else but religion! When it comes to their worldly interests, their outward delights, their honour and reputation, and their natural relations, they have warm affection and ardent zeal. In these things their hearts are tender and sensitive, easily moved, deeply impressed, much concerned, and much engrossed. They get deeply depressed at worldly losses, and highly excited at worldly successes. But how insensible and unmoved are most men about the great things of another world! How dull then are the affections! Here their love is cold, their desires languid, their zeal low, and their gratitude small. How can they sit and hear of the infinite height, depth, length, and breadth of the love of God in Christ Jesus, of His infinitely dear Son offered up as a sacrifice for the sins of men, and yet be so insensible and regardless!”

Bob Kauflin:
“God is particularly interested in our joy. He tells us, “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!’ (Ps 32:11). When the church gathers, the sense of confident joy in God should be pronounced. When we fail to demonstrate delight and satisfaction in God, we’re not only dishonouring God, we’re disobeying him. More than anyone else on earth, Christians have a reason to celebrate.”

Vaughan Roberts:
“Those of us who come from the United Kingdom can be more British than biblical. We tend to be scared of showing any emotion. We can sing of the most wonderful truths with an expression on our faces that would be appropriate in a morgue!”

It was great to be together yesterday morning and join our voices together in a joyful response of praise and worship to our great God, who has saved us and transformed our lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

It was also a great joy to be able to have Dave & Emma Taylor and family with us for the morning, before they jet off to the other side of the world to plant Sovereign Grace Church, Sydney.

Yesterday’s sermon, from John 20, entitled: “Evidence that Demands a Verdict” is available to listen to or download from here, via our iTunes podcast feed.

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.

It was great to be together on Sunday and consider the majesty and greatness of the God who made us and saved us, and to be able to join our voices in a response of praise and worship to who he is and what he has done for us.

Yesterday’s sermon, the first part of our new “Worship His Majesty” series, entitled: “The Essence of Worship” is available to listen to or download from here, via our iTunes podcast feed.

Unfortunately, due to a technical error, only the final part of the audio is available, but you can download the full sermon notes Nathan used to preach from as a pdf file.

For those of you with children in the Generations Sunday School, here’s the “Weekly Info” that we hope will serve you in following up with your children on what they sang and learned this week, and the verse to memorise for next week’s Sunday school.