Sermons

What does it mean to love God as your only god?

Why should we love God? Does the Bible give any reasons why we should love…

The Lord’s Supper is a celebration of the Gospel. We need to understand both the…

Can we worship God according to our own whims and creativity, or has God prescribed…

Difficult times press us to our resources. Paul describes his secret of survival, even under…

One of the marks of a true believer is the ability to recognise false teaching…

Emigration is a perennial topic in South Africa. Is there biblical guidance for people considering…

Once we understand what John means by ‘the world’, there are several ways we are…

Christians know they should be different from the world. But how we recognise what John…

Within the church of God, believers are at various stages of maturity. John commends and…

Genuine Christians obey the command to love one another. False believers hate other Christians.

At Christmastime, we consider the Incarnation. Christians have an obligation to incarnate something, too.

How can a believer know that he actually knows God?

Believers confess continually because Christ continually represents them as the Advocate.

Why do believers confess their sins? What does it mean and why is it crucial…

What is real life? The book of 1 John could be called “A Spotter’s Guide…

God calls for spiritual vigilance and soberness from His people. What does this means, and…

God’s plan for evangelism involves the local church. Removing the church from evangelism is going…

How’s your evangelistic mindset? Are you informed – do you know your culture, like a…

What means are available to Christians for evangelising? The message, reason, example, genuine love and…

What does evangelism entail? Truly converted people, deliberately interacting with unbelievers, so as to expose…

What is the message that evangelism shares? What is the “Good News”?

Evangelism is making disciples. But what is a disciple? What is true conversion?

In a pluralistic world, is evangelism really required of the Christian?

God’s essence is also captured in the truth that God is a tri-unity.

What is the grand conclusion of Solomon’s quest for life?

Solomon contrasts the pain of old age with youth, and draws conclusions for when we…

How do we make decisions in a world sovereignly controlled by God? Ecclesiastes has much…

Life has authority hard-wired into it. We cannot navigate through life without understanding how God…

Ecclesiastes, like Proverbs, teaches us the value of wisdom – what it can and cannot…

One of Solomon’s themes is how death renders human activity futile. Only when God-granted immortality…

God exists in Himself. His very name, I AM THAT I AM, teaches that God’s…

Fighting sexual sin has become a battle for every man in a pornified world. We…

God is Spirit. What does this profound predication mean?

The beginning of studying God’s attributes is to understand that no one is like God.

We are created to worship. Our worship takes place in three domains: private, public and…

Understanding how scandalous crucifixion was to the first-century mind helps us to appreciate the grandeur…

Wealth is good – but wealth is dangerous. Wealth is a blessing, but wealth may…

Like other hollow pursuits, men are attracted to religion for its own sake. Solomon shows…

The pursuit of popularity is a hollow pursuit. The pursuit of wealth is a hollow…

Rampant corruption and oppression is cause for possible despair in our hearts. Solomon helps us…

For many people, the fact that life is beyond their control torments them.

Solomon got to test all of life for pleasure – and came up empty.

The book of Ecclesiastes is the journal of a man who mined life for its…

The kind of heart that brings forth fruit is characterised by spiritual receptivity.

Some hearts reject the Word because too many other things are growing in competition to…

Who has the title deed to the whole universe? What gives Him that right?

Some people appear to believe, but theirs is a superficial grasp if Christianity, revealed as…

Why do some hearts stubbornly reject the Word?

Jesus gave the parable of the sower to explain a phenomenon: why the same message,…

A life of loving God manifest in loving what He loves and hating what He…

Only by living as dead to a selfish life can we rise to live a…

The power of self-worship can only be broken with the method of self-denial.

Loving God requires that we see and behold the glory of God through illumination.

How do hearts that love themselves come to love God?

Why should we love God?

Christians can experience a steady entropy in their devotion. Malachi describes this.

Philemon not only teaches us what forgiveness is, it teaches us the art of tactfully…

What do we do when we forgive someone?

What does it mean to forgive? What is our ground and basis to forgive?

Philemon is about forgiveness. Why must we forgive? Does it truly play that big a…

God has designed us with a faculty of moral knowledge. When shaped and energised by…

Every year, more than one type of Christmas overlaps with the other. Distinguishing them from…

Paul describes ministry in a church with a beautiful illustration of the Body.

What is the task of ministry? What are the ministries of a church to aim…

How does a church function? What exactly is ministry?

What is the Day of Atonement? How has Christ fulfilled this?

Many Christians live under a painful yoke of oppressive legalism. Christ came to give us…

Colossians concludes with the familiar benediction “Grace be with you.” How does grace come both…

Colossians ends with a description of faithful Christians. What is faithfulness, and how does Christ’s…

How should believers in Christ’s sufficiency behave before the world?

How should we pray if we believe that Christ Himself is more than enough?

Christ’s sufficiency shows up at work: how managers treat workers and how workers do their…

When Christ is sufficient, this must spill over into family life.

The paradoxes in God’s love can be difficult to solve. We seek to draw them…

God’s love is rooted in His nature: gracious, sovereign, merciful, jealous.

God’s love is deeply rooted in His nature. Understanding what and why He loves, enables…

The love of God is, in fact, a deep and complex thing. Understanding it correctly…

Does the Bible give us any guidance as to how we should worship God musically?…

What does it look like when a Christian, or an entire local church is centred…

How do very different people dwell together in a church with genuine, heartfelt unity?

What precautions must we take so as to maintain, and not interrupt, the unit yin…

The unity of the church in Christ is a precious and supernatural thing, to be…

Sincerity and authenticity is at the heart of our faith. John describes this as ‘walking…

The tragedy of permissive parenting is seen in the wicked sons of the high priest…

What does new Testament fasting look like? Jesus explains with the illustration of a wedding.

Christians dead to sin have to act that out by continually deadening themselves to sin.

How should people who are united to Christ’s resurrection live?

Should Christians who are complete in Christ be drawn back into a petty bondage?

Mysticism seems to promise a deeper spirituality. But once again, the wrong kinds are simply…

If we are complete in Christ, we need to avoid those subtle and overt forms…

Our faith is always under threat from add-ons to the faith. Our completion in Christ…

How should we approach ministry? With what attitudes, expectations, and goals?

What does ministry entail? What is true ministry to one another? Paul exemplifies this in…

A topic hardly heard today is that of God’s anger. Without an understanding of the…

How do we reconcile the sovereignty of God and human freedom? The book of Jonah…

Jonah is a testimony of what mercy is not, and what mercy should be.

Can we lose our salvation? Does eternal security mean a blank cheque of assured eternal…

The Lord Jesus is not only supreme as the Creator, but He occupies the highest…

False teachers claim Christ was one of God’s creations. Paul refutes this by showing that…