He Will Save His People From Their Sins
Josephs Dream - The names of the babe and a handful of responses declare that this child "WILL save his people from their sins".......What is your response this Christmas?
View ArticleMaking Right Value Judgements
Everybody values something in life. Men and women are unique because they have an immortal soul. Above everything, people should value their soul's capacity to know God but sin has robbed us of...
View ArticleComfort for the Lord's People
All God's people need comfort. We can feel isolated with our concerns and anxieties. Isaiah 40:1 assures people of the Lord's absolute desire for His people to be comforted. He Himself is their portion...
View ArticleA New Year, A New Thing?
A New Year always brings renewed focus on many things for many people, but what should we focus on as a church. God Tells Isaiah that He is going to do "a New thing". What exactly does that mean for us...
View ArticleThe Kingdom Is Coming - Keep Watch!
The parable of the ten virgins, this speaks of what will happen when the Kingdom physically comes at Christs return. Some enter, some find the door closed, forever. The Kingdom is coming, keep watch...
View ArticleThey Continued Steadfastly
On the day of pentecost, 3,000 souls were saved. The early church was birthed and a vital church started to grow. With a life changed, they continued steadfastly not only in the 4 Pillars of the Church...
View ArticleThe Righteousness of God Revealed
Luther stated that "Justification was the doctrine on which the Church stands or falls." The work of salvation is completed, we can neither add nor take away from the finished work of Christ. Those who...
View ArticleThe Apostles Doctrine
We take a look at the first of the Four pillars of the Church as stated in Acts 2: 40-47, The Apostles doctrine. This is vitally important to the Church today. A doctrine that must be held dear, a...
View ArticleThe Kingdom is for Workers
Whilst our salvation is in Christ alone, through faith alone, Faith without works is dead. We must be found doing the works which were given to us when Christ returns, what does that mean in relation...
View ArticleFellowship
We continue looking at the four pillars of the church. This week, the subject is fellowship. What is fellowship? What is fellowship for? And what does fellowship achieve? Why did the 3,000 continue...
View ArticleThe Crusade and the Cover Up
We explore the spiritual attack of the two beasts in Revelation who use the state as their weapon against Christ and His people.......Regardless we must continue to pray for those who God has placed...
View ArticleThe Breaking of Bread
This week, we look together at the third pillar of the Church, The Breaking of Bread. This is more than just a badge, more than just the remembrance of the existence and life of Christ. The early...
View ArticleThe Kingdom is Love
The last in this series on the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom is love; it was, is, and continues to be established on love. Paul tells us in Romans 14:14-23 that this kingdom is not eating and drinking...
View ArticleOn the Road With Jesus
Nathan Clarke, Pastor of Ashbourne Baptist Church asks a simple question...Are we on the road with Jesus? In Luke 13:22-35 Jesus brings a warning in relation to the narrow way, but brings confidence...
View ArticleAfter Calvary
What Happened directly after the Crucifixion of Christ and how can this be applied to our lives? Tom Hulland from Stanton Lees Chapel Derbyshire opens up Luke 23:44-56
View ArticlePrayers
The fourth Pillar of the church, Prayer(s). Why is this so difficult for many of us? why is the prayer meeting generally the least well attended meeting of the Church? The early Church shows us how...
View ArticleThe Vanity of Life
Join us as we walk through the Wisdom of Solomon in his sermonic book of "Ecclesiates." Solomon in his repentant and restored state turns from King to preacher as he warns others about the folly which...
View ArticlePrecious Faith
'Faith, through the righteousness of Christ - Do we have such faith, and if we do, do we consider it to be precious?
View ArticleHave You Entered Through the Strait Gate?
What way are you travelling to get to heaven? It leads through a 'narrow gate'. By God's grace, the way is though Christ alone.
View ArticleGiving - The Widow's Two Mites
We conclude our time together in Acts 2:40-47 "The four pillars of the Church", by looking at how the early church continued steadfastly in Giving. Although not directly mentioned it is clear that...
View ArticleThe Vanity of Knowledge
Alexander Pope is quoted as having said "A little knowledge (learning) is a dangerous thing." As we continue in our look at the book of Ecclesiastes we see how Solomons eagerness to pursue more...
View ArticleTo Be a Pilgrim
As we start to go through the first epistle of Peter, we begin by examining Chapter 1, Verse 1, looking at both the writer/sender, and also the intended recipients, " The pilgrims of the dispersion",...
View ArticleThey Ate With Gladness of Heart
Ryan Clarke, pastor of Watchorn Church, Alfreton, providentially revisits Acts Chapter 2 and those of the early church who "ate their food with gladness of heart." This is a huge statement in relation...
View ArticleA Pilgrim by Grace
.Crich Baptist Church -16 March 2025 - Morning Sermon. Peter greets his pilgrim hearers with great confidence. These are elect, sanctified believers by the Grace of God for purpose. What a greeting...
View ArticleThe Vanity of Wisdom
Crich Baptist Church - 16 March 2025 - Evening Sermon: Human philosophers believe that the world can be put to rights by knowledge, wisdom, and human care. Solomon displays here that it is impossible...
View ArticleThe Pilgrim's Living Hope
Crich Baptist Church - Sunday, 23 March - Morning sermon.Moving on from Peters greeting to the dispersed pilgrims, we hear him break out into a wonderful doxology in relation to the fatherhood of God....
View ArticleThe Vanity of Pleasure
Crich Baptist Church - 23 March 2025 - evening sermon: After chasing wisdom and knowledge, Solomon moves on to an extremely strange and dangerous path. He decides in his heart to test mirth and partake...
View ArticleThe Pilgrim's Inheritance
Peters doxology continues on from the mercy that God has shown in birthing many sons through Christs resurrection, to praising The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for the guaranteed inheritance...
View ArticleThe Vanity of Success
Solomon reviews his success in life and comes to the same disappointing conclusion, that it is vanity of vanities and grasping for the wind. What does this mean for us in 2025, what does the world see...
View ArticleThe Pilgrim's Faith
Peter closes his doxology in the opening chapter of his first epistle by confidently stating that those who have an inheritance reserved in heaven will also be kept by the power of God through faith...
View ArticleThe Vanity of Time
Solomon carries on in his sermon to say that to everything there is a season, and a purpose with that season. God's purposes do not change; we cannot add nor take away. God completes that to which He...
View ArticleA Pilgrim's Trials
Peter moves from his doxology to some initial application with regard to the pilgrims' trials . What are they? Why do they come? What is God's purpose behind them? He tells these early pilgrims that...
View ArticlePsalm 51: Repentance and Its Outreach
Dr Nathan Paylor, Elder at Watchorn Church, Alfreton, shares the timeless and helpful repentance Psalm of King David, Psalm 51. David acknowledged his sin, confessed his guilt, requested mercy,...
View ArticleHe is Risen! The Grave Could Not Hold Him
There is much irony in this account of Christ's resurrection as he walks with two men who tell him all about this man who had been crucified in Jerusalem. Christ keeps his identity hidden and preaches...
View ArticleHe is Risen! The Road to Emmaus
There is much irony and in this account of Christ's resurrection as he walks with two men who tell him all about this man who had been crucified in Jerusalem. Christ keeps his identity hidden and...
View ArticleA Pilgrims Salvation
Peter declares to his pilgrim hearers the wonder and the magnificence of their salvation. Wrought by God for a purpose, the Prophets inquired into it as they foretold of this future grace; the angels...
View ArticleThe Vanity of a Fallen World (1)
Solomon looks at the world and sees that it works opposite to how it should. Injustice, oppression, corruption, and iniquity are ever before him…and it's always been like that since Adam. Rather than...
View ArticleA Pilgrims Holiness
Peter moves on from his opening greetings, theology, and doxology to remind the early pilgrims that all of this sonship comes with a responsibility of action in terms of "Living before God our Father."...
View ArticleThe Vanity of a Fallen World (2)
Solomon continues his review of a fallen world by looking at Jealousy, envy, idleness, selfish toil, loneliness, and popularity. He comes to the same conclusion: without God, it is vanity of vanity and...
View ArticleA Pandemic of Fear”- Lessons for the Church Five Years After COVID
Five years on since the church and the nation were in "lockdown". But has the church learnt any lessons? Chris Hand reflects on some personal testimony of the Lord's help during the pandemic. The...
View ArticleThe Vanity of False Worship
Solomon moves onto an area which should challenge our Christian worship. There is a true and a false way of worshipping God; Solomon shows us that there is a way to approach Him, a way to speak to Him,...
View ArticleA Pilgrim's Growth
Peter rounds off his thoughts on the pilgrims' holiness by stating that they too should also grow. The enduring word should be desired just as a new baby craves its mother's milk...if this occurs,...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Death
Solomon moves on to look at the inevitability of death; it comes to all, and none can stay its hand. With that in mind, how should men live their lives? "A living dog is better than a dead lion."...
View ArticleA Pilgrims Purpose
Peter continues his message to the persecuted pilgrims as he demonstrates that their calling is to fulfil a huge purpose in the plan of God. These very same persecuted people, who were once not a...
View ArticleA Life of Diligent Labour
As we come towards a close on our journey through Solomon's sermon in Ecclesiastes, we learn that there is a labour which is not vanity nor chasing after the wind. A labour for God, a labour in which...
View ArticleA Pilgrims' Witness
Having reinforced the wonderful work that God has done with purpose in these pilgrims' lives, Peter now goes on to give some practical application and instruction in living that out. Firstly, Peter...
View ArticleSolomon's Final Summary
We've reached the final message of the series on Ecclesiastes. Solomon concludes his sermon on the vanity of life by summarising what a prosperous and fulfilled life looks like – and we've been seeing...
View ArticleA Pilgrims' Submission (part 1) - Kings and Governors
After describing how to live amongst the world, Peter goes on to explain the need for submission in various forms. The first requirement is to submit to the King and governors, yes, those who are...
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