Weekly morning and evening sermons from Barclay Viewforth, Edinburgh, making God's love known in Jesus Christ.
Start of a new series on the theme of 'unhindered', starting with Acts 28:17-31
Celebrating Pentecost - Holy Spirit comes to the disciples waiting as Jesus told them to do and comes to us too as we wait on Him.
Acts 1:1-11 after He has been raised from death but before His ascension, Jesus tells His disciples to stay in Jerusalem and wait for the gift for the gift His Father promised. We need to be ready to wait for God's empowering too.
Luke 24:36-49 the risen Jesus appears to the disciples, grants them his peace and sends them as the Father has sent him.
Luke 24:13-35 The 2 disciples walking to Emmaus are in for a huge surprise but it takes time!
Luke 24:1-12 Two despondent disciples after Jesus has been crucified are walking to Emmaus when they are joined by a stranger. Their hearts start to burn within them as he helps them realise all is not lost but the opposite!
See Jesus, see God, alive, at the heart of everything, not just us, awesome when you think about it, Matthew 27:50-54 and Colossians 1;15-20 will help you see how, if you've got ears to hear!
Matthew 21:1-11 Jesus arrives in Jerusalem and is given a royal welcome, but he's to show he's a very different from the kind of King people might be expecting.
Genesis 50:15ff Joseph forgives his brothers, saying though they intended to harm him, God worked it out for good, as the way they and others would survive years of famine.
Genesis 22:1-19. It made no sense at all. Why would God do such a thing as ask Abraham to sacrifice his only son, Isaac? Yet Abraham trusted. What was the outcome? Read on.
Genesis 18:1-15 Abraham's visitors and the challenge to trust that God will keep His promise, however long coming and unlikely it may seem.
Genesis 15:1-19 God's promise to Abram (exalted father) who would become Abraham (father of many).
Noah and God's promise after the flood.
Genesis 3:1-9 Eve and Adam do the one thing God has told them not to do.
Hebrews 4:12-16
Matthew 5:17-20 Jesus declares he hasn't come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfil them.
The Bible - not one book but many of different genres, spanning centuries. How are we to read and understand it?
Colossians 1:9-14 gives us a prayer to start the new year with.
Galatians 5:18-26 What are you gifts? What does God want you to do with them in 2025? Dare to dream!
Luke 1:26-38 Mary, understandably, is afraid to be confronted by an angel who tells her she's to be the mother of God! What we can learn from her response after the initial shock.
Luke 1:5-2:20 the angel Gabriel appears to Zechariah but even so he can't believe he and Elizabeth are to have a son at this late stage and that that son will be the prophet announcing God's coming into the world.
Psalm 7, a prayer for God to endow Solomon with the characteristics of a good and righteous ruler. Solomon fell short of these during his reign but they point forward to the Messiah or Christ and what is expected of us now as his people, called to follow Him.
Psalm 110 and what it tells us about Jesus's identity and roles
It's on Remembrance Sunday and we reflect on Psalm 102 and how remembering God's faithfulness in past crises sows the seeds of faith for now and the future.
Robbie Keen of Jenga in Uganda, challenges us to want more of God and ask that we might receive.
Psalm 40. God declares that he doesn't want burnt offerings and sin offerings but a heart committed to doing his will. Jesus is the ultimate sacrifice on those lines.
1 Samuel 7:17ff, David takes on Goliath. What is courage? The part that faith, confidence based on experience, preparation and trust play too.
Mark 6:13-34. Often we feel inadequate when faced with a big challenge. God asks us just to give what we've got and leave the rest to Him.
John 14:25-31, Phil 4:4-9. "Peace I leave with you", Jesus tells his disciples then and now. Peace - wellbeing - source of the rejoicing Paul exhorts us to. Knowing God's love in Jesus. Where, what or who else can give us anything like it?
John 18. Jesus arrest and Pilate's well known retort prompts us to think 'what is truth'?
Haggai 1:13-2:9. When feeling discouraged, avoid making comparisons and getting frustrated by slow or no progress. know God is with us. so get on with the work.
Haggai 1:1-13. The Israelites return to Jerusalem after decades of exile in Babylon. They start off well with rebuilding the Temple, then it starts to get hard. Is that a sign that we're on the wrong track and to stop? Rather, the opposite.
Ephesians 4:1-13. Each of us is given us work to do and gifts to do it with.
Family/"back to school" service with an interactive reading involving the children acting out the story of the Jesus healing the blind man by the roadside on the one hand, then Zachaeus the tax collector on the other. 2 different characters but Jesus makes a difference to both their lives.
Philippians 1:27ff What is the good news about Jesus? How do we tell others about it?
David talks about fellowship in the gospel with Jenga in Male, Uganda, in the spirit of Philippians 1:1-11
Hebrews 12. Who or what encourages us to keep going in the marathon that is the life of faith?
Matthew 14:13 Jesus feeds the 5000. Giving whatever we've got, however inadequate that my seem, in trusting obedience to Jesus and watching him multiply it for good.
David tells us about the forthcoming trip to support the work of Jenga in Mbale, Uganda.
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