St. George's Anglican Church - Sermons

Fear not the wind and waves - Satan and his legion. Instead, fear the Lord, and in fearing Him, find that He is good, loving and stronger than any demonic force in your life.

Since Jesus came, nothing is secret. Christ made explicit everything that was already implicit about God. We don't have to hope that God is merciful - we look to the cross and see it plain and clear.

Jesus is the one who calls people to himself. If you desire to be Christ's own, then that is the evidence that you are called by Him. Salvation belongs to the Lord God - it is His work.

Trust the Lord enough to come to Him honestly, exposing your sin with all its shame. Trust that He is the God who restores the humble.

You can observe all of the rules and external things, but if you don't know Christ you have nothing, for He is Lord over all things.

In the healing of the paralytic, we are confronted with the truth that Jesus has the power to forgive sin. If you are overwhelmed by your sin, go to Jesus. He saves everyone who comes to him.

In the account of the cleansing of the leper, we behold our salvation. Jesus takes our place, bearing our uncleanness and transferring His purity to us. He enters the desolate place so we would never be God-forsaken.

To follow the Lord Jesus Christ will come with a cost. It may feel like it is costing you everything, but through it you will gain all of eternity.

God comes to us in Jesus. He comes in amnesty. He comes not to kill, but to be killed; not to condemn, but to save us from the wrath we deserve. This is the good news of Jesus that we proclaim.

The Christian embraces both the old and the new, embracing the whole of Scripture. We rightly inherit and understand the Old Testament through the light of the New.

Joyfully give up everything to gain the treasure of the gospel, for it is of surpassing worth. Compared to this treasure, everything else in your life are but shadows and dust.

If you give your life to pulling up weeds in the church, you will likely crush the very bruised reed that Jesus came to save. The Lord has been patient with you. Show the same grace to others.

Some will walk away from Jesus when faced with uncertainty and a lack of understanding, but instead run to Jesus. He is always more willing to answer than we are to ask.

If you are in Christ, you are no longer of the first Adam - you are of the second Adam. You are not bound by your DNA. You have been transferred from the lineage of Cain to the lineage of Seth.

Christian, when you sin, don't run away from the Lord God - repent and turn toward Him. Our God is so good. Everything he says and does is about abundance, not scarcity. He wants us to thrive and even the things that he withholds from us are for our own good and for our flourishing.

Whenever we try to make ourselves the ultimate arbitrator of what is good and what is evil, we are in fact trying to usurp the role of the Lord God.

God designed an ordered world that can be joyfully inhabited under his rule. When creation lives under His rule, all things find their place and flourish.

Much of the struggle we face in our lives is because we live in the in-between, where we are waiting for God to fulfill his promises. These in-between moments require a simple trust in God's character and a life lived by faith, not by sight.

Divine justice helps us make sense of the world. When we understand God's justice and wrath, we see how it is His love burning hot. Only when we grasp God's wrath against evil can we truly see the gospel as precious.

If you find yourself in a season of waiting, remember that trusting God means to trust God's timing, because no one knows what's best for your life more than God.

In moments of existential dread, when you are unable to close the gap, turn to Jesus who is the only one who can reconcile you to the Father.

Through seasons of lament, embrace the Lord God by faith and empty yourself of your ego and plans. Remind your very soul that your life is not primarily about you. There is something bigger going on that is happening under the tender watch of your faithful God.

Watch as RD unpacks what we believe are the next steps in the life of our church, coming out of this season of prayer and discernment. Hear about how the Lord is calling us to be on mission together in the Gospel.

People of God, renew your devotion to apostolic teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer. These were the marks of the early church and they are what God still uses to grow His church.

The Christian life is a rightly-ordered life; a comprehensive life. It will change your family life, your work, and every aspect of the way you live.

Where is your gaze truly fixed? Take your eyes off of earthly things and put sin to death by looking above. Align your mind and affections towards Jesus and it will liberate you from your old way of living.

What is necessary for a person to become a Christian? Repentance before God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Real change will happen in your life when you press into these things. 

If you are plagued by besetting sins, press more deeply into the knowledge, love and the worship of Jesus. You need more than just behaviour modification - you need to dive deeper into the Gospel.

What is it that makes a Christian person different? In a world awash with despair, Christians are notable for their hope.

True belief in Jesus is never just a cerebral exercise. If someone is truly saved, their life will be marked by Faith in Christ, love for all the saints and a heavenly hope.

If you are struggling to hold onto your life and faith, know from scripture that Christ is holding on to you. God doesn't promise that you won't be bruised, but he does promise you won't get lost.

Grace does not cancel our efforts, it empowers our efforts. We never passively drift towards holiness; we find holiness when we draw near to Christ and actively swim upstream towards the gospel.

Contend in your Christian life through remembering and returning to the gospel, day after day.

The Christian faith has content. Contend for it. Don't change it, don't water it down. You've received it—now pass it on. God's grace comes to you on its way to others.

In a world that holds out vice as virtue and sin as righteousness, it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit to untangle these knots in your heart and ground you in the truth of Christ.

Christ has ascended and is going to come back to bring the Kingdom of God in its fullness. Don't waste your time staring up into the sky. Go and be His witnesses to the ends of the Earth.

God doesn't promise you a life of ease, but he does promise he'll be with you through it all. There is no place, no time, where you are ever apart from the Lord Jesus Christ.

The great commission is all about showing how everything has always been about Jesus. The Christian faith is not empty-headed optimism, it has content and that content is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus is ruling and reigning over everything in the cosmos - over every prime minister, every president, every king. There is not a square inch over all creation where Christ is not sovereign.

Worship is your entire life rooted in and growing out of the truth of God's love for you in Jesus. Evangelism exists so that worship of the Lord Jesus Christ will exist in places where it doesn't right now.

During this time of Growth, RD walks us through the history of our church and how the Lord is calling us forward during this next season in our church.

This is the deep truth of the universe; all of human history turns on this moment - Jesus Christ was crucified, died and raised to new life.

Growing in your Christian life means progressively bringing every area of your life under the lordship of Jesus. In Jesus' kingdom there is no room for those who only pay lip service to him.

What is God like? He is merciful and gracious, abounding in steadfast love. If you repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, then all those sins that you can't forget, God no longer remembers.

Joy and contentment is not found in the "next thing" - it is only found through loving and trusting the Lord Jesus Christ, whether you find yourself in Babylon or Jerusalem.

Wisdom looks at a world in decline, repents and calls others to repent; it is about knowing the Lord and living your life centred around faithfulness to Him.

There are far too many Christians that think that the truest things about this world are the things they can experience with their own senses. But reality is spiritual being playing out in the material. God created a theatre of time and space to unfurl his spiritual glory.

Kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall. Times are difficult, but we rejoice, because we are one step closer to our eternal home.

Kings and kingdoms will rise and fall, but it is all under the watch of the Ancient of Days. So, live a life of service to Him, that is always about the true King's business.

Every single person who belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ can look at this world, which is coming to an end, without fear and with joy, because the Ancient of Days rules over the nations.

Work diligently and trust the Lord. Your response to trials and hardships should never be reactionary; they should arise from a resolve built through a life of humble faithfulness to Jesus.