Christ Church Selly Park sermons
Episodes
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
Thursday Jan 02, 2025
By My Spirit
It's hard to trust God in things that we really care about: but he tells us to act not by might nor by power, but by his Spirit.
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Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Advent: Hope
Christian hope is not a vague wish or a positive emotion, but confidence and trust in the God who fulfils all his promises.
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Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Advent: Suffering
What does God say when we ask him, 'Why?' He doesn't respond with an essay, but with a story - a true story - of God become a Man.
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Monday Dec 09, 2024
Monday Dec 09, 2024
Advent: Patience
Do you find being patient hard? Paul links patience with hope and faithfulness in prayer, which can help us grow in patience.
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Monday Dec 02, 2024
Monday Dec 02, 2024
Advent: Anticipation
Do you like surprises, or do you prefer to know what's coming so you can look forward to it?
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Monday Nov 25, 2024
Monday Nov 25, 2024
In Christ
What are you 'in' today? Your home? Your car? Your uniform? Love? A bad mood? Whatever you are in - true meaning and fulfilment can only be found 'in Christ'.
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Monday Nov 18, 2024
Monday Nov 18, 2024
Truth & Love
It's hard to keep going as a Christian, isn't it? Often we don't talk about our challenges, which can make us feel as though we are the only ones struggling. But we aren't! It's not easy living as a Christian, and never has been.
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Monday Nov 11, 2024
Monday Nov 11, 2024
Chaos
In our church Bible reading plan last week, some of us were reading the end of Daniel. The first half is familiar to many of us – Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the furnace, Daniel in the lion’s den – but the second half gets a little… crazy.
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Sunday Aug 25, 2024
Sunday Aug 25, 2024
Ben Green | Mark 8:1-21
The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. He sighed deeply and said, ‘Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it.’ Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.
Jesus refuses to meet the Pharisees on their terms, yet, as Ben explains, he has just revealed his true nature by feeding several thousand Gentiles - something the Pharisees would never have contemplated. Even Jesus' disciples struggled to gain a true understanding of who he was. Will we, who have the benefit of the New Testament and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, make the effort to find out?
The recording begins with the reading from Alison Cooper.
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Sunday Aug 18, 2024
Ben Green | Mark 7.24-37
Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter. ‘First let the children eat all they want,’ he told her, ‘for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.’ ‘Lord,’ she replied, ‘even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.’ Then he told her, ‘For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.’ She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.
Looking for some rest in Tyre, Jesus is found by a woman with a demon-possessed daughter, and then is begged to heal a man who is deaf and mute. He helped them - can we trust him to do the same today?