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Messages from the Ministers
Series of 3 Sermons
- Find out all about heaven here:
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February 2012 Sermon “Follow you...?
To where?” (Part III of III) by Rev Allister Lane Psalm
147:1-15, Mark 1:29–39
29
January 2012 Sermon “Follow you...? To where?”
(Part II of III) by Rev Allister Lane
Psalm 111 Mark 1:21–28
22
January 2012 Sermon “Follow you...? To where?” (Part
I of III) by Rev Allister Lane
1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark
1:14–20
15
January 2012 Sermon "Follow Me" By Rev Stuart
Simpson
8
January 2012 Sermon "Beloved Son" By Rev
Stuart Simpson
1
January 2012 Sermon "A Vision of Mission"
By Rev Stuart Simpson
11
December 2011 Sermon
"The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming
into the world." by Rev Allister Lane
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24;
John 1:6–8, 19–28
4
December 2011 Sermon "Angels" Rev Stuart
Simpson
4
December 2011 Sermon "The Real Nativity Questions"
Rev Stuart Simpson
27
November 2011 Sermon ‘Keep Alert’ Rev Allister
Lane
Psalm 80:1-7 Mark 13:24–37
20 November 2011Sermon
"I will feed them with justice.” Rev Allister Lane
Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Matthew
25:31-46
6
November 2011 Sermon "What makes Jesus angry?"
Rev Allister Lane
Rev Allister Lane Psalm 107:1-9
Matthew 23:1-12
23
October 2011Sermon: "What’s our top priority?"
Rev Allister Lane
Leviticus 19:1-4, 15-18
Matt 22:34-40
9
October 2011 Sermon "Please RSVP to God’s Invitation''
by Rev Allister Lane
Exodus 32:1–14 Matthew
22:1-14
18
September 2011 Sermon: “It’s Not Fair!” by Rev Allister
Lane
Matthew 20:1-16 Romans
12:1-8
11
September 2011 Sermon "Living with forgiveness
as our ‘default setting" Rev Allister Lane
Genesis 45:1–15, Matt 18:21-35
28
August 2011 Sermon "Who are you?" Sermon
by Rev Allister Lane ,
as part of the service
celebrating the 400 th Anniversary of the King James Bible.
Exodus 3:1–15, John 1:1-18
21
August 2011 Sermon "Who is Jesus?" Rev Stuart
Simpson
14
August 2011 Sermon "The Spread"
Rev Allister Lane
Isaiah 56:1, 6–8; Matthew
15:21-28
7
August 2011 Sermon “Surely the Lord is in this place
– and I did not know it!” Rev Allister Lane Genesis
28:10–19, Matthew 14:22-33
31
July 2011 Sermon "No Excuses" Rev Stuart
Simpson
24
July 2011 Sermon “The Greatest of Shrubs” Rev Allister
Lane
Psalm 105: 1-11, Matt 13:31-33,
44-52
17
July 2011 Sermon "A Mixture of Wheat and Weeds"
Rev Allister Lane
10
July 2011 Sermon ‘Where do we find God’s Word in our
lives?’ Rev Allister Lane Psalm 119:105-112; Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23
3
July 2011 Sermon "Agenda and Motives" Rev
Stuart Simpson
26
June Sermon "Do Not Worry About Your Life"
Rev Stuart Simpson
12
June 2011 Sermon "Surprise" Rev Stuart Simpson
5
June 2011 Sermon ‘Sharing
is no picnic’ Allister Lane
Isaiah
55:1-5 Matthew
14:13-21
29
May 2011 Sermon ‘Music and Worship’ Rev Allister Lane
Colossians 3:1-17 John
17:1-11 (refers to the paper below)
Music
and Worship Paper by Rev Allister Lane May 2011 (pdf
file)
15
May 2011 Sermon "Loving
Ignorance" by Allister Lane
Psalm 100 Matthew
25:31-46
8
May 2011 Sermon "He is Risen! He is Risen indeed!"
Rev Allister Lane
Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Luke
24:13-35
1
May 2011 Sermon "Seeing and Believing" Rev
Allister Lane
1 Peter 1:3–9
John 20:19-31
17
April 2011 Sermon “Do We Know What We Are Doing?” Rev
Allister Lane
Psalm 118: 1-2, 19-29
Matthew 21:1-9
10
April 2011 Sermon "Sabbath:
Time to liberate"
Rev
Stuart Simpson
27
March 2011 Sermon ‘Sabbath: A Time to Rest’ – Rev Allister
Lane
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Luke 10:38-42
20
March 2011 Sermon
‘Sabbath: A Time To Celebrate’
Rev Allister Lane
Genesis 1:1-2:3 John 10:7-10
13
th March 2011 "The Sabbath" Rev Allister
Lane
Exodus 20:8-11 Mark 2:23-3:5
6th
March 2011 Sermon
'The God of Mountain Top and Valley'
Rev Allister Lane
Matthew 17:1-9
20
February 2011 Sermon
‘An Ethical Identity’ Rev Allister Lane
Leviticus 19:1–4, 9–18,
Matthew 5:38–48
13
February 2011 Sermon‘Bread
of Tomorrow’ Rev Allister Lane
1 Corinthians 3:1-9; Matthew
5:13-16
6
February 2011 (Waitangi Day) Sermon ‘Giving (and receiving)
Forgiveness’ - Rev Allister Lane
Genesis 50:15-21 Matthew
6:9-15
(refers to comments by
the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/2948)
30
January 2011 Sermon “We REALLY need God” Rev Allister
Lane
Micah 6:6-8 & Matthew
5:1-12
16
January 2011 Sermon "It's not about me!"
Rev Stuart Simpson
9
January 2011 Sermon Evidence of Kingdom Life: Christian
Hospitality Part two
Rev Stuart Simpson
2
January 2011 Sermon Evidence of Kingdom Life: Christian
Hospitality Part one Rev Stuart Simpson
Boxing
Day Sermon 2010 Rev Stuart Simpson
Christmas
2010 Sermon Rev Stuart Simpson
19
December 2010 Sermon Joseph: ‘A New Righteousness’
Rev Allister Lane
Matthew
1:18-25 (NRSV), Hebrews
5:5-13
21
November 2010 Sermon"Born a child and yet a king"
Rev Allister Lane Luke
23:33-43; Colossians 1:11-20
14
November 2010 Sermon "Do Not be Led Astray"
Rev Stuart Simpson
Luke
21:5-19
31
October 2010 Sermon ‘Recognising Justice’– Rev Allister
Lane
Luke 19:1-10 (Zaccheus)
17
October 2010 Sermon– ‘I will write on their hearts’ Allister
Lane
Jeremiah 31:31-34
10 October 2010 Sermon – Living in Exile
Ryhan Prasad
Readings: Jeremiah 29:1-7
Luke 17:11-19
26
September The rich man and Lazarus
Stuart
Simpson
19
September 2010 Sermon:
Possibly the hardest parable of Jesus
Luke 16:1-9 Allister Lane
Scots
and Queen Margaret College Founders' Day Sermon August 2010
Ryhan Prasad
29
August Sermon: Humble Pie Stuart Simpson
22
August 2010 Sermon: ‘Release’ Allister Lane
Hebrews 11:29—12:2; Luke
13:10-17
1
August 2010 Sermon Vocation (Part I) Allister Lane
Matthew 28:16-20 Acts 18:1-11
8
August 2010 Sermon Vocation (Part II) Stuart Simpson
15
August 2010 Sermon Vocation (Part III) Allister Lane
Micah 6:6-8 Acts
8:26-39
25
July 2010 Sermon The Lord's Prayer Stuart Simpson
18
July 2010 Sermon 'The barrenness of a busy life.' Rev
Stuart Simpson (Mary and Martha)
11
July 2010 Sermon ‘A yarn with Jesus about religion
has implications...’ Bible reading: Luke 10:25-37
20
June 2010 Sermon ‘Clothed With Christ’ -Rev Allister
Lane
Texts: Galatians 3:23–29
and Luke 8:26–39
6
June 2010 Sermon ‘A Touch Of Compassion’ Allister Lane
LUKE 7: Jesus Raises the Widow’s Son at Nain
30
May 2010 Sermon "The Trinity of Consistency"
Stuart Simpson
23
May Sermon "Pentecost" Ryhan Prasad
16
May Sermon ‘Finding
unity in Christ’ Allister Lane
Revelation
22:12–17John 17:20-26
9
May 2010 Sermon: "Where Do We Find Hope?"
Allister Lane
25
April 2010 Sermon: "The
Authority of the Bible" Allister Lane
Acts 13:17-41 Luke 24:13-27
18
April 2010 Sermon
"God's Grace and the Call to Serve" Ryhan Prasad
4th
April 2010 Easter Sunday Sermon Rev Allister
Lane, St Johns in the City
Luke 24:1-12 - The Resurrection
of Jesus
28
th March 2010 Sermon
"Palm Sunday Politics" Allister Lane
Psalm 118:19-29
Luke 19:28-40
15
March 2010 Sermon "The Fate of Judas" Wyn
Beasley
Acts 1:19
The
Virgin Birth Allister Lane Sermon, 21 December 2009
Graham Redding,
former St John's Minister, opening
sermon to General Assembly 2008,Thursday 2 October
2008 at St John's and later sermon at Assembly in Upper Hutt, Sunday
5 October.
Allister
Lane, Sermon 10 June 2008 (18 Mb video file,
Sermon.3gp)
Healing
Teaching From Tom Cuthell (667 Mb pdf file)
Understanding
the Trinity Tom Cuthell 18 May 2008 (pdf)
'I
am the Way, the Truth and the Life' Tom Cuthell's sermon
for 20 April 2008
Doubting
Thomas A sermon on doubt by Ryhan Prasad - from 30
March 2008
"I
Hate Walls" A Sermon about Divisions and Barriers
from Tom Cuthell
3 February
2008
Remembrance
Day: A sermon from Rev Tom Cuthell
11 November 2007
Finding
Christ in Harry Potter
Another Sermon from Professor
Jonathan Boston 23 September 2007: Find out about the Christian
concepts discernible in the Harry Potter Books
J
Boston Sermon: The Cost of Discipleship
Teaching on the Cost of
Discipleship, based on the Gospel of Luke
Each of the three sermons
below from Helen Martin, from 7 to 21 January 2007, is a pastoral
sermon that aims to help us open ourselves to the new possibilities
that God has for us.
INTERUPTED
BY GOD Isaiah 43: 1 - 7 Luke 3: 15-17, 21-22
7 January 2007
SOMETHING
TO SHOUT ABOUT Isaiah
62: 1 - 5 John 2:
1 - 11
14 January
2007
THE
RESOURCES WE HAVE IN CHRIST Nehemiah 8: 1 - 3, 5 - 6, 8 -
10; Luke 4: 14 - 2; & 1 Corinthians 12: 12
– 18, 27
21 January
2007
Waiting
on God Mark 4:26-34
Guest Preacher,
The Rev. Kevin Ward, Acting Principal of The School of Ministry,
Knox College, Dunedin, discusses God's role in the future of the
Church
The
Da Vinci Code Phenomenon
Graham Redding provides
the context and a Christian approach to the Da Vinci Code
Towards
an ethic of giving: Responsible generosity
A
sermon by Graham Redding, 19 February 2006
Texts:
Hebrews 10:1-18; Luke 12:22-34
The
Christian Experience of Truth Versus the Rhetoric of Values
A paper delivered by Graham
Redding to the Systematic Theology Association of New Zealand in
November 2005
Graham
Redding's Sermon providing a Christian view of Islam, 14 August
2005
Graham
Redding's Inaugural Lecture at School of Ministry, February 2005
Calvin
and the Café Church: Reflections at the Interface Between Reformed
Theology and Current Trends in Worship
Message
from Rev Graham Redding: Thinking About Ethics
Graham offers these thought
provoking comments from his March 2003 Church magazine, "The
Messenger", material.
Graham
Redding's Sermon for St John's 150th Anniversary Celebrations
A message from the service
on 26 October 2003 (55 kb Word file)
Helen
Martin 29 January 2006
Love and Knowledge (I
Corinthians 13)
Helen
Martin 15 January 2006
The Holy Spirit
Helen
Martin 8 January 2006
"the
rich variety of God’s wisdom will be made known through you and
me."
Helen
Martin 27 November 2005
Advent
Helen
Martin 20 November 2005
Christ the King
Helen
Martin 24 April 2005
Heaven: now and then,
time and space
Helen
Martin 17 April 2005
Security, Addiction and
Freedom
Helen
Martin 6 March 2005
Knowledge...
Helen
Martin 20 February 2005
God's call and God's grace...
Helen
Martin 30 January 2005
What God Requires...
Helen
Martin 16 January 2005
"Behold
the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of
the world"
Helen
Martin 9 January 2005 Baptism and the Tsunami
Helen
Martin - Matthew 1:18-25
A message for 19 December
2004
Helen
Martin - Sermon on Psalm 139
A message for 5 September
2004
Helen
Martin - Sermon on Psalm 23
A message for 2 May 2004
Helen
Martin - Sermon on Coping with Deaths of Loved Members of St Johns
A message following the
deaths of three longstanding St John's members
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