Delivered on our Lord's Day, 10 January 2021, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

The new year is upon us and as the old saying goes, come hell or high water, we’re going on. I am certain that none of us want to hit the rewind button, whilst some of us might just want to fast-forward now already. But as we have already heard these last few weeks, it’s all in God’s time and we need to make our time count. So what does making our time count look like in 2021? I can’t tell you for certain, but what I do know is that regardless of what year it is and regardless of whether we are facing a pandemic or not, there are certain things that we need to get right in order to make a success out of any year.

Delivered on our Lord's Day, 03 January 2021, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

With having lived through a year of pandemic disrupting everything that we have come to accept as normal, we stand on the doorway of a new year looking back and wondering if there is anything worth hoping for in this year ahead. We face a mutating virus, a second wave, further lockdowns pushing our economy and livelihoods beyond what we have already been able to bear. What is the point of it all? If everything is in fact meaningless as the writer of Ecclesiastes says, then what is life worth living for? Is there any point in the pursuing of anything? 

The answer to that is a resounding yes. Listen how you can make your time count.

Delivered on our Lord's Day, 27 December 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

This too shall pass! Both the best and worst words to hear when you are going through life’s challenges. Yet as we stand on the threshold of 2021 with no idea what lies ahead for us, no idea what tomorrow will bring, we must take encouragement from the Word of God in the book of Ecclesiastes: this too shall pass; for He has made everything beautiful in its time.

Listen to how we can face up to life's troubles and challenges.

Delivered on our Lord's Day, 25 December 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

It has always been the plan of God for us to be near to Him. But once sin came into the picture, it ruined our humanity, and our shame has been driving us away ever since, compelling us to hide ourselves from a Holy God. Yet the hope of Christmas is that because of Jesus' birth, we can draw near to God in order for Him to draw near to us.

Christmas Day message

Delivered on our Lord's Day, 20 December 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

To the shepherds, the Jesus was declared Saviour. To Joseph, Jesus was declared Immanuel. To Mary, Jesus was declared king. To Jesus, He came to be a prophetic preacher, priestly healer, and princely liberator. But what if Jesus was never meant to come and never did come? What hope would you and I have if that “what if” were true?

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Delivered on our Lord's Day, 13 December 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

With Jesus being called the Good Shepherd, the Great Shepherd, and the Chief Shepherd, the Bible has always had a high view of shepherds. But the gentiles did not. They were the most unlikely of messengers, and yet God chose to use them to be the first to share the gospel good news. We are more like the shepherds than what we would want to admit, and yet God has chosen to use us too.

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Delivered on our Lord's Day, 6 December 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Everyone faces disruption at some time in their lives. Some are easy, others are not. Some will lead to life change, others will lead to minor change. Some disruptions are divinely ordained, whilst most are divinely redeemed. Both will require faith, submission, humility, character, discernment and obedience. 

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Delivered on our Lord's Day, 29 November 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

We are all the work of God’s hand, sinners saved by grace, stumbling heavenward with each passing day. When the heavens are violently torn open and Jesus descends in the clouds with great power and glory, and the trumpet blast is sounded and His angels are dispatched to gather His saved ones, then all that has hindered our faith-walk life-journey with the Lord and caused us to stumble, will be destroyed, and our sins will be remembered no more. 

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Delivered on our Lord's Day, 22 November 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

The glory of the latter temple will be greater than the glory of the former, a glory that is expressed through us as the temple of the Holy Spirit taking the gospel to every area of our lives and society. But that greater glory will not be accomplished through us if we do not allow ourselves to be powered up for the task before us.

Delivered on our Lord's Day, 8 November 2020, at North Baptist Church, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.

Christ in you is the hope of glory, a glory declared to be greater than God’s own original presence. Greater glory means greater ability to win more souls for salvation. Christ in you goes beyond any border or limitation that any physical temple building could ever reach, carried wherever you go. Therefore the glory of the latter house, the latter household of God, will be and is already, greater than the glory of the former house.