Good Shepherd Barton Sermon Podcast

Rev Eric Burton | Romans 8:26-39 — God is working to conform us to the image of his Son (Rom 8:29), so that the loveliness of Jesus and the beauty of his character will be reflected in our lives.

Sabbath | 4. Worship | Revd Ben Soderlund

Rev Ben Soderlund | Exodus 16:23-30; Matthew 7:13-14 — How we spend our Sabbath reveals what we truly worship. In Christ, we have both the freedom and the responsibility to discern what God wants us to do with his gift of Sabbath. Every weekly gift of rest from God, one day in seven, is a foretaste of the feast to come and the rest he will give us forever.

Sabbath | 3. Delight | Revd Ben Soderlund

Rev Ben Soderlund | Isaiah 58:13-14; 1 Peter 1:8-9 — Jesus offers us joy to the full, sheer delight, but often we settle for mere pleasure.  Delight entrances, refreshes and satisfies us...but pleasure leaves us wanting more pleasure.

“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.” — CS Lewis.

Sabbath: Rest For Your Souls | 2. Rest | Revd Ben Soderlund

Rev Ben Soderlund | Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Mark 2:23–28 — Jesus invites all who labour and are heavy laden to come to him and find true soul rest.  Because in him, you have enough, and in him, you are enough.

Sabbath: Rest For Your Souls | 1. Stop | Revd Ben Soderlund

Acts 4:1-20 | Irrepressible Courage | Revd Andrew Robinson

Rev Ben Soderlund | Genesis 1:31-2:3; Matthew 11:28-30 — "You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." — St Augustine.  The rest we long for, what we ache for, is not another sleep in, it's not even another holiday in Fiji, it's not a minimalist phone...true soul rest is found in Jesus alone.