Liberti Sermons

When we come home, God is not an angry Father waiting too reprimand us. No, he runs towards us with his robe pulled up and his arms spread wide ready to lavish us w his love and his cry of ‘WELCOME HOME’ drowns out our feeble excuses and apologies.’ Do you want to leave your slavery to sin? Come to the Father

There is no rest for our weary souls outside of God but he never leaves us without hope. Jesus has come to draw us out of the darkness of this world and into his eternal rest.

We live generously becuase we have been shown the ultimate generosity by Jesus in the Gospel. And so it is the gospel that is our motivation, the measure and the mission for our generosity.

The breaking of bread is more than a memorial. It is a meal of thanksgiving, unity, presence, rememberance, proclamation and hope and the church is devoted to it.

True christian fellowship is deeper than just gathering together, it is a ministry of helping each grow in our relationship with God.

God's Word is not just a book, it's God's living Word to us, it's not for us to grow our knowledge of Him but our relationship with Him and its not someone else's story, its God's glorious story which his followers are caught up into.

The first in our 'Devoted' Series looking at how the church is marked by a gospel devotion. This week we heard how the church is devoted to prayer which is the natural response of a cross shaped people.

700 years before Jesus was born, his prophet Isaiah prophesied of his coming. This prophet tells Judah, who are on the bring of exile that the Messiah is coming. The Messiah will be many things but most hopeful for Judah is that he will come as their righteous King. Their landscape for generations has been one of corrupt and weak kings and even those who were good ended up being taken by death. When Jesus comes, he comes as the ruler we all desire and the ruler we all need.

Suffering now, Glory later is our song and the path to glory is held up by the Grace of God. God has graciously given us leaders a community and himself to supply grace to our every moment.

Suffering is our present reality but in the midst of the pain we can know joy when we see God's gloryfying purposes