Peter Barnes: Circumcision: The Old Covenant Sign, Genesis 17:9-14 (19 April 2020 Evening )
God gives circumcision as a sign and seal of His covenant with Abram, who is here renamed ‘Abraham’ – 17:1-8, 15-19. This is fulfilled in the coming of Christ Jesus – Rom.4:16. 1. God attaches a …
Peter Barnes: Handling Temptation, 1 Corinthians 10:13 (Sunday 19 April 2020 Morning Service)
Oscar Wilde: ‘I can resist anything except temptation.’ It sounds like Wilde – wit without wisdom. Calvin and Paul Barnett see v.13 as ‘a word of hope’, but it is both a consolation and a warning. Thomas …
Peter Barnes: Our Condition, GOD’S Provision, Psalm 73:26 (Sunday 12 April 2020 Evening Service, 6.00 p.m.)
Psalm 73 is a Psalm of struggle. The Psalmist, Asaph, has been looking at this fallen world with jaundiced eyes, and struggling to fit that with God’s promises. We should be able to relate …
Peter Barnes: ‘Some Mocked’, Luke 24:1-12; Acts 17:16-34 (12 April Sunday Morning)
– Paul emphasises the resurrection of Christ to the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers of Athens – Acts 17:18. ‘Some mocked’. 1. There have always been unbelievers who mock. – Acts 2:13; 2 Peter 3:3-4; 1 Cor.2:14. – The …
Peter Barnes: A Perfect High Priest and a Perfect Sacrifice, Mark 15:33-47; Hebrews 7:11-28 (10 April 2020, Good Friday)
Both Testaments focus on Christ – Acts 11:26; Luke 24:44. We need to know who Christ is, and what He came to do.
1. Christ is sinless.
– 7:26. This is …
Shane Gooch: The Fifth Commandment, Exodus 20:12 ( Sunday 5 April 2020)
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Peter Barnes: Christ the Sympathetic High Priest, Matthew 4:1-11, Heb.4:14-16. (5 April 2020 am)
In Matthew 4:1-11 Satan tempted Christ three times, and three times Christ rebuffed him. J. C. Ryle: ‘A religion without a priest is a poor, unhappy, useless thing.’ A priest represents his people before God, and …
Peter Barnes: The Father of Faith, Genesis 12:1-3, 15:1-21 (29 March, 2020, pm)
Abraham’s background was paganism – Josh.24:2. Yet God calls him His friend (2 Chron. 20:7; Isa. 41:8; James 2:23) and he becomes the father of all believers (Rom. 4:11).
1. A promised land, a great nation, and …
Peter Barnes: Perfect Peace in the LORD, Isaiah 26:3 (29 March 2020)
The Bible speaks of peace in its many facets:
(a) peace with God won through the work of Christ (Col.1:20);
(b) peace between Christians, whether Jew or Gentile (Eph.2:14);
(c) peace with unbelievers so far as that is …
Peter Barnes: COVENANT WITH ALL FLESH, Gen.9:8-17 (22 March 2020)
Bible Readings:
Genesis 9
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the …
