Peter Barnes | Psalm 131
SERMON NOTES
Calming our Souls
Psalm 131; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Spurgeon: ‘one of the shortest psalms to read but one of the longest to learn’.
1. Think with humility.
– v.1; Ps.92:5-6
(a) when we are tempted to claim to know what God has not …
Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:3-4
SERMON NOTES
MAINTAINING THE UNITY WE HAVE
(Ephesians 4:3-4)
– unity centred on the Trinity (Eph.4:4-6; see too 1 Cor.12:4-6)
1. We to maintain the unity of the Spirit.
– 4:3; part of the previous sentence
– not to achieve it but to maintain it; …
Peter Barnes | Psalm 128
SERMON NOTES
Blessings in Everyday Life
Psalm 128; Matthew 19:1-15
Psalms 120-134 are the Songs of Ascents (see Ex.23:17).
1. The blessings of reverence and obedience.
– v.1; fear (as in Ex.19:16-25) and walking in His ways.
2. Blessings at work.
– v.2; 2 Thess.3:10; …
Editorial
From the Newsletter of Revesby Presbyterian Church
March 2009
Rev Dr Peter Barnes
On 25 October 1933 John Stam and Betty Scott were married in China where both of them were already serving as missionaries. On 11 September 1934 Betty gave birth to baby Helen Priscilla Stam, and one …
Peter Barnes | Ephesians 4:1-2
SERMON NOTES
A Walk Worthy of the Gospel
(Ephesians 4:1-2)
– peripatetic philosophers ‘walked’; David Hume could not see how his philosophy could ‘walk’.
1. What we do is linked to what we believe.
– 4:1; see the negative side in 1 Cor.15:32
– note …
Peter Barnes | Psalm 122
SERMON NOTES
Meeting with God’s People
Psalm 122; Heb.:10:1-25; 12:18-24
Psalms 120-134 are the Songs of Ascents (see Ex.23:17). Count von Zinzendorf: ‘no Christianity without fellowship’.
1. The joy of God’s people.
– vv.1-2; Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘I have been to church today and am …
Peter Barnes | Ephesians 3:17b-23
SERMON NOTES
Comprehending the Incomprehensible
(Ephesians 3:17b-21)
– Charles Simeon, dying in 1836, was composing four sermons on Ephesians 3:18-19, as ‘the grandest subject I can conceive of’.
1. We must know the love of Christ in order to grow in the love of Christ.…
Peter Barnes | Psalm 121
SERMON NOTES
The Lord Preserves His Own
Psalm 121; 1 Pet. 1:1-12
Psalms 120-134 are the Songs of Ascents. The word ‘keep’ or ‘watch’ or ‘preserve’ is found six times in Psalm 121. William Romaine is supposed to have read it every day.
1. Our …
Peter Barnes | Ephesians 3:14-17a
SERMON NOTES
Praying for Power in Christians
(Ephesians 3:14-17a)
– In verse 14, Paul picks up his prayer begun in verse 1.
1. Prayer before the triune God.
– 3:14-15; standing for prayer in Ps.28:2; 63:4; 1 Tim.2:8; sitting in 2 Sam.7:18; kneeling in Luke …
Peter Barnes | Psalm 119:9-16
SERMON NOTES
Purity Through God’s Word
Psalm 119:9-16; 2 Tim. 3:10-17
Psalm 119 is an acrostic, with each of the 22 stanzas beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, from aleph to taw. This second stanza begins with beth. William Wilberforce, Henry …
