Can’t find what you are looking for? We only keep a selection of our most recent sermons online but feel free to contact us and we’ll see what we can do!
Peter Barnes | John 20:30-31
SERMON NOTES
WHY DID JOHN WRITE HIS GOSPEL?
John 20:30-31
A. J. P. Taylor wrote history books to amuse people; James Boswell wrote the Life of Samuel Johnson to edify people; Richard Dawkins wrote The God Delusion to convince people of atheism. Why did John …
Peter Barnes | John 19:1-11
SERMON NOTES
MOCKERY, BLASPHEMY OR FEAR?
John 19:1-11
1. Roman soldiers mock the King.
– 19:2-3; see earlier references to Jesus as king in John 6:15; 12:12-13; 18:33-36
– they think Jesus is claiming to be another Tiberius in Rome
– Gal.6:7
2. Jewish authorities …
Peter Barnes | Romans 15:17-19a
SERMON NOTES
CHRIST’S ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN PAUL
(Romans 15:17-19a)
– based on Rom.15:16
1. Paul boasts of Christ’s work through him.
– 15:17-18a
– Paul glories in the cross (Gal.6:14) – like Isaac Watts!
– but the principle is extended in 1 Cor.1:30-31; 2 Cor.10:16-17
– …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 9:23-24
SERMON NOTES
BOASTING IN THE LORD
1 Corinthians 1:18-31; Jeremiah 9:12-26
1. False grounds for boasting.
– 9:23; ‘I don’t know’ is better than ‘I pretend to know’.
(a) wisdom. See 8:8-9. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.…
Peter Barnes | Romans 15:14-16
SERMON NOTES
PAUL AS PASTOR AND PRIEST
(Romans 15:14-16)
1. The ministry of encouragement.
– 15:14; this is not simply aiming to get the Romans to do right, nor is it flattery
– Paul could be critical – 1 Cor.3:1; Gal.3:1
– the Romans are …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 9:1
SERMON NOTES
THE WEEPING PROPHET
Luke 19:41-48; Jeremiah 8:18-9:11
– Jeremiah is deeply moved (8:18, 21; 9:1, 10)
1. Jeremiah mourns for the condition of Zion.
– 9:9-11; very different from Ps.48:1-3
– 8:21; Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s poem The Death of Moses:
…To punish sin and
Peter Barnes | Romans 15:8-12
SERMON NOTES
TRUTH AND MERCY TO JEW AND GENTILE
(Romans 15:8-12)
– this section would support the view that the Jew-Gentile distinction plays at least some part behind what Paul says in Romans 14-15 (although vegetarianism and wine do not fit this well).
1. Truth …
Peter Barnes | Jeremiah 7:1-15
SERMON NOTES
THE TEMPLE SERMON
Mark 11:15-19; Jeremiah 7:1-15
– Jer.7:1-2 – a provocative place to stand!
1. Repentance demands that we amend our ways.
– 7:2, 5-7; note Luke 3:8
– 7:8-10; see 1 John 2:3-5; repentance changes us.
2. Trusting in a false …
Peter Barnes | Romans 15:5-7
SERMON NOTES
UNITY TO GOD’S GLORY
(Romans 15:5-7)
1. Unity glorifies God.
– 15:5-7; see Phil.3:15-16 for how far Paul is prepared to go
– unity is not uniformity, for then Romans 14-15 would not need to have been written. Act of Uniformity in 1662 …
