Passage: Genesis 2:15-25, Revelation 21:1-11

Date: 2025-01-12

Speaker: Scott Furey

A Better Story: God's Purpose for Sexuality

Why this series?

Society’s View: Sexual Desire/Orientation -> Sexual activity -> Love/Marriage -> God

Bible’s View:

God -> Love/Marriage -> Sexual activity -> Sexual desire/orientation

1. Unity in difference is fundamental to marriage

2. Marriage is a picture of God’s relationship with His people

Passage: Ezekiel 37:1-14

Date: 2025-01-05

Speaker: Jonty Allcock

Passage: Matthew 2:13-18

Date: 2024-12-29

Speaker: Diederik Evanson

1. Jesus is God’s promised King.

2. Jesus will rescue his people.

-> Rejoice in Jesus’ rescue of his people.

-> Have you asked Jesus to rescue you?

Passage: Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:18-25

Date: 2024-12-22

Speaker: Ben Holmes

1. God sees

2. ⁠God stoops

3. ⁠God saves

Passage: Genesis 22.15-18, Galatians 3.16

Date: 2024-12-08

Speaker: Scott Furey

Sermon

1. The promise: All nations will be blessed through Abraham’s seed (Gen 22)

2. The fulfilment: Jesus is Abraham’s seed to bless all nations (Gal 3)

3. The goal: Jesus will be worshipped by all nations (Rev 7)

-> Praise God for His blessing

-> Enjoy His church

-> Long for His return

Passage: Genesis 3.15, Hebrews 2.14-15

Date: 2024-12-01

Speaker: Scott Furey

Sermon

1. God promised a serpent-crusher to undo the curse (Gen. 3:15)

2. Jesus is the serpent-crusher who defeats sin, death and Satan (Heb. 2)

3. We wait for Jesus’ return, when he will destroy sin, death and Satan (1 Cor. 15, Rev. 20)

Passage: Genesis 4:1-26

Date: 2024-11-24

Speaker: Sam Lashwood

Sermon

1. Sin crouches at the door of fallen humanity (v. 1 - 7)

2. Cain chooses sin and more curse follows (v. 8 - 17)

3. Humanity cannot fix our sin problem (v. 17 - 26)

-> But Jesus’s blood speaks a better word than Abel’s (Hebrews 12:18-24)

Passage: Genesis 3:8-24

Date: 2024-11-18

Speaker: Scott Furey

Sermon

The consequences of sin

1. Humanity hides from God and passes the blame (v. 8 - 13)

2. Every part of creation is impacted (v. 14 - 19):

a. The snake is cursed and will be crushed

b. The woman and the man will toil painfully.

c. The ground resists and will swallow man

3. There is hope for sinners because God is gracious (v. 20 - 24)

-> Feel the scale of sin’s impact

-> Rejoice in the scale of Christ’s rescue