The harvest IS plentiful
2025-09-21
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
The harvest IS plentiful - but do we believe it. This message considers 3 things: 1. Something to believe 2. Something to behold 3. Something to begin
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What it involves being 'on the road' with Jesus
2025-09-14
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Luke 9v51 tells us that from this point on Jesus set his face to go to Jerusalem (and his death, of course). He shows us here is these 2 very brief episodes that there are 2 balancing things need to truly follow him in discipleship: 1. Mercy 2. Commitment which entails a) hardship, b) urgency and c) focus (no looking back)
What true greatness is and is not
2025-09-07
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Matthew 18:1-9; Luke 9:46-50; Mark 9:33-50
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message digs out (mainly from Mark 9v33-50) what true greatness is according to Jesus. 1. What true greatness is: Being last of all and being servant of all, being truly humble 2. What true greatness is not: Having a 'competitive spirit', having a 'party spirit' (being cliquey) and having a 'sin-soft, saltless spirit'
When Jesus gives us His helping hand
2025-08-31
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:37-45; Mark 9:14-23; Matthew 17:14-23
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
As Jesus comes down from His mountaintop experience, He comes down into the valley of our tears and misery. What we see is that He comes to tackle the problems of FAILURE and also of FAITH by way of giving His tender helping hand. 1. Failure - Learning to deal with it 2, Faith - Learning to reckon on it
The transfiguration - Glory and suffering married together
2025-08-24
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:28-36; Matthew 17:1-13; Mark 9:1-12
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
In this discipleship lesson we encounter an UNFORGETTABLE event. It is a mountaintop experience that is to LOOM LARGE in the apostles mind. This is a passage that is directly linked to the previous events where Jesus told them that he must suffer, must die and they must follow suit. In this event Jesus shows His full glory and marries together suffering and glory that belong and must be kept together if the disciples are to be able to practically cope with suffering.
Real faith in Jesus - A headline, a storyline and a bottomline
2025-08-17
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:22-27; Matthew 16:13-28; Mark 8:27-38
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
In this message we consider a key turning point in the gospels where Jesus, after Peter's confession that He is the Christ, begins to now tell them that he MUST suffer and MUST be killed and that they MUST deny themselves and follow Him. Here we look at: 1) The Headline - that Jesus is the Christ 2) The Storyline - of Jesus suffering and taking up the cross along with our storyline to be the same 3) The Bottomline - where Jesus gives us 4 things that show what is at stake if we do or don't follow Jesus' storyline
When the penny finally drops - 'You are the Christ'
2025-08-10
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:18-21; Matthew 16:13-28; Mark 8:22-30
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
In this message we consider 2 miracles (only the 2nd one in Luke 9) which come one after the other in Mark chapter 8. They are both about BLINDNESS. The first is a physically blind man that Jesus chooses to heal in 2 touches and not one. This is a miracle and an acted parable to show that people come to true saving faith by multiple touches of God.
The lesson of the loaves - My deficiency, His sufficiency
2025-08-03
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:10-17; Matthew 14:11-36; Mark 6:30-56; John 6:1-24
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
The feeding of the 5,000 miracle is in all four gospels - which certainly says something. It is twinned with the miracle of Jesus walking on the water because it says the disciples had not learned the lesson of the loaves. This lesson is to do with learning our limits, facing up to failure and recognising the complete sufficiency of Jesus. The second miracle story helps to interpret the meaning of the first miracle story.
Jesus sends them out on work experience
2025-07-27
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 9:1-11; Matthew 10:1-23; Mark 6:8-11
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Luke 9 brings in a new focus on discipleship, on taking the next stage in our discipleship journey. He sends them out two by two and they preach the Kingdom of God and heal people. When this is done they do a full debrief and Jesus no doubt critiques their approach and encourages them forward as they gain practical experience in ministry.
2 Desperate people come to Jesus with simple faith
2025-07-20
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 8:40-56; Matthew 9:18-26; Mark 5:22-43
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This episode is a story within a story - a miracle squared (What in Mark is known as intercalation or a Markan Sandwich). 1. The unnamed woman with a flow of blood and is healed with must a touch and given the title Daughter by Jesus - her faith in Jesus saves her soul. 2. Jairus 12 year old only daughter is brought back from death, again, by just the merest touch and the gentlest of words 'Talitha Koum'.
Jesus the Chain Breaker
2025-07-13
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 8:26-39; Matthew 8:28-34; Mark 5:1-20
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Jesus faces down the extreme ruin in the life of a demon-possessed man and breaks the chains of his misery. Jesus can do the same for all of us because even as Christians we can be oppressed and defeated by the many schemes of Satan our adversary.
Jesus, Master and Commander in the storms of life
2025-06-29
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 8:22-25; Matthew 8:23-27; Mark 4:36-41
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message is about the seismic storm on the sea of Galilee and how Jesus reveals himself as BOTH Master and Commander in His life. he is one who masters and is not mastered by the event and also that he is commander in the sense that he displays his divine side in commanding the wind and the waves. The passage encourages us to Behold Jesus and answer the questions:1) Who is this who commands the waves? and2) Why is it that I can be so fearful and so lacking in faith when life becomes so overwhelming?
4 Things that reveal true hearing
2025-06-22
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
4 Ways that true hearing reveals itself: 1. True hearers hear evangelistically 2. True hearers hear authentically 3. True hearers hear fruitfully 4. True hearers hear obediently
The Sower - 4 Hearers but only 1 that really hears
2025-06-08
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
The parable of the Sower challenges whether we really know what HEARING really looks like.
From forgiveness to Great Love
2025-06-01
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
In this episode we have the fourth reaction of Jesus to different types of people and their situations. Here he recognises the great love of the openly sinful woman who has clearly found forgiveness for her open sins. He now challenges another sinner - Simon the Pharisee to see his own sins and the lack of his love because he has been forgiven little.
Moving from uncertain doubt to firm belief
2025-05-25
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Jesus receives a message from John the Baptist as to whether he is really the one they have been waiting for. This message considers 4 locations along the spectrum of faith. At one end believing at the other disbelieving: 1. Doubting - 'false expectations' 2. Decided - 'firm expectations' 3. Drifting - 'fluid expectations' 4. Disbelieving - 'faked expectations'
3 Different takes on true faith
2025-05-11
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Three different takes on the true faith of the gentile Centurion: 1. What the Jews see 2. What the Centurion sees 3. What Jesus sees
The sermon on the plain - Decision - Part 4 of 4
2025-05-04
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
The last part out of 4 in the Sermon on the Plain where Jesus is giving his disciples a Primer on Discipleship. Here he speaks about 2 roads, 2 trees, 2 claims and 2 houses. He effectively says: 'The Evidence demands a Verdict (i.e. a decision) and equally here 'A Verdict demands Evidence'.
The sermon on the plain - Discernment - Part 3 of 4
2025-04-27
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
The 3rd part out of 4 in the Sermon on the Plain where Jesus is giving his disciples a Primer on Discipleship. This is where he speaks about not judging people. We get to see what that really means i.e. do not be judgmental, do not display a 'critical spirit'.
Jesus' salvation and His humiliation
2025-04-18
Pastor Hedley Clemo
One-offs
Good Friday message (part 1 of 2) on Isaiah 52v13 through to Isaiah 53v12 (the 4th Servant Song). We see here Jesus' humiliation.
The sermon on the plain - Distinction - Part 2 of 4
2025-04-13
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message looks at what I have called 'The Hard Command' i.e. Jesus command to 'Love your enemies'