This series takes us all the way through the longest of the four gospels of Jesus Christ, written by the only Gentile writer in Holy Scripture.
Certainty and Uncertainty contrasted
2024-11-24
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message takes the opening 25 verses in Luke's gospel in 2 sections: 1. Certainty - Luke writes as a Gentile, as a Musician, a Historian and a Doctor and his big aim in his gospel is to give certainty to everything that the original eyewitnesses have passed on. 2. Zechariah the priest has his big opportunity when he is chosen by lot to do the offering of incense in the temple at the evening service, he is met by the angel Gabriel with the announcement of the coming of John the Baptist and yet he does not believe it …
I am the Lord's servant - Are you?
2024-12-01
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 1:26-38; Isaiah 9:1-7; 2 Samuel 7:11-13
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Gabriel visits Mary in Nazareth and announces the arrival of Jesus via a virgin birth. Mary responds that it should be done as the angel has said and that she is the Lord's servant.
A leap, a shout and a song
2024-12-08
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
Here we get to the visit of Mary to Elizabeth and the 6 month unborn John (the Baptist) leaps at the sound of Mary's greeting to Elizabeth when she arrives. The mood in that household for the next 3 months is one of great excitement at all that God is doing at this time to bring Redemption into the world through Jesus the Saviour of the world.
Zechariah's Salvation Song
2024-12-15
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
In this section Zechariah's child John is born and he speaks out (for the first time in 9 months) in praise of God. Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit he speaks out the words of what is now called the Benedictus - the Blessed be the Lord hymn. It is a great song speaking of God's Salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.
Working with the Sabbath to get true Rest
2025-03-23
Pastor Hedley Clemo
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'
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'.
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'.
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
From hopelessness to hopefulness
2025-05-18
Pastor Abiola Aka
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
A message about how a hopeless widow's life is turned around to hopefulness by Jesus.
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'
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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'
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)
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
How is it possible to love our neighbour as ourselves?
2025-09-28
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
To love our neighbour as ourselves is only something that Jesus has ever been able to do fully. Here we look at Gospel Neighbouring and where we can get the power and ability to do this.
Being a Mary in a Martha world
2025-10-12
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke 10:38-42; Psalms 27:4; Philippians 3:10-13
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message is about priority - that which comes prior, that which must be before all other things - it is that 'One Thing'. Both Mary and Martha appear to have been followers, lovers of Jesus - but they are different. Martha is swept along with the busyness of life while Mary has learned to daily sit at Jesus' feet and sit under the authority of His holy word. Many good things of this life are those things that serve as DISTRACTIONS that slowly but surely take us away from that which MUST be 'prior' - the best thing, the chief thing, the one …
The Lord's Prayer - A Pattern, a Priority, a Promise
2025-11-02
Pastor Hedley Clemo
Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people
This message looks at the Lord's Prayer in Luke chapter 11 and especially zooms in on the priority of prayer in regard to being unashamed askers. Those who will long persevere in asking God for things, those who will be shameless, bold and confident. The message has three phases: 1. The Pattern (the Lord's prayer is a model prayer) 2. The Priority (persistence in praying - the friend at midnight parable) 3. The Promise (how much more does God give good things to his children)