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?

A message from Luke's gospel preparing us for the New Year 2025.

Christmas 2024

December 2024

A series of 2 messages looking at Christmas themes from John's gospel and Luke's gospel.

Luke's Gospel - Good news for all people

November 2024 – November 2025

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.

Christmas 2023

December 2023

2 Messages from Luke's Gospel about the Invitation that Christmas gives us to Faith, Blessing and Service along with a message about the Emotion of Joy that we find that binds the Christmas stories all together - Joy for the Old, the Young, the Rich and for the Poor.

Easter 2023

April 2023

A pair of messages for Easter 2023 - one from Matthew's account of the crucifixion looking at how the episode centres around mocking and how the irony of that brings out four clear truths and then - second, looking at the Thomas account in John's gospel and considering his journey from doubt to worship and then to witness.

Day by day - Daily grace

January – March 2023

This short series looks at 'daily' things in Scripture and reminds us of the typical 'rhythms of grace' or 'means of grace' that we as Christians should use and benefit from.

Proverbs - Wisdom From Above

May – September 2022

Studies through the Book of Proverbs giving us God's wisdom for everyday living that pleases Him and blesses us

This series explores Paul letter to the church at Rome. This letter would be considered by most as the greatest of all the New Testament letters. It has been a letter that has changed the world by changing numerous people down through the ages by it's powerful and masterful explanation of the Gospel of God.

One-off Messages

October 2020 – October 2025

These messages are just adhoc and don't form part of a larger series and are not related to life-cycle events such as dedications etc.

This series picks up what is known as Jesus' Farewell Discourse (traditionally John 14-17) and also includes the introductory chapter where Jesus shows, in many ways, what it means to truly love one another.It teaches us how to maintain our joy when everything around us might be caving in.

This series has much to encourage and strengthen us.It has the theme of God's sufficient grace running through and dwells much on Christ and His salvation.It also has the theme of suffering present from start to finish and that helps us a lot at this time of world uncertainty with COVID-19.

This book has been helpfully described as an extended commentary on Matthew 6 verse 33 'Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness...' (Ralph Earle)

A series working through the questions and answers that come up in this short 3 chapter minor prophet in the Old Testament.It ends with a wonderful climax in chapter 3 - a wonderful psalm on praise.

The Normal Christian Life

December 2017 – February 2018

This series works through 5 key aspects of any 'normal' Christian life:• Divine Power • Divine Purpose • Divine Pleasure • Divine Passion • Our Progress

This series takes a look at the Lord's Prayer from Matthew's gospel, which forms a part of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

Kennet Radio on FM - 'In Conversation' (2014) with the Rev. Hedley Clemo

Kennet Radio on FM - 'In Conversation' (2013) with the Rev. Hedley Clemo

Luke - Jesus The Travelling StorytellerIn this series we follow the eleven unique stories and parables that Jesus told in Luke's account of his travels through Samaria on his way to Jerusalem.

A look at the Pastoral letters - starting off with 1 Timothy

A 2 message Christmas series based around a pair of 'baby bios' one on John the Baptist and one on Jesus.

In this series we follow the steps of the Psalm writer as he makes his way through the many challenges of life done God's way.This Psalm has many high points and also more than its fair share of stressful seasons.

Christmas in 3 WordsA short 3 message Christmas series taken from 3 passages in Luke's gospel.

Matthew 6v5-13 - The Lord's PrayerA series of 8 messages on the familiar yet profound Lord's Prayer.

Mark 1-13 - So Who Exactly is this Jesus?This is a gospel series from Mark's eyes and tackles the first 13 chapters.

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