The Christmas Crowd

2024-12-25

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Luke 1:1-2:38

Christmas 2024

XMAS Day message about Luke's Christmas Crowd where everyone contributes something unique to knowing and appreciating the Lord Jesus Christ.

There is darkness, so come to the Light

2024-12-22

Pastor David Clemo

John 1:1-18

Christmas 2024

An initial Christmas message on Light and Darkness: 1. There is Darkness in this world 2. The Light shines in the darkness 3. The Darkness has not overcome it 4. Come to the Light

Zechariah's Salvation Song

2024-12-15

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Luke 1:57-80

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.

A leap, a shout and a song

2024-12-08

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Luke 1:39-56; 1 Samuel 2:1-10

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.

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.

Certainty and Uncertainty contrasted

2024-11-24

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Luke 1:1-25; Malachi 4:1-6

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 …

Unanswered prayer

2024-11-17

Mike Blackstock

Matthew 7:7-11; 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

One-off Messages

A one-off message on unanswered prayer taken from Paul's prayer for his thorn to be removed.

Three things to attend to - Lest we forget

2024-11-10

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Deuteronomy 6:4-9

One-off Messages

A one-off message for Remembrance Sunday on the Shema in Deuteronomy 6v4-9. We read of three things that we need to attend to if we are not going to forget our God and fail to receive His blessings. 1. Attend to our beliefs 2. Attend to our hearts 3. Attend to our families

Why do the nations rage?

2024-11-03

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Psalms 2:1-12

One-off Messages

A one-off message on Psalm 2 looking at the 4 voices that are heard in this Psalm. 1. What Sinful People say 2. What the Sovereign God says 3. What the Saving Son says 4. What the Seeking Spirit says The closing challenge is to make up your mind whether you will continue to be hostile to God and His Son Jesus Christ or whether you will be subject and take Jesus as your refuge in all of life.

4 Stories - Your stories

2024-10-27

Pastor Hedley Clemo

Psalms 107:1-43

One-off Messages

One-off message which continues the theme of the previous week on Thanksgiving.Here we look at Ps107 and we break it up as follows: 1. 4 Stories Your Stories 2. 2 Storylines God's Storylines 3. Have you grasped the great love of the Lord?

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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