Date: 30 Jul 2017 Text: John 15:1-17 Introduction In thinking about this idea of living in Christ, we have already heard about or discussed Jesus being described as the bread of life, the shepherd, the way, the truth, the life and the narrow gate through which our faith should lead us. Now Jesus begins this passage by giving us the picture in 15:1 of seeing Himself as a vine; or as He says, “the true vine” and by way of defining our relationship with Him Jesus goes on to add

Date: 23 Jul 2017 Text: John 14:15-31 Introduction In the previous two sermons in this series we have considered the new command that Jesus left us with to “love one another”; and then what Jesus had to say about how we as non-believers can come into a right relationship with God. These two thoughts are vital to our lives as Christians and provide us with the basis on how we can live in Christ. Today’s passage though is multi-faceted and contains a huge amount of information

Date: 16 Jul 2017 Text: John 14:5-14 Introduction In this series of sermons from John’s gospel I want us to think about how we can lead a life Living in Christ. That means a life where we have been reconciled to God and are no longer His enemies. It should follow that if we really do want to do that then we need to come to faith in Him in the first place. In this passage, in fact in a single verse, Jesus tells us how we may come to God. It is important to realise that there i

Date: 09 Jul 2017 Text: Matthew 16:13-20 Preamble It never ceases to amaze me at the number of people who have either never heard of Jesus or who think that the name “Jesus” is a perfectly acceptable swear word. Many homes don’t seem to possess a Bible even though it’s not that many years ago that every home in the land had a Bible. I can recall a Scripture Union advertisement from a few years ago which featured a little lad asking why they named a baby at Christmas after a s

Date: 02 Jul 2017 Text: John 13:31-14:4 Introduction I am this morning starting a series of eight sermons under the general heading of Living in Christ. This will be a series based on the Gospel of John and will consider how we should live our lives in view of our faith in Jesus Christ. This assumes of course that we do have faith in Jesus Christ and regard Him as our Lord and Saviour. If that isn’t already the case then perhaps we need to address the reasons why and try and