Date: 15 Oct 2017 Text: Philemon Preamble I came across a story recently about a chap who met someone who had been a drug dealer. Shortly before this first meeting, he had come to faith in Christ, an event which brought a radical change to his whole life. He became an enthusiastic church member, was well dressed and very well mannered. It didn’t take long for him to be well accepted by the church and to blend in with everyone else. One day he brought two friends with him, fri

Date: 08 Oct 2017 Text: Acts 2:42-47 Introduction As I’ve spent time thinking about the future of this church the verses that I have chosen to speak on this morning have been on my mind a great deal. As has been said before, here at the Baptist Free Church we have tried a number of initiatives to reach out to the community in an effort to bring new people in to join us and hear about Jesus Christ. Sadly all our efforts have so far failed and although we’ve had a few people vi

Date: 01 Oct 2017 Text: John 21:1-14 Introduction Amazingly enough it’s harvest time again; that time of year when we celebrate all the different crops having been safely gathered in. More importantly it’s also the time when we give thanks to God for the abundance of crops and fruit that has been produced and that He has given us. We thank Him too for the efforts of all the farmers around the country who grow and nurture all these crops, food that we can eat. I have to add th

Date: 24 Sep 2017 Text: John 17:20-26 Introduction This morning we reach the end of this series of sermons under the general title of Living in Christ. Over recent weeks we have covered lot of ground and hopefully learned a lot about how we can live in Christ even in the hostile environment of 2017. We now come to Jesus’ final prayer before He and His disciples headed off to the Garden of Gethsemane where the final act of this story was played out. When we looked at the early