Category Archives: Sermons

19 July 2020 – [5] Walking together with Jesus summons to follow and to reproduce – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:16-20
Walking together with Jesus summons to follow and to reproduce

Sermon Points

Walking together with Jesus is about: 

1. Following Jesus 
2. Jesus’ sovereign summons  where we are promise: God will make us what he wants us to be- “fishers of men”
3. Our confident surrender  decisive faith laying everything down

Discussion Questions

1. What can it look like to base being church on “following Jesus together”? 
2. How does Jesus’ making us the “fishers of men” he wants us to become,  best fulfill our own needs as a church for spiritual growth, care and well-being too? 
3. What might it look like for us as a church to lay everything down for God’s restart? 

12 July 2020 – [4] Walking together with Jesus demands life reorientation – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:14-15
Walking together with Jesus demands life reorientation

Sermon Points

1. Being people of the good news that comes from God for now.
2. Engaging with the reality that God’s rule over people’s hearts and lives is now being established.
3. Reorienting our lives around this new reality.

Discussion Questions

1. What are the implications of the fact that as a church we are a family whose lifestyle, thoughts, relationships, words, are to proclaim the Good News that comes from Almighty God? 
2. In what ways have you seen God’s Kingdom in Jesus changing lives, families, communities? 
3. In what ways might we need to reorient our attitudes, agendas, programmes, planning (repent) as a church in the light of God’s Kingdom work planned through us? 

28 June 2020 – [2] Walking together with Jesus – In the forgiveness of sins – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:1-8
Walking together with Jesus: in the forgiveness of sins

Sermon Points

1. Makes sense of our yearning for heaven 
2. Is the secure state we are born again into in Christ 
3. Gives us an honest relationship with ourselves 
4. Gives us a humble relationship with others 
5. Gives us a healed relationship with God

Discussion Questions

1. How would you explain the difference between God’s hating the sin but loving the sinner?
2. How can we accept our bad sides without accepting our wrong doing?
3. How does accepting the fact of our bad side (confessing our sinful nature) actually become a vital step in our healing and changing to be more like Jesus?

21st June 2020 – [1] Walking together with Jesus – Re-start! – Pastor Paul

Mark 1:1-8
Walking together with Jesus: Re-start!

Sermon Points

1. Our story begins with meeting Jesus
2. Its always good news to be with Jesus!
3. To be with Jesus = to be with the Supreme Lord, God!
4. Jesus brings us the gift of new life in the age to come
5. By bringing us to a complete new direction through his accepting us

Discussion Questions

1. How will the fact the Jesus who is with us as the almighty Lord who supernaturally intervenes in human lives shape our prayer life together this week? 
2. How will our attitudes to ourselves and one another be shaped this week, by the presence of the supreme Lord Jesus in our midst as our senior partner in what we’re thinking, saying, doing? 
3. Why is it necessary for us to accept our own badness or that done to us as Jesus has accepted us before we can be changed and healed of it? 

14th June 2020 – Pentecost in Pandemic 3 – Pentecostal Proclamation – Pastor Paul

Exodus 20:1-6; Deuteronomy 6:4-5;  1 Corinthians 8:4-6; Isaiah 44:1-5
Pentecost in Pandemic 3 : Pentecostal Proclamation

Sermon Points

Pentecost means:

1. One enthusiastic conversion will flow after another! 
2. To new life, with all things under God
3. And to belonging with us as God’s people
4. A time to start over!! Reset! 

Discussion Questions

1. Who has God put in your life right now to befriend, pray for and share Jesus’ life, love and message with? 
2. What challenges you in living every moment under the Lordship of Christ? 
3. What fresh ways is God giving you and us together to be God’s family in these days? 

7th June 2020 – Pentecost in Pandemic 2: Pentecostal Pouring – Pastor Paul

Isaiah 44:1-5
Pentecost in Pandemic 2: Pentecostal Pouring

Sermon Points

Pentecostal Pouring:

1. Plants the miracle of new life in Jesus in the believer!  
2. Confirms God’s loving grace in the believer! 
3. Refreshes the thirsty believer with love that casts out fear 
4. Enlivens the DNA of new life in Jesus in the believer that is designed to multiply 

Discussion Questions

1. How would you describe your experience of being refreshed by Jesus’ living water? 
2. What could it look like as God pours out his Spirit on the dry spiritually dead international community in Bremen and Bremerhaven? 
3. What are your next steps in sharing the new life of Jesus he has planted in you with others?

31th May 2020 – Pentecostal People – Pastor Paul

Isaiah 44:1-5; Ephesians 1:3-14
Pentecost in Pandemic 1: Pentecostal People

Sermon Points

Pentecostal people are:

1. Crooked made straight 
2. Chosen in Christ 
3. Caused by the Lord 
4. Created in pre sin design (from the womb)
5. Comforted by the Spirit  

Questions For Discussion In Families Or Online Groups

1. What do you think our being addressed by Good as “my chosen servant” means for us as a church? 
2. What refreshing “life giving” experiences have you had of being church together with others? 
3. What possible leads do you see where God might want to spring church up next in and among you and your connections? 

24th May 2020 – the Good Works that flow from Hope – Pastor Paul

Titus 2:14; Luke 14;1,12-14,
Perspective Hope 5: the Good Works that flow from Hope

Sermon Points

1. Connect with the zealot in you…!! Titus 2:14
2. To do good works of love to everyone Titus 2:14
3. Be focused, not afraid – Luke 14:14
4. Flow with the hope of your reward to come in heaven…! Luke  14:14
5. And the cleansed heart given you by the Lord to whom you belong Titus 2:14 

Questions For Discussion In Families Or Online Groups

1. How can we better connect with Jesus’ zeal in us to do good works of love?
2. How can we help meet one another’s needs for worship, fellowship and learning from God’s Word in this pandemic?
3. In what ways can we continue to grow as a church in the pandemic time?

17th May 2020 – Growth from Hope – Pastor Paul

Isaiah 43:1; 1 Peter:1:14-16; Titus 2:11-14,
Perspective: Hope! 4: Growth from hope

Sermon Points

1. Trained by grace – becoming like Jesus
2. Motivated by hopeful expectations – expecting the full glory to come in Jesus
3. Delivered by ultimate belonging – redeemed by and purified for Jesus

Questions For Discussion In Families Or Online Groups

1. How have you found the Lord training and enabling you to say no to worldliness and yes to godliness in your relationships with yourself, others and himself?
2. How has the hope of all the blessings to come when Jesus returns motivated you in this growth process of becoming more holy?
3. What difference has it made it your life to know you belong to him, because he has redeemed you?

10 May 2020 – Sin and Death versus Life and Holiness! – Brother Ro A.

1 John 1:5-10
“Sin and Death versus Life and Holiness!”

1. Sin leads to death (separation between human beings and God). 
2. Our behavior brings glory either to God or to the enemy.
3. The more we’re indwelled by the Spirit of God, the more we fight against uncleanness.

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION IN FAMILIES OR ONLINE GROUPS:

1. Why should we seek to walk in holiness not sinfulness?  
2. What do you find challenging or difficult about choosing to walk in holiness?
3. How does God help us to walk in holiness day by day?