Jesus’ Plan for His Church

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on December 5, 2021. Paul wrote this letter to his ministry apprentice, Titus, in the early 60s AD. Paul and Peter were both executed in Rome for the crime of preaching the Gospel sometime between 64 and 67 AD. Titus was a young ministry co-worker […]

The Surgery we need for Reconciliation

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on December 5 by Pr Colin Grant of the Reformed Church of Canberra. The Bible text is Genesis 42. Colin spoke on the radical surgery that is needed in order for us to be reconciled to our God. Colin and Pr Darren were doing a […]

Trust the One who sets the plans

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on November 28, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel chapters 11 and 12. Daniel 10-12 is a unit – and it contains the final revelation of things to come that God gave His servant Daniel. We looked at Daniel 10 last week and […]

God blesses the Gospel-centred Church

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on November 28, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 6:1-7. This passage narrates an account of a conflict within the early Church. There was a temptation here for the Apostles to take their focus off preaching the Word of God and instead focus on administrating the […]

The Power of Prayer

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on November 21, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 10:1-21 In his book, Knowing God, J.I. Packer writes the following about Daniel’s prayers on behalf of the people of Israel: ‘People who know God are before anything people who pray, and the first […]

The unstoppable Gospel

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on November 21, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 5:12-42. Acts 5:12-42 narrates the first outbreak of persecution of the early church. This passage also teaches us that Jesus will care for and grow his church – even in the midst of persecution and hostility. The […]

Seventy reasons to rest in God

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on November 14, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 9:20-27. Daniel chapters 1-6 are encouraging accounts of how God sovereignly cared for and protected His servant Daniel in Babylon – which reminded His people that God was still on His throne a and […]

Portrait of a Spirit-filled Church

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on November 14, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 4:32-5:11. Nikita Khrushchev once  said: ‘Communism’s failure is its failure to produce the selfless man’. Communism was an attempt to compel people to share and ensure the equal distribution of wealth. But it fails as a system […]

The prayer that avails much

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on November 7, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 9:1-19. We see in this prayer of Daniel, recorded in the first half of Daniel 9, a perfect example of ‘the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man that availeth much.’ Daniel here prays […]

How to boldly bear witness to Jesus

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on November 7, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 4:1-31. We saw last time, in our study of Acts 3, that God empowered Jesus’ Apostles, Peter and John, to perform an amazing miracle right on the steps of the Jewish temple shortly after the Holy Spirit […]