Trusting God in the face of suffering

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on October 31, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 8. In Daniel 8, we encounter a strange vision that God gave Daniel. This vision revealed to Daniel what would happen to the nation of Israel under the rule of the two empires to […]

Jesus (still) saves!

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on October 31, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 3:1-26. In Acts 3, a man born paralysed is healed in the name and power of Jesus – mirroring the healing Jesus gave to a man born paralysed about three years ago near the start of His […]

Vivid visions reveal what’s really going on

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on October 24, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 7. While countless illustrated children’s Bible story books have told the stories of God rescuing Daniel from the lions’ den, very few children’s stories are based on anything recorded in Daniel chapters 7 through […]

What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit all about?

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on October 24, 2021. This sermon expounds Acts 2:14-47. In the first 13 verses of Acts 2, Luke narrates the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Church at Pentecost. We saw, in Luke’s account, that God poured out His Spirit on Jesus’ followers on […]

Daniel in the lion’s den

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday evening service on October 17, 2021. The Bible passage being expounded is Daniel 6. The account of Daniel and the lions’ den is one of the most famous stories in the book of Daniel – and it’s one of the best-known accounts of the entire Bible. This […]

The Baptism of the Holy Spirit

This sermon was preached at WPB Belconnen’s morning service on Sunday, October 17. 2021. It was the second sermon in a series on the Book of Acts. During Jesus’ ministry, He promised to send the Holy Spirit to His disciples to fill them and empower them. This gift was to be poured out on all […]

Writing’s on the wall for enemies of God

This sermon was preached via Zoom at WPC Belconnen’s evening service on Sunday, October 10, 2021. It was the fifth in a series on the Book of Daniel. In Daniel 4, we saw King Nebuchadnezzar finally brought to his senses when God punished him for his pride by driving him mad for seven years. Almost […]

Jesus’ disciples join in His mission

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s Sunday morning service on October 10, 2021. This was the first message of a series on the Book of Acts. The Book of Acts begins with Jesus returning to heaven – gloriously ascending to His Father’s side after completing His mission of atonement. Jesus has completed His ministry […]

Why we humble ourselves before the Lord

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s evening service on October 3, 2021. It examines Daniel 4 and was part of our 2021 series studying the Old Testament Book of Daniel. In Daniel 4, we read the account of how God humbled the ruler of the greatest empire in the world at that time, King […]

How to stand when under spiritual attack

This sermon was preached at WPC Belconnen’s morning service on Sunday, October 3, 2021. The text was Ephesians 6:10-24. This was the final sermon on our 2021 series on Ephesians. The Book of Ephesians ends with Paul’s charge to the Christians at Ephesus to stand against the ‘schemes of the devil’ by putting on the […]