South West Baptist Church Sermons

Steve Withington looks at the importance of promise making and promise keeping and the contrast between relationships based on a contract model and those based on a covenant model.

Why are making and keeping promises important? How does our relationship with God inform how we go about making promises in our lives?

Dr Phil Halstead talks about forgiveness, what it means and why it is so important.

Dr Phil Halstead examines forgiveness and why it is so important in our relationships with others, including God.

Sam Broughton brings our Easter series "Beautiful Scars" to a close with a look at the power of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit.

Jo Robertson looks at the story of Thomas and his doubts,and how Jesus answers our doubts and struggles through his sacrifice on the cross.

Warren Read examines Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Jesus and the significance of the two questions he asked her, "Why are you crying?", and "Who are you looking for?"

In this Easter Sunday sermon Alan Jamieson discusses the resurrection and how scandalous the evidence for it would have seemed.

Our Easter series continues with a look at Judas' betrayal of Jesus, how we can also betray and manipulate Jesus, but how no matter how far we may fall from grace, Jesus always offers a way back.

Alan Jamieson discusses the passion of Jesus and how we can make the passion of Jesus our passion too.

We begin Easter with a look at the last meal Jesus shared with his disciples and the transforming forgiveness that flows from his sacrifice.

Alan Jamieson opens our Easter series on the "beautiful scars" of Jesus with a look at the broken bread and the broken body and the Easter experience of Jesus.

Duane Major draws our Revelation series to a close by looking at the end of all things and asking how we can live now with the end in mind, how do we prepare now for eternity.

Murray Robertson ends our Revelation series - where else? - with the end of all things, an ending that is really the beginning.

Murray Robertson brings us the message of hope embodied in Jesus, the rider on the white horse, especially to those being persecuted and oppressed because of their faith in him.

Jo Robertson looks at how the economic system we are a part of is incredibly similar to the system that John decries so forcefully - and that God promises to destroy - in the book of Revelation.

Alan Jamieson looks at the seductive nature of the whore of Babylon and how it prevalent in the world around us, but how God's love for his people is even stronger than the whore's lure.

Murray Robertson explains the nature of the two beasts of Revelation 13 and how they represent a power diametrically opposed to the rule of God, and how we can learn to see recognise and stand against the power of the beasts.

Alan Jamieson continues our Revelation series with a look at the woman and the dragon, what they represent, and how the option of not choosing a side in the battle is not actually an option.

Duane Major looks at what the book of Revelation - and specifically the sounding of the seven trumpets - tells us about how we should care for the environment.