Sermons

Topic: The workers in the vineyard
Key Passage: Matthew 20:1-16
Date: 14 September 2008
Speaker: Jack Van Kampen

What do you make of that story? Can you rhyme that with rules of employment and payment in our world today? Let’s face it – it seems totally absurd: some men work the whole long day; some part of the day, while the last ones spend no more than one hour working. The ones who hardly had time to get their hands dirty, are paid the same as those who are worn out at the end of a long hot day.

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Topic: Great Expectations
Key Passage: John 16:14
Date: 31 August 2008
Speaker: Pastor Andrew Brown

Theme: Make the Kingdom of God is your top priority
Read 1 Cor. 7.1-3, 6-15, 25-29, 32-35]

Friends, I want you to imagine that a young man has come here this morning to ask for your advice. The reasons he's here is because he's reached a crossroads in his life and you can help him decide where he goes.

To give you some background - he was born on an island in middle of the Pacific and he's about nineteen years old. His Mum is from one race and his Dad is from another. In fact his parents meet at university while his father was a foreign student. They separated, however, when he was only two years old and later divorced with this father returning to his home country. This may have been just a well since his father was an alcoholic and a womaniser, but it left a large hole in a little boy's heart. He only saw his Dad once more before he died in a car accident. His Mum remarried, and they moved to Asia when he was age six. He attended local schools there until he was ten. He was then sent back to the pacific island where he came from and was put through college by his grandparents. His mum spent some time with him, but then she went back to Asia. Little does he know it, but one-day she will die of ovarian cancer.

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