Listen Again…
At St Nicholas we believe that studying God’s Word, the Bible, is essential for nurturing a growing faith. Use the links below to ‘listen again‘ to one of our recent sermons. Alternatively, you can filter the whole archive by date, speaker, sermon series or Bible book.
Self-reliant pride and arrogance abounds in all of us, but where we relegate God to a bystander in our lives, refusing to acknowledge his rightful Lordship, that pride leads to an eternal fall. BUT… Isaiah 35 gives a vision of the joy and the future for those who are redeemed. So we look closely at that vision and end with an antidote to arrogance that leads to everlasting joy.
It isn’t just the pagan nations that have problems with pride – God’s people had their own struggles with the pride of religion. “as long as we do our religious duties, nothing else matters.”
Money may be funny in a rich man’s world but so often the love of money and wealth pulls us from God. Yet the LORD alone can provide us with deep and lasting peace, security, joy, rest and a place to call home. Realising this is a challenge to our pride in our wealth and to how we use our resources.
Egypt was proud of their religious wisdom, proud of their economic wisdom and proud of their ‘everyday, how we see the world, what to do in a crisis’ wisdom. And Judah looked on and wondered if Egypt could be trusted to protect them from Assyria. But Egypt’s wisdom was folly. God would show up the foolishness of the wise and prove to be far wiser and more gracious than anyone could imagine.
The first of a series on the oracles of Isaiah against the nations. This time the focus is on Babylon and the arrogance of power -“We are invincible. God doesn’t see. There will be no judgement. We can behave however we like.” A common thought for those with great power, but absolutely wrong.