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Good News From Mark, Part 10 - Going Into Enemy Territory With Love
Worship Service: Sermon only - 17 Mar, 2013
This week we're reading about how Jesus went to Jerusalem, knowing that people were going to do all they could to take Him down. How did He respond to their challenges and what can we learn from it? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 9 - Hard as Stone or Soft as Down
Worship Service: Sermon only - 10 Mar, 2013
There is a tension in our lives between strength and changeability. This week we will explore this tension as it applies to the life of our souls. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 8 - Jesus Christ is a Person, Not a Vending Machine
Worship Service: Sermon only - 3 Mar, 2013
There is a way of thinking about God that tries to turn Him into a servant. The truth is much more exciting and challenging. Jesus Christ is a person who is God. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 6 - Be Opened!
Worship Service: Sermon only - 17 Feb, 2013
Did you grow up in a church environment? How has that affected your spiritual life today positively or negatively? There are significant advantages to growing up in a church environment and there also problems that 'church people' often have that other people don't. The stories we're going to read from Mark this week will help us identify some of those problems so that we can deal with them and gain the full benefit of being part of a religious community. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 5 - Are You Giving Too Much?
Worship Service: Sermon only - 10 Feb, 2013
Jesus couldn't get a minute to Himself. He was constantly being flocked by a needy crowd of people. This week we will explore how the physical tension of serving others vs. getting some down time reflects a tension in our spiritual lives. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 4 - Don't Tell Anyone
Worship Service: Sermon only - 3 Feb, 2013
There's this confusing thing that happens a number of times in the Gospel of Mark. The Lord heals someone in an amazing way but then tells them not to tell anyone. Why not? Other times He specifically tells people to go and tell people what has happened. What's the difference? This Sunday we're going to see if we can figure out what's going on here and also what we can learn about when we need to keep quiet and when we need to spread the good news. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 3 - Who Is this Oke?
Worship Service: Sermon only - 27 Jan, 2013
If we are going to follow the Lord, we need to know who He is. In Mark, we can see how the disciples who followed the Lord had a growing understanding of who the Lord is and what it means to follow Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 2 - Healing the Soul
Worship Service: Sermon only - 20 Jan, 2013
Our Souls can get run down, beat up, and even sick. During Jesus Christ's life He healed many people. This Sunday we will investigate what the miracles of healing can teach us about healing our souls. If you missed the 1st of the series click on the link below. And you can find more resources for this series at www.newchurchwestville.co.za/mark Previous sermon copies can be easily found on the website. Go to www.newchurchwestville.co.za/sermons | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Good News From Mark, Part 1 - Repent and Believe in the Gospel
Worship Service: Childrens Talk & Adult Sermon - 13 Jan, 2013
This Sunday we begin a new sermon series, "Good News from Mark." From now until Easter we will reading through the Gospel of Mark and exploring what good news it has for our lives. In this sermon we focus on the first words of Jesus Christ, "Repent and believe in the gospel." Find more resources at www.newchurchwestville.co.za/mark | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
How to Be as Happy as the Angels
Worship Service: Children & Adult - 25 Dec, 2012
The angels were so happy to get to tell the good news to the shepherds that the Lord had been born. What can we learn from the angels about how to be happy? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Fulfilment
Worship Service: Sermon only - 23 Dec, 2012
Why Was the Lord, God of the Universe, Born as a Helpless Human Being
Worship Service: Sermon only - 16 Dec, 2012
The birth of the Lord as a human being is one of the greatest miracles of all time. This Sunday we will talk about why the Lord chose to be born in the flesh as a human being with all the problems that comes with it. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Saviour, King, Teacher, Man of Sorrows
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Dec, 2012
The Lord told humanity that He was coming and what He would be like when He came. The Lord needed us to know what He was going to do when He came so we would be able to recognise Him. This week we look at four things that the Lord told us He would do for us through His Coming. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Waiting For the Lord, Part 1 - What Happens When We Don't Wait
Worship Service: Sermon only - 25 Nov, 2012
As it gets closer to Christmastime we're going to be spending a couple of weeks thinking about what it's like to wait for the Lord to come. There are things that we want the Lord to do and sometimes we wait and wait and wait and nothing seems to change. This Sunday we're going to look at what happens when we get fed up with waiting on the Lord and make another plan instead. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Rules for Generosity
Worship Service: Sermon only - 18 Nov, 2012
How generous should we be? Where do we draw the line between generosity and imprudence? We shouldn't give away everything we've got, and then rely on the charity of others. But neither should we keep everything for ourselves and give nothing to others. This week we'll talk about finding that balance between being generous and providing for our own needs and wants. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
The Blind Spot That Hinders Generosity
Worship Service: Sermon only - 4 Nov, 2012
We have a cultural blind spot that can keep us from becoming truly generous people. Let's learn to see it so we can deal with it. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Leading is Following
Worship Service: Sermon only - 28 Oct, 2012
We usually think about great leaders as people who stand for the right thing, even when they are all alone in doing so. This week we are going to talk about the ways we have to follow to be good leaders. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Why Is Religion Important
Worship Service: Sermon only - 21 Oct, 2012
What do we get out of being involved in the church and in a relationship with God? One way to explore this issue is by looking at what agreement the Lord is offering us. He agrees to do something for us and in return asks us to do something for Him. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Spiritual Warfare, Part 2 - The Battle is the Lord's
Worship Service: Sermon only - 14 Oct, 2012
Are you willing to fight? That was the question that we focused on last week in our series on spiritual warfare. (If you missed that sermon and would like to read it, you can find it on the homepage at www.newchurchwestville.co.za and if you would like to listen to it you can find it at www.newchurchwestville.co.za/sermons. ) If you're willing to fight, the next question is how do you fight? There's a lot that we could talk about but we're going to focus primarily on one crucial factor in fighting spiritual battles. If we don't do this one thing in our spiritual battles we will always ultimately lose. Can you guess what it is? If you know what it is, do you know how to do it effectively? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Spiritual Warfare 1 - Are You Willing to Fight
Worship Service: Sermon only - 7 Oct, 2012
For the next two Sundays we're going to be exploring the topic of spiritual war. The Bible is full of stories about war and the New Church teaches that all of that imagery is symbolic of the spiritual war that is going on all the time. Here are a couple of questions to get you thinking about the topic. Have you ever experienced this spiritual war? Who is the war against? What are we fighting for? What is the value of thinking about our spiritual lives in warlike terms? | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Forgiveness 2 - Shut the Door to be Forgiving
Worship Service: Sermon only - 30 Sep, 2012
We can become trapped by own feelings of anger, frustration, and hurt. How do we become more forgiving when we still have so pain? The spiritual reality is that we have to shut one door before we can open another. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Forgiveness 1 - How Denial Shuts the Door on Being Forgiving
Worship Service: Sermon only - 23 Sep, 2012
The stories we tell ourselves about who we are, who God is, how we relate to Him, all affect how we relate to others. Some of the stories we tell ourselves close the door on our ability to be a forgiving person. | By Rev. Derrick Lumsden , Westville, RSA
Understanding Our God, Part 3 - The Holy Spirit
Worship Service: Sermon only - 9 Sep, 2012
Is God doing things in your life? (Maybe you can figure out that the answer I'm looking for is yes. But I've got a harder question for you.) Which things that happen in your life are God's work and which things aren't? How do you tell the difference? This Sunday is the last one in the Understanding Our God series. We're going to be talking about the Holy Spirit, which, in the New Church, we understand to mean God's activity. And we're not going to be leaving things in the comfortable realm of God doing stuff generally for people; I want to really wrestle with how to see His presence in the details of each of our lives. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Understanding Our God, Part 2 - Father & Son
Worship Service: Sermon only - 2 Sep, 2012
This Sunday is part 2 of a series on the Trinity. Last week we focused on the importance of believing that there is only one God. This week we're going to move on to the questions that inevitably come up. What about when Jesus prays to His Father? Why did Jesus talk about the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit if there's only one God? The Trinity stuff can seem pretty confusing but when we understand it properly, a lot of other pieces also fit into place. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA
Understanding Our God, Part 1 - Jesus Christ is the One God
Worship Service: Sermon only - 26 Aug, 2012
I'm going to be talking about the Trinity this Sunday. For a long time it felt to me like a confusing, abstract and mostly irrelevant topic. But understanding the Trinity is an important part of understanding who our God is. And, in any relationship, it makes a big difference to understand the other person better. And so my hope is that you'll end up feeling glad that you put the effort into understanding this challenging topic because you feel less confused and more connected to your God. | By Rev. Malcolm G. Smith , Westville, RSA