Sunday Talks

Why don't you park some of your own ideas about what God is like as you read the 10 Commandments today. Ask the question that this part of the Bible is posing: What is God like?

Why don’t you listen to these messages from Exodus and read it with revelation and relationship in mind? To find out what God is like and how he has revealed himself and how to relate to him. Here we will see the God who reveals himself.

When life has its not-quite-rightness, the writers of the Bible don’t just describe it, they profoundly diagnose it. Rather than just accepting our problems as the norm, they go on to describe a remarkable way out. This is a message that reads differently.

You might have noticed that John, one of the key eyewitnesses of the resurrection, is very clear where he wants us to land. Unapologetically John is presenting his compilation of the events of Jesus' life and death, including his account of the resurrection, so that people like us will believe. Believe and have life in his name. Listen to how he describes the events of the first Easter Sunday morning.

In this final instalment of his letter, Peter launches two countermeasures to help Christians to thwart a potentially devastating campaign. It is a call to:

The Bible shows us that there will be a calculatedness to the efforts of false teachers among communities of faithful Christians. Carefully considering Peter's analysis of malicious insider antics will provide training for genuine, growing and stable Christians.

Big companies talk about the phenomena of Insider Threats. One of these comes in the form of malicious insiders - people who maliciously sabotage systems because they have grievances, and who decide to expose sensitive data out of revenge. They can do a lot of damage, especially if they go undetected. Peter warns the Christians about this kind of threat in the churches here in 2 Peter 2. Listen in.

Peter realises that those uprooted and carried away as Christians are people who have stopped growing and who have lost confidence in God's Word. His efforts are about rebuilding a robust confidence in that Word of God.

Can you lose your stability as a Christian? Yes, you can. Writing his last letter to the churches, Peter’s aim is about preventing faithful Christians from losing their stability. Listen in.

The Bible raises our awareness of the sly, deadly, and life-breaking nature of adultery. Proverbs 5 serves as a warning. Listen in.

Repetition is needed because people like us are so easily deviated. In Proverbs 4, there are some messages that repeat what we have already been encountering in this book so far. As you listen to what the Bible says again and again, you'll see that you have at least 3 decisions to make.

What is your most valuable possession? God’s word is telling us about the value of God's wisdom: urging us to find it, to value it, to keep our eyes on it, and apply it. The writer of Proverbs presents us with 4 calls to action here. Listen in.

Trust in the Lord. That’s the central message of this text, this book. The Bible itself. The writer begins this chapter with a START HERE! instruction, followed by a call to nurture a life of commitment to the Lord.

Today at the start of a new year, and the start of the next 5 years, God’s Word sits each one of us down for a serious chat. As we are in the Proverbs, you could probably sum up the message of this serious chat proverbially… a bit like this: Start a search, find a fear, live the rescue!

In the war for your identity that is being waged, when you are enticed... who will you listen to?

In the war for your identity that is being waged, when you are enticed... who will you listen to?

We are part of a world that often says that the worst choices are ok choices. Immersed in that culture, navigating life becomes a real challenge for us. If we are Christians, we will need to learn how to take the best and right course of action. Where does reading Proverbs come in? Listen and find out.

A Christmas Day message from Blackrock Community Church - Happy Christmas!

There’s no better time than Christmas Eve to think about your Christmas Reception. In fact, as Matthew describes two receptions from the first Christmas – one in Jerusalem and one in Bethlehem - he’s at the same time getting us to consider our own reception of Jesus.

In December you might well have gone to one of the traditional Christmas 9 Lessons and 9 Carols services. Here are 9 lessons from John 1. Each with the call to believe, and each with the subsequent call to have life in his name.