Text: Luke 6: 27-38
 
Call to Worship (Luke 6)
Come and learn the ways of life.
We have come to follow Jesus.
Love your enemies, and do good to those who hate you.
We have come to follow Jesus.
Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who persecute you.
We have come to follow Jesus.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
We have come to follow Jesus.
Come and learn the ways of life.
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Hamish’s recorded sermon for today can be watched here: https://youtu.be/sBdrRslobpA

From Psalm 1:
Oh, the joy of those who do not rely only on human wisdom,
Those who do not scoff at Godly insight. 
And the delight of following the ways of God
Meditating on his laws and thinking about his ways
They will be like trees along a riverbank
bearing luscious fruit each season without fail.
Knowing the blessing of God upon their lives
 
Text: Luke 6: 17-26
Jesus had just done an ‘all-nighter’ – he had climbed to a mountain top and spent the night in prayer. He then goes on to give the “Sermon on the Plain” – a confronting text for the ‘well to do’, which speaks of 2 groups, the poor and the rich, one is blessed and the other cursed! Blessed are the poor and woe to the rich!
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Here is the full recording of the sermon: https://youtu.be/FDyHRjYp_DU

Text: Luke 5: 27-31

Levi – a tax collector, an outsider, and a collaborator with the occupying Romans – was an unusual pick for part of Jeus’s discipleship team. But Jesus wanted to reach out to the marginalised and excluded and invite them in. This is a major message of this passage – Jesus has come as a physician to tend to sick souls! God sees us in all our need and all of our potential for transformation. The question is, do we see this call on our lives coming to us from God?
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Watch the recorded sermon here: https://youtu.be/OEtXNEBCEoA

Come!
Come praise the eternal God!
Let all that is within us--
body, emotions, mind, and will--
praise God’s holy name!
Despite our failures, He forgives and releases us.
More than any doctor, He treats our deepest need.
When we are famished and weak,
He fills us with good and beautiful things,
satisfying our needs, and restoring our strength.
So come!
Come, praise the eternal God!
Sing songs from a grateful heart,
and remember all that He has done for us.

​Sunday 2nd February 2025

Texts:
Luke 5: 1-11
Isaiah 6: 1-8
 
From Psalm 25:
The Lord is good and does what is right;
    he shows the proper path to those who go astray.
9 He leads the humble in doing right,
    teaching them his way.
10 The Lord leads with unfailing love and faithfulness
    all who keep his covenant and obey his demands.
11 For the honor of your name, O Lord,
    forgive my many, many sins.
12 Who are those who fear the Lord?
    He will show them the path they should choose.
13 They will live in prosperity,
    and their children will inherit the land.
14 The Lord is a friend to those who fear him.
    He teaches them his covenant.
 
Last week we looked at Jesus’ rejection at Nazareth which culminated in the angry synagogue mob attempting to throw Jesus off a cliff. We finished with the dramatic conclusion where Jesus turns, faces the crowd, walks through the crowd and goes on his way. Forming a group of key followers, disciples, quickly became his next priority. Our reading from Luke 5 today is just one of a number of stories about Jesus calling his disciples. The fact that it is referred to repeatedly serves to emphasise its importance.
 
Watch the recorded sermon here:
https://youtu.be/YghsMtT9jpg