Sermon Notes (Page 5)

We don’t know how long Elijah had been waiting, but no doubt he was glad that God spoke to him again, telling him this time to leave the brook Cherith – after all the source of water so essential for life was dried up. But in so calling Elijah to move on God makes it clear that though the brook had…

JAMES HAS BEEN TELLING US that God’s glorious plan is to make us “perfect, lacking in nothing” but also that God’s methodology is one that utilises trials. That is, that we are to look on trials we face as Stepping Stones to God’s glorious future for us in Christ. That’s why we should respond to such times with joy. The joy he speaks of is a result of the realisation that…

Last week we noted that by sending Elijah to the Brook Cherith God was doing several things – He was declaring to Ahab and the nation an act of judgment, such that the Word of God which had been despised was now removed, a famine of the Word; and he was declaring to Elijah that he could fully…

As a boy my brothers and I often played in the bush that bordered on the housing estate where we lived at Frankston. It was not uncommon that to get somewhere we had to cross a creek. We would look for tufts of grass, outcrops of stone or earth or some other dry and solid-looking area and, stepping…

Elijah’s means “the Lord is God.” Elijah’s ministry corresponded exactly to his name, for he was sent by God to confront the worship of Baal by God’s people, and to declare to Israel that the Lord was God and there was no other. The first act of the battle scene, as it were, was Elijah the…

‘Give me a relevant message!’ This is the cry every generation of Christians utter if they are in even the smallest way engaging with non-Christians, whether in overt evangelism or in some ministry of compassion. But it is also a cry they are sensitive to personally as they seek to come to grips…

Mother’s Day is a great day for many yet a difficult one for many others, as a result I don’t really want to talk about Motherhood or extol its virtues. Instead I take this opportunity to speak about commitment – the commitment we should have to our family.

To stand at a grave side after a funeral, to walk around a cemetery reading the tombstones is one of the most sobering events of life. It is a very confronting scene. In many ways it is a lonely scene. In this saying we come to the climatic moment of the crucifixion, for it is with this word…

The times of Elijah were not just times of spiritual decline bordering on indifference; they were times of open, defiant and aggressive apostasy. We noted last time from the concluding verses of chapter 16 that this was a period where there was open contempt for the Word of God, corruption of the…

Who was Elijah? How was it that he was so honoured with Moses by God in bringing him to talk with Jesus on the Mount of Transfiguration (Matt 17:3)? That fact alone should be enough to say we ought to get to know this man and understand his ministry. But a further encouragement to us is a consideration of the times in which he lived. It is rightly said you cannot…