St Thomas’ Anglican Church, Cranebrook

A Sermon on Acts 21-26 by Jason Porter at Morning Church on the 28th of June 2009.

Sermon outline:

• Caesarea
• Destination: Jerusalem
• Roman soldiers intervene to quell the disturbance (21:33)
• Paul tells his story: ministry to the Gentiles (22:21)
• Brought before the Sanhedrin (22:30)
• Destination: Rome (23:11)
• A plot to kill Paul (23:12-22)
• Extradited to Caesarea (23:23-35)
• Trial before Governor Antonius Felix
• Paul explains his innocence and on several occasions speaks at length with Felix and Drusilla
• Trial before Porcius Festus (25:1-22)
• Jerusalem or Rome?
• Trial before Agrippa II (25:23-26:32)
• Conclusion:
  • Prayerful trust in a Sovereign God
  • Opportunities not just problems
  • Respect authority but be wise
  • Faithfully obey God despite the cost. You cannot say, “No, Lord”
  • Speak our story, wherever we are, trusting that God will give us the words we need
  • Faith, not fear

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A Sermon on John 1:1-9 by Jason Porter at Morning Church on the 14th of December 2008.

Sermon Outline:

• John
• John’s Gospel
• Comments from Eusebuis History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
• The Gospels are reliable
• John’s purpose
• Greek grammar
• Hebrew in the context of Greek culture and philosophy
• Jesus, the Word of God, the Lamb of God, the Son of God
• Eyewitnesses
• John in his gospel forces us to either accept or reject Jesus as God’s Messiah.

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A Sermon on 1 Timothy 1 by Jason Porter at Morning Church on the 6th of July 2008.

Sermon Outline:

• The introduction we normally skip over (v1-2)
• Paul, Ephesus and Timothy
  • Missionary journeys
  • Ephesus
  • Timothy
• (A) Paul’s Charge to Timothy (v3-5)
  • (B) False Teachers (v6-7)
    • (C) The Law Mishandled (v8-10)
    • (C’) Authorised Doctrine (v10-11)
  • (B’) Faithful Teacher (v12-17)
• (A’) Paul’s Charge to Timothy Repeated (v18-20)

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A Sermon on 1 Chronicles 1-9 by Jason Porter at Morning and Night Church on the 6th of January 2008.

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