Everyone Needs a Purpose
Matthew 4.10Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 15 July 2012
All have the urge to choose their own 'gods', things to bring fulfillment or pleasure. These get our homage, but our 'gods' are lifeless and far too small to satisfy the soul. Here are the eternally superior qualities of the true God and Saviour.
Filling an Empty Life
Acts 17.16Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 8 July 2012
The dramatic narrative of Paul preaching to deeply cynical philosophers at Athens reveals the collision between opposing views of life - atheistic or Christian. What is the aim and purpose of life? What makes sense? May God be found and known? Here are the timeless answers of God's Book.
A Pattern Conversion
Luke 23.42Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 24 June 2012
One of the thieves crucified next to Christ came to view Him in a new way, and to ask for eternal life. This event provides a perfect picture of conversion to God. What brings us to seek Him? How may we find Him? A message to change lives.
Refusing God
Luke 14.16Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 17 June 2012
Christ's parable of a great supper with invitations refused, reflects our rejection of God's overtures to us. Here are our main reasons for refusing Him, and all that we lose by it. Here, too, is how we may reverse our rejection, the greatest moment of our life.
What We Owe to God
Malachi 3.8Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 10 June 2012
Most people would be amazed to hear that they owe anything to God, or rob Him. Does not God possess the universe and infinite resources? Yet the Bible calls us thieves, duly cut off from God. Here is what we steal, and how we must be reconciled
What Conversion Is, and Does
Ephesians 3.8Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 3 June 2012
Conversion is often thought to be just a change of loyalty from one religion to another, but it is far more. It involves a great change in one's life, and a new experience of God Himself. Here are the details of what Christ does for us.
The Greatest Philosophy
Romans 1.16Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 27 May 2012
The first preachers of Christianity were not embarrassed by their message offering personal reconciliation with God, for it towered above all religions of the day, and still does (including atheism). Here are its superior features of beauty, credibility, and power to change.
The Rewards of Non-Belief
Romans 6.23Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 20 May 2012
In one of his most surprising illustrations Paul shows that, before conversion, we are in the employment of sin. If only we could see that it is the worst possible employer, giving disastrous rewards. By contrast, here is what we gain by turning to Christ.
Losing the Soul
Luke 12.15Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 13 May 2012
In the parable of the rich fool, Christ the Lord, shows us our self-confidence, self-esteem, self-consideration and self-destruction. We see all that we lose by a life of materialism, and its inherent foolishness. Here, Christ pleads with our souls.
How to Apply for Salvation
Psalm 34Gospel Sermon Dr Peter Masters | 6:30pm | Sunday 6 May 2012
King David sympathetically and appealingly spells out the terms and conditions of salvation. Speaking from his own experience, he shows what we must believe, what our attitude should be, and how we ought to ask for new life from God. He also describes God's response.












