Carnmoney Presbyterian Church Sermons

The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me."
In this first talk of the new year as we gather together at the Lord's table, we consider how,  as Christ's body in the world, we need to be broken and shared out with our community.

"Do we really have God's heart and God's vision for Mission?" That is the question posed by Scott Sherman, our guest speaker on his first visit to Ireland from the USA.
Jonah eagerly anticipated God's judgement on the ancient and very violent city of Nineveh. Instead, God was greatly concerned about the 120,000 inhabitants of that great city who "did not know their right hand from their left". Jonah didn't get it and was so angry he wanted to die. A lot of us today don't get it either.
God's call to every Christian is to share His concern for the lost of whatever city or suburb they live in. If you are a Christian then reaching out to your neighbours is not an optional extra - it is at the very heart of what God wants us to do.

He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. (Luke 10 Vv 2 & 3)
Derek and Linda Roulston have been working in the harvest fields of Galana, Kenya for six years and the Lord of the harvest is using them to great effect. As the local commumity has reaped the benefit of a new school, new crop plantations and more, the Holy Spirit has moved powerfully in the region to establish a thriving community of new believers.
In this, our harvest celebration service, Derek describes the work underway and the amazing results that have been achieved so far.

Our Vision is that we will be a vibrant community of Christians devoted to the task of spreading the Gospel in our area and winning back the lost of our generation for Christ. When God answers our prayers, how will we deal with the increase in size of our already large Congregation? In what ways will we have to change our custom and practice to make "strangers" feel at home amongst us? And how can we change so that no-one amongst us fears ridicule from Spiritual "posers"?
The new-born Church faced and solved these tough questions when the Holy Spirit moved powerfully to build his Church in an incredibly short period of time. We need to do the same today.

How powerful is God? Can he heal terminal illness? Can he bring back someone who has just died? Sounds plausible enough. What about a 4-day old corpse?
We all say we have faith, but in our hearts there are times when we, in truth, have a "plan B" in case he fails. As the old saying goes "trust in God, but keep passing the bullets..".
That is not faith. We don't need a "plan B". We just need to really trust in plan A - God almighty. He never fails. We don't need to keep passing the bullets. May the Lord bless you as you listen to what he says.

"Good Teacher - what must I do to inherit eternal life?". The question that the rich young man asked was, in his mind at least, just to confirm what he already knew. He had kept the law religiously all his life, so he was confident that eternal life was his for the taking. What Jesus told him cut him to the core.
Based on the text of Matthew 19 verses 16-30

Jesus comes down off the mountain to a furore. His Disciples have failed to drive out a demon from a little boy and the crowd are not impressed. The Disciples are confused and down-hearted. Why could they not drive out the demon when they could do so just a short while before? The response of Jesus and his explanation to the Disciples of what they were doing wrong contains a challenge that is just as relevant to us today as it was back then.
Based on the text of Mark chapter 9.

The first part in the series of sermons introducing our strategy for the future.