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How do we grow closer to God?

In this passage, Jesus washing the disciples’ feet reveals a surprising foundation for intimacy with Christ. Many Christians long to feel closer to God but struggle with distance, frustration, or the sense that they’re “doing all the right things” without experiencing His presence.

This sermon explores Peter’s resistance to letting Jesus wash his feet and shows how we often do the same. Our pride, self-reliance, and desire to “clean ourselves up” before coming to God can actually keep us from the closeness we seek. Jesus doesn’t ask us to fix ourselves first—He invites us to humbly receive His grace. True intimacy with Christ begins when we allow Him to serve us, meet us in our weakness, and wash what we cannot clean ourselves.

In this passage, Jesus’ public ministry reaches its turning point. The signs have revealed His power, but now the cross will reveal His glory. As the people begin coming to Christ, He points not to another miracle, but to His death—the ultimate sign of God’s love, justice, and salvation.

In this sermon, we explore how Christ’s death changes the world forever, defeats the power of darkness, and calls every person to respond in faith. The light has come into the world. Will we believe and follow Him?

Jesus says, “Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” (John 12:25)

The question for today is, “What kind of glory are we really living for?”

In this sermon we see that, as the nations begin coming to Jesus, He speaks not of earthly victory, but of the cross. In this message, we explore why our hearts are drawn to temporary glory, why we often seek approval over obedience, and how the cross reveals the true glory of God. Looking at John 12 alongside Isaiah 6 and Isaiah 53, we discover that the King enthroned in glory and the suffering Servant are one and the same. As we behold Christ high and lifted up—on the cross and on the throne—every lesser glory begins to fade.

What is Jesus worth to you? In this passage, Mary pours out a year’s wages worth of perfume at Jesus’ feet in an act of extravagant worship. While Judas sees waste, Jesus sees wholehearted devotion. This sermon explores how true worship is born from seeing who Jesus is, understanding what He has done for us, and responding with lives fully surrendered to Him. More than going through the motions, we’re invited to treasure Christ above everything else.

What do you do when God seems late?

In this sermon from John 11, we explore one of Jesus’ most astonishing miracles—the raising of Lazarus from the dead. But this story is about far more than a resurrection. It reveals who Jesus is in our waiting, our grief, our disappointments, and even our deepest places of loss.

Through the story of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, we discover:

How to trust God’s timing when His delays don’t make sense

Why Jesus is not only able to bring resurrection someday, but is the Resurrection and the Life today

What Jesus’ tears reveal about the heart of God

How Christ enters our places of pain, poverty, and brokenness

Why no situation is too dead, too lost, or too far gone for God’s power

What Lazarus’ story teaches us about salvation, new life, and our future resurrection

Whether you’re waiting for a breakthrough, grieving a loss, struggling with unanswered prayers, or needing fresh hope, this message points us to the One who stands outside every tomb and calls life out of death.

What are you really trusting in?

In this final message from our Joshua series, we journey to Joshua 24, where an aging Joshua gathers the people at Shechem and calls them to a decisive moment: “Choose this day whom you will serve.” Standing between the mountains of blessing and cursing, Israel is confronted with a question that still confronts us today—not whether we will worship, but what (or who) we will worship.

This sermon explores:

Israel’s struggle with hidden idols despite experiencing God’s miracles

How modern idols often look like success, relationships, security, approval, comfort, or achievement

Why anxiety can sometimes reveal what we’re truly trusting in

The call to wholehearted devotion rather than divided loyalty

How Jesus perfectly fulfilled the covenant we could never keep

Why the only logical response to God’s grace is complete surrender

As Joshua declared, “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” This message invites us to examine our hearts, lay down our idols, and make a fresh decision to follow Christ with sincerity and faithfulness.

What does it mean to follow Jesus when life feels like one battle after another?

In this sermon from Joshua 10–12, we explore the reality that the Christian life is not a sprint but a long-term campaign of faith. Drawing from Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land, we discover how God calls His people to persevere through opposition, find rest in Him, and live as overcomers through Christ.

Whether you’re facing challenges in marriage, finances, work, relationships, or your own spiritual growth, this message offers biblical encouragement to keep fighting the good fight of faith and to hold onto the promises of God.

In this sermon, you’ll learn:

• Why spiritual progress is often met with opposition
• How to persevere through long seasons of struggle
• The importance of Sabbath and soul-rest in the Christian life
• Why your identity in Christ is not victim, but victor
• How Joshua points us to Jesus, our greater Joshua
• What it means to live with confidence in God’s promises

No matter what battles you’re facing today, be encouraged: the fight will not last forever. Jesus has already won the ultimate victory, and one day we will enter His eternal rest.

Joshua 9 is one of the most surprising and challenging chapters in the Old Testament.

The Gibeonites deceive Israel. Joshua fails to seek the Lord. The supposed “good guys” make serious mistakes, while the “bad guys” show unexpected signs of faith. By the end of the story, the questions seem greater than the answers. Yet beneath the complexity of the passage, we discover a powerful truth: God remains faithful even when His people are not.

In this sermon, we explore:

• Why imperfect faith still has saving power

• How faith—not ethnicity, status, or performance—brings us under God’s protection

• Why Christians should stop obsessing over the strength of their faith and start looking to Jesus

• The surprising story of the Gibeonites and their place among God’s people

• How Joshua 9 ultimately points us to Christ, the true and faithful Joshua

Whether you feel like an outsider, struggle with doubts, or feel discouraged by the weakness of your faith, this message is a reminder that our hope is not found in the perfection of our faith but in the faithfulness of our God.

“The question is not whether you have perfect faith. The question is whether your faith is in a perfect Saviour.”

This sermon from Joshua 8 centres on renewal, grace, and perseverance in the Christian journey. Drawing on Joshua’s story, Charles emphasises that failure and sin are not endpoints, but invitations to receive God’s grace, stand up again, and move forward empowered by His Word. The passage invites believers to embrace dependence on God, be vigilant against temptation, and embody the diverse yet unified community of faith—the “temple of uncut stones.” Ultimately, the story points forward to Jesus, the supreme leader and fulfiller of God’s promises, who took humanity’s curse upon Himself so that believers might inherit blessing and righteousness.