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The God who rescues 08/10/2026

The God who rescues Pete opens up his psalm to show us how in Christ, God hears the cry of His people when they turn to Him and rescues them from all their troubles. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/42376595

Light Sown 08/03/2026

Light Sown Jesus is King and he will come to judge in rightoeusness and make all things well. While we wait, he sows seeds of light and joy in his people to harvest when he comes. Listen in as Simon takes us into Psalm 97 where he hear about God the majestic king and the reason the whole earth will rejoice when he comes. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/42297595

"Where are you Lord?" 07/27/2026

"Where are you Lord?" Of all people, it’s hard to imagine David, chosen & anointed by God as Israel’s king in such despair that he feels like God has forgotten & forsaken him. Yet many believers down the ages have felt similarly, but within a few verses, David somehow ends in a very different place to where he began, marvelling at God’s goodness to him - listen in to learn what changed in him. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/42224325

Lifting your soul up to God 07/20/2026

Lifting your soul up to God In complex and messy circumstances in facing adversity, confusion and the weight of his own sin, David lifts his soul up to God to plead with him and remember who God is. Join in as we hear from Psalm 25 about how to throw ourselves onto God in difficult situations and what it means to wait on the Lord Jesus. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/42148715

When Trouble Comes 07/13/2026

When Trouble Comes In the first of our Summer Psalms, Bob shows us how David longs for one thing above all else when in dire trouble - unbroken fellowship with the Lord, and helps us see how Christ has gloriously earned that for us in the Gospel. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/42054535

This Ends So Well 07/06/2026

This Ends So Well In this message we watch as Jesus confronts those who knew the Scriptures inside out but had missed the heart of God. The Sabbath, a gift meant to reveal God’s mercy and invite his people into rest, had become another burden to carry and another weapon to judge others with. As Jesus announces himself as Lord of the Sabbath—weary sinners are invited to enter into God’s endless Shabbat Shalom through his life, death, and resurrection. Lewis Roderick concludes our with this message from Luke 6: 1 - 11. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41972930

Irresistible Grace 06/29/2026

Irresistible Grace Jesus encounters Levi, the tax collector, whom many would have written off as ‘beyond redemption’. In this glorious salvation story, Jesus ‘sees’ with eyes of grace and love, a God-image bearer so broken and ruined by sin and chooses him to be in the bride of Christ! /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41859900

The Man who is God 06/23/2026

The Man who is God You think you know what you need. Jesus says you might be wrong. Four friends drop a paralysed man at the feet of Jesus, fully expecting a miracle. What they get is something far more surprising, and far more costly. In this message Lewis Roderick takes us to chapter 5: 17 - 26 as learn what it tells us about the identity of Jesus, the nature of our deepest need, and why the cross is where these two realities collide. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41740880

The Call to be Different 06/15/2026

The Call to be Different In this standalone message, Pete Greasley encourages us to respond to a broken world with grace and humility and to fix our eyes on our ultimate hope- our eternal inheritance with Christ. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41645715

The Coal and the Bird 06/10/2026

The Coal and the Bird In Luke 5:12–16, Jesus encounters a man suffering from leprosy—a disease that had left him isolated, excluded, and declared unclean. Desperate and out of options, the man throws himself at Jesus’ feet and pleads for mercy. What follows is one of the most beautiful pictures of the gospel in Luke’s Gospel. Jesus reaches out and touches the untouchable. He doesn’t simply heal the man; he restores him. In doing so, Jesus reveals himself as the one who can deal with our deepest uncleanness—not just the things wrong around us, but the sin within us. This sermon, Lewis Roderick explores the leper’s desperate plea, Jesus’ healing touch, and how this encounter points us to the cross, where Christ takes our place so that we can be welcomed into God’s presence. Whatever shame, failure, or guilt we carry, Jesus is able to make us clean. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41595780

The miracle of the great catch 06/01/2026

The miracle of the great catch Continuing our series in Luke, we heard about the miracle of the great catch of fish, Peter's realization of Jesus' divine holiness and how he experienced Jesus' life redeeming and transforming grace. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41489860

Let the Nations be Glad! 05/26/2026

Let the Nations be Glad! At Pentecost, the Spirit of God descended in wind and fire, as the risen Jesus poured out his Spirit and his people went proclaiming the gospel to all nations. As Christchurch Newport celebrates this momentous occasion, we consider what it all means, and how the Spirit is leading us today to make Christ known to all people. “Let the nations be glad!” /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41422580

The Good News of the Ascension 05/18/2026

The Good News of the Ascension As the global Church celebrates the ascension of Jesus Christ, Christchurch Newport welcomes Daniel Hames and hears why Christ’s enthronement at the right hand of the Father is such good news for sinners like you and me. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41331455

The Power in the Proclamation 05/11/2026

The Power in the Proclamation When Jesus stood up in Nazareth and proclaimed liberty for the captives, did he really have the power to deliver on that proclamation? Listen in as Luke sends us a battlefield report from Capernaum to answer that very question! /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41247405

Five Barriers to Belief 05/03/2026

Five Barriers to Belief Christchurch Newport continues Liberty for the Captives as Lewis Roderick explores a dramatic shift that gook place in Nazareth—why did the people move so quickly from at Jesus to outright rejection. Why did those who knew Him best refuse to believe? In this message we consider five hidden barriers to faith: familiarity, skepticism, entitlement, self-righteousness, and offence at the wideness of Christ’s love, and consider how Jesus came for the spiritually poor— no matter how long we’ve been followers of Jesus. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41130040

Jubilee 04/27/2026

Jubilee From April 2026, Christchurch embarks on a multiyear study through Luke’s gospel, beginning with chapters 4 - 6, ‘Liberty for the Captives’. In this message from Luke 4: 14 - 22, Lewis Roderick preaches Jesus’ inaugural address and we hear his liberating words of grace and jubilee to the poor, the blind and the oppressed. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/41028095

Blessed Assurance 04/19/2026

Blessed Assurance How sure can a Christian be of eternal life with Jesus? Bob shows us from this text that the answer to that question comes not from within but from God’s testimony about his Son. The only real question is whether you have the Son! /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40928510

Christ our Champion 04/13/2026

Christ our Champion Pete Greasley starts our new series looking at scenes from the gospel of Luke. Adam, our representative failed in the garden. Jesus, our new champion won against Satan when tempted the same way in the wilderness. The implications for us are glorious and eternal. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40823740

The Risen Lord 04/06/2026

The Risen Lord As the whole world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christchurch witness his continuing power to save as four young men are baptised. In this message, Lewis Roderick takes us to Matthew 28 and shows us the global significance of Christ’s resurrection and the impact it can have on each of our lives. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40741775

Behold Your King 03/30/2026

Behold Your King It’s the week to define all weeks in Jesus’ ministry culminating in the seismic events of his crucifixion and resurrection, and the long-anticipated King finally comes to Jerusalem, but how does he come and for what purpose? /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40668400

We Are Dust 03/23/2026

We Are Dust “Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?” So wrote Leo Tolstoy, and so might we say when we realise how brief our lives can be. Yet in the resurrection of Jesus Christ there is hope that our dust will turn to glory, and nothing in life is in vain. Listen in as Lewis Roderick concludes our series Human: Dust and Glory, as we turn to Genesis 3: 19, and consider what it means to return to the dust. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40584535

We Are Sexual 03/16/2026

We Are Sexual “Of all the splendidly ridiculous, transcendently fulfilling things humans do, it’s sex that most confounds understanding. What in the world are we doing? Why in the world are we so consumed by it? Why should this be so? Did nature simply overload us in the mating department, hot-wiring us for the sex that is so central to the survival of the species, and never mind the sometimes sloppy consequences? Or is there something smarter and subtler at work, some larger interplay among sexuality, life and what it means to be human?” - TIME 2004 As we near the end of Human: Dust and Glory, we turn to Genesis 2: 18 - 25, and consider what it means to be made sexual. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40495235

We Are Gendered 03/09/2026

We Are Gendered As we continue our series considering what it means to be human, we arrive at the culturally hot and pastorally loaded subject of gender. In this message, Lewis Roderick teaches from Genesis 1+2, and shows us the Reality, Compatibility and Pain of Gender. And the love of Christ for the whole world. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40365040

We are communal 03/02/2026

We are communal In 'we are communal' we hear that God has made us to be in community with him and with others. But that communion has been ruined by sin which shows itself in estrangement from God, others, and ourselves. In Christ we are wonderfully redeemed and reconciled to God and to another which we get to experience in the church, the body of Jesus. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40278385

We are Limited (under Dust and Glory) 02/23/2026

We are Limited (under Dust and Glory) Built into the human psyche as a result of the Fall is the desire to be autonomous & independent. We see finitude as a flaw and dependence as a deficiency, just like Adam & Eve did, which plunged mankind into sin & alienation from God. Listen in as Bob McCan shows us how the perfect finite man Jesus Christ gloriously redeems our corrupted finitude and restores us to joyful God-dependence. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40197275

We Are Emotional 02/16/2026

We Are Emotional “How are you feeling?” As we continue ‘Human: Dust and Glory’, Lewis Roderick unpacks the role emotions play in our humanity; where the come from, why they’re good and why they shouldn’t be obeyed. And shows us how a right vision of Jesus can lead to emotional health. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40122195

We are comissioned 02/09/2026

We are comissioned When God creates humanity, he gave them a mandate: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it;" In this sermon, Pete Greasly takes us into how our God-given purpose was ruined by sin and is restored in the gospel of his Son Jesus. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/40042790

We are Embodied 02/02/2026

We are Embodied What is a human body? A shell that houses the real you? Or is it the sum total of all we are; just matter, molecules and mucus? In Genesis 2 we glimpse a glorious picture and a profound reality: every person is both an embodied soul and ensouled body. Listen in as Lewis Roderick shows us why the human body is so good (even in all its brokenness) and how the gospel leads us to a truly embodied life. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/39961455

We are Imaged 01/26/2026

We are Imaged What is a person worth? It’s a deceptively simple question. As Lewis Roderick continues the series ‘Human: Dust and Glory’, Lewis Roderick shows us how Scripture gives a radically higher answer than our culture of economics ever could, and why the Image of God is the answer to our tribalism and despair. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/39877160

We are Created 01/18/2026

We are Created What does it mean to be human? In the lead up to Spring at Christchurch Newport, we’ll be considering that question in light of Genesis 1 and 2, reflecting on the significance of our being created, imaged, physical, commissioned, emotional, communal, limited, gendered, sexual and dust. As we begin our series, Lewis Roderick takes us to our origin story and shows us what it means for us to ‘created’. /episode/index/show/christchurchsermons/id/39775975

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