Sermons from Philip Street Chapel Bristol

Pete Foster leads us in a short relfection on Job 42. Though Job never understands the reason behind his suffering, he does grow in his knowledge of who God is. Job reminds us that the blessing of knowing God comes after, and not necesarily during, our time on this earth.

In this sermon, Pastor Neil Todman shows how only if we build our lives on the rock of Jesus Christ will we be safe from hell at the final judgement. The Good News is that Jesus is not only a King but a Saviour, who deals with us at our worst, that he might transform our lives to be best they can be: lives which look like His.

In this sermon, church member, Graham Thornton looks at what God said to Job in the second of his speeches which seem mostly about two creatures: Behemoth and Leviathan. He looks not only at what the Lord's words say about his sovereignty over evil and his care for his creation, but what God specifically does not say in response to Job's questions.

In this heart-felt sermon, Sam Pibworth pleads with all of us to make sure we are right with God through Jesus Christ before it is too late. He questions whether we have turned from the wide path that leads to hell. He asks whether our lives are bearing fruit to the glory of God. Finally, he shows what it is like to really enter into a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Full of both challenge and encouragement.

In this sermon, PSC Pastor Neil Todman opens up two speeches, one from Bildad and one from Job, and considers their different answers to the question, "Is God just?" He helps us to see how ultimately Bildad's approach condemns an innocent man, but Job's leads him to Christ, who went through hell for us to satisfy God's justice.

In this sermon, church member, Derek Cleave opens up Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount about how we treat others. He opens up Jesus' negative instructions around criticising others, and how we tell the difference between being discerning and judgemental, before turn to Jesus' positive instructions to love others. Finally Derek shows how all this is impossible unless we are born again and live by the Spirit's power.

In this sermon, Trainee Pastor Sam Pibworth considers the lessons Job chapters 1 and 2 can teach us about suffering well and also how we can be a comfort as a church to those going through the darkest times.

In this section of the Sermon on the Mount the Lord Jesus focuses in on worry. We all know how destructive worry can be to our health, but Jesus shows how it can also cripple our spiritual growth. Yet, as always, as the Great Physician and Lover of our Souls he provides the most wonderful remedy to this sickness. Listen to Pastor Neil Todman as he explores the things we worry about, the things those reveal about our hearts, and how we can grow in trust of our heavenly Father's care and our usefulness in His Kingdom.

This month in RBT we are studying the book of Job. In this overview, Pastor Neil Todman shows how Job follows the bigger story of the Bible as a righteous man, who has dominion over nature, is attacked by Satan, suffers, and is then restored by the LORD. He opens up the narrative and structure of Job; discusses how to read the speeches that make up the majority of the book; and then concludes with how Job points us to Christ- the suffering servant of the LORD.