Sermons from Philip Street Chapel Bristol

In this sermon pastor Neil Todman addresses directly how we deal with discouragements, particularly in our efforts to make Jesus known. He looks at how Paul arrived in Corinth already feeling weak and fearful, and despite an incredible response to the gospel Paul felt even worse. Neil then looks at how the Lord used encouragements from His people, His promises and His providential care to enable Paul to carry on sharing the Good News. If this is a season of struggle, then this is one for you!

In this sermon, PSC elder, Alan Mann, looks at how easily created idols can take the place of the Living God in our hearts. He shows how the Apostle Paul in Athens exposed the idolatry there and preached the gospel of Christ to that city, and he encourages us to do battle with the idols in our own lives through the power of that same gospel, and then to take the Good News of Jesus into Bristol today.

In this sermon, Pastor Neil Todman contrasts our view of kingship based on our on monarchy in the UK today, who are treated like celebrities, with those in the Ancient World who had far-reaching power and were feared. He then shows how Jesus subverted ideas about kingship through his death and resurrection, helps us think about how Jesus becomes our king, and finishes by challenging us to think will be different in our lives if this king becomes our king.

In this sermon, Pete- an elder at Philip Street Chapel- shows how Acts chapter 16 can be an encouragement to us in our personal evangelism and in our desire to reach our local community with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Pete looks at how each of the main characters in this story- Lydia, the slave girl and the jailer- all show the power of God to save, and as we meet people in similar situations today, He can still save them too.

In this sermon from Acts, Pastor Neil explains how the gospel first came to Europe, and how all things work together for good for those who love the Lord- even those things that shame us like arguments within the church.

In this sermon on the Council of Jerusalem, church member and director of UFM, Tim Howlett, shows how the decisions made at the council of Jerusalem honoured the work of the gospel among Gentiles, whilst preserving loving unity between Jewish and non-Jewish believers in the newly founded churches.

In this sermon, Pastor Neil focuses on Paul's sermon to the Jewish congregation in Antioch in Pisidia. Paul focuses on the grace of God to all the generations of God's people in the Old Testament, before turning to God's grace shown to God's people under the new covenant through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The responses to that sermon are mirrored today whenever the gospel is preached. There is either hunger or hostility in every human heart. What will be happening in your own heart as you listen to God's Word today?