Burwell Baptist Church Sermons

A service of carols, readings and the gospel message of Jesus as we celebrate his coming to save us, all held by the light of health and safety compliant LED candles (plus a few torches!).

In the final of our Advent series we look at the invitation that God gives us to trust in Him and the Son he sent to save us. Chris speaks on the love that God has for us, despite all our failings, that he sent Jesus to be one of us, live amongst us, and ultimately to die for us.

As Chris preaches on 1 Corinthians Chapter 6, Paul reminds us that we cannot separate our everyday lives from our faith. We need to live lives that reflect God’s Kingdom.

Chris continues preaching on 1 Corinthians Chapter 4, reminding us that Spiritual riches do not guarantee, or equate to, success or financial reward. Rather, our reward we get through serving is God saying to us, “We done, good and faithful servant”.We apologise for the truncation of this recording.

We are co-workers with God in building His church - but what is the quality of our building? Chris Johnson preaches on 1 Corinthians 3.

Chris Johnson continues the series in 1 Corinthians 2, describing the worldview at the time of Paul and encouraging us not to stay as mere infants but to grow in our faith as we learn to walk in step with the Spirit.

As Paul explains his mission strategy to the Corinthians, so Chris Johnson reminds us that our faith needs to rest on God’s power.

Continuing his series on 1 Corinthians 1 with verses 10-17, Chris looks at how unity is essential for spiritual gifts to build up the church.

Chris Johnson preaches on 1 Corinthians 1:1-9. We are made holy in Christ, but we cannot continue to live a holy life without the spiritual gifts of God. When we are immersed in Christ we are also immersed in the Holy Spirit.

Unbelievably we are now in the period of Advent, time to reflect on the period of waiting for Jesus' coming. As we enter this time for 2025 Chris speaks on the times where God leaves us waiting, in our minds for seemingly no reason. But we are reminded that God doesn't work on our timing and His ultimate plans are greater than we can ever hope for or imagine. So maybe it's OK waiting sometimes.

This week we were visited by Jim Gourlay from Asia Link. Jim speaks about some of the gospel-spreading work he witnessed when travelling to Nepal earlier in the year and how the church in that country is one of the fastest-growing in the world. As part of that Jim speaks on the story of Zaccheus, particularly Jesus' assertion that he is here to seek and to save the lost. That ties into the evangelistic and mission-based ethos of Asia Link but also into our own lives, we are reminded that we were once lost and Jesus came to save us.

Continuing our series in the book of Acts, Chris this week speaks on Paul's travels after the dramatic events in Ephesus. We have seen over the course of his missionary journeys that Paul has partnered with many others, here he prepares to (temporarily!) leave the mission field and return to Jerusalem with a group composed of fellow mission workers from many of the churches he has visited and helped to establish. We see that from the very beginnings of its history the church draws together those from many different backgrounds, social classes, ethnicities, and giftings, all to work as one for the common goal of making Jesus known.