Christchurch Sermons Christchurch Newport

As we continue our climb to the summit of Romans 8, we stop off at basecamp to rest a while and survey where we’ve trekked already.
As the global church celebrates Pentecost, Lewis Roderick takes us to Acts 2 and Romans 8 to hear the story of the Spirit.

Pete Greasley continues our series in Romans 8 with these three absolute truths:
You belong to Christ
His Spirit is alive in you
His Spirit will raise you as he did Jesus on that day. 

“Today. Right now. If you are a follower of Jesus, something global has taken place. Something magnificent. You have been transferred from life ‘in the flesh’, to life in the Spirit.”
The Bible speaks big about life ‘in the Spirit’, but what does this mean? In this message, Lewis takes us to Romans 8: 4-9 and shows us the profound change that’s taken place in a believer’s life.

How can it be possible that the declaration “there is no condemnation for sinners in Christ Jesus” holds fast despite the believer’s ongoing struggle with sin and failure to love God as required by the law? 

“Let this be the end of it if you flip flop between God being for you and going off you. There’s no small print. No footnote. No T’s + C’s. There’s simply no condemnation. Not now. Not ever.
”As we begin a series through the greatest chapter of the greatest letter ever written, we begin with arguably the greatest sentence of them all: there is therefore now no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus” and consider how this sentence will bring us freedom today.
Lewis preaches the first in our ‘VIII: No Condemnation. No Separation’ series.

“Our giving is not about charity. It’s about cruciformity.”
For nearly 30 years, it has been Christchurch Newport’s practice and privilege to take up a mission offering to support churches, pastors and planters across globe. On Sunday April 21, we’ll do so again.

Ahead of this ‘giving Sunday’, Lewis Roderick take us to Philippians 4: 10-20 and preaches four reasons why we give to mission.