The Semper Reformata Podcast

01/10/2025

Human Brokenness - Lesson 3
Our Identity in Christ

Christian Identity is.
* Being made all over again, to be in the image of Christ!
* Only because of God’s grace
* Jesus has delivered us from Satan's lie in Eden. And now,
* Christ protects us!
Before you listen, read John 8:44, and 1 Corinthians 6:19-20.

Our Identity in Christ

29/09/2025

Digital ID - A Biblical Warning and Response
Revelation 13:17,

A warning to the sleeping church - wake up, for the tyranny of digital ID's is drawing ever closer...

https://shows.acast.com/srp/episodes/digital-id-announces-biblical-warning-and-response

27/09/2025

Echoes of Grace
1st Thessalonians 1:6-10

The Thessalonians had RECEIVED the Word of God – not just listened to it, or heard it, but had actively accepted it into their hearts and lives, through the work of the Holy Spirit. The Greek word for ‘having received’ is based on the root amen. They had heard the word, and in their hearts they had said AMEN. So be it Lord, and what a marvellous effect that great spiritual amen had in the lives of those Thssalonian believers.

1st Thessalonians 1:6-10 & Acts 16

18/09/2025

TableTalk, 16th Sept 2025. -
Facing Up To Our Shame
Read Genesis 2:7-8 and Genesis 3:9-12.

Adam is hiding in the Garden. It was customary, in the cool of the evening for God to come down into this garden paradise, and to walk in fellowship with Adam. But why was Adam so ashamed? What had Adam squandered when he surrendered to sin?
Has Adam's shame brought shame upon all of us, and how can that shame be dealt with?

Understanding Shame - and Dealing With It!

15/09/2025

Prayer, Practice and Predestination.
1st Thessalonians 1:2-4
In this passage of Scripture, we can learn three valuable lessons.
1. A Lesson in Christian Devotion.
2. A Lesson in Christian Demeanour.
3. A Lesson in Christian Doctrine
Paul teaches the Thessalonians about Prayer, Practice and Predestination.

This sermon was recorded live in Ballymacashon - Please forgive the poor sound quality.

1st Thess 1:2-4

12/09/2025

TableTalk - An On-Line Mid Week Meeting
Being aware of Satan's Tactics
Genesis 3:1-8

As Christians we need to be aware of the tactics of the devil, who would try to distract us from the straight and narrow way, to divert us into by-paths and cause us to stumble. The Apostle Paul writing to the Corinthian Christians, in 2 Corinthians 2:10-11 We should not be ignorant of Satan’s devices. And he is aggressively pursuing the Christian believer. 1 Peter 5:8.

Being Aware of Satan’s Tactics.

06/09/2025

We begin Season 6 of the podcast by asking ‘What is a Church?’
1st Thessalonians 1:1

When Paul greeted the congregation at Thessalonica, he began the letter with a recognition that he was writing to a really good church. We cannot attain perfection, but Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians can help our local assembly to be a great church too! A church that is singleminded in pursuing its goal, to love and serve the Lord. In Paul’s greeting we see four simple observations:-
* A church is a Partnership of Ministry.
* A church is a local assembly, in the place where God has placed it.
* The church is a congregation of God's people.
* The church has a particular declaration.
Any local assembly of believers can be as useful in God’s sight as the Thessalonians obviously were, if we make sure that the work of the church is done on the basis of PARTNERSHIP, that we are in the PLACE that God wants us to be, both geographically and spiritually, BUILDING ourselves up in the Lord, and making sure that every activity in the church has the common purpose of boldly and loudly PROCLAIMING the grace and peace of God to sinners.

This sermon was recorded live at Ballymacashon, - apologies for the echo.

1st Thessalonians 1:1

19/07/2025

The Plain Unvarnished Truth about Jesus and Us
Matthew 10v34-38

as Jesus speaks to his disciples, he never sugar-coats his words, or plays down the difficulties or promises them that life as a Christian will be easy. He’s not the ‘gentle Jesus meek and mild’ person some people think him to be. Jesus said: ‘…he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.’ How different! According to Jesus, the Christian Life is a:-
* CONFLICT
* COMMITMENT

Matthew 10v34-38

16/07/2025

Idolatry
1st John 5:21

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen
As we come to the very last phrase in John’s first letter, we are driven back to the most basic premise of the Christian faith. That there is only one, True, Holy, God who will not tolerate the worship of any other god that we might invent. John warns us to guard our lives from idols. There is a deep pastoral concern that the believers watch their lives, be so careful, for idolatry can present itself in so many forms, and can draw us away from faithfully following the Lord.

1st John 5v21

12/07/2025

Clarity, Conviction and Confidence.
Matthew 10:26-30
The disciples are being sent into a world that contains great dangers for them. They will be hated by everyone in the world. Yet despite all of that, they are being tasked to preach the Gospel despite the fact that doing so will inflame and antagonise the world even more! Surely a better approach would be for the disciples to keep their heads down, preach behind closed doors, don’t offend anyone. Jesus certainly didn’t envisage that His disciples would do anything of the sort. Here he tells them to stand up and shout!

Matthew 10:26-30

08/07/2025

Three Things the Christian Has That the World Needs but Hasn’t Got.
Text. 1 John 5:18-20.

John is going to remind Christians of three things we know, three blessings of the Christian life and they are all found in Christ alone. They are freedom from sin, victory over the world and a new perspective on life and death, AND these are what every person in the world really needs! I know they won't admit it, for what they THINK they need is greatly different from what they REALLY NEED, but, you see, what we think people need, and even what they think they need, is nowhere near as important as what THE BIBLE says they need! Look again at the blessings we have in Christ, blessings that everyone needs to have, and which we should be telling them about...

1st John 5:18-20

07/07/2025

Seek the Lord.

Text. Isaiah 55:6-7. Luke 19:1. Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
We are all to be seekers…. but who will search for God?

Recorded live at Ballymacashon Congregational church.

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