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Christchurch Sermons
Every Sunday we open the Bible and God speaks to us about his Son Jesus. Subscribe to follow along with us; or better yet, join us live any Sunday morning. For more information, visit ChristchurchNewport.co.uk
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Our Father
In our second message on 'the Family Business', Bob speaks from the first line of the Lord's Prayer to expound on the glorious reality of sinners not just…
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Parents!
Parenting has never been short of advice. From helicopter parenting to tiger parenting, snowplough, gentle, free-range… there's no shortage of competing…
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Flee to Jesus
The judgement of God is not an easy pill to swallow and seems unfair, even. But what if all the evil in the world remained unchecked and nothing was restored?…
Christchurch SermonsOn Christ the Solid Rock
Pete Greasley finishes our series from Luke 6 showing that the strength of the Christian life is not the strength of the house, but the strength of the rock…
Christchurch SermonsThe Treasure Of The Heart
Having a health check for your heart can be scary. What if our hearts are doing worse than we hoped? The same is true of the spiritual condition of our hearts…
Christchurch SermonsThe Mercy-Saturated Church
Everyone wants to be part of a community that doesn't keep tabs, doesn't write people off, and where your worst moment doesn't have to be your last. We all…
Christchurch SermonsOutrageous Love
As Jesus continues to teach on the plain, he issues a radical call for his followers to love their enemies. As a skilled teacher, he begins to open up layer…
Christchurch SermonsWilling Poverty and Dangerous Riches
Most of us have been quietly discipled by a world that tells us security is financial. Enough to get by. Enough for a rainy day. Enough to pass on. 'This is…
Christchurch SermonsTo Glimpse the King and Kingdom
Luke 6 gives us a glimpse of the Kingdom Jesus has come to bring. The God whose holiness made Sinai tremble comes down and stands among ordinary, broken, needy…
Christchurch SermonsJesus Prays for you
Jesus spends the night praying before choosing the twelve apostles. He doesn't choose the impressive, the powerful or the finished. He chooses ordinary, flawed…
Christchurch SermonsGrace from beginning to end
In this psalm of thanksgiving, David is overflowing with joy for God's saving and keeping grace. If you're in need of glorious gospel truth to strengthen your…
Christchurch SermonsTruth in a world of lies
The fears of modern life and not knowing what is true, is nothing new. 3000 years ago David faced the same issues and found Hope in the abiding and truthful…
Christchurch Sermons"It's so good to be here"
As Jerusalem was to the Psalmist, so is the Church to the Christian. Bob opens up this lovely psalm showing us why the believer can share the psalmist's…
Christchurch SermonsThe God who rescues
Pete opens up his psalm to show us how in Christ, God hears the cry of His people when they turn to Him and rescues them from all their troubles.
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Light Sown
Jesus is King and he will come to judge in rightoeusness and make all things well. While we wait, he sows seeds of light and joy in his people to harvest when…
Christchurch Sermons"Where are you Lord?"
Of all people, it's hard to imagine David, chosen & anointed by God as Israel's king in such despair that he feels like God has forgotten & forsaken him. Yet…
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Lifting your soul up to God
In complex and messy circumstances in facing adversity, confusion and the weight of his own sin, David lifts his soul up to God to plead with him and remember…
Christchurch SermonsWhen Trouble Comes
In the first of our Summer Psalms, Bob shows us how David longs for one thing above all else when in dire trouble - unbroken fellowship with the Lord, and…
Christchurch SermonsThis Ends So Well
In this message we watch as Jesus confronts those who knew the Scriptures inside out but had missed the heart of God. The Sabbath, a gift meant to reveal God's…
Christchurch SermonsIrresistible Grace
Jesus encounters Levi, the tax collector, whom many would have written off as 'beyond redemption'. In this glorious salvation story, Jesus 'sees' with eyes of…
Christchurch SermonsThe Man who is God
You think you know what you need. Jesus says you might be wrong. Four friends drop a paralysed man at the feet of Jesus, fully expecting a miracle. What they…
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The Call to be Different
In this standalone message, Pete Greasley encourages us to respond to a broken world with grace and humility and to fix our eyes on our ultimate hope- our…
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The Coal and the Bird
In Luke 5:12–16, Jesus encounters a man suffering from leprosy—a disease that had left him isolated, excluded, and declared unclean. Desperate and out of…
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The miracle of the great catch
Continuing our series in Luke, we heard about the miracle of the great catch of fish, Peter's realization of Jesus' divine holiness and how he experienced…
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Let the Nations be Glad!
At Pentecost, the Spirit of God descended in wind and fire, as the risen Jesus poured out his Spirit and his people went proclaiming the gospel to all nations…
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The Good News of the Ascension
As the global Church celebrates the ascension of Jesus Christ, Christchurch Newport welcomes Daniel Hames and hears why Christ's enthronement at the right hand…
Christchurch SermonsThe Power in the Proclamation
When Jesus stood up in Nazareth and proclaimed liberty for the captives, did he really have the power to deliver on that proclamation? Listen in as Luke sends…
Christchurch SermonsFive Barriers to Belief
Christchurch Newport continues Liberty for the Captives as Lewis Roderick explores a dramatic shift that gook place in Nazareth—why did the people move so…
Christchurch SermonsJubilee
From April 2026, Christchurch embarks on a multiyear study through Luke's gospel, beginning with chapters 4 - 6, 'Liberty for the Captives'. In this message…
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Blessed Assurance
How sure can a Christian be of eternal life with Jesus? Bob shows us from this text that the answer to that question comes not from within but from God's…
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Christ our Champion
Pete Greasley starts our new series looking at scenes from the gospel of Luke. Adam, our representative failed in the garden. Jesus, our new champion won…
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The Risen Lord
As the whole world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, Christchurch witness his continuing power to save as four young men are baptised. In this…
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Behold Your King
It's the week to define all weeks in Jesus' ministry culminating in the seismic events of his crucifixion and resurrection, and the long-anticipated King…
Christchurch SermonsWe Are Dust
"Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?" So wrote Leo Tolstoy, and so might we say when we realise how brief…
Christchurch SermonsWe Are Sexual
"Of all the splendidly ridiculous, transcendently fulfilling things humans do, it's sex that most confounds understanding. What in the world are we doing? Why…
Christchurch SermonsWe Are Gendered
As we continue our series considering what it means to be human, we arrive at the culturally hot and pastorally loaded subject of gender. In this message…
Christchurch SermonsWe are communal
In 'we are communal' we hear that God has made us to be in community with him and with others. But that communion has been ruined by sin which shows itself in…
Christchurch SermonsWe are Limited (under Dust and Glory)
Built into the human psyche as a result of the Fall is the desire to be autonomous & independent. We see finitude as a flaw and dependence as a deficiency…
Christchurch SermonsWe Are Emotional
"How are you feeling?" As we continue 'Human: Dust and Glory', Lewis Roderick unpacks the role emotions play in our humanity; where the come from, why they're…
Christchurch SermonsWe are comissioned
When God creates humanity, he gave them a mandate: "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it;" In this sermon, Pete Greasly takes us into how…
Christchurch SermonsWe are Embodied
What is a human body? A shell that houses the real you? Or is it the sum total of all we are; just matter, molecules and mucus? In Genesis 2 we glimpse a…
Christchurch SermonsWe are Imaged
What is a person worth? It's a deceptively simple question. As Lewis Roderick continues the series 'Human: Dust and Glory', Lewis Roderick shows us how…
Christchurch SermonsWe are Created
What does it mean to be human? In the lead up to Spring at Christchurch Newport, we'll be considering that question in light of Genesis 1 and 2, reflecting on…
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Sing!
Why sing? And what's the connection between singing, evangelism and judgment. Listen as John Perry returns from Ammanford Evangelical Church to preach Psalm 96
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It is well with my soul
As we begin 2026, no one but God knows what lays ahead, globally, nationally or personally. What will be the state of my soul if my 'lot' this year is not…
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Son of God, Son of Mary
As we approach Christmas and New year's we heard from Luke 1:26-38 about the God who keeps his promises and who has given us Jesus, Our Saviour, Brother and…
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I am Coming Soon
Advent is more than chocolates before the presents; it's a season of waiting; longing for the day of Christ's return. As we remember his first coming, we look…
Christchurch SermonsI Am Here
This week our friend Malcom Gamon preached from John 6 and told us about Jesus, who is present with us in life's storms.
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What do you want from Jesus?
That's the first question Jesus asks of two men who are curious about him. And it's the question everyone who comes to Jesus must answer. Listen in and…
Christchurch SermonsI am the vine
"It is a good thing to be a work in progress." This sunday, our friend Clive Bowsher preached to us from John 15:1-11. Listen in as he takes us into the beauty…
Christchurch SermonsI am he
Jesus stepped forward. And his disciples went free. In John 18 we witness Christ, the I Am of God, offering himself to his executioners. Why? Listen in as…
Christchurch SermonsI Am the Way, the Truth, the Life
Jesus is preparing the disciples for his imminent death and his going to the Father, but the disciples do not understand and are struck by fear of losing him…
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Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman
On Sunday, 02.11. our friend Lee Jones preached to us from Mark 7:24-30 about Jesus' encounter with a woman desperate for healing for her daughter. Listen to…
Christchurch SermonsI am the Resurrection and the life
What is death? For us it is our deepest fear, a cause of crisis, profound grief. For Jesus, it is but sleep. Listen again to Jesus' words "I am the…
Christchurch SermonsI am the Good Shepherd
What makes bad leadership, bad? And what makes Christ's leadership worth following? In this message from John 10, Lewis Roderick continues our series through…
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Not to Us, O Lord
As Christchurch Newport celebrates 30 years of God's amazing grace, Pete Greasley takes us to 2 Samuel 7:18-29 and he invites us to celebrate with humility…
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The Fellowship of Grace
As we celebrate God's kindness in adding new members to our church family, Bob highlights from this text what it is we share in common in Gospel partnership.
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One last time
After 40 years in ministry, most of those as Senior Pastor of Christchurch; Pete Greasley preaches for one last time as a pastor, retires from his…
Christchurch SermonsI am the Light of the World
We live in a dark world. We see it on the news, we see it all around us. We see it on our feeds, and we even sense it within ourselves. But into this darkness…
Christchurch SermonsI Am the Bread of Life
The human soul endlessly seeks out lasting satisfaction, just as our bodies hunger for daily bread, but only Jesus, who stunningly reveals himself as the bread…