Sermons by: LESTON BLACKBURN
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Acts 17
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 9 September 2013
Synopsis: Acts 17:24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. 25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed.....
Unexpected Opportunities
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 28 July 2013
Synopsis: Ex 3:7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come.....
God our father
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 21 July 2013
Synopsis: Despite being Lord of all, God is our father.
Dealing with disappointment
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 14 July 2013
Synopsis: 2 Cor 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any.....
A Changed Perspective
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 30 June 2013
Synopsis: 2 Kings 6:8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, “I will set up my camp in such and such a place.”
9 The man of God sent word to the king of.....
Making a Vegetable Garden out of a Vineyard
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 23 June 2013
Synopsis: 1 Kings 21:1 Some time later there was an incident involving a vineyard belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. The vineyard was in Jezreel, close to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. 2 Ahab said to.....
At Just the Right Time
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 16 June 2013
Synopsis: Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. 8 Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from.....
A Servant Heart
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 19 May 2013
Synopsis: A Servant Heart
How to catch a monkey
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 5 April 2013
Synopsis: Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Easter Sunday
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 31 March 2013
Synopsis: Easter Sunday
Breaking Barriers
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 17 March 2013
Synopsis: SCRIPTURE PASSAGE: Acts 1
Matthew 11v1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 24 February 2013
Synopsis: Matt 11:1 After Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in the towns of Galilee.
Moses
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 17 February 2013
Synopsis: Exodus 2:21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner.....
Colossians 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 January 2013
Synopsis: Colossians 1:21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you.....
Romans 7v13-24
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 6 January 2013
Synopsis: Rom 7:13 Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! Nevertheless, in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it used what is good to bring about my death, so that through the.....
Ezekiel 36 Extravagant love
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 2 December 2012
Synopsis: Ezek 36:33 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I cleanse you from all your sins, I will resettle your towns, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The desolate land will be cultivated.....
Jacob wrestles with God
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 25 November 2012
Synopsis: Genesis 32:22 That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. 23 After he had sent them across the stream, he sent.....
Remembrance Sunday
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 11 November 2012
Synopsis: John 15:13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.
Caleb
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 28 October 2012
Synopsis: Joshua 14:6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you.....
Proverbs 16 v 9
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 14 October 2012
Synopsis: Prov 16:9 In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
Disciples
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 30 September 2012
Synopsis: Mark 1:14 After John was put in prison, Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15 “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good.....
Acts 9v26
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 9 September 2012
Synopsis: Acts 9:26 When he came to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he really was a disciple.
Isaiah 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 2 September 2012
Synopsis: Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth!
For the LORD has spoken: “I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me. 3 The ox knows his master, the donkey his owner’s.....
Mission Shaped Communications
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 July 2012
Synopsis: Isa 54:2 “Enlarge the place of your tent,
stretch your tent curtains wide,
do not hold back;
lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes.
3 For you will spread out to the right and to the.....
Psalm 126
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 22 July 2012
Synopsis: Psalm 126:1 When the LORD brought back the captives to a Zion, we were like men who dreamed.
2 Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the.....
That measure of faith
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 8 July 2012
Synopsis: Rom 12:3 For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of.....
2 Tim 3 v 10-14
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 1 July 2012
Synopsis: 2 Tim 3:10 You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, 11 persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium.....
Malachi 4
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 17 June 2012
Synopsis: Malachi 4:1 “Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will
be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty......
A lifetime of service
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 3 June 2012
Synopsis: Col 3:23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord.....
The unity of the Spirit
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 May 2012
Synopsis: Eph 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2 Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3 Make.....
John 1 v 29
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 May 2012
Synopsis: John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is the one I meant when I said, ‘A man who comes after me has.....
Christian Giving
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 29 April 2012
Synopsis: 2 Cor 9:6 Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously. 7 Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not.....
Luke 4
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 22 April 2012
Synopsis: Luke 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about him spread through the
whole countryside. 15 He taught in their synagogues, and everyone praised him.
16 He went to.....
Easter
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 8 April 2012
Synopsis: Mark 16:6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him.
Mark 11
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 4 April 2012
Synopsis: Mark 11:As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage and Bethany at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and just as you.....
Easter Sunday
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 24 April 2011
Synopsis: Resurrection Sunday.
John 2
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 3 April 2011
Synopsis: John 2
John 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 March 2011
Synopsis: John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Rebuilding the temple
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 March 2011
Synopsis: Zech 4:6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the LORD Almighty.
7 “What are you, O mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel.....
Samuels call
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 6 March 2011
Synopsis: Samuels call.
Joy
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 February 2011
Synopsis: Galatians 4v15 What has happened to all your joy? I can testify that, if you could have done so, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
The Storm Walker
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 February 2011
Synopsis: Matt 14:22 Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowd. 23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside.....
Priorities
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 9 January 2011
Synopsis: Priorities.
Worship
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 5 December 2010
Synopsis: Worship.
Harvest
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 3 October 2010
Synopsis: Harvest - 1 Thess 5
Gentleness - Power under control
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 26 September 2010
Synopsis: Phi 4:2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to agree with each other in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, loyal yokefellow, a help these women who have contended at my side in the cause of.....
2 Timothy 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 19 September 2010
Synopsis: An exhortation to study God’s Word.
Step Up
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 5 September 2010
Synopsis: Step Up
Dont Look Back
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 11 July 2010
Synopsis: Don't Look Back
Fathers
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 June 2010
Synopsis: Fathers
Ascension
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 16 May 2010
Synopsis: Ascension
Wake up o sleeper
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 25 April 2010
Synopsis: Wake up o sleeper
How real is your faith
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 18 April 2010
Synopsis: Psalm 73
(A psalm of Asaph) 1 Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.
2 But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. 3 For I envied the.....
Palm Sunday - Luke 19v28-40
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 28 March 2010
Synopsis: Luke 19:28 After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying.....
2 Timothy 3
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 28 February 2010
Synopsis: 2 Timothy 3
How to find God's will for your life
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 10 January 2010
Synopsis: Ps 37:23 If the LORD delights in a man’s way, he makes his steps firm; 24 though he stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand.
Prov 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your.....
Resolutions and Mulligan moments
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 3 January 2010
Synopsis: In Acts 9 when the Lord speaks to Ananias he replies, “Yes, Lord”.
But when the Lord speaks to Saul (who thought he was serving God), he replies “Who are you, Lord?”
Yet God transforms Saul (or.....
Hebrews 12
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 13 December 2009
Synopsis: Heb 12:1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the.....
Bringing up children
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 22 November 2009
Synopsis: Raising a child is a great blessing but it is also hard work.
Prov 22: 6 Train a child in the way he should go,
and when he is old he will not turn from it.
The importance of the spoken word
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 15 November 2009
Synopsis: Matt 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the.....
John 15v15 "I have called you friends"
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 1 November 2009
Synopsis: John 15:15 “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known.....
The heart of our prayerful Saviour
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 18 October 2009
Synopsis: Matt 6:5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received.....
The heart of God
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 11 October 2009
Synopsis: 1 Sam 13: 13 “You acted foolishly,” Samuel said. “You have not kept the command the LORD your God gave you; if you had, he would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time. 14 But now.....
Mark 10v32-45
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 September 2009
Synopsis: Mark 10: 32 They were on their way up to Jerusalem, with Jesus leading the way, and the disciples were astonished, while those who followed were afraid. Again he took the Twelve aside and told them.....
Finding strength in the Lord our God
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 September 2009
Synopsis: 1 Sam 30:1 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it, 2 and had taken captive the women and all.....
Romans 12v1-2
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 13 September 2009
Synopsis: Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any.....
Who do you say I am
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 6 September 2009
Synopsis: Mark 8:27 Jesus and his disciples went on to the villages around Caesarea Philippi. On the way he asked them, “Who do people say I am?”
28 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say.....
Rising above the storm
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 24 May 2009
Synopsis: Acts 27:21 After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up before them and said: “Men, you should have taken my advice not to sail from Crete; then you would have spared yourselves.....
The fragrance of Christ
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 17 May 2009
Synopsis: Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. 2.....
Palm Sunday
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 4 May 2009
Synopsis: Matt 21:1 As they approached Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, 2 saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and at once you will find a donkey.....
Settling for second best
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 3 May 2009
Synopsis: Haggai 2:1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: 2 “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak,.....
Storms
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 19 April 2009
Synopsis: 1 Kings 19:3 Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the desert. He came to a broom tree,.....
Easter Sunday
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 12 April 2009
Synopsis: John 20:1 Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2 So she came running to Simon Peter.....
Jesus in the Old Testament - Part 3
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 22 March 2009
Synopsis: Some people view the Bible in 2 distinct, unrelated parts – the Old Testament and the New Testament. To some, the Old Testament is a collection of books written thousands of years ago in a.....
Jesus in the Old Testament - Part 2
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 20 March 2009
Synopsis: Some people view the Bible in 2 distinct, unrelated parts – the Old Testament and the New Testament. To some, the Old Testament is a collection of books written thousands of years ago in a.....
Jesus in the Old Testament - Part 1
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 8 March 2009
Synopsis: Some people view the Bible in 2 distinct, unrelated parts – the Old Testament and the New Testament. To some, the Old Testament is a collection of books written thousands of years ago in a.....
Peter do you love me
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 12 October 2008
Synopsis: In John 21, Jesus asks Peter 3 times if he loves him. But the words in the original Greek throw more light on this passage where Jesus restores the disciple who denied him.
The Common Characteristics of a Successful Church Plant (THESIS)
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 1 January 2008
Synopsis: A summary of a dissertation identifying the common characteristics which contribute to the success of a church plant as identified by church planters and organizations around the world. More than.....
Finding that one thing
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 4 February 2001
Synopsis: What is the ONE THING we need?
Matt 10:21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. “ONE THING you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in.....
Love
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 27 April 1997
Synopsis: In 1 Corinthians 13 Paul tells us that love is more important than eloquence, the gift of prophecy, knowledge and self-abasement.
He then looks at the qualities of love.
Finally he compares love.....
The New Covenant
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 6 April 1997
Synopsis: “You’re going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food - catchy opinions that tickle their fancy. They’ll turn.....
Build on the Rock
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 9 March 1997
Synopsis: Build on the Rock
Watch and pray
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 23 February 1997
Synopsis: Watch and pray
The Lord's body
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 2 February 1997
Synopsis: The Lord's body
The Saviours Well
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 19 January 1997
Synopsis: The Saviour's Well
Discouragement
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 25 September 1996
Synopsis: Discouragement is a reality that faces many Christians.
Heb 13:5 Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
.....
The kingdom of heaven - The parable of the talents
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 28 February 1996
Synopsis: Matt 25:14 “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his property to them. 15 To one he gave five talents of money, to another two talents, and to.....
Spiritual warfare
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 1 October 1995
Synopsis: Spiritual warfare
Gethsemane
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 17 September 1995
Synopsis: Gethsemane
Sitting in the shade of the Juniper tree
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 11 June 1995
Synopsis: 1 Kings 19 (NKJV) 1 And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, also how he had executed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So let the gods do.....
Battling the billows
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 21 May 1995
Synopsis: We’ve seen such a flood of false doctrine coming into the Church that sometimes Christians battle to discern between truth and error.
How do we battle these winds of doctrine that sweep through the.....
The governor
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 7 May 1995
Synopsis: The governor
Our Sacrifice
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 16 April 1995
Synopsis: (1)Why did Jesus have to die? (2) Why did it have to be a blood sacrifice? (3) Why did He have to offer His flesh? (4) Why did it have to be a death on the cross? Couldn’t God have used a different.....
God's pattern
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 5 February 1995
Synopsis: God's pattern
Treasures
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 29 January 1995
Synopsis: 2 Cor 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of.....
Two kings
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 15 May 1994
Synopsis: A look at the calling, appointment and reign of two of Israel’s most important kings; namely Saul and David – and what we can learn from them.
Caught in a crisis
Sermon by Leston Blackburn on 13 March 1994
Synopsis: The best time to see where you are spiritually is in a crisis. Different people respond differently.
Are we like Mary who was distracted by distress or Martha whose faith was diminished by her.....
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