Sermons

It is one thing to understand and preach the gospel - it's another thing altogether to understand one's audience. In Europe our audience is, for the greater part, secular. In this 10-part series various secular worldviews are explained and exposed. Humanism, postmodernism, existentialism, pragmatism and hedonism, among others. In the process, a true and Biblical worldview is established and the faith once for all delivered is defended and promoted. Each message is around 30 minutes long. A helpful chart on postmodernism accompanies this series.

DEVELOPING A CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW - A 10-Part series refuting secular worldviews such as postmodernism and existentialism, while constructing a strong Biblical alternative (2010)
PART 1 - Michael Penfold outlines what a worldview is, and explains how the various false Western worldviews such as humanism, pragmatism and postmodernism all come under the heading of "secularism" (Message preached Sunday July 4th 2010)
PART 2 - Josh Jacob outlines the worldviews of atheism, agnosticism and scepticism and gives Biblical answers to these systems of unbelief. He develops reasoned responses to the main arguments of atheism (Message preached Sunday July 11th 2010)
PART 3 - In a refutation of atheism, Michael Penfold outlines 6 arguments for the existence of God - the Cosmological, Teleological, Moral, Christological, Biblical and Experiential arguments (Message preached Sunday Aug 29th 2010)
PART 4 - Josh Jacob refutes humanism from a Biblical viewpoint. He explains the history, mystery and casuistry of humanism while dealing a blow to its central doctrine that man is the measure of all things (Message preached Sunday Sept 5th 2010)
PART 5 - In the first of a two-part look at postmodernism, Mervyn Hall deals with its origin and history. He traces postmodernism's fascinating path through existentialism, relativism and pragmatism (Message preached Sunday Sept 12th 2010)
PART 6 - In the second of a two-part look at postmodernism, Mervyn Hall deals with some of its results - egoism, hedonism, materialism etc. He also examines the ideology behind environmentalism (Message preached Sunday Sept 19th 2010)
PART 7 - Michael Penfold outlines the Biblical worldview. He deals with its origin, coherence, effect and view of the world. He includes a look at the worldliness of Hollywood and the movie industry (Message preached Sunday Sept 26th 2010)
PART 8 - Mervyn Hall traces evangelical history from neo-evangelicalism, through the charismatic movement, to the Purpose Driven Church and now to the latest fad, the Rob Bell/Brian McLaren "emerging church" (Message preached Sunday Oct 3rd 2010)
PART 9 - Josh Jacob gives an in-depth look at how Western society became open to New Age thinking in the 20th century and how that led to an invasion of culture, politics and even medicine, by erroneous eastern philosophy (Message preached Sunday Oct 24th 2010)
PART 10 - Mervyn Hall outlines the history of ecumenism, starting with the Oxford Movement, through the World Council of Churches to today's widespread syncretism. He then asserts the true basis of Biblical unity (Message preached Sunday Oct 31st 2010)