New Covenant Church, Hull

New Covenant Church, Hull Hebrews 8:10b
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14/06/2026

SUBMISSION

Psm 139; Psm 78

Sunday 20260614

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SERVICE BRIEF

He started late, and he said so. Then he told a nightmare.

A boy walking from here to there. A strange tree. A voice warning: that tree plays with both the living and the dead. The boy reached out. One fingertip. And died.

The word for the day was submission. Not weakness. Not surrender to whatever reaches for you. Something more specific: restraint to find grace, prayer to find communion, counsel to find wisdom. Three practices that keep you from being pulled, isolated, and blind.

The sermon moved through Psalm 78, where death comes even for God's chosen people, and closed on Psalm 139: search me, O God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

The turning point was an epiphany the pastor wrote down the moment it arrived. If you submit, then you will be submitted to in turn. And the thought that followed: only weak bastards exploit surrender.

He prayed that you find real ones to submit to.

The full service is above. Stay with it.

07/06/2026

SALVATION

Matt 18 & Luke 15

Sunday, 20260607

= DELIVERANCE BEGINS WITH THE 99 =

A sermon at New Covenant Church in Hull on June 7 flipped a familiar parable on its head.

You know the story. A shepherd has a hundred sheep. One goes missing. He leaves the ninety-nine to find it. Everyone focuses on the lost one. The rescue. The celebration.

The speaker asked a different question. What happens to the ninety-nine while the shepherd is gone?

His answer: deliverance begins with them. Not the shepherd. Not the lost one. The ninety-nine.

And there are two kinds. The bad 99 consigns the lost one to its fate. You got lost, you should not have gotten lost. They fall by the wayside, they are gone. The bad 99 also wants to be the one. And when the ninety-nine start wanting to be the one, the flock dissolves. Three predators show up. The fifteen who held the line get eaten.

The good 99 is the opposite. Jesus, we have got it. Go get our one back. That is the whole job.

The speaker defined salvation plainly. It is making sure that whatever evil you have seen or experienced does not exist after you are done. Jesus paid the full price. This is where you come in. Be the 99.

He closed with Psalm 23, changing every "I" to "we." Then the final line: I am not asking you to die for them. I am begging you to do something harder. Live.

31/05/2026

FAITH

2 Kings 2: 1-15

SUNDAY 20260531

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Two paths. One is easy, smooth, no catch. You prosper, God walks with you. The other leads to greatness, but every step is a fight. You cannot have both.

That was the frame at New Covenant Church in Hull last Sunday. The topic: Faith. Not what it is. How it is done.

The scripture was 2 Kings 2. Elijah is taken to heaven. Elisha refuses to leave. Bethel, Jericho, the Jordan. Each time: stay, Elisha says no. When the chariot of fire takes Elijah, Elisha picks up his mantle, strikes the water, and crosses. The spirit of Elijah rests on him now. He got the double portion not because he was strong. Because he stayed.

Then the Pastor told on himself.

He had just returned from a discipleship conference in Dunbar, Scotland. He needed to rebook a return ticket. He did it in a rush, without praying, and got the time wrong. Morning instead of evening. The ticket was gone.

He was at a conference about faith. He was praying. But when the decision came, he was not still.

What should have cost him everything did not. God's mercy turned it around. "I was foolish," he said. "But God did not let it cost what I could not bear."

Three lessons. Be still. Not frozen. Settled. Be tuned in. Be careful how what is outside you affects what is inside you. Be available. If you had to leave everything, could you?

Do not confuse the arm of God for the arm of man. Both helped him. Do not mix them up.

If you do not know what faith is, go to the source. It is already there. But this is how it is done.

24/05/2026

IDENTITY & PURPOSE

1 PETER 2:9-10

HEADLINE: Who Are You? And What Do You Do?

A pastor in Hull asked his congregation that on a hot Sunday in May. He did not want a quick answer. He wanted a real one. One that holds.

His framework came from Psalm 19. Identity is how a thing appears. Purpose is what it does. The sun: light is identity. Heat is purpose. Six keys from the psalm. Instruction renews life. Testimony makes the inexperienced wise. Precepts make the heart glad. Command makes the eyes light up. Fear endures forever. Ordinances are altogether righteous.

He tied it to John 8:14. Testimony is only as solid as the identity behind it. Then Jesus's own answer from John 8:12: I am the light of the world.

The emotional core came from 1 Thessalonians 4, a section the transcript almost lost. He told them: live quiet. Not one that shouts out. One that announces you. Work with your own hands. Do it right, and you will never depend on anyone.

Then the image he wanted them to carry home: your life is not a cheap copy of Jesus's music. It is a cover. Play it your way.

On discipline, he drew a sharp line: God does not shape you for some selfish purpose. When men apply discipline, they mold you for their own ends. God shapes you so your life blesses others. If your suffering is not building you up, it is not from God.

He closed with 1 Peter 2:9. Chosen generation. Royal priesthood. Holy nation. Peculiar people.

If nothing else makes sense: you are a child -comma- of God. A man -comma- of God. A woman -comma- of God. And if you are asking what you do: stay in the word. Let it set you free.

23/05/2026

GOOD DAYS CAN STILL BURN YOU. BAD DAYS CAN STILL SAVE YOU.

It was the hottest day of the year so far in the UK. Blue skies. Birds singing. The kind of weather you would call perfect.

And it was miserable.

That is the image a Bible teacher used on Friday, May 22nd, to open a session on one of the harder ideas in the New Testament: that good conditions do not guarantee good outcomes, but with God, bad ones can.

The teaching centered on John chapter 8 and Isaiah 59, two passages the speaker has been unpacking across two sessions. The short version: truth and testimony are not separate things. They are the same thing, and mercy is what makes testimony possible.

Mercy, in this framing, means what was meant for evil gets turned around for good. And testimony is the fruit of that reversal.

The speaker laid out four truths from Isaiah 59 and mapped each one to a section of John 8.

First: wickedness obstructs God's deliverance, but it does not stop it. The proof is the woman caught in adultery in John 8:1-11. She was about to be stoned. It was a trap set for Jesus. Instead, it became the moment her worst outcome got reversed.

Second: when truth collapses, salvation collapses with it. Judgment is the first thing to lose its substance. What remains is judgment without justice. The speaker's answer to that: forgive. Because forgiveness reveals truth.

Third: God searched for someone to intercede and found nobody. The testimony to that gap is you. Fill it. The speaker drew a line between forgiveness and intercession. Forgiveness is refusing to let accusations become a weight. Intercession is taking that refusal active, extending it beyond yourself. That is where identity and purpose come in. Jesus said in John 8:14, "I know whence I came, and whither I go." The speaker said that is your identity and your purpose as a Christian. You are Jesus' testimony.

Fourth: God wants something from you. If your ways please Him, He will reveal Himself through you.

The session closed with one line. The speaker said if you take nothing else from it, take this: let your life show one message. That God is. And that God is good.

The hot day was a metaphor. The teaching was not. Sometimes the conditions are perfect and you still get burned. Sometimes the conditions are terrible and you get saved. The difference, according to this reading, is not the weather. It is what you do with it.

17/05/2026

New Covenant Church, Hull

Sunday 20260517

TRUTH & TESTIMONY

ISA 59; JOHN 8

10/05/2026

New Covenant Church, Hull

Sunday 20260510

Rest, as GOD intended.

Isaiah 58:13-14

04/05/2026

New Covenant Church, Hull

Sunday Meditation

Discipline & Perseverance

20260503

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TRUST, MERCY & GRACE

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