One Hope Church Stellenbosch
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Weekly Sunday sermons from One Hope church in Stellenbosch
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- Unstoppable: The Sovereign, Simple, Spirit-filled Success of Evangelism - Unstoppable
Scott unpacks Acts 8, highlighting how the early church
- Learning to Lament - Standalone Sermons
This sermon discusses Psalm 77, focusing on the discipline of lament as a way for believers to honestly express their struggles to God. It highlights remembering God's faithfulness and finding hope in the cross of Jesus, even when His acti…
- Easter: Celebrating our Resurrected King - Standalone Sermons
This sermon examines the significance of Easter, focusing on the historical evidence of Christ's death and resurrection. It asserts that Jesus's victory over sin, death, and Satan provides believers with secured forgiveness, new life, and…
- Unstoppable: Gospel Advance & Internal Threats - Unstoppable
This sermon examines Acts 4:31–5:42, discussing how the early church’s unity, boldness, and generosity, empowered by the Holy Spirit, made it unstoppable. It also addresses the internal threat of hypocrisy, exemplified by Ananias and Sapph…
- Unstoppable: Response to Opposition - Unstoppable
This sermon explores the gospel's unstoppable nature using Acts 3-4, where a healing and proclamation of Jesus led to opposition. The early church responded with prayer and unity, seeking boldness from the Holy Spirit to continue speaking…
- Unstoppable: Blueprint - Unstoppable
In Acts 2:14–47, we see the birth of the church and a blueprint for how the church should live today. After the Holy Spirit is poured out, Peter boldly proclaims the gospel—Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and lordship. The message pierce…
- Unstoppable: Empowered for Mission - Unstoppable
In this message, “Empowered for Mission” from Acts 2:1–4, Pete Cornford explores how the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost empowered the early church for God’s mission. The same Spirit who filled the disciples is still given to every…
- Unstoppable: The Story Continues - Unstoppable
In this powerful sermon, Gareth explores the profound significance of living with a "Kingdom Mindset." Drawing from biblical principles, he emphasises that our perspective determines our reality and our impact on the world. He challenges b…
- One Thing - Standalone Sermons
In this sermon, Bates emphasizes the "One Thing" that truly matters: the singular pursuit of Jesus Christ as our ultimate source of rest and purpose. He explores how this focus transforms three specific areas of our lives. First, he addres…
- Worship - Standalone Sermons
In this powerful sermon, Terry Virgo explores the transformative nature of God's grace, emphasizing that it is not merely a theological concept but a lived reality. Drawing from biblical foundations, he challenges believers to move beyond…
- Vision Sunday - Standalone Sermons
In this "Vision Sunday" sermon, Gareth reaffirms that the mission of the church is defined solely by Jesus’ final commands in scripture rather than human strategy. Drawing from four biblical accounts, he identifies the church as a people o…
- Behold Our God: Saviour - Behold our God
In this compelling sermon Sarah explores the profound nature of God as our Savior and the intentionality behind His rescue. Focusing on the truth that we cannot save ourselves, she highlights how God meets us in our deepest brokenness not…
- Behold Our God: Jealous God - Behold our God
God doesn’t want part of your heart — He wants all of it. In this confronting and hope-filled sermon, Gareth explores the biblical truth that God is a jealous God, not out of control or fear, but out of deep love and covenant faithfulness.…
- Behold Our God: Judge - Behold our God
In this sermon from the "Behold" series, Gareth explores the sobering reality of God as Judge through the story of Achan in Joshua 7. By contrasting the miraculous victory at Jericho with the crushing defeat at Ai, it illustrates the corpo…
- Behold our God: Creator - Behold our God
Message from Nathan Fisher on January 11, 2026
- Immanuel: Empathetic Priest - Christmas Series 2025: Immanuel
In this Immanuel series message, Gareth shows how the incarnation enables Jesus to be our perfect and empathetic Great High Priest. Fully God and fully human, Jesus now continually ministers for us—advocating for our forgiveness, mediating…
- Immanuel: Promised Presence - Christmas Series 2025: Immanuel
The profound meaning of Christmas is God’s definitive action to overcome humanity's separation from Him, declaring Immanuel—God with us. This sermon anchors the Christian faith in God's unchanging desire to dwell with His people. We trace…
- Gospel Life: The Epilogue - Gospel Life
In this final message from 1 Corinthians, Gareth unpacks Paul’s closing chapter as a rich window into early church life—marked by global gospel partnership, planned generosity, and mutual strengthening. He highlights Paul’s four urgent exh…
- Gospel Life: Our Glorious Hope - Gospel Life
This sermon unpacks the transformative power of Christ's resurrection, addressing the sceptical question of what the resurrected body will be like, drawing from 1 Corinthians 15:35-58. The passage highlights God's incredible power, demonst…
- Gospel Life: Amazing Grace - Gospel Life
In this message, Amazing Grace: Responding to Grace, Gareth unpacks 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, showing how God’s grace completely transformed the apostle Paul—from persecutor to passionate servant of Christ. He reminds us that grace is God’s u…
- Gospel Life: The Resurrection - Gospel Life
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the unshakable foundation of our faith, not an optional belief. This truth from 1 Corinthians 15 is explored in a sermon that dives into the absolute core that underpins everything we believe. It deliver…
- Gospel Life: Building the Body - Gospel Life
"Build the body, not the ego" is the central theme of this week's message on 1 Corinthians 14, serving as the practical application of spiritual gifts through the lens of love. Paul is addressing the chaos and disorder in the Corinthian ch…
- Gospel Life: Love Never Ends - Gospel Life
Based on Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 13, this sermon explores "a more excellent way" for the church: the supremacy of love. We learn that even the most spectacular Christian activities—from great sacrifice to profound knowledge—are re…
- Gospel Life: Spiritual Gifts - Gospel Life
In this week’s message, Gareth unpacked 1 Corinthians 12, exploring Paul’s teaching on spiritual gifts and their purpose in the life of the church. He showed how the Corinthians’ confusion mirrors many believers today—some wary of spiritua…
- Gospel Life: The Lord's Supper - Gospel Life
In week 19 of our Gospel Life series, Jono Hulley unpacks the meaning of the Lord’s Supper from 1 Corinthians 11:17–34. Far more than a ritual, communion is the gospel made visible, a table of grace where Christ meets His people. This mess…
- Gospel Life: God's Beautiful Design - Gospel Life
In 1 Corinthians 11, Paul addresses a passage we’re often tempted to skip over—head coverings in worship. But beneath what might feel like a strange cultural issue lies something timeless and profound: God’s creational design for men and w…
- Gospel Life: Your Purpose - Gospel Life
Scott Landman: "Based on 1 Corinthians 10:23–11:1, this sermon explores the profound purpose of our lives. It argues that true purpose isn't found in personal freedom or fleeting goals, but in a singular, clear directive: to glorify God in…
- Gospel Life: Flee Idolatry - Gospel Life
Idolatry isn’t just an ancient problem with golden calves or temple feasts—it’s the daily battle of the human heart. In Corinth, Paul warned believers that to sit at the table of idols was to share in their worship. Today our idols may loo…
- Gospel Life: Gospel Method for Mission - Gospel Life
This week at One Hope, Gareth preached from 1 Corinthians 9:19–23 on the Gospel Method for Missional Living. He reminded us that true freedom in Christ is not for self-indulgence but for serving God and others. Like Paul, we are called to…
- Gospel Life: Gospel Motivation for Mission - Gospel Life
In this message, Gareth unpacks 1 Corinthians 9 and shows how the gospel doesn’t just save us but reshapes our whole lives and motivations. Like Paul, we are called to lay down our rights, not for personal gain, but so that others may enco…
- Gospel Life: Exercising Our Freedoms - Gospel Life
In I Corinthians Chapter 8, the apostle Paul addresses a conflict within the church around believers’ freedom to eat food that had been sacrificed to idols. While on the surface the Corinthian church seemed to have knowledge about spiritua…
- Gospel Life: How Now Shall We Live? - Gospel Life
In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul gives gritty, practical guidance to believers in every life stage — married, widowed, single, or in spiritually mixed marriages. Gareth unpacks God’s design for marriage, His grace for broken situations, and His ca…
- Gospel Life: Singleness - A Gift From God - Gospel Life
In this sermon, titled Singleness, a Gift from God, Johannes unpacks 1 Corinthians 7:6–9 and 25–38, continuing our journey through the book of 1 Corinthians. Building on last week’s message about marriage, this week’s focus shifts to the e…
- Gospel Life: Marriage & Sex - Gospel Life
In this week’s message, Gareth unpacks 1 Corinthians 7:1–5, showing how God’s design for sex and marriage is both beautiful and deeply practical. In a world full of confusion and distortion, Scripture calls us to flee sexual immorality and…
- Gospel Life: Do You Not Know? - Gospel Life
In a world that tells us, “You are your own,” the apostle Paul writes something radically countercultural: “You are not your own—you were bought at a price.” In this message from 1 Corinthians 6:12–20, we explore what it means to belong—bo…
- Gospel Life: Judge Judy Corinthian Style - Gospel Life
Paul addresses the issue within the Corinthian church of believers taking "trivial cases" to be judged by individuals outside of the church. His overall focus is that this approach is not unifying for the church and then he goes on to list…
- Gospel Life: Messy Church - Gospel Life
This sermon explores how the gospel shapes the church's response to sin within its community. Drawing from 1 Corinthians 5, it highlights a shocking case of sexual immorality in the Corinthian church and their arrogant, ungodly response to…
- Gospel Life: Response to Criticism - Gospel Life
Join us as Scott Landman teaches this morning from 1 Corinthians 4.
- Gospel Life: God's Field, God's Building, God's Temple - Gospel Life
Join us as Gareth Bowley teaches in 1 Corinthians 3 this morning.
- Gospel Life: Spiritual Wisdom - Gospel Life
Spiritual Wisdom - 1 Corinthians 2:6-16. In this passage, the apostle Paul continues his call for unity in the church by showing that true wisdom is found in the message of the cross. In this sermon, Johannes unpacks the difference between…
- I'm Saved... Now What? - Standalone Sermons
In this powerful message from 1 Peter 2:4-12, Stephen unpacks God’s marvellous plan to build a remarkable people - His church. God is building His church with unremarkable and diverse people who were once not a people at all, but are now a…
- Leaders Lead, People Rise - Standalone Sermons
Nkululeko Mahlanyane from God First Tembisa exhorted One Hope Church from Judges 5:1-2 to lead well & follow well just like Deborah, Barak & our Lord Jesus did! We can do so because we trust in Him - Bless the LORD!
- Psalm 126: Sowing in Tears - Standalone Sermons
In this sermon from Psalm 126, Gareth unpacks how we’re invited to respond differently in times of hardship. Rather than retreat or give up, the Psalm calls us to remember God’s past faithfulness, to pray faith-filled prayers, and to keep…
- Gospel Life: Jesus: God's Wisdom and Power - Gospel Life
In this message from 1 Corinthians 1:18–2:5, Gareth unpacks how the cross of Christ—though seen as foolish or weak by the world—is in fact the wisdom and power of God. Paul’s simple gospel message confounded the proud city of Corinth, just…
- Gospel Life: Unity - Gospel Life
'In part two of our Gospel Life Series, Nathan takes us through 1 Corinthians 1:10–17, where the Apostle Paul addresses a divided church and points us back to the one thing that truly unites us: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Why do personali…
- Gospel Life Series Launch - Gospel Life
In this opening message of our Gospel Life series in 1 Corinthians, Gareth explores how the gospel is not only what we believe but what transforms every part of our lives. Drawing powerful parallels between Corinth and Stellenbosch, he sho…
- Looking to Jesus - Standalone Sermons
Jesus invites us into a new, abundant life by calling us to look to Him daily. In this message from Hebrews 12:1-2, we explore the hindrances that can slow us down — weights, sin, isolation, and suffering. As we fix our eyes on Jesus, He r…
- Easter Sermon | Our Merciful Saviour - Standalone Sermons
On Resurrection Sunday, Gareth preached from 1 Timothy 1:12–17, reminding us of the staggering mercy of our Saviour. Through Paul’s reflections on his own salvation, we’re invited to marvel at God’s grace, who chooses and transforms even H…
- Living in the Light of the Trinity - Knowing God
In the final message of our Knowing God series, Gareth unpacks the beauty and richness of life shaped by the Trinity. Far from abstract theology, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit invite us into a dynamic relationship of love and joy. This…
- God's Heart for the World - Knowing God
“Scripture teaches us that as believers we are each sent—commissioned to make disciples of all nations. However, we can sometimes rely on wrong motivation leading to weariness, joylessness, or even ultimately abdicating our call to mission…