Covenant Waterfall Presbyterian Church

Be Strong in the Lord - Ephesians 6:10-24

The whole point of this final section in Ephesians is to hit home this reality: that because we’re in a spiritual battle, we are to stand firm in the armour of God.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

He who keeps faith forever - Psalm 146

What we see in Psalm 146 is an exhortation not to trust in “princes” in those who rule over us. They will always disappoint us. Instead, this psalm points us to hope only in our God, who never fails us – he keeps faith forever! Because only God really cares for us, we are to worship him, and him alone.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

Our Good, Great and Strong God - Psalm 135

God is indeed good, and we see this here in Psalm 135. Yet we will see his goodness in ways that perhaps we don’t expect. We will see his goodness on his terms, as it’s he alone who gets to define in own goodness. What we’ll see from this psalm, is that because God is good, he is also great and strong. And it is this good, great and strong God who we know in Jesus Christ.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

The Rock of our Salvation - Psalm 95

We are looking at Psalm 95. It is a magnificent psalm, a psalm of praise to the Lord. What we are going to see as we go through this psalm is that our worship of God is the way in which our eyes and hearts remain fixed on the Lord even through the storms of life. Focus today on worship. Because the Lord is our great God, our Rock of Salvation, we must worship him and be faithful to him.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

Whiter than Snow - Psalm 51

Psalm 51 is David’s realisation of the gravity of his sins, and is a prayer to God in which he pours out his heart to him in deep repentance. He cries out to the Lord that his sin be removed from him, and his heart be renewed. Real, raw, gritty stuff!
What we are going to see from this Psalm is that it is only because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross, that our sins can be cleansed, and our hearts be renewed by his Spirit.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

God our Refuge and Strength - Psalm 46

Psalm 46 speaks directly into situations like the one we are facing. Chaos and turmoil have overtaken the world, things are in crisis. Yet as we shall see in this Psalm, in the midst of all this, God remains our refuge and strength.

The Crucifixion of Christ - Psalm 22

How then do we explain this psalm? We can explain it as a prophecy about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. This defining moment in history was prophesied in detail about one thousand years before it happened. King David vividly prophesied about the event in this psalm. The Apostle Peter in Acts 2:30-31 –
“Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants on his throne, he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ…”
So we can see here that not only was David a king, but he was a prophet too, and he wrote this psalm as a prophet, forthtelling the coming of his promised son, the Messiah, the true King of Israel.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

The Glory of God’s Word - Psalm 19

This psalm is a great encouragement for us as believers in Christ who want to get deeper into God’s Word and make it the sure foundation that it is in our lives and in our church. In this Psalm, we get a glimpse of God’s glory in creation and then see his glory in the riches and beauty of Word. And finally, we see how his glorious Word transforms us deeply.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

Crowned with Glory and Honour - Psalm 8

What we see in this psalm is a celebration of God’s work of creation, and mankind as the crown of his creation, having been given dominion over the creation to rule and reign for God’s glory. How do we reconcile this lofty vision of mankind with the sin-cursed reality we experience every day? Well the truth is that there is hope in the midst of our mess. How so? We will see this as we unpack this psalm – that because Jesus has put all things under his feet, he restores us to what we were called to be – his people, under his rule, crowned with glory and honour.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.

Help from the God who Hates - Psalm 5

Does God hate? Surely if he’s a God of love, as we’ve been led to believe, and can see in Scripture (1 John 4:8, “God is love”), then it must be impossible for God to hate anything? Aren’t these two attributes mutually exclusive? How can someone who is in his essence love, then hate as well?
Our culture’s understanding of God, probably best summarised in Oprah-ism, the spirit of this age – God is this nebulous divine being which loves everything and everyone, accepts us all as we are, never challenges or confronts our ideas or behaviour – basically an idealised version of ourselves. In contrast to this, a God who hates is truly an anathema! This must be an evil god, to be avoided at all costs.
Yet even as Christians, if we’re honest with ourselves, we find it hard to really stomach this truth. That God hates, that he is wrathful, seems so alien to the warm, fuzzy feeling we usually get when we pray to and worship our loving Father in heaven.
But the truth is that God does indeed hate. Not only in a general sense, but God actually hates people. Romans 9:13 says that, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” In actual fact it was King David who understood this truth about God’s anger and expressed it in a prayer which we have recorded for us in Psalm 5. David found himself in grave danger, his own life threatened, and he called for help from the God who hates.
Preacher: Antonio Coppola.