Today we picked up the first verses of Paul’s tender letter to his young friend Timothy. Pastor Francis reads it as a letter of encouragement from which we might learn much both about bringing encouragement and receiving it. After an opening greeting and words of affirmation, Timothy is asked to reboot what God has given…
Hsiang Ling opens up Jesus’ parable from Luke 17 of ‘The Richman and Lazarus’ in technicolour detail. She breaks through any assumed familiarity we may have about this to show how the human heart is rightly judged and draws us to reconsider the glories of God’s grace in Christ that lead to heaven.
Fresh from a tour of biblical sites in Israel, Francis looks at a key verse in the Gospels where the question of Jesus’ identity is addressed. This conversation took place in a setting with a lot of context to the point that the context is part of the message.
Today’s guest preacher was Paul Vrolijk our archdeacon. Paul spoke around Jesus’ story of lost sheep and the shepherd who went looking for it.
Mark Hill picked up the story of Jesus healing a woman bent double during synagogue worship on Sabbath as told in Luke 13:10-17. This is rich gospel at several levels. It is only available here as an audio.
Following Good, Better, Best comes another message about God’s values and how we either get them or miss them. We engage the Philosopher of Ecclesiastes, Pastor Paul commending Christ and the Farmer/businessman with a bumper harvest -‘Mr. Bigger-Barns’- who Jesus described as a ‘fool’.
In the summertime it’s good to review our priorities. The readings for today all reflect the need to be sure about what is necessary and what is not in God’s Kingdom economy as represented by Jesus. To give the sound crews a holiday there is not audio for this message.
Paul talks to the Galatians about what takes us off track and away from freedom and what keeps us on track. The words are familiar but how they relate may not be? Freedom, Service, Law and Spirit. This three course meal of a sermon sets them out so we can do it. Due to a…
Through the church year to date, the full gospel has been told and celebrated from Advent to Pentecost. So on the Sunday after Pentecost, known as ‘Trinity Sunday’, we contemplate the being of God. The sermon this day celebrates God as the relational Three-in-One who Jesus represented and spoke of. We view God in relational…
This is the last in a number of talks drilling down into how people may engage with the real living active God. It is a reading of the story about Paul and a slave girl whom he delivered from an evil spirit as set out in Acts 16.16-31. Pauls actions lead to various subsequent developments…