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The Kingdom Has Come Near – Mark SayersMark Sayers opens The Way of the Kingdom by announcing the revolutionary shift Jesus proclaimed: a new order has broken into the world—God’s kingdom is here. This message invites us to stop treating faith as mere “correction” for our problems and instead repent, realign, and live with kingdom power, purpose, and expectation. It’s a call to set our internal clocks to what time it really is—and to take ground with Jesus in everyday life.🔗 Learn more at ⁠redchurch.au

Trudi names shame as one of the biggest barriers to living with Jesus at the centre—and shows how the gospel moves us from hiding to freedom. From Eden to the “garden city” of Revelation, this message reveals God as the Gardener who cuts back what chokes the Word and restores our hearts to flourish again. Through Jesus—the living Truth—we’re invited to trade accusation for assurance, and shame for a double portion of joy.🔗 Learn more at ⁠redchurch.au

On Vision Sunday, Mark casts a clear and compelling picture for 2026: placing Christ at the centre of everything—our lives, our church, and our mission. In a world where “things fall apart” and the centre cannot hold, this message reminds us that Jesus already holds all things together, and renewal begins when we align ourselves with that reality. As hunger for God rises and culture continues to shake, we’re invited into a defining moment—personally and corporately—to surrender afresh and build our lives around the supremacy of Christ.🔗 Learn more at ⁠redchurch.au

In this message, Mark reframes faith through the story of Nehemiah, challenging the cultural idea that faith is simply positive thinking, manifestation, or willpower. True biblical faith, Mark shows, is not about controlling outcomes but surrendering step by step to God’s power—often in fear, uncertainty, and dependence. This is an invitation to let go of self-generated vision and instead receive God’s vision, trusting Him to lead, sustain, and bring life where we could never imagine it ourselves.🔗 Learn more at ⁠redchurch.au

In this message, Mark explores Nehemiah’s call to rebuild Jerusalem and reveals a timeless truth: every God-given vision is met with resistance. As Nehemiah and the people build with one hand and hold a sword in the other, we’re reminded that renewal never happens in a vacuum—faithfulness requires both courage and perseverance. This message invites us to stop waiting for a “perfect future moment” and instead partner with God here and now, trusting that as we build, God Himself fights for us.🔗 Learn more at ⁠redchurch.au

In this message, Mark explores Nehemiah’s awakening to God’s bigger story—a story that reframes identity, purpose, and calling beyond personal success or cultural narratives. Though powerful and settled in exile, Nehemiah is deeply moved by the broken state of Jerusalem, reminding him that God’s people, presence, and purposes are central to history. Mark traces how our culture has exhausted both “my story” and “our story,” and invites us to rediscover meaning by submitting our lives to God’s story. Through the overlooked faithfulness of figures like Nehemiah and Australia’s first chaplain Richard Johnson, we’re reminded that God works through small, unseen acts to build something far greater than we can imagine. This message calls us to recover our identity as God’s beloved people, reconnect to His work in the world, and trust that even our quiet obedience is planting acorns for generations to come.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Mark reflects on God’s original vision for creation as something that teems with life—abundant, flourishing, and overflowing. Drawing from Genesis, Mark reminds us that being made in God’s image means we are entrusted with power and influence, not to control or dominate, but to steward life in love. In a world increasingly shaped by power and uncertainty, Jesus reveals an upside-down kingdom where true fruitfulness flows from love, faithfulness in small things, and dependence on the Spirit. Mark invites us at the start of a new year to reimagine success—not as growth for growth’s sake, but as partnering with God to create life wherever He has placed us. This is a call to move beyond fear and powerlessness, and to step into God’s life-giving purpose through the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Andy Kroussoratsky reflects on our deep desire to control outcomes—especially in seasons of uncertainty—and how fear can quietly push us to take matters into our own hands. Drawing from the story of King Saul and Jesus’ words in Matthew 6, Andy contrasts a life driven by anxiety and control with a life shaped by trust and surrender. While worry tempts us to grasp for certainty, Jesus invites us to seek God’s kingdom first, trusting that He knows our needs and is sovereign over our lives. Rather than striving to manage every detail, we’re called to take faithful steps, release control, and place our confidence in a God who is both loving and faithful. The invitation for this season is simple yet challenging: let it be a summer of surrender.

In this message, Andy Kroussoratsky reflects on Jesus’ words in John 6, where He declares Himself the Bread of Life. After feeding the crowd, Jesus challenges their motives—revealing how easily we come to Him for what He can do, rather than for who He is. Andy invites us to consider the deeper hunger beneath our surface needs and reminds us that true life and lasting satisfaction aren’t found in provision alone, but in believing in and abiding with Jesus Himself.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this Christmas Day message, Mark Sayers reflects on how the birth of Jesus only makes full sense when we see it stretched across time—rooted in God’s promises of the past and opening toward God’s future for us. Drawing from John’s cosmic vision of Christ as the Word who holds all things together, and Luke’s earthy scene of a baby in a manger, Mark reminds us that Christmas is where eternity enters time, quietly and personally. Jesus doesn’t come as an idea or force, but as a child who dwells with us—present in our joy, our grief, and the unseen moments of our lives. Even when we can’t recognise what God is doing, He is still at work, often hidden and slow. And just as the manger held immense possibility, so too does our future in Christ: God is not finished yet. The good news of Christmas is this—Jesus loves you, He is close to you, He is at work in your life, and His story with you is still unfolding.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this Advent message, Mark Sayers invites us to see the Nativity through a royal lens—and to discover just how radically different Jesus’ kingship truly is. Drawing from Matthew 2, Mark shows that the Christmas story is not sentimental folklore but a confrontation of kingdoms: Herod’s fragile power versus the quiet arrival of the true King. While earthly rulers grasp for control, Jesus enters the world hidden, vulnerable, and unexpected—a baby in a manger, surrounded not by force but by worship. This upside-down kingdom overturns our obsession with status, power, and belonging, revealing a King whose authority is expressed through humility and whose reign is defined by love. At the heart of Christmas is not spectacle, but this simple and staggering truth: Jesus came because He loves you. As the year closes and the noise builds, Advent calls us to pause, bow like the Magi, and let the love of the true King reshape our hearts, our lives, and our hopes for what’s ahead.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this Advent message, Mark Sayers reframes the Christmas story as far more than a sentimental scene, revealing it instead as the decisive moment in a cosmic battle. Through the life of Isaac Watts and the deeper meaning behind Joy to the World, Mark shows that Christ’s coming is not only about a baby in a manger, but about the defeat of evil, the silencing of accusation, and the victory of joy rooted in truth. Drawing from Revelation 12, he reminds us that while darkness still lashes out through lies, fear, and shame, the dragon has already been defeated by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Advent, then, becomes a season not just of remembrance, but of resistance—where we preach the gospel to our own hearts, stand firm in our Christ-given identity, and live as people marked not by circumstances, but by unshakeable joy in Jesus’ victory.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this Advent message, Mark invites us to rediscover the power of the gospel against the backdrop of silence, longing, and a world aching for hope. After centuries of divine quiet between the Old and New Testaments, the opening line of Mark’s Gospel lands like a thunderclap: “The beginning of the good news about Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God.” Mark paints this moment as the breaking of silence—the long-awaited arrival, the adventus, of the One who brings not advice but victory, not self-improvement but salvation. As he reflects on the installation of Melbourne’s new Anglican Archbishop and the stirring proclamation of Christ’s death, resurrection, and return, Mark calls the church in our city to wake up to its purpose: to bear the good news again. In a Melbourne marked by cynicism, violence, and spiritual hunger, Advent becomes not just nostalgia but a summons—pray, prepare, and posture our hearts for what God longs to do in 2026. The world is gathering at our doorstep; the silence has been broken; the King has arrived. Now we carry His good news.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

Launching our Advent series, Trudi invites us into the practice—and the posture—of heaven-directed gratitude. In a season marked by frenzy, pressure, and the noise of consumption, she reminds us that thanksgiving is more than a wellbeing exercise; it is a spiritual discipline that recentres our hearts on the goodness of God. Looking at Jesus feeding the 5,000 and raising Lazarus, Trudi shows that Jesus gives thanks before the miracle—revealing gratitude as a pathway into abundance, partnership, and faith. True gratitude shifts us from scarcity to expectancy, from grumbling to trust, from self-sufficiency to dependence on the One who freely gives life without measure. As Advent begins, we’re invited to pause, lift our eyes to heaven, and give thanks—not only for what God has done, but for the abundance He is ready to pour out in us, through us, and beyond us in the year ahead.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Mark explores the Church's calling to be a house of abundance—a community filled with resurrection life in a culture drifting into spiritual slumber. Reflecting on Acts 20 and the story of Eutychus nodding off as Paul preaches, Mark warns that the greatest threat to the Church in Australia isn’t persecution but comfort-born spiritual sleepiness. Yet Acts also shows us God’s intention for His people: an abundant devotion that overflows into transformed lives, shared community, sacrificial generosity, and Spirit-empowered mission. Like the early believers who met after long workdays to receive the Word, we’re invited to resist passivity and reawaken holy expectation. Mark urges us to dream again—believing Jesus is still the engine of abundance, moving in our city, drawing seekers, healing dry places, and calling us to step into the river of His life for the sake of our neighbourhoods and the future of our church.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Mark continues our Beautiful Life series by exploring Jesus’ promise of abundant life from John 10:10. In a world shaped by scarcity—rising costs, shrinking security, and global anxiety—Mark reminds us that true abundance isn’t found in economic conditions, options, or self-sufficiency, but in the presence and power of Jesus Himself. Jesus is the engine of abundance—the One who brings healing, renewal, provision, creativity, and supernatural overflow into every season of our lives. As Mark traces how fear narrows our vision and how scarcity forms our mindset, he invites us to let Jesus expand our imagination, renew our hearts, and open our hands so His life can flow through us into our workplaces, relationships, and city.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Trudi continues our Beautiful Life series by exploring abundance—not as something we create through self-sufficiency, but something we receive when we open the door to Jesus. Using the image from Revelation 3 of Christ knocking, she reminds us that lukewarm faith often comes from unknowingly shutting Jesus out of parts of our lives. True abundance flows only from the abundant Jesus—the One who brings freedom, light, perspective, and kingdom-riches wherever He is welcomed. Whether we feel stuck, stale, self-reliant, or in deep need, Jesus stands ready to enter, renew, and lead us into a spacious place. The invitation is simple: open the door, let Him in, and let His life reshape every part of ours.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Ryan builds on last week’s teaching that a beautiful life is a life of faith—one that’s both ridiculous and risky. But this week, he reminds us that faith must also become action. Drawing from Luke 5, where Jesus calls Peter from his boat, Ryan invites us to move from mere faithfulness to a faith that lives, saying small, daily yeses that open space for God to move. True discipleship, he says, means being open to Jesus, willing to be interrupted, quick to obey, and ready to follow—trusting that every “yes” to God can change not just our story, but the story of our community and city.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this message, Ryan explores what it means to live a life of faith—one that often looks ridiculous and risky, yet reveals a deeper unseen reality. Drawing from Hebrews 11, he shows that faith isn’t passive belief but active trust in God even when outcomes are uncertain. True faith steps into spaces where God has to show up, not because it’s safe, but because it’s beautifully worth it. Ryan shares stories—from his family’s unexpected moves to moments of doubt and surrender—that remind us faith is sustained by continually fixing our eyes on Jesus, saying yes again and again, and trusting that God’s reality is greater than what we see.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au

In this conversation, Mark speaks with James Kelly, founder of FaithTech, about how followers of Jesus can live with wisdom and order in a world shaped by technology. James shares how FaithTech began as a small gathering of believers in the tech industry who wanted to use their skills for the gospel, and how it’s now grown into a global movement. Together they explore Jesus’ countercultural vision of power—not through speed or scale, but through friendship over time. James offers practical rhythms for families and individuals to keep technology in its right place—daily Scripture, digital Sabbaths, and screen-free spaces—and reminds us that our call is not to flee technology, but to redeem it, bringing God’s beauty and order into a digital world.🔗 Learn more at redchurch.au