What are you connected to? What are you listening to and taking notice of for life? In our Gospel reading for this week from John 15, Jesus encourages us to be connected to Him and allow Him to be affecting us so we can the Godly fruit of love. This week are exploring how Jesus helps us to be fruitful. Support the Show.
This week is Good Shepherd Sunday, and in our reading from John 10, Jesus shares with us what it means for Him to be our Good Shepherd. The message was prepared and presented by Anthony Fawcett.Support the Show.
In our Gospel reading this week from Luke 24:36-48, Jesus comes unexpectedly amongst His disciples, and helps them understand what the scriptures are on about....forgiveness and that they will be witness of this forgiveness from God....this week will explore the significance of Jesus' presence in our lives and what it means for us to be witness of the forgiveness God gives us. Prepared by Richard Schwedes and presented by Dr. Dan Mayer. Support the Show.
Easter Sunday changes everything.....the resurrection of Jesus gives us a life where peace and belief can exist beyond amongst the troubles and difficulties of life...because we have a life to look forward to....and this then changes how we live today. Our focus this week comes from the Gospel of John 20:19-31 Support the Show.
Our journey of true love (our Lenten theme), continues with this week, Palm Sunday, as we focus on Praise, Praising God for not only what He has done, but also what He is doing and will do! Support the Show.
Our journey of true love (our Lenten theme), continues with this week with an emphasis a life of serving, focussing on the service of Jesus and how this then affects us. Support the show
Our journey of true love (our Lenten theme), continues with this week with an emphasis of it's all about Jesus, our District's theme for this synodical term. Support the Show.
Our journey of true love (our Lenten theme), continues with this week we are focusing on being cleansed by Jesus, based on John 2:13-22. Support the Show.
As we continue on our journey of true love (our Lenten theme), we move from discovering the blessings of repentance to discovering commitment, based on Mark 8:31-38. And this week we seek how the commitment that Jesus has for God's mission of saving the world, impacts our lives in at least two ways. If you haven't picked the 2024 Lenten Devotion...Understanding Grace, you can download a copy 2024 Understanding Grace address.pdf - Google DriveSupport the Show.
This week we began the season of Lent, our journey to Easter with Jesus and each other. Our focus is On a Journey of true love, and this week as part of that journey we discover the blessings of repentance, based on our Gospel reading from Mark 1:14-15. Support the Show.
Our Bishop Rev Rob Bartholomaeus presented the message for our Churches of Sydney Ash Wednesday service based on Isaiah 58:1-12.Support the Show.
Have you ever changed the way you look at someone or something because of an event or interaction with someone? Well this week is Transfiguration Sunday, we see that the disciples understanding of God begins to change as a result of seeing only Jesus, and seeing him in a different way. We are exploring how God helps us see him differently when we focus on Jesus, based on our readings from Mark 9:1-9 and 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. Support the Show.
This week we focus on being thankful in all circumstances, based on the reading from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. We are exploring how thankfulness is important in having a healthy earthly and spiritual life. Support the Show.
Mention the word authority to people, and you get different reactions. Some like to be clear of who has authority, others associate it with power (and some even the misuse of power) and most of the responses people have to the word authority is are rules and law. However this week's focus from Mark 1:21-28 highlights that the authority Jesus has is not based on rules or law but something else, which we will be exploring in our worship this week. Support the Show.
From time to time God has an impact us that alters how they see God and how we relate to others. This week we see one of those impacts as we look at the Conversion of Paul, previous known as Saul, and how God's interaction with him moved him from focussing on God's law as the most important thing to focussing on God grace for all people as what is important. Come and discover what this story means for us today based on Acts 9:1-22. Support the Show.
Throughout the New Testament, Jesus calls people to follow Him, and this week we explore one of these calling stories, based on John 1:43-51. Today's sermon was written and presented by Anthony Fawcett. Support the Show.
The Christmas story continues as we celebrate Epiphany. This is significant as God makes it clear that he came not just for one select group of people, but for all people. And this week we focus on discovering King Jesus, based on Matthew 2:1-12. Today's message was prepared by Pastor Richard Schwedes and presented by Neil Modra. Support the Show.