Sermon Video

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Pass It On

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Outward evidence of an inner change that has God as it's source.

That's what we want to be seeing in the lives of the people in our church family. A growing maturity in our relationship with God impacts the maturity of our inner life and flows on to impact our relationships with others.

Monday, June 18, 2012

No Superheroes Required


No Superheroes Required
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As we celebrate our participation in this year's State Youth Games, we reflect on the significance of our slogan: No Superheroes Required. From 2 Corinthians 4:7-18 we are reminded of the power that God has given all of us to point people to the only hero we need - our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

A People of Partnership

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Building on the foundation of what we've discovered in 1 Peter about what it means to be people of praise, purity and peace, this message explores how we are now able to work together in harmony in the commission that Christ gave the church - to make disciples. We are reminded of the importance of a right relationship with God and with each other which stems from healthy heart attitudes, and we take the opportunity to do some heart checking to see if there are things that God wants to deal with in us which prevent us from true partnership with each other.

Saturday, June 2, 2012

A People of Peace

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1 Peter 2:18-25

All of us know what it's like to live with tension in relationships.  Whether that tension is produced by the dynamics of authority and submission (as was the case for slaves and masters in today's text or whether it comes from other causes, the heart attitudes that enable us to live as a People of Peace remain the same.

Peter challenges us first to trust God, which enables us to stop striving for control ourselves and experience the peace that comes from relying on His sovereignty & goodness.
Secondly we are challenged to "live for righteousness".  What does that look like?  Jesus summed it up with the command to love God with everything we are and to love others as ourselves (Matt. 22:37-38).


In this message we ask the Holy Spirit to diagnose the condition of our hearts to see whether we are trusting God completely in our circumstances in order to be free to love God and love others as God would have us do.  In keeping with Hebrews 4:12-13, we explore the importance of allowing God to deal with the attitudes of our hearts that get in the way of trust and love.  As we do this, we can become a people of peace with God, peace within as well as peace with others.