2024
Christmas Day Worship LIVE – Making Sense of Christmas
Making sense of Christmas Bible Reading: Luke 2:8-20 Preacher: Phil Swain The 9am Christmas Day worship is where we celebrate the birth of Jesus in a way which is full of life and love. We will be singing Christmas carols with our Christmas band, “show and tell” (a chance for people to show off their Christmas presents), a creative talk for the kids, some special Christmas prayers, and our minister Phil will help us make sense of what the true Read more
Christmas Eve Worship 2024 – A Christmas Shrektacular
A Christmas Shrektacular – Featuring a musical by the Countdown to Christmas kids and leaders and the TUC Young Adults. The main feature of our Christmas Eve worship will be a creative and humorous play called “The Spirit of Christmas” performed by many of our kids and young people who have attended the “Countdown to Christmas” program assisted by our young adults. In a town far far away, two unlikely friends are sent on a quest to find a king, Read more
Jesus the King: Finding Glimpses of God in the Book of Jeremiah
Jesus the King (Seeing Glimpses of God in the book of Jeremiah)Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34 This sermon was preached on the last Sunday of the church calendar before starting Advent – the day we acknowledge as “Christ the King” Sunday. Our reading comes the Old Testament book of Jeremiah and is not about Christ the King but rather a less than perfect King of Israel – Jehoiakim. When Jeremiah brought God’s message of concern and Read more
Elijah and Elisha: Hope in an Uncertain Future
Jonah: A Lesson in going beyondPreacher: Phil Swain Reading: Jonah 1:1-17, 3:1-10 This Sunday is our third of our “Tapestry of Thanksgiving” series where we bring together various threads of Biblical Text; our stories; and how God is moving through our church … to see the picture that God is revealing. Our Old Testament thread this week is the story of Jonah … the prophet who really struggled to move beyond and share God’s message of repentance and compassion with Read more
Elijah and Elisha: Hope in an Uncertain Future
Elijah and Elisha: Hope in an Uncertain FuturePreacher: Phil Swain Reading: 1 Kings 17:1-16 We are continuing to explore and bring together various threads of Biblical Text and the threads of our stories to see the picture that God is revealing. One of the threads this week is the Old Testament narrative of Elijah and Elisha – two of the major prophets who spoke for God in some difficult times. Both Elijah and Elisha had moments when they struggled to Read more
God’s Unconditional Promises to David
God’s Unconditional Promises to DavidPreacher: Phil Swain Reading: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 Over the past 6 weeks we are been exploring the Promises of God mainly through the lens of some Old Testament stories. This is our last week in this Sermon Series and Phil is back from holidays to share about God’s unconditional promises to David. We have been exploring God as a promise-keeper – someone who keeps their word and can be trusted. God is a good and loving Read more
Grow #4 – Reflection & Study
Grow #4 – Reflection & Study Connecting with God through Reflection & Study Preacher: Rev Kevin Kim Readings: Col 1:9-14; 2 Peter 1:1-8 This Sunday is the final edition in our Grow series. Over the last three Grow sermons we have explored some of the ancient spiritual practices and how they might be transformative in our modern context. This Sunday we will be looking at the importance of ‘Reflection & Study’ and how they can help us to connect deeply Read more
Caring for Ourselves
Caring for Ourselves (finding rest for our souls)Preacher: Rev Phil SwainReadings: Mark 6:30-34 & Matthew 11:28-30 We believe in a caring, compassionate God who calls us to show care and compassion to each other and all of creation … but we sometimes struggle when it comes to caring for ourselves. It seems that in this modern lives, our work, family and relationships demand a lot from us and we want to be people who give and make a difference, but Read more
Caring for Each Other
Caring for Each OtherPreacher: Rev Phil Swain Reading: 2 Cor 1:1-11 We believe in a God who cares for us, cares for communities and cares for all of creation – and we are called as followers of Jesus to share with those around us the same care and compassion that we have been shown by God. But what does that mean in a world where “the love of most is growing cold”. In this video, our pastor Phil will not Read more
Caring for Creation
Caring for Creation Preacher: Dr Ian Acworth & Rev Kevin Kim / Readings: 2 Cor 5:17-21 During the month of August, we will be thinking of how we support one another as a community and develop our fellowship. For the first three weeks of August, we are looking at three different areas of caring – Caring for Creation, Caring for Each Other and Caring for Ourselves. On Sunday, we will explore how practically we as Christians could do something to Read more