Luke (Who is Jesus)
Palm Sunday 2025
Experiencing Holy WeekUsing all our senses to Experience Palm Sunday and Holy Week Led by Daniel Gibb and Phil Swain Our Palm Sunday Worship will be a series of experiences led by Phil and Daniel where we will use our senses to hear, see, taste, smell and feel the events of Palm Sunday and Holy Week. This all-aged service will also includes singing, worship, prayers and reflections as we prepare to step into his most special of weeks. Sermon Text
A Transformed Heart part 2
Lent #4 – a Transformed Heart Part 2How can understanding the Word of God transform our hearts?Preacher: Daniel Gibb Reading: Luke 16:19-31 As we continue our Lenten journey of transformation, we are confronted with a difficult passage that invites us to continue reflecting on how our hearts might be transformed in the lead up to Easter. This Sunday, Daniel will be looking at the parable that Jesus told about The Rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31). While this is a Read more
A Transformed Heart
Lent Week #3 – a Transformed HeartTransformation stories about lost, found and communityPreacher: Phil Swain Readings: Luke 15:1-32 Transformation is more than just thinking different … it can also be about a change of heart. This Sunday as we continue our Lenten journey within our “transformation” theme we are looking at three well-known and well-loved parables … the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. These stories will stir our emotions as we rejoice as the lost is found and Read more
A Transformed Perspective
Lent Week #2 – a Transformed perspective How Easter can challenge our views about God and Life Preacher: Phil Swain Readings: Luke 13:1-9 We continue our Lenten journey within our “transformation” theme and how Easter has the power to transform our minds or our thinking … and even perspectives on faith and God and life. This week our narrative reading from Luke 13 is a challenging story where Jesus is being asked to give his take on some tragic current Read more
A Transformed Mind
Lent Week #1 – a Transformed Mind / How Easter can transform our perspective and thinkingPreacher: Phil Swain Luke 10:25-42 We start our six-week Lenten journey towards the cross and resurrection of Easter. This year at TUC, our theme for Lent is “transformation”. Easter is transformative … Easter should transform you. We are going to use Lent to ponder what it means for God to transform our minds or our thinking; how the cross can transform our hearts (or the Read more
Vision Sunday 2025
Preacher: Phil Swain Luke 13:6-9 & 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Vision Sunday 2025 is an important day in our church year as we cast a Vision of where God is leading us as a church for the next 12 months. This year will be a critical year as we continue on our journey in discerning what it might look like to be a 2030 church? Our ministry team will be sharing some of the preparation that our church has been doing Read more
Trusting Jesus in Life’s Transitions
Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: Luke 7:1-17 Life is full of transitions – getting older, moving house, changing jobs, having kids … as well as all the changes that society goes through. Transitions bring changes and challenges the status quo, which is probably why many people get anxious when transitions occur. Jesus lived in a time of transition. In the early chapters of Luke we have seen that during the beginning of Jesus ministry, he constantly pushed the boundaries and challenged Read more
Jesus is Lord
Jesus is Lord (includes Mehdi and Jinous’ Statement of Faith)Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: Luke 4:14-30 A special celebration where we as a community, and Jinous and Mehdi in particular, declare that Jesus is Lord! During this service we celebrated the baptisms of Mehdi and Jinous and witnessed their public declaration of faith. This recording includes their statements as well as Phil exploring Luke chapter 6 where Jesus invites us to consider what it mean to acknowledge him as Lord and Read more
The Good News of Jesus
The Good News of Jesus Jesus sermon at Nazareth Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: Luke 4:14-30 We continue our journey through the Gospel of Luke, delving into Luke chapter 4. In this reading Jesus returns to his home synagogue at Nazareth to reveal more about who he is and what his mission is. However his words are met with both amazement and anger. What did Jesus say and reveal that caused such a strong reaction and what can we learn about Read more
John the Baptist
Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: Luke 3:1-22 January might be a slower month in the life of the church but our learning journey through the Gospel of Luke continues. This Sunday in our combined 10am worship gathering we will be zooming in on the character of John the Baptist and what Luke chapter 3 can reveal to us in our question of “who is Jesus”? John was preaching a baptism of repentance … but was it just a simple confession of Read more