Sermons on Personal Relationship with Jesus
Becoming like Jesus – Choir Sunday
Series: Paul’s Letter to the Philippians Choir Sunday #2 – Becoming like Jesus Readings: Philippians 2:1-13 Preacher: Kevin Kim This Sunday we continue our series on Philippians with a reflection on Philippians 2:1–13, Becoming Like Jesus. In a world that constantly encourages self-promotion, competition, and individual success, Paul points us toward the self-emptying love of Christ — the way of humility, grace, and community. On this special Choir Sunday, we will also celebrate the gift of music and singing together. Read more
Love Stronger than Death (Lent #1)
Lent #1 – Love stronger than deathSeries: Lent Love WinsPreacher: Phil Swain Reading: John 11:1-45 We begin our Lent journey together and our theme for this year is “Love Wins” or Easter through the lens of Love. We will be using John’s Gospel as our key source and in John’s writing we find that love underpins everything – not a simple or sentimental love but rather John present this love as strong, costly, present and deeply relational. John goes so Read more
Vision Sunday 2026
Vision Sunday 2026 – from words to lived experience Preacher: Phil Swain Reading: John 4:43-54 Get excited! It’s Vision Sunday at Turramurra Uniting Church. It’s a chance for us to as a church community look back at what God has been doing in and through our church, and look ahead with hope. Over the past year, many people from across our church have been part of a significant mission planning journey — listening to God, listening to one another, and Read more
Jesus the Disrupter
Summer Series – Jesus the Disrupter Preacher: Phil Swain Readings: John 2:13-25 This Sunday we continue our Summer Series journeying through the Gospel of John. We will turn to one of its most confronting and thought-provoking moments — Jesus cleansing the Temple (John 2:13–25). Placed right at the beginning of John’s gospel, this story invites us to see Jesus not only as a source of comfort and hope, but also as one who challenges the status quo and calls us Read more
Grow #2 – Finding Sacred Space
Grow #2: Finding Sacred Space / Connecting with God through PrayerPreacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Luke 11:1-19 This Sunday sees the return of the second edition our ongoing “Grow” series. In each of the months from May to September we have put aside one Sunday to focus on our church’s vision to grow in our spirituality and in our ministry and mission as a church. In the first of this series we considered how we were growing and reflected on Read more
Grow #1 – How are you growing?
Grow #1: How are you growing?Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Psalm 42:1-11 We are having a short break from the Narrative Lectionary and using this time to explore some topics and readings that are particularly relevant to TUC. This Sunday we are revisiting our 2024 Church Vision and pondering the question, “How are you Growing?” Do you feel that your spirituality is feeling a little flat? Are you experiencing the growth that we hoped for on Vision Sunday back in Read more
Easter Sunday – The Unfinished Story…
Easter Sunday: The Unfinished StoryPreacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Mark 16:1-8 Celebrate the resurrection of Jesus with Phil sharing the way that Mark records the resurrection narrative and how we have the opportunity to write the next part of the resurrection story! I want to spend a little time while the kids are outside making the Easter Egg bags to explore one aspect of the Easter story that our reading from the Gospel of Mark highlights… Did anyone else feel Read more
Good Friday – Choices
Choices: Reflecting on the CrossWorship Leaders: Rev Phil Swain & Liesl Homes Our Good Friday worship is a creative and reflective time which will focus on the cross of Jesus. The service will include bible readings, visuals, interactive opportunities and reflections on the choices that were made during the Good Friday narrative and how we have been given the opportunity to accept God’s forgiveness, grace and life that we can find through the cross.
The Day of the Lord
Preacher: Rev Phil Swain Bible Reading: 2 Peter 3:1-10, 17-18 In our last sermon in our 2 Peter series, Phil is exploring the tricky topic of the second coming of Jesus. When Peter wrote this letter it was about 30 years after Jesus ascended into Heaven and people were starting to wonder … “what happened to Jesus promise to return … is Jesus really coming back again?” Now nearly 2000 years … how do we understand the whole issue of Read more
Temptation in the Desert – Combined Worship
Reading: Matthew 4:1-26Preacher: Rev Phil Swain. We are continuing to follow the Gospel of Matthew using the Narrative lectionary. Phil will be tying together how this experience of Jesus confronting the adversary in the desert with the bigger picture that Matthew is trying to paint in his first discourse of this gospel – exploring what it means to follow Jesus and to live as a child of the kingdom. Links that are referred to in the service: Sermon Text Now Read more