Sermons from August 2021
Job: Fences (10:45 Traditional)
Series: JobTitle: FencesDate: 9am Worship. 29 August, 2021Preacher: Graham RosolenBible Reading: Job 1:1-12 A reflection on Fences and the Book of Job with our student minister. Grahame is taking an alternative look at the story and pondering the idea of fences … how fences can protect us from danger but also can confine us. Job uses this analogy of fences both ways – as a way of God surrounding him and his family but also of feeling trapped by them. Read more
How to care for others and be kind to yourself during lockdown
Series: August 2021Title: How to care for others and be kind to yourself during lockdownDate: 9am Worship. 29 August, 2021Preacher: Rose GlassockBible Reading: Colossians 3:12-17 Psychologist Rose Glassock shares with us about how we can care for others during this lockdown but also how we can be kind to ourselves. Rose is currently working with the department of education to provide tools and strategies to teachers and parents on coping with the lockdown and comes to us with a wealth Read more
Passion – Transcendence (Night Church)
Series: PassionTitle: Passion – TranscendenceDate: Night Church. 8th August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Revelation 1:1-12 What does it mean for us to be there for each other and for God? In the next sermon Would you like to be part of something extraordinary? Do you have a sense that there is more to experience or feel or know which is just beyond us? This Sunday we are looking at the second of the Passion trilogy on Transcendence and our Read more
Arise, Shine (10:45am Traditional)
Series: August 2021Title: Arise ShineDate: 10:45am Traditional Worship. 22 August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Isaiah 60:1-5a, 19-22 Arise, Shine, for your light has come. God spoke these words through the prophet Isaiah to people going through a tough time … giving hope and a promise of a breaking new era. As we prepare to meet together as a church to make some important decision which will shape our mission and ministry, maybe these words can also speak to us Read more
Job: Fences (9am)
Series: JobTitle: FencesDate: 9am Worship. 22August, 2021Preacher: Grahame RosolenBible Reading: Job 1:1-12 A reflection on Fences and the Book of Job with our student minister. Grahame is taking an alternative look at the story and pondering the idea of fences … how fences can protect us from danger but also can confine us. Job uses this analogy of fences both ways – as a way of God surrounding him and his family but also of feeling trapped by them. Grahame Read more
The Restoration of Job (10:45am Traditional)
Series: JobTitle: The Restoration of JobDate: 10:45am Traditional. 15 August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Job 42:1-17 In the last of our Job series we explore the end of this Old Testament book where Job experience a restoration of his blessings and wealth. How do we understand this in the context of the rest of the book? What might be a better way of understand the way that God can bring restoration to our lives and families? For the past Read more
Arise, Shine (9am)
Series: August 2021Title: Arise ShineDate: 9am Worship. 15 August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Isaiah 60:1-5a, 19-22 In the last of our Job series we explore the end of this Old Testament book where Job experience a restoration of his blessings and wealth. How do we understand this in the context of the rest of the book? What might be a better way of understand the way that God can bring restoration to our lives and families? I only wish Read more
Passion – Fidelity (Night Church)
Series: PassionTitle: Passion – FidelityDate: Night Church. 8th August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Philippians 2:1-24 What does it mean for us to be there for each other and for God? In the next sermon in our series on Passion we will be exploring the idea of fidelity – the powerful promise of God to always be there for us, and in response we are called to be there for others. But what does this look like in practice. What Read more
The Complexities of Life and Suffering (10:45am Traditional)
Series: JobTitle: The Complexities of Life and SufferingDate: 10:45am Traditional. 8 August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Job 38:1-7 In the depth of suffering, Job cries out to God and asks the question, “Why? Why am I suffering?” In the third sermon of this series, God responses to Job, highlighting the complexities of life and suffering. We will be exploring how we can understand God’s response and even apply it to our own lives. For two weeks we have been Read more
Job: The Restoration of Job
Series: JobTitle: The Restoration of JobDate: 9am Worship. 8 August, 2021Preacher: Rev Phil SwainBible Reading: Job 42:1-17 In the last of our Job series we explore the end of this Old Testament book where Job experience a restoration of his blessings and wealth. How do we understand this in the context of the rest of the book? What might be a better way of understand the way that God can bring restoration to our lives and families? For the past Read more
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