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Prayer 02 - Talking with God

Prayer 02 - Talking with God

In Prayer part 2 Stephanie Wilson helps us begin to learn how to talk with God using our own words to God — to share what’s on our mind, our heart. Our pain, our joy, our hopes and fears. We can’t help but desire to interact with God in a more authentic, personalised way.

Prayer 01 - Talking to God

Prayer 01 - Talking to God

In Prayer part 1 David Armstrong explores the first stage of prayer: talking to God. One of the single most important tasks of discipleship to Jesus is starting, habituating, and fine-tuning a daily prayer rhythm. So we start our four-week journey simply, by praying pre-made prayers, or what some call a liturgy, to God.

Advent 03

Advent 03

David Armstrong finishes our Advent series looking at this season as a divine invitation and divine interruption.

Advent 02

Advent 02

Scott Witherick continues our Advent series with a reflection on the nativity story in Matthew 2:1-12 and the journey of the Magi from the East.

Advent 01

Advent 01

Glen Mitchell begins our Advent series

Sabbath 04 - Worship

Sabbath 04 - Worship

In Sabbath Part 4 we look at how sabbath isn’t just a day to sleep in, relax, and do whatever brings you joy (it is, but it’s more): it’s a day to worship. As we reorient our entire life back to its centre in God we elevate the Sabbath from a restful, joyful day off to a holy day of worship and delight in God himself.

Sabbath 03 - Delight

Sabbath 03 - Delight

In Sabbath part 3 John Herron looks at the third movement of Sabbath– delight. Sorrow is inevitable in this life, but joy is not. In the Way of Jesus, joy is a gift, but it’s one that must be chosen and cultivated, day after day, as an act of apprenticeship to our joyful God.

Sabbath 02 - Rest

Sabbath 02 - Rest

In Sabbath part 2 Stephanie Wilson explores the second movement of Sabbath–to rest. The idea of rest sounds wonderful, but in reality, rest is a radical, countercultural act of resistance to the powers and principalities of a world at war with God and his kingdom of peace.

Sabbath 01 - Stop

Sabbath 01 - Stop

David Armstrong begins our series Practicing the Way with our first practice, Sabbath —  a day of rest by which we cultivate a spirit of restfulness in all of our life. In part 1 we examine how sabbath is, at its most basic, a call to stop, to cease, to be done.

Faith & Peacemaking (with Jonny Clark)

Faith & Peacemaking (with Jonny Clark)

A morning with our friend Jonny Clark exploring the relationship between faith and peacemaking and his own journey into the work of mediation, public theology and peace-building.

WKOC5: A Kingdom-Oriented Church

WKOC5: A Kingdom-Oriented Church

David Armstrong teaches on what it means to be a church community shaped and oriented firstly by the values of the Kingdom of God.

WKOC2: An Ancient/Future Church

WKOC2: An Ancient/Future Church

As followers of Jesus we invited to locate ourselves in a bigger story, the story of God. This is a story with ancient roots that is still unfolding, and we are invited to embody and live out.

WKOC1: A Jesus-Centred Church

WKOC1: A Jesus-Centred Church

As we begin another church season David Armstrong begins a series that explores some of the values that give shape to our community.

Guest: Jason Miller - When the World Breaks

Guest: Jason Miller - When the World Breaks

Jason Miller speaks from the Gospel of Matthew and the strange blessings of Jesus  — often called the Beatitudes — that name our experiences of suffering and open up the possibility for hope hidden in the paradoxes.