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Sermons are posted for the previous 3-4 months.
Sermon Title: Imitate Christ
Date: 27 September 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Matthew 21:23-32
Summary: In response to the amazing sacrifice that Jesus made for us, even though we don't deserve it, we are encouraged to imitate him in our lives. Peter provides 5 ways for us to do this.
Date: 27 September 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Matthew 21:23-32
Summary: In response to the amazing sacrifice that Jesus made for us, even though we don't deserve it, we are encouraged to imitate him in our lives. Peter provides 5 ways for us to do this.
Sermon Title: Keeping score
Date: 13 September 2020
Presenter: Dale Gosden
Text: Matthew 18:21-35
Summary: Do you keep a mental balance sheet of obligations owed to you, favours you owe to others, wrongdoings of others to you, etc? If you give this some thought you will be surprised at how pervasive this tendency is in your life. In this sermon Dale reminds us of the amazing and outrageous grace of God in that he goes against this tendency by not keeping a score of our sins, but provides unlimited forgiveness - something that we are encouraged to practice in our lives.
Date: 13 September 2020
Presenter: Dale Gosden
Text: Matthew 18:21-35
Summary: Do you keep a mental balance sheet of obligations owed to you, favours you owe to others, wrongdoings of others to you, etc? If you give this some thought you will be surprised at how pervasive this tendency is in your life. In this sermon Dale reminds us of the amazing and outrageous grace of God in that he goes against this tendency by not keeping a score of our sins, but provides unlimited forgiveness - something that we are encouraged to practice in our lives.
Sermon Title: Dealing with conflict
Date: 6 September 2020
Presenter: Dennis Clark
Text: Matthew 18:15-20
Summary: Conflict in our lives is inevitable. It cannot and should not be avoided. But how to deal with it? Dennis provides some great insights into this issue from his own experience and draws valuable guidance from the Bible text - tips that can be practically applied in our lives.
Date: 6 September 2020
Presenter: Dennis Clark
Text: Matthew 18:15-20
Summary: Conflict in our lives is inevitable. It cannot and should not be avoided. But how to deal with it? Dennis provides some great insights into this issue from his own experience and draws valuable guidance from the Bible text - tips that can be practically applied in our lives.
Sermon Title: Can you bear the cross?
Date: 30 August 2020
Presenter: Dean Zweck
Text: Matthew 16:21-28
Summary: We may have heard the expression - "you need to bear your cross", but what does this mean? It originates in the words of Jesus when he was preparing his disciples for the harsh reality of his coming crucifixion. Dean provides us with some wonderful insights into what this expression means in our everyday life.
Date: 30 August 2020
Presenter: Dean Zweck
Text: Matthew 16:21-28
Summary: We may have heard the expression - "you need to bear your cross", but what does this mean? It originates in the words of Jesus when he was preparing his disciples for the harsh reality of his coming crucifixion. Dean provides us with some wonderful insights into what this expression means in our everyday life.
Sermon Title: The example of Peter
Date: 23 August 2020
Presenter: Tania Nelson
Text: Matthew 16:13-20
Summary: In so many ways, Peter was an unlikely choice of a disciple for Jesus. He was impulsive, spoke before he thought, promised what he did not deliver. But Jesus said to him that on his ministry he would build his church, a church that would last through all time. If we are honest, we are much like Peter - vulnerable, unreliable and fallible. Yet we too have been chosen by Jesus to represent him in the world.
Date: 23 August 2020
Presenter: Tania Nelson
Text: Matthew 16:13-20
Summary: In so many ways, Peter was an unlikely choice of a disciple for Jesus. He was impulsive, spoke before he thought, promised what he did not deliver. But Jesus said to him that on his ministry he would build his church, a church that would last through all time. If we are honest, we are much like Peter - vulnerable, unreliable and fallible. Yet we too have been chosen by Jesus to represent him in the world.
Sermon Title: Passionate Faith
Date: 16 August 2020
Presenter: Wayne Kerber
Text: Matthew 15:21-28
Summary: Faith lets us see the actions of Jesus as Loving no matter their initial outwards appearance. Faith strengthens you to cope with whatever comes your way. God promises his mercy to all those who have faith in him through his son Christ Jesus. So have faith that is eager, Passionate, And humble to glorify God in all you say and do.
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Date: 16 August 2020
Presenter: Wayne Kerber
Text: Matthew 15:21-28
Summary: Faith lets us see the actions of Jesus as Loving no matter their initial outwards appearance. Faith strengthens you to cope with whatever comes your way. God promises his mercy to all those who have faith in him through his son Christ Jesus. So have faith that is eager, Passionate, And humble to glorify God in all you say and do.
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Sermon Title: Power to walk in the storm
Date: 9 August 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: Matthew 14:28-29
Summary: Most of us know that there are times when life delivers the 'perfect storm'. Listen to how God can be there for you during the storms in your life.
Date: 9 August 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: Matthew 14:28-29
Summary: Most of us know that there are times when life delivers the 'perfect storm'. Listen to how God can be there for you during the storms in your life.
Sermon Title: All you can eat - the bread of life
Date: 2 August 2020
Presenter: Richard Fox
Text: Matthew 14:13-21
Summary: This sermon, based on the account of how Jesus arranged for feeding over 5000 people with 2 loaves of bread and 5 fish, explains how this is a metaphor for how God will provide for our needs, no matter how great.
Date: 2 August 2020
Presenter: Richard Fox
Text: Matthew 14:13-21
Summary: This sermon, based on the account of how Jesus arranged for feeding over 5000 people with 2 loaves of bread and 5 fish, explains how this is a metaphor for how God will provide for our needs, no matter how great.
Sermon Title: Lessons in prayer
Date: 26 July 2020
Presenter: Tania Nelson
Text: Romans 8:26
Summary: Do you experience times when you find it hard to pray, when you feel that your prayers are not answered, when you call out in despair and wonder if God is listening? This sermon provides the reassurance that God does hear our prayers and that Jesus intercedes for us on our behalf so that there is never anything that can stand between God and us.
Date: 26 July 2020
Presenter: Tania Nelson
Text: Romans 8:26
Summary: Do you experience times when you find it hard to pray, when you feel that your prayers are not answered, when you call out in despair and wonder if God is listening? This sermon provides the reassurance that God does hear our prayers and that Jesus intercedes for us on our behalf so that there is never anything that can stand between God and us.
Sermon Title: Hope in the midst of suffering
Date: 19 July 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Romans 8:12-25
Summary: Suffering is experienced by most of us at some point in our lives. How do you explain extreme suffering? What causes suffering? Why do we have to suffer? In this sermon, Pastor Peter provides some insights into these matters.
(Our apologies for the poor quality of this recording. Due to excessive 'noise' the middle part of the recording has been deleted. However we hope that you will nevertheless gain value from what is available)
Date: 19 July 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Romans 8:12-25
Summary: Suffering is experienced by most of us at some point in our lives. How do you explain extreme suffering? What causes suffering? Why do we have to suffer? In this sermon, Pastor Peter provides some insights into these matters.
(Our apologies for the poor quality of this recording. Due to excessive 'noise' the middle part of the recording has been deleted. However we hope that you will nevertheless gain value from what is available)
Sermon Title: "If only I had known"
Date: 12 July 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: Romans 8:1-11
Summary: How often do we act with ignorance and insensitivity, only to discover later some new information that prompts us to think "if only I had known". As Christians, we have every reason to know exactly who God is and how he can be king in our lives. Therefore let us live with this attitude so that it influences all that we do in our relationships with others.
Date: 12 July 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: Romans 8:1-11
Summary: How often do we act with ignorance and insensitivity, only to discover later some new information that prompts us to think "if only I had known". As Christians, we have every reason to know exactly who God is and how he can be king in our lives. Therefore let us live with this attitude so that it influences all that we do in our relationships with others.
Sermon Title: Our burdens carried
Date: 5 July 2020
Presenter: Richard Fox
Text: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Summary: If you are feeling burdened and under stress during these unusual, uncertain and difficult times, bring your burdens to God for him to carry and you will experience peace that passes all understanding.
Date: 5 July 2020
Presenter: Richard Fox
Text: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Summary: If you are feeling burdened and under stress during these unusual, uncertain and difficult times, bring your burdens to God for him to carry and you will experience peace that passes all understanding.
Sermon Title: Christian welcome in a time of social distancing
Date: 28 June 2020
Presenter: Bishop David Altus
Text: Romans 6
Summary: During the past 3 months the usual practices we employ to demonstrate welcome have changed dramatically due to Covid 19. However Bishop David shows us that as Christians, although welcoming may now take different forms, it is no less present and that in fact, the profound, unconditional and endless welcome of God is always with us.
Date: 28 June 2020
Presenter: Bishop David Altus
Text: Romans 6
Summary: During the past 3 months the usual practices we employ to demonstrate welcome have changed dramatically due to Covid 19. However Bishop David shows us that as Christians, although welcoming may now take different forms, it is no less present and that in fact, the profound, unconditional and endless welcome of God is always with us.
Sermon Title: God's crimson line through history
Date: 22 March 2020
Presenter: Mike Semmler
Text: 1 Samuel 16: 1-13 & John 9:1-41
Summary: In this sermon Pastor Mike shows us that when it comes to God, things are not always as expected. God often uses imperfect people to advance his plan through history for putting right the relationship between he and humans. This is illustrated in a powerful way in the account of how God had Samuel annoint David (an unlikely choice) as the future king of Israel and ultimately the link to Jesus. From this story there is much we can learn about how God may use us to further his influence on earth.
Date: 22 March 2020
Presenter: Mike Semmler
Text: 1 Samuel 16: 1-13 & John 9:1-41
Summary: In this sermon Pastor Mike shows us that when it comes to God, things are not always as expected. God often uses imperfect people to advance his plan through history for putting right the relationship between he and humans. This is illustrated in a powerful way in the account of how God had Samuel annoint David (an unlikely choice) as the future king of Israel and ultimately the link to Jesus. From this story there is much we can learn about how God may use us to further his influence on earth.
Sermon Title: Living water
Date: 15 March 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: John 4:5-42
Summary: This sermon is based on an account of Jesus' encounter with someone who was in his time considered 'unacceptable' - a Samaritan woman, considered unclean and to be avoided and discriminated against by any respectable Jew. However he brought to her a message about living water that would transform her life. Who are the 'Samaritan women' in our lives and how can we share this same living water with them?
Date: 15 March 2020
Presenter: Danny Perkins
Text: John 4:5-42
Summary: This sermon is based on an account of Jesus' encounter with someone who was in his time considered 'unacceptable' - a Samaritan woman, considered unclean and to be avoided and discriminated against by any respectable Jew. However he brought to her a message about living water that would transform her life. Who are the 'Samaritan women' in our lives and how can we share this same living water with them?
Sermon Title: Faith and truth
Date: 8 March 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Romans 4:1-5
Summary: In this sermon Pastor Peter talks about what constitutes truth for a Christian and also reminds us about the central importance of truth and faith with regard to our eternal future.
Date: 8 March 2020
Presenter: Peter Kriewaldt
Text: Romans 4:1-5
Summary: In this sermon Pastor Peter talks about what constitutes truth for a Christian and also reminds us about the central importance of truth and faith with regard to our eternal future.
Sermon Title: What is truth?
Date: 1 March 2020
Presenter: Merryn Ruwoldt
Chat Text: Matthew 4:1-11
Summary: This presentation took the form of an interactive chat with students from the St Paul Lutheran primary school at a service where children in the reception class were presented with their own Bibles, purchased by members of the St Paul church. The chat with the children focused on the Bible as the source of truth about God, how he loves us and what he has done for us, and how truth can be distorted to mean something quite different, as illustrated in the account of how Satan attempted to deceive Jesus and get him to follow him.
Date: 1 March 2020
Presenter: Merryn Ruwoldt
Chat Text: Matthew 4:1-11
Summary: This presentation took the form of an interactive chat with students from the St Paul Lutheran primary school at a service where children in the reception class were presented with their own Bibles, purchased by members of the St Paul church. The chat with the children focused on the Bible as the source of truth about God, how he loves us and what he has done for us, and how truth can be distorted to mean something quite different, as illustrated in the account of how Satan attempted to deceive Jesus and get him to follow him.
Sermon Title: Transformed
Date: 22 February 2020
Preacher: Peter Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: Matthew 17:1-9
Summary: This sermon is about an event in Jesus' ministry which showed his incredible glory, transforming his appearance in a way that his disciples would never forget. Known as the 'transfiguration' it has some important messages for us today in showing us how different we are to God and yet how, in his power he sent Jesus to bridge this gap and thereby to provide us with a future that will transform us forever.
Date: 22 February 2020
Preacher: Peter Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: Matthew 17:1-9
Summary: This sermon is about an event in Jesus' ministry which showed his incredible glory, transforming his appearance in a way that his disciples would never forget. Known as the 'transfiguration' it has some important messages for us today in showing us how different we are to God and yet how, in his power he sent Jesus to bridge this gap and thereby to provide us with a future that will transform us forever.
Sermon Title: You shall not kill!
Date: 16 February 2020
Preacher: Danny Perkins
Sermon Text: Matthew 5:21-22
Summary: Something that many of us lose sight of is the radical nature of Jesus' teachings. Today we would call him a 'disrupter'. When it came to an understanding of the 6th commandment - Thou shalt not kill, Jesus provided a radical and confronting and for most people a damning interpretation, an interpretation that would find all of us guilty. In doing so Jesus deals with the underlying motivation and sin that drives so much of our behaviour and for which we need the love and forgiveness that he offers.
Date: 16 February 2020
Preacher: Danny Perkins
Sermon Text: Matthew 5:21-22
Summary: Something that many of us lose sight of is the radical nature of Jesus' teachings. Today we would call him a 'disrupter'. When it came to an understanding of the 6th commandment - Thou shalt not kill, Jesus provided a radical and confronting and for most people a damning interpretation, an interpretation that would find all of us guilty. In doing so Jesus deals with the underlying motivation and sin that drives so much of our behaviour and for which we need the love and forgiveness that he offers.
Sermon Title: Life forever
Date: 9 February 2020
Preacher: Peter Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:1-21
Summary: One of the few things that you can count on in this life is that you will die. This sermon shows the certain hope that all Christians have that this is not the end, but just a punctuation point in eternity with God. What do you think?
Date: 9 February 2020
Preacher: Peter Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:1-21
Summary: One of the few things that you can count on in this life is that you will die. This sermon shows the certain hope that all Christians have that this is not the end, but just a punctuation point in eternity with God. What do you think?
Sermon Title: The getting of wisdom
Date: 2 February 2020
Preacher: Andrew Pfieffer
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Summary: Today, just as in Jesus' day, there was much emphasis put on the spectacular (signs) and academic learning (conventionally thought of as wisdom) as being most important in life. In this sermon we hear that wisdom is certainly important, but that the knowledge of God is the beginning of that wisdom.
Date: 2 February 2020
Preacher: Andrew Pfieffer
Sermon Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
Summary: Today, just as in Jesus' day, there was much emphasis put on the spectacular (signs) and academic learning (conventionally thought of as wisdom) as being most important in life. In this sermon we hear that wisdom is certainly important, but that the knowledge of God is the beginning of that wisdom.
Sermon Title: Christ is our Light
Date: 26 January 2020
Preacher: Neville Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: Isaiah 9:1-4
Summary: The prophet Isaiah had prophesied the Light would come to the Gentiles living in darkness. Jesus Christ fulfilled that prophesy and shines into the darkness of our hearts and minds.
Date: 26 January 2020
Preacher: Neville Kriewaldt
Sermon Text: Isaiah 9:1-4
Summary: The prophet Isaiah had prophesied the Light would come to the Gentiles living in darkness. Jesus Christ fulfilled that prophesy and shines into the darkness of our hearts and minds.
Sermon Title: What are you seeking?
Date: 19 January 2020
Preacher: Chris Johnson
Sermon Text: John 1:29-42
Summary: The question - "What are you seeking?", is one of those fundamental questions in life. In the context of this text in John it was asked by Jesus of 2 men who later were to become his disciples. For them and also for us the answer to that question is Jesus, who gives ultimate meaning to our lives.
Date: 19 January 2020
Preacher: Chris Johnson
Sermon Text: John 1:29-42
Summary: The question - "What are you seeking?", is one of those fundamental questions in life. In the context of this text in John it was asked by Jesus of 2 men who later were to become his disciples. For them and also for us the answer to that question is Jesus, who gives ultimate meaning to our lives.
Sermon Title: With us through baptism
Date: 12 January 2020
Preacher: Richard Fox
Sermon Text: Matthew 3:13-17
Summary: In this sermon, Richard addresses the difficult issue of how one can/should respond to the recent horrific and widespread bushfires that have occurred in south eastern Australia. In doing so he draws on the account in Matthew of Jesus' baptism to emphasise the fact that Jesus entered our world to experience and share the events that form part of our lives, both good and bad, and in doing so reassures us that he understands our pain and is with us no matter what happens.
The video clip and photos below are referred to in this sermon
Date: 12 January 2020
Preacher: Richard Fox
Sermon Text: Matthew 3:13-17
Summary: In this sermon, Richard addresses the difficult issue of how one can/should respond to the recent horrific and widespread bushfires that have occurred in south eastern Australia. In doing so he draws on the account in Matthew of Jesus' baptism to emphasise the fact that Jesus entered our world to experience and share the events that form part of our lives, both good and bad, and in doing so reassures us that he understands our pain and is with us no matter what happens.
The video clip and photos below are referred to in this sermon
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