God exposes the guilt we would rather bury 

God give mercy to sinners who expect judgement 

God brings forward a substitute to save the guilty.

2. The Pressure of Work

3. The Possibility of Work

2. God Reveals that He Alone Holds the Knowledge of What's Coming

3. God Exalts His Faithful Servant

2) Pain and suffering

3) God is with us

1. What does it mean to live is Christ?

I. What is meant for Paul

  A. Present (To live is Christ)

  B. Past (Before Christ)

  C. Future (Reality of death)

Ii. What it means for us 

2. Having joy in the faith

 1. Our Biggest Problem

•  A Wandering Heart
•  The Justice of God

 2. Our Only Hope

•  The Test of Authority
•  The Love of God

 3. Our New Calling

•  Accept Forgiveness
•  Wage War On Sin

1. Stop trusting your own system
2. Stop trying to be self sufficient
3. Hold on to surrender

The Expected King

The Unexpected Kingdom

Inside Out Glory

Matthew 13:1-29

Soil #1 The Path

Soil #2 The Rocks

Soil #3 The Thorns

Soil #4 The Good Soil

1. Not outward performance
2. Not spiritual achievements
3. Not visible results
4. Not self generated strength

II. The Essential Nature of Focusing on Jesus (vs. 24-33)

III. The Essential Nature of Being a Faithful Christian (vs. 34-36)

The Problem is Doctrinal

The Problem is Ethical

The Problem is Internal

The Solution

1. To Get the Spirit to Know God Better

2. To Know Our Future Hope in our Hearts

3. To Know Resrrection Hope of the Church

    i. God will not Abandon His Body

    ii. What You Do in the Body Matters

Christ Is The Golden Standard

Wanting To Be Christlike

Making Our Way There

• Rooted in Mercy
• Real Weakness
• Reliance on a Saving God
• Resurrection Hope

• Following Jesus with Rejection
• Following Jesus with Commitment
• Following Jesus with Urgency
• Following Jesus with Joy

1. Why the new self?
2. What does the new self look like?
3. What will be your new self resolutions for 2026?

1. But it's not Fair.1

2. But it's not Fair.2

3. How then Should we Live?

Real Faith

1. Do you believe in Jesus?
2. Is it possible to have Saving Faith without Deeds?
3. What does Real Faith look like?
4. Real Faith, Our Faith?

1. God Living in Us

2. The Spirit brings Glory to Jesus

3. The Spirit gives Gift and Power to Serve

i. The Body of Christ

ii. The Temple of the Holy Spirit

2. Local Church and Universal Church

3. What is the Church For?

2. Truthful and Trustworthy

3. Wise for Salvation

i. From Creation to New Creation

ii. God Dwelling with Human Beings

iii. Made in the Image of God

iv. The Image is Broken

2. Saved From...

i. Slavery

ii. God's Wrath

3. Saved By...

4. Saved For...

1. Oneness of Creation

2. The Fabric of Oneness is Torn

3. Separation and Isolation

4. Oneness with Adam

5. Oneness with the Second Adam

1. Order

2. Variety and Beauty

3. Human Stewardship

2. Reconciling the World to the King

3. Reconciling the Alienated

4. The Fullness of the Kingdom

1. The King's Glorious People

2. Killing the Dead You

3. Clothed as God's Handpicked Royalty

4. The Royal Song of Shalom

1. Pure Religion: Protecting the Vulnerable

2. Greed that Chokes Compassion

2. Fellowship with Christ

3. Freedom through Christ

1. Fullness in Christ
2. Fellowship with Christ
3. Freedom through Christ

1. Paul's Passion

2. The Mystery Unveiled

3. The Mission

4. Knowing Christ through Love

1. The Creator King

2. The Peace-Making King 

3. Our Reconciling King

Colossians 1:1-12

1. Impossible Words

2. The Fruit of the Gospel - Grace

3. The Knoweldge and Power of God

1. We Believe

2. One God

3. One Lord

i. Begotten not Made

ii. Our Creator

iii. Became Human

iv. Crucified under Pontius Pilate

2. It Will Happen Quickly

3. It Changes Our Life Now

2. Babylon the Fallen Star

3. From Oppression to Sabbath Rest

i. A King with God's Spirit

ii. A King Ruling with Justice

2. A Return to Eden

3. Restoration for Israel

4. The Joy of being Known by God

1. Woe the the Lord's Axeman

2. The Axe trying to Usurp the Axeman

3. A Trusting Remnant

• The law, the prophets, the psalms - the scriptures.
• Repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name
• According to God’s plan

Where do you stand in the fulfilment of God’s plan?

Sent with Power (Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4-8a)

• Baptised with the Holy Spirit
• Witnesses of the Messiah

Are God’s gifts enhancing your witness or your worldliness?

Sent to the Ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8)

• In Jerusalem
• In Judea & Samaria
• To the ends of the earth

Who are the people around you that do not know the Jesus of the Bible?

• Doubts, fears, and every excuse in-between
• His hands and his side
• Wholeness, wellness

Do you come in peace?

Sent by the Father with the Holy Spirit (20:21-22)

• Divine task
• Willingly, joyfully, wholeheartedly
• Not easy but essential and eternal

What did you expect?

Sent to bring forgiveness (20:23)

• Count the cost
• Forgiving hurts
• Jesus’ commandments are to foster forgiveness not to find faults

How much forgiveness have you brought into the world?

• The Eleven
• Judas is not counted
• Doubt does not disqualify a disciple
• Disciples are followers, learners, imitators of Jesus

Are you just pretending?

Sent as Disciple making disciples (28:19-20)

• Authority and Discipleship
• Father, Son, Holy Spirit kind of authority
• Obedience to Jesus looks different

Does Jesus have all authority in your life?

Sent as Everlasting disciples

• ‘And where did that bring you?’
• Jesus defeated death

Is Jesus always with you?

2. The Dangerous Immanuel

3. Signs of the Visually Impaired

4. God's Coming King

2. The Forgivenss of God (v6-7)

3. a) Isaiahs Response (v8)

b) Isaiahs Message (v9-13)

2. Why the Problem is so Serious

3. Israel's Solution and Our Solution

1. Good News: The Great Event

i. Jesus' Death

ii. Jesus's Resurrection

iii. Jesus Crowned as King

2. What the Gospel Does

i. The Holy Spirit Comes

ii. Establishes the Church

iii. Brings Forgiveness of Sins

iv. Guarantees our Resurrection

1. The Far View - Judah's Final Hope

2. Fullness and Human Autonomy

3. Emptiness for the Proud

4. Emptiness and Shame for Jerusalem

5. Fullness and Glory Restored

2. Empty Religion

3. True Worship

4. Judah Washed Clean

1. Waking the Dead

2. A Woman with Bleeding

3. The Power of Faith

2. Jesus Crowned as King

Happy Resurrection Sunday!

2. Restoration from Bondage

3. Fear and Faith

1. Exclusion vs Embrace
2. Legalism vs Joy
3. Sacrifice vs Mercy

2. Jesus Makes Us Clean

3. The Son of Man has Authority to Forgive Sins

2. Repent

3. Believe

i. Jesus the Messiah

ii. Jesus the Son of God

4. Follow

2. Baptised in the Holy Spirit

3. The Son with the Spirit

4. Tussle in the Wilderness

i. A Life of Worship

ii. Living by the Gospel

iii. Seeking God's Kingdom First

2. Looking Out

1. The Problem of Suffering

2. The Cost of Freedom

3. The Necessity of Pain

4. The God Who Suffers

1. The Problem with Truth Claims

2. Truth in Every Religion: All Roads lead to God

3. Not Truth in any Religion: We're on a Road to Nowhere

4. All Roads lead to the Cross

- Love

- Forgiveness

- Resurrection

2. Jonah is Happy

3. Jonah is Angry

2. ⁠God Provides a Calamity

3. A New Beginning

Note: This is Pastor Pete's last sermon with us - we will miss you!

2. God's (Lack of) Response

3. David in Crisis

4. God's Response

1. Tragedy strikes

2. Pursuing the raiders

3. Restoration

2. Saul's Response

3. David's Dodgy Decisions.

2. Abigail

3. David

1. Faithfulness

2. Betrayal

3. Justice

2. Saul runs to take a life

3. David and the Cross

2. Jonathan the Loyal

3. Jonathan the Shattered

4. The Forever Covenant

2. Saul and David

3. Jonathan and Saul

4. Saul and the Spirits

2. ⁠David Israel’s champion (v12-37)

3. ⁠Victory comes from God alone (v38-58)

2. Crowds think Paul and Barnabas are gods

3. Paul explains the gospel

4. Jews nearly stone Paul to death

5. The mission work continues

1. Seeing a New King v1

2. Jesse's Seven Sons vv2-10

3. David the Shepherd vv11-13

4. A Tale of Two Spirits vv14-23

2. Being Jesus' Family

a. Belonging

b. Burdens

a. Created by God for good

b. Definition

2. Serving God IN Our Work

3. Serving God DESPITE Our Work

a. Sin's effect

i. Evil work

ii. Frustrated work

iii. Restless work

b. The difference Jesus makes

3. Serving God THROUGH Our Work

a. Deceives

b. Chokes

c. Steals

2. The Wonderful Master

a. Faithful

b. Father

c. True Wealth

3. Want to Be Free?

a. Know his grace

b. Pursue contentment

c. Show his grace

2. God has made us to care for his creation with him

3. Creation care is necessary to love our neighbours

1. Why Should I Care?

i. What is Justice?

ii. Justice Central to the Gospel

2. The Bible and Justice

i. The Law

ii. The Prophets

iii. Jesus

iv. The NT

3. So What?

1.Why?

i.Love of our Neighbour

ii. Jesus commands it

iii. Jesus is Glorified through it

iv. The Gospel is our Heart

2.Where?

3.How?

2. Stand Firm with God's Armour 14-17

3. Pray in the Spirit 18-20.

1. The Wider Picture

2. Wives

3. Husbands

4. One Flesh

1. Walk as Jesus Walked 1-2

2. Walk away from Immorality 3-5

3. Walk as Light 6-14

4. Walk Wisely 15-17

5. Walk in the Spirit 18-21

1. Our Calling

2. What is Unity?

3. One Body - One Lord

2. Made for glory

3. Glory distorted

4. Real glory revealed

5. Go for glory!

1. Power to Trust

2. Power to Know

3. Power to be Filled

1. The Walk of Faith

2. The Eye of Faith

3. The Rule of Faith

Re-focus: The Cost of Discipleship

1. The Highest Standard

2. The Arrow to the Heart

3. The Way of the Lord

Re-focus: The Cost of Discipleship

1. It is Best to Blessed

2. The Source of Blessedness

3. The Marks of the Blessed

4. The Product of Blessedness

Re-focus: The Cost of Discipleship

2. God’s Grace For The Gentiles 7-9

3. The Multicolored Wisdom of God 10-13

1.Uncircumcised and Alienated 11-12

2.The Wall brought Crashing Down 13-15

3.Peace through the Spirit 15-18

4.A New Temple 19-22.

2. Inheriting a Family

3. God's Power

Note: Recording is the final half of the sermon due to issues with the power.

1. We...and You

2. The Seal of the Spirit

3. Our Inheritance

4. God's Glory.

Ephesians 1:1-10

1. Blessed

2. Predestined

3. Redeemed

4. God's Cosmic Plan

2. Your Kingdom Come...

3. Give us today our Daily Bread

Introduction:

• Jesus’s title of Messiah is a really big deal! Because this had massive implications for how Jesus lived his life and ministered, this has big implications for how we follow and obey Jesus. 

3 Major questions that we must wrestle with: 

1. Who is Jesus and why is this important? 
2. How should Jesus being the Messiah change your life right now?
3. How should this shape and change the way we life as God’s family in community?  

8:22-25

• Jesus regarded Bethsaida as place renown for its spiritual blindness, even after having so much going for it. 
• The lack of spiritual perception was reflected even among his disciples who witnessed such great things. 
• Jesus’s questions to the disciples in verses 17-18 are connected to this spiritual lack of perception. 

8:27-30

• Jesus asks the pointed question, “who do you say I am?”
• Peter makes the bold and radical confession that Jesus is indeed the Messiah, the son of God. 
• This is a pivotal moment in Mark because it answers the Mark’s first half big question of who is Jesus? With this revelation Jesus moves to the Mark’s second half’s big question: what does this mean?

8:31-33

• There was much idolatry wrapped up in the idea of who the Messiah was meant to be in the minds of the Jews in Jesus’s time. Jesus paints a very countercultural picture.
• Jesus is assertive that the Messiah must suffer and die.
• God’s people must get this right, he severely rebukes Peter for getting it wrong.
• Don’t settle for a weak Messiah.

8:34-9:1

• Jesus warns against those who would be ashamed of him. Are we ashamed or embarrassed to spread this news? 
• Mark encourages us to take the Messiah very seriously and we must follow Jesus’s example, we must take up our cross and follow him to die to ourselves. 

Conclusion and Challenges:

• We have been grafted into God’s family and commissioned out to go and make disciples. 
• Are we treating our church members as our own family? 
• Are we urgently spurring ourselves and each other on to make disciples of all nations? 
• This is the call, this is the cost, will you still follow Jesus after counting the cost?

2. Ok, that's the OT. But it doesn't apply to us does it?

3. But surely we're not called to care for those outside the church!

4. But now the State cares for the poor, right?

2. All Authority

3. Disciple All Nations

1. Earthquake

2. Fear, Joy and Fake News

3. God in the Flesh: Worthy of Worship

2. Judas

3. Pilate

4. The Crowd

5. Jesus

2. Betrayal and Lies

3. Faithfulness in the Garden

1. A New Passover vv1-5

2. Preparing the Sacrifice vv6-13

3. Betrayal vv14-16

4. The Covenant vv17-29

2. The Unnaturalness of Death

3. The Death of Death

2. Can't Afford to Fail: Unforgiveness

3. Can't Afford not to Fail: Forgiveness

1. Blazing our own Trail: self-fulfillment

2. No one is an Island: the loneliness of self-fulfillment

3. Restoration to Relationship: fulfillment in belonging

2. The Cost of Control

3. Redeeming Control

2. Giving Blesses the Giver

3. The Giver Receives Abundantly

Introduction

1. Church Culture

2. A Vision for SWEC

a. Head heart and hands

b. Partners not passengers

c. God's heart = our heart

d. Jesus is worth it

Introduction

1. God speaks through Creation

2. God speaks through the Law

3. God speaks through Jesus

Application

2. Serve as Priest forever

3. Judge the Kings of the earth

1. Why don't you answer me v1-13
2. My Body is Broken v14-21
3. Praise to God who hears the Afflicted v22-31

2. The King Sits and Laughs

3. Joy In Submitting To The King

1. No Reason For Joy?

2. The Lord is Come

a. The person

b. The promise

c. The plan

3. Reason for Joy!

The Prince of Peace

1. Wholeness

2. Restoration

3. Love

Introduction

1. Hope, Joy, Peace, Faith

2. Hope and Promises

3. Images of Hope

a. Baptism and Communion

b. Having Children

c. Godly Singleness

Do not let your hearts be troubled…

1. … Believe in me

2. … I’ll prepare a place

3. … I’ll bring you home

How do we wait faithfully?

2. The Servants and the Talents

3. The Servants and the Master

2. Don't be led Ashtray

3. The Return of the King

4. Be Ready for the King

2. The King Responds

3. Accepting the Invite

4. Ignoring the T&Cs

1. Saul's Selective Hearing

2. Saul Justifies His Son

3. Saul is Sorry...for himself

1 Samuel 14:1-52

Introduction

1. The Story

A. Scene One

B. Scene Two

2. What Do We Learn and Why it Matters

2. Raised with Christ

3. Victory with Christ

2. The Consequences

a. Philistines

b. Israel

c. Saul

3. The Command

Introduction

1. Looking Back (1-12)

2. A Warning (13-18)

3. Looking Forward (19-25)

a) For Israel

b) For Us

2. The Rescue (4-11)

3. The King (12-15)

4. The Gospel

i. 1 Samuel 11 foreshadows the good news of Jesus

ii. We need to recover the Biblical worldview of warfare

iii. We are engaged in a real war and it is spiritual

iv. The gospel changes the way we fight

v. Our weapons are God's Word, Spirit, and prayer

2. God's Revealed Kindness

3. Saul the Man of God?

i.Fatally Flawed?

ii.Saviour?

2. Rejecting the True King

3. A King with a High Price Tag

i.For all People

ii.For his Children

iii.For the Fatherless

2. Our Father the Protector

2. The Secret

3. Contentment

4. Idols

5. Jesus

6. Application

1. Israel in the Wilderness

2. Israel Repents

3. Ebenezer.2

2. The Return of the Glory of God (10-18)

3. The Problem of the Glory of God (19-21)

4. Glory to God Alone

1. Dagon Loses Face

2. Yahweh's Glory shines through

2. Yahweh won't stay on the God Shelf

2. The Glory of Eli (12-18)

3. Where is the Glory? (19-22)

1. Where Are We?

2. “Here I Am.”

3. He Is Already Here!

2. Samuel

3. Eli

2. Hannah's Grief

3. Hannah's Prayer

4. God Listens

5. Hannah and the Big Picture

2. Paul's Ambition - The Source

3. Paul's Ambition - Teamwork Required

Discussion questions:

1. Reflect on your greatest ambitions in life. Would any of them fit the definition of selfish ambition?

2. In what ways is Paul's ambition - to see Christ preached where he is not known - reflected in your own life?

3. Prayerful before God, do you sense He wants you to be a Zealous Goer or a Zealous Sender? What are practical steps you can take to better serve God in this way?

4. How can you be a Zealous Welcomer to those coming to Sydney from UPGs (Unreached people groups - e.g. international students, refugees, immigrants etc)?

2. Love God

3. Love People

Discussion questions:

1. Read 1 Cor 13:4-7. Identify 1 or 2 aspects of love you are in the most need to grow in.

2. Is there an area of your life now where disobedience is hindering your love for God?

3. Who are 1-2 people you are finding difficult to love? What are steps you can take to grow in your love for them?

4. What are some specific ways that love can spur you on to be involved in the Great Commission?

2. The Purpose of Blessing

Discussion questions:

1. How has God blessed you, spiritually and physically, in your life?

2. How are you using those blessings to help others come to know about salvation?

3. How are you using those blessings to help those with no access to the gospel have a chance to hear the good news?

2. In Marriage

3. God, Not Money

4. Follow Your Leaders

5. Looking to the New City

Introduction

1. Keep Running

a. Main Challenge

b. Motivation

c. Throw Off Hindrances

2. Look At Jesus

3. Endure As Children

2. Abraham

3. Moses

4. Israel's Hall of Faith

5. Looking for a Homeland

ACTS 4:1-3:

· What was the Apostolic message? (practice getting your testimony shared in 30 seconds)

· From the beginning of the Church in Acts till now, Godly men and women are to expect persecution.

ACTS 4:8-12

· Peter and John’s response to the religious courts leads us to see how boldness starts with being submitted to the Holy Spirit.

· We are to share the gospel in all seasons despite our fears which Christ offers to take from us.

ACTS 4:13-22

· God could do it all by himself but chooses to partner with us as very floored people. Peter and John were just ordinary men.

· Mission’s is never about what we do and what method we utilise. It’s about what God has done and will do.

ACTS 4: 23-31

· In being bold and courageous for the gospel it all start’s with prayerful dependence on God by His Spirit.

· The church was emboldened for the gospel in the face of opposition because they recognized that God’s is sovereignty and has filled us with His Spirit

1. The Basis For Confidence

2. How To Feed Confidence

a. Draw Near To God

b. Hold Fast To Hope

c. Consider One Another

a. Out of the church and into the home

b. Worshipping God with your 'vocation'

c. God's plan for mothers

2. Myths and Misconceptions

a. I'm 'just' a mum

b. I need to have a career

c. My children come first

d. I don't feel very motherly

3. The Rest of Us

a. Give thanks

b. Pray

c. Serve

d. Honour

e. Husbands and fathers

1. The Man Who Loved Ruth

2. The Man Who Loves Us

3. Who Do We Love More?

1. Naomi's Gamble

2. Boaz's Worthiness

3. Boaz and Us

a. As a model man

b. As a pointer to Christ

2. 'Hidden' Providence: redeeming the unremarkable

3. Providence and suffering: redeeming our pain

4. Providence and human decisions: redeeming our mistakes

5. Providence and the foreigner: redeeming the outcast

2. Orpah's journey

3. Ruth's journey