The Extras

Last Sunday, we kicked off a new sermon series in the book of Hebrews. In Hebrews 1, we read that "In these last days, God has spoken to us by his Son." Flowing on from Sunday's sermon, Raj and Lachlan explore what it means that God has spoken in a final, ultimate way. They also delve a bit into our current tendency to maximise pleasure and minimise pain – can that tendency take us away from what...

The first words of Psalm 22 are heart-wrenching: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" In this follow-on from Sunday's sermon, we answer questions about how this Psalm points to Jesus, what Jesus and the Father experienced on the cross, and what impact all this has on our experience of suffering and death.

Join Sam and Lachlan as they answer your questions from last Sunday's sermon on Psalm 15!

Join Sam and Peter as they answer your questions from our last Sunday's sermon on Psalm 8!

Happy New Year everyone! We started our new year with a clear and sober reminder in Psalm 1 that we are ultimately blessed through God's son, Jesus. Mike also shared practical tips on how we can keep reminding ourselves of this great truth. You can re-watch the sermon on our YouTube channel. Join Candy and Mike as they tackle your questions for Psalm 1. Questions include: - What is the fruit refer...

And that's a wrap! Join us on our last episode of The Extras for 2022 with Candy and Sam answering your questions from our last Advent sermon. Questions include: - How does Advent tie into the word ‘adventure’? - What did Micha 5 meant to the original audience? - Why is Matthew 16:18 misinterpreted? How should we read it?

Join Candy and Raj as they tackle your questions from last Sunday's sermon. Questions include: - Does the language of remnant in Zephaniah 3 imply some will not be saved but perish? - In 1 John 3:3, isn’t our purification all done by Jesus? In what way does John mean that we purify ourselves? - Raj, why did you pick John 1 as your second reading? - What 'other things' does Jesus expect from us, wh...

Last Sunday, we started our Advent series where Sam and Lachlan preached from Isaiah 11:1-10. Tune in to this week's episode as Candy and Lachlan addresses the question 'What is the role of the Spirit from Isaiah 11?'.

Join Sam & Candy as they tackle your questions on 1 Peter 4 and Ephesians 4. Questions include: - Are the gifts God gives us to be used for the Christian community and not outside of the church? - “Each of you should use whatever gift you have received", what about hospitality, is that a gift? - What about our secular work? Is that serving? - What about serving in the home? - Is ‘I should’ a good...

This week we've got Peter and Candy tackling your questions on Psalm 84 as well as how magnification works in our lives and our doctrines. Questions include: - What does the tent of the wicked mean? - You mentioned pilgrimage Peter, what about physical pilgrimage in today’s age? - So is maturity ‘head’ and magnification ‘heart’? - How does faith work with affection? Which comes first? - What if I...

Last Sunday we gave thanks and reflected on growing as a church in the area of membership through John 15:1-17. Join Raj and our Membership Pastor, Kelly, as they answer your questions from last Sunday's sermons. Some questions included: - Can’t we just love one another like v17 says without all this extra stuff (e.g. M structure and roles)? - The word 'remain' is mentioned 7 times in the passage....

We started a new series on our Vision Update 2022! Join Raj and Candy as they tackle some of your questions from our Sunday sermon on the topic of Mission. Questions included: - Is church more like a business (with KPI targets & mission) or is it like a family where there is love and care? - What's our approach to distributing and planting churches rather than grow in singular size?

Answering your questions on Matthew 18:10–20 How do I talk to someone about their sin when I might have a ‘plank in my eye’? Who is the wandering sheep? What is being bound and loose in heaven? When should a sin be brought ‘before the church’? Have I forgiven someone if I don’t want anything to do with them anymore? What about if someone who isn’t a Christian sins?

Other questions from the extras on Matthew 18:1–9: - At what point did Jesus transition to metaphor? How can we be sure he isn’t being literal? - How do we not put on a facade at church? - How do we relate and be aware of those who are different to us?

Join Candy and Raj as they answer your questions from our sermon on Matthew 17:22-27. Including: - How do we answers Mike's questions from the slides? - How should Christians think about causing offence with our non for profit status and also our recent DA? - Did Jesus need to pay that temple tax? Hadn't he already paid?

Join Candy and Raj to tackle this week's questions from Matthew 17:14–20. Questions include: - Why is v.21 missing in some translations? - What does it mean that Elijah comes to restore all things? - Who was Jesus called perverse and faithless? The father, the crowd or the disciples?

Covering your questions on Matthew 17:1–8 - What did the OT people believe if Jesus hadn’t come as a man yet? - Why did Jesus exclude the other disciples or even the crowds from the transfiguration? - How did Peter recognise that the figures on the mountain were Elijah and Moses?

And more on your questions on Matthew 16: 21–28 - Does God love the people that are in hell? - What does the word ‘psyche’ mean? Is Jesus being ‘punny’? - What are some practical ways we can ‘lose ourselves’? What does that even mean?

This episode we tackle a passage of the bible read very differently by different people. – Was Hades an actual place in first century Palestine? – “God doesn’t want to be God without us” Is that theologically correct? – What if we also love Christ but struggle to love Christians? – Are we being too legalistic to say people should come to Sunday services? Isn’t growth groups enough? – How would a C...

This and more on this week’s extras, covering Ecclesiastes 11:7–12:14: - How was Solomon wise? Didn’t he have heaps of concubines/wives? - Keeping God’s commands, which ones? how does this work for us now? - Apostle’s creed, didn’t Pilate wash his hands? - Will the action of Jesus be judged by God?

After a sermon on Ecclesiastes 9, we are tackling your big questions this week, including: - what happens after death? - Is it eternal conscious torment or do we get destroyed? - What is the biblical data for either of those views? We also think about injustice in this world and how we can deal with this as sufferers and witnesses. Books referenced in the podcast: - Erasing Hell: What God said abo...

Last Sunday we tackled Ecclesiastes 5:8–20 on the topic of money. Some questions we tackled included: - How should Christians think about shares, savings & investment properties? - Why does the passage say it’s ‘evil’ not to be able to leave things to your children? Join us as we dig deeper into God’s word and how it applies to us today.

Join Jack and Raj as they get into your questions about Ecclesiastes 3! Plus hear Raj's reflections on GAFCON Australasia and the launch of the new Anglican Diocese of the Southern Cross. Questions include: - Is God real? - When is it "time to kill"? - What did the Teacher think about life after death, and what should we think about it? - What does "fearing God" look like in the everyday decisions...

Ecclesiastes tells us that work and toil are "meaningless" - fleeting, elusive, hevel. If that's the case, then why work at all? Join Jack and Sam as they delve into this and other conundrums, answering your questions about Ecclesiastes 2:17-26, including: - Does "work" just mean paid work or does it include things like house work, gardening, and raising children? - Is Ecclesiastes meant to be dep...

In Ecclesiastes 1:12 - 2:16, the author goes on a quest to find 'what is good to do in life' through the topic of pleasure, wisdom and folly. He reaches the conclusion that everything under the sun is like 'chasing after the wind'. Join Candy and Sam as they tackle your questions, including: - In chapter two, the teacher 'kept his wisdom through his experiments'(ch2v3). What does that mean? - Is t...