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Picking up where last week's message on intercession left off, Daniel looks honestly at the uncertainty pressing in on all of us AI, war, economic strain, a shaking world and asks a simple question: will the church shrink back, or step forward? Drawing from Hebrews 10 and the extraordinary true story of Brother Andrew, the young Dutchman who smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, Daniel make...

In this weighty, urgent message, Mark traces the extraordinary story of Rees Howells, a man called out of public ministry into hidden, relentless intercession that history would later credit with turning the tide at Dunkirk and helping defeat the Nazis. Mark names something many are quietly feeling: a rising sense of global instability, from war and AI to economic shocks, and a temptation toward f...

Coming off a week of prayer that saw a cathedral papered in prayers for the nations and a neon "now praying" sign transforming a Hornsby shopfront, Trudi Sayers turns to a deeper question: what does it mean to pray the Word of God, knowing that Jesus himself is the Word? Drawing from John 1 and the extraordinary faith of 19th-century prayer warrior George Müller, Trudi explores how Scrip...

As Red Church joins the Global Week of 24-7 Prayer, Chris Cameron takes us into prayer rooms from Lebanon to Peru to Japan, gathering practical wisdom from believers around the world on what it actually looks like to sit with God. Chris unpacks common myths about prayer — it's not magic, not a formula, not a way to earn favor — before offering simple, tested frameworks like the Lord's Pray...

Kicking off our new series At the Name of Jesus and Red Church's part in the Global Week of Prayer, Trudi Sayers opens Philippians 2:9-11 to explore the name above every name. Trudi shares candidly about a recent hospital stay following a cancer recurrence, and how a young nurse was drawn to ask about Jesus simply from what she sensed in the room. A vulnerable, hope-filled call to become a pra...

In the final week of the Being Human series, Mark Sayers uses the strange phenomenon of "rock fever" in Hawaii to explore why even paradise can't satisfy a homesick heart. Turning to Romans 8, Mark traces the ache underneath every human search for escape, rest, or transcendence back to a single truth: home is not home without the presence of God. From the incarnation to the wordless...

Ever sat in a room and felt the quiet dread of What am I doing here? Mark Sayers names that feeling, imposter syndrome and takes us to Romans 8, where creation itself waits on tiptoe for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's forgotten vice of "pusillanimity" (the sin of shrinking back from the good we're capable of). Mark unpacks how comparison...

Week four of the Being Human series takes us into John 13, the astonishing moment Jesus, knowing full authority had been placed in his hands, gets up from the table and kneels to wash his disciples' feet. Mark Sayers moves past the familiar reading of this passage as a leadership lesson and into something far more personal: an image of the God of the universe coming close, getting low, and cho...

Continuing the Being Human series, Mark Sayers opens John 1 and unpacks one of the most revolutionary sentences ever written: "the Word became flesh." Mark exposes an ancient lie that has shaped everything from Plato's cave to The Matrix to today's transhumanist dreams: the belief that this world, our bodies, and our everyday lives are somehow inferior, and the goal is to escape...

Continuing our series Being Human , Mark Sayers turns to Psalm 23 and takes us into what roboticists call the "uncanny valley". That unsettling space where something appears almost human but not quite, showing us how this concept isn't just about technology but points to something deeply spiritual. Scripture places humans between two peaks — created in the image of God with agency an...

Mark Sayers opens a brand new series by tackling one of the most urgent and contested questions of our time: what is a human? As AI, autonomous robots, and drones increasingly appear in our workplaces, schools, and streets, our culture is being forced to reach for an answer, and the church has something profoundly hopeful to say in this moment. Turning to Genesis 1:27, he reminds us that humans ar...

In this message, Andy opens Luke 10 and the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore something central to the church's heritage but easy to overlook — hospitality. Drawing on his years in the coffee industry, the extraordinary story of Gander, Newfoundland (nicknamed "Casserole City" after housing 6,000 stranded passengers post-9/11), and the early church's radical practice of ph...

Our dear friend Rob Lim is back with us, challenging us to recognise that we live in a narrowing culture, one that shapes us into thinner, monomodal versions of ourselves. Drawing from Ecclesiastes, Rob unpacks three strongholds that keep us small: professionalisation, commoditisation, and convenience. But in the midst of this, God is doing a new thing. Rob points to signs of a wider awakening bre...

Andy opens Matthew 5:14-16 to remind us that we were made to stand out, not for the sake of it, but because a weary world is searching for hope. He unpacks three practical tools for shining Christ's light: abiding with Jesus, embracing story, and merging worlds through community. A timely reminder that it's not always our best argument that wins people; sometimes it's simply us, carryi...

We are honoured to welcome back guest speaker Rob Reimer, who took us into Psalm 63 to explore one of the great rhythms of the Christian life: the theology of process and the theology of encounter. Drawing from David's raw, thirsty pursuit of God in the wilderness, Rob unpacks the three places we meet God on the journey: in the valleys when life breaks us, on the mountaintops when an ordinary...

Daniel Murton opens Luke 10 to remind us that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, and to ask whether we actually believe it. Sharing the story of an 18-year-old version of himself belting out "Send Me, I Will Go" in a beat-up Mitsubishi, Daniel unpacks both the why of being sent by Jesus, his call and the practical how : where are you being sent, who to, what with, and who...

In the final message of our series A Sent People , Mark Sayers turns to Acts 2 and Jesus' staggering promise in John 14:12 that we will do "greater things than these." Drawing on the remarkable story of the Mongolian church, which grew from almost zero believers to over 100,000 through ordinary people under immense pressure. Through three invitations, Mark invites us to recognise tha...

 On Pentecost Sunday, Mark Sayers brings our series A Sent People to its turning point in Acts 2, the moment the Spirit is poured out and the church is born. But before he unpacks the violent wind and the tongues of fire, Mark takes us back to Peter, who followed at a distance, who denied Jesus around the fire, who wept bitterly. What closes the gap between that broken man and the bold preacher wh...

As we approach Pentecost, Mark takes us into Acts 2 to explore one of the great preconditions for the Spirit being poured out, that He falls not on isolated individuals, but on a people gathered together. Drawing a line from the ancient heresy of Gnosticism to the modern, Oprah-flavoured "religion without a name," Mark exposes the enemy's long-running strategy to atomise the church i...

Continuing our series A Sent People , Trudi Sayers opens up Acts 2:33 and Philippians 2 to explore the two sides of being "poured out" — the Spirit Jesus pours into us, and the lives we then pour out for others. Trudi reminds us that Jesus did not consider equality with God something to cling to, but took on the very nature of a servant — and calls us to do the same. The good news? God p...

Continuing our series A Sent People , Ryan opens up Acts 10 and 11, the moment Peter is jolted out of his comfort zone by a strange vision and an even stranger invitation to walk into a Gentile's home. Through Peter's story, Ryan unpacks five temptations that keep us from saying yes to God: not caring enough, feeling unequipped, fearing being the first one, losing sight of our purpose, and...

In our series, A Sent People , Mark continues in the book of Acts to remind us that purpose alone isn't enough — vision animates us, but perseverance is what carries us. Facing corruption, persecution, and distraction, the early church kept moving, and God turned every obstacle into growth. Drawing from Acts 5 and 6, and sharing a deeply personal story from the early days of Red Church, Mark i...

Being sent by God sounds exciting — until you realise you're sent with other people. And with a God who keeps combining the to-do lists. In this message from A Sent People , Ryan explores the tension between doing too much and doing too little, between protagonist and passenger, and what it actually looks like to partner with God when he invites you to feed 5,000 people with a packed lunch. To...

A message for our 10 am Nunawading service. The disciples had every reason to walk away. But they didn't — they gathered, they prayed, and they waited. And 120 people changed the world. In this message from A Sent People , Daniel Murton explores what it means to move from the sidelines into the story God is writing — and why someone, somewhere, is waiting for you to show up. To find out more a...

After Easter, it's easy to lose momentum — but the story doesn't stop there. In this opening message of A Sent People , Mark Sayers unpacks the moment between Jesus' ascension and Pentecost, asking a confronting question: are you trying to make yourself the main character, or are you drifting along as a passive bystander? Drawing from Acts 1 and the prophetic vision of Daniel, Mark ref...