Aberfoyle Park Baptist Church

This week Travis brought us a message reflecting on our Church value of 'Seeking'. Reading from Luke 11:5-13, Travis challenges us to respond to the following questions: What do I want? (verses 5-8) What does seeking God look like? (verses 9-10) What am I noticing in my own formation? (verses 11-13)

This week Jaimee brought us a message from Mark 1:14-15.

This week Beth brought us a message from Luke 18, teaching into one of our Church values, Prayer.

This week Llewelyn brings us a message on restoration and renewal from Isaiah 61.

This week Beth brought us a message about our upcoming 'Roster Sabbath', reading from Mark 2:23-28. Then he said to them,  “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.  So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.” Please note: There is a time during Beth's message where the song 'Heart of Worship' by Matt Redman was played. Due to copyright this section of audio h...

Today Beth brings us a message of comfort and joy for Christmas Day.

This week Llewelyn brought us the next message in our Advent series, reading from Matthew 2.

This week Beth launched our 2024 Advent series "God's Ancient Plan". Based in the book of Matthew, this series is about reflecting on the power and beauty of God's plan to become human as an old plan, one that has been in motion since the dawn of time.  Beth encourages us to trust God, even when his plans take longer than we had hoped and wanted.

This week Llewelyn concluded our series in Wisdom by leading us in a time of reflection through the song, O Come O Come Emmanuel.

This week as we near the end of our season looking at Biblical wisdom, Llewelyn brought us a message from 2 Timothy 3:15. Speaking on wisdom that leads to salvation, he challenges us to think about the role that humility, fear of the Lord and the person of Jesus play in that wisdom. Llewelyn leaves us with this question to think about this week: Do you believe in Jesus and in his character and wil...

This week's message continued on the topic of the wisdom of church and why belonging to a community is wisdom. Through passages in Genesis, 1 Corinthians and Philippians, Beth highlighted three reasons why gathering as God's people is essential to following Jesus… So we can fully embody the image of God So that we can fully carry out this mission of the Kingdom of God So that we can exercise our C...

This week Beth begun two weeks teaching into 'The Wisdom of Church'. Reading from Matt 16:13-20, where Simon-Peter makes the declaration of Jesus as the Messiah being "the rock on which I (Jesus) will build my church". This is the moment that Jesus establishes the church. Church is God's idea, not ours, established by Jesus for the foundational purpose of gathering and declaring Jesus as Messiah,...

This week Travis brought us another message from our wisdom series as we explore the spirit of wisdom. Reading from Jeremiah 17, 31 and Acts 2 Travis challenged us to think about an 'unconventional' wisdom that doesn't come from what is found in our learnings from books, or wisdom practiced through the tools we have at our disposal. But where does this ‘unconventional’ wisdom come from? The theme...

This week Bee concluded our series through the sermon on the mount, reading from Matthew 5:43-48.

This week Llewelyn continued our series through the sermon on the mount, reading from Matthew 5:31-32. Speaking on the topic of divorce, Llewelyn left us with the following questions to reflect on this week: What is the Spirit saying to you about your own expression of sexuality? (Spirit Drawn & Led) What is God calling you to further reflect and meditate on? (Growing Down) What changes do you...

This week Jaimee continued our series through the sermon on the mount, reading from Matthew 5:38-42. She leaves us with the following questions to reflect upon this week: What might it look like to respond to evil without violence? What do Jesus’ words and actions say about how his followers should respond to violence, both physically and emotionally? Who or what are the evildoers in your life tha...

This week Franc continued our series through the sermon on the mount, reading from Matthew 5:33-37.

This week Llewelyn brought us the next message in our Wisdom series. Reading from Matthew 5:27-30, we looked at Jesus' perspective on sexual desire as we reflected on the law against adultery in the ten commandments. Llewelyn leaves us with the following questions to consider: What is the Spirit saying to you about your own heart? (Spirit Drawn & Led) What do your behaviours reveal about y...

This week Llewelyn looked at Jesus’ response to the prohibition against murder in the ten commandments. Jesus calls his listeners to honestly pay attention to who and what they truly love. For Jesus, real righteousness and wisdom means treating every human like they have ultimate value, dignity and worth. God’s Kingdom is meant to reshape our hearts, our character and our imagination. Llewelyn lef...

This week we were joined by Aaron Chalmers who brought us the next message in our Wisdom series.  Reading from Matthew 5:17-20, Aaron shared with us about what the Law is, and how Jesus fulfils it.

This week Llewelyn commenced the next study in our Wisdom series, Jesus the Fulfilment of Wisdom. He left us with the following questions to reflect on;  Did you experience the invitation of Ecclesiastes to be brought to your knees? What was that like for you? How did you respond? How would you like to respond? How does Jesus fit into your story of Chaos? What wisdom can you see in the image of th...

This week Jaimee continued our series through the book of Ecclesiastes. Reading from Ecclesiastes 11:7-12:8, Jaimee asked us the question 'What does it look like to faithfully rejoice and remember your creator in the youthful light filled days and the darkened days of calamity?'

This week Frank continued our series through Ecclesiastes by looking at chapter 4.

This week Andries continued our series through Ecclesiastes by looking at the end of chapter 9. 'Better to hear the quiet words of a wise person than the shouts of a foolish king.' (Ecclesiastes 9:17)

This week Beth continued our series in the book of Ecclesiastes by looking at chapter 5, where 'the Teacher' challenges our attitude and expectations on money and wealth. The teacher declares that it is neither good or bad to be wealthy or poor, in both circumstances money can become an obsession and give false hope of security and happiness. Instead we are told to accept our 'lot'...