Christ Church Hawker sermons

Send us Fan Mail Money has a powerful influence over our lives, often in ways we don’t recognize. It shapes our decisions, relationships, and even our sense of security. Many assume greed is only about wanting more, but it can also show up as anxiety, overwork, or an obsession with financial stability. In the sermon on the mount, Jesus calls out money as an idol, promising happiness and control bu...

Send us Fan Mail We in the West don't do honour and shame, we're a guilt and innocence culture. Or so we've been told. It seems like common sense until we take a look at how much time we spend chasing likes, retweets, and even just kudos from the people around us. Many of us care about what other people think of us, and we know that this can be a trap.  So, the answer is simple righ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today’s episode, where we dive into one of Jesus’ most radical teachings from the Sermon on the Mount—his call to peace in the face of conflict. We all experience conflict—at home, at work, online. The natural response? Fight back or walk away. But Jesus offers a third way: a path of honesty, dignity, and grace that transforms relationships and communities. We explore:...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to today’s episode, where we dive into a cultural mantra: Follow your heart. It’s everywhere—on posters, in movies, in self-help books. But is it true? Does your heart really know the way to the Good Life ? Jesus challenges that idea in the Sermon on the Mount. He says our hearts can actually deceive us, leading us into patterns that harm both ourselves and others. He pinp...

Send us Fan Mail What if simply getting angry could put you in the same danger as murder? What if someone a fool could make you guilty before God? Sounds extreme, right? But in Matthew 5:17-26, Jesus raises the bar on righteousness—way higher than we’d expect. Jesus said, " Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” The Pharisees we...

Send us Fan Mail What does it really mean to live the good life? In this episode, we dive into Jesus’ radical definition in the Sermon on the Mount. While the world chases wealth, comfort, and success, Jesus says the truly blessed are the poor, the mourning, the meek, and the persecuted. We explore how the Beatitudes flip our expectations upside down and show us that the good life isn’t about circ...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever been reading the bible and come away scratching your head? If ever there was a book that can leave us bewildered its Revelation, and yet John writes so that we would know. How do we make sense of this book? How do we avoid missing the forest for the trees? In this sermon, Rev. Brett Marshall from Gungahlin Anglican Church takes us through the final chapter of the fin...

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Send us Fan Mail Cameron Mason, from the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students explores how the gospel offers us medicine for our doubts. Check out our website at christchurchhawker.org Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ChristChurchHawkerACT Visit us at 196 Hawker Pl, Hawker ACT 2614

Send us Fan Mail Check out our website at christchurchhawker.org Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ChristChurchHawkerACT Visit us at 196 Hawker Pl, Hawker ACT 2614

Send us Fan Mail Check out our website at christchurchhawker.org Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ChristChurchHawkerACT Visit us at 196 Hawker Pl, Hawker ACT 2614

Send us Fan Mail Community is something we all need, and yet as so many people have observed, we are increasingly struggling to get it. How do we find a way to live with each other? And where does community fit into a spiritually fulfilling life? In this sermon, Phil looks at Paul's letter to the Galatians churches and argues that the life of the Holy Spirit only happens with other Christians...

Send us Fan Mail "I'm free to do what I want any old time" sang Mick Jagger. Ok Mick, what do you want? And is it what you really need? How do you know? In this sermon, Phil explores what the gospel has to say about how to live free.  Check out our website at christchurchhawker.org Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ChristChurchHawkerACT Visit us at 196 Hawker Pl, Hawker ACT 2614

Send us Fan Mail Chill. It's that attitude that says, it's all good, I don't mind, do whatever you like. Chill seems to be a way to avoid fights and avoid being a jerk. But it's also a way to avoid real relationships and it's a terrible substitute for love. In this sermon, Phil considers how love requires us to give up being chill and instead have an opinion, embrace healt...

Send us Fan Mail Dr Amy Erickson from St Mark's National Theological Centre explores what Jesus has to say about the nature of true freedom. Amy drew from the lectionary passages of Numbers 11.4-29, Psalm 78:17-31, James 5.12-20 and Mark 9.38-50 Check out our website at christchurchhawker.org Find us on Facebook at facebook.com/ChristChurchHawkerACT Visit us at 196 Hawker Pl, Hawker ACT 2614

Send us Fan Mail Living a life of freedom, where you are forced to trust God for your sense of self, your worth, and your future can be exhilarating. Like that first time riding a bike without training wheels, it's a rush. But, if you're not familiar with that feeling, you instinctively hit the brakes and put your feet out.  Sometimes, people come along and offer us deals, techniques, ru...

Send us Fan Mail Every single day there are thousands of voices telling us who we are, what we are for, what to do, and where to go. In such a cacophony it can be hard to figure out who we really are. Is there some way to mute all these voices? And what might Jesus have to say about it all? In this sermon, Phil explores how in the gospel, God speaks to us with an invitation to become something tha...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever received one of those URGENT!!!! emails? If Galatians were written today, it may well have had all the punctuation!!, ALL-CAPS, bolding, and underlining of this kind of email. But why? What is the problem? Why is the apostle Paul so worked up? In this message, Laura gets to the root of the issue: to change the gospel is to end up with a two-tier church, which undermi...

Send us Fan Mail Ever had a brain explosion? A moment where what's in your head just didn't make it to the rest of your body? Sometimes, what we claim to know about Jesus doesn't make it out of our heads and that can lead to us doing things that send a very different message to the one we believe. In this message, Phil takes us through the second half of Galatians 2, and reminds us...

Send us Fan Mail We all want to change things about ourselves. Our habits, our negative emotions, and behaviours we realise are hurting us and others. But how? If you've been trying for a while and getting nowhere, it's easy to feel stuck. For people who love Jesus, that feeling can be mixed with anxiety, or even doubt - "I thought the Holy Spirit was supposed to work on me". W...

Send us Fan Mail The world is constantly changing. Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of life. The way we live today would've been unimaginable to people just a few generations ago. Given the huge changes that many of us have seen in our lifetimes, why would the spiritual reflections of people living 2000 years ago have any use or meaning for us today? Christianity has offered peop...