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When Jesus is anointed for the grave he is anointed and dressed as the Bridegroom; and the Messiah, bringing the scent of Eden into the garden where he is buried and raised to bring new life heavenly life to those who believe.

As Jesus dies on the cross there are at least 8 little details John gives us to help us see his story as the beginning of a new creation; a new Exodus; where living waters flow from Jerusalem and give life to the world.

Passover is fast approaching, and Jesus the passover lamb meets a bunch of snakey folks in the garden who bind him and hand him over to die for the people.

When Jesus sets off to Jerusalem, John starts the countdown to the new Passover; a new Exodus bringing salvation by reuniting people into the life and love of God.

Jesus calling Lazarus to "come out" of the grave is a sign that the new exodus is a movement from death in exile to life in God's presence.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd who gathers God's flock from the nations, bringing the new exodus promised by the prophets. 

Jesus, not the physical temple, is the fulfilment of the Old Testament prophets' hope that streams of living water would flow from Jerusalem creating a new Eden and a new Exodus.

Jesus goes out into the wilderness to feed a flock bread from heaven as a sign that he's not simply the new Moses, but God's life given to the world. 

Jesus meets a woman who represents Israel's exile from God at a well, and offers her (and us) a proposal she doesn't want to refuse. Living Water. 

John 3 contains the Bible's most famous verse — but when you scratch beneath the surface it also has a rich picture of the heaven and earth life God comes to give his children so that we belong to him. 

John presents John the Testifier's testimony about Jesus, the Lamb of God, as the fulfilment of the prophetic expectation of a new Exodus, and his baptism as the beginning of that fulfilment. 

John's use of Exodus imagery is one of the rich threads running through John's Gospel; it begins in his prologue where John reveals that Jesus is both the Word who was with God and is God, from the beginning, and the word who was with God, and is God, in the creation of God's people in the Exodus story — who fulfils that story and invites us to live in the light; coming face to face with God's glo...

Robyn, Des, and Matt answer big questions from kids in our church community.

Matt, Robyn and Des answer big questions from kids in our community.

Matt, Robyn and Des answer big questions from kids in our community.

Simon and Nathan chat through the ongoing partnership between City South Presbyterian and Annerley Church of Christ.

Matt, Des and Robyn answer big questions from kids in our church community.

Matt, Des, and Robyn answer the big questions from kids in our church community.

Simon, Nathan and Kamina talk about where they think the church in Australia is heading and how we're responding to that as a church.

Nathan explains his understanding of infant baptism and why we do it as Presbyterians. 

Kamina, Nathan and Simon answer a question about the sorts of stories we should read as Christians, and why.

Matt, Mick, and Kamina tackle one of the apparent dilemmas of the modern church.

Mick, Matt and Kamina tackle a question about how essential the Trinity is in terms of how we understand, and come to know, God — and then look at some rich implications of getting to know a God who is triune for life now.

What makes you sing?

Nathan explores the Christmas story through the song O Holy Night, Psalm 148, Mary's Song, and the Wise Men following a star to invite us to join the conjunction of the heavens and the earth, embracing habits of praise that will sweep us up in the revolutionary rule of Jesus.