Discovery Church

21/06/2026 - Matt Robinson Our community is spiritually hungry and looking for answers. It’s as Jesus said, the harvest is plentiful… it’s up to us to share with them the good news, the message of the one and only way, truth and life that is Jesus. Primary Text: Acts 26:9-23 Here we see Paul stand before a court room and share HIs testimony of how and why he came to believe and follow Christ. He d...

14/06/2026 - Matthew Destry Text 1 – Daniel 10:2-9 (ESV) In those days I, Daniel, was mourning for three weeks. 3 I ate no delicacies, no meat or wine entered my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, for the full three weeks. 4 On the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was standing on the bank of the great river (that is, the Tigris) 5 I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, a man clo...

07/06/2026 - Matthew Destry Psalm 63:1-8 … A Psalm of David. When he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory. Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. So...

31/05/2026 -  Matthew Destry The Roman historian Pliny the Younger once wrote to Emperor Trajan trying to explain these Christians. He said  “they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath… the contagion of this superstition has spread not only to the cities but also to the villages and farms.” They spread...

24/05/2026 -  Matthew Destry Joshua 15:16–19 (ESV): “And Caleb said, ‘Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.’ And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her...

17/05/2026 -  Matthew Destry What is a miracle?  A miracle is an act of God that goes beyond ordinary natural explanation and reveals His power, presence, or compassion. Three different views Christians hold Some Christians believe miraculous gifts largely ceased after the apostolic era. This is often called cessationism. Others believe all the gifts continue today exactly as they did in the New T...

10/05/2026 -  Beck Lambert “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of...

03/05/2026 -  Kyle Hanna A Place – the Temple 2 Chronicles 7:1-3 The purpose of the Temple is two fold: The heart behind the rules Building Priests Sacrifices The narrative of God’s pursuit Eden (Gen 3:8) Wilderness (Exodus 13:21-22) Tabernacle (Exodus 25:8) A Place – Jesus John 2:18-21 Jesus the True Temple: Place People travelled to a localised place, Jesus went out to the people  (Matthew 4:23)...

26/04/2026 -  Matthew Robinson Psalm 1:1-3: 1 Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, 2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and who meditates on his law day and night. 3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whateve...

19/04/2026 -  Matthew Destry 1 Kings 18:36–39 (ESV) “At the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, ‘O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word. Answer me, O Lord, answer me, that this people may know that you, O Lord, are God, and...

12/04/2026 -  Matthew Destry John 7:37–39 (ESV)   “On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ‘If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, “Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”’ Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been g...

05/04/2026 -  Matthew Destry 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10 (ESV) “For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.” Romans 8:11 (ESV) “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwel...

03/04/2026 -  Matthew Destry Leviticus 16:5–10, 20–22, 29–30   And he shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats for a sin offering… And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for the Lord and the other lot for Azazel. And Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for the Lord and use it as a sin offering, but the goat on which the lot fell for Azaz...

29/03/2026 -  Matthew Destry Big idea: Jesus is Lord, but not the kind of Lord the crowd wants. Following Him means moving from crowd enthusiasm to costly allegiance. John 12:12–19 (ESV) The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the...

22/03/2026 -  Zeke Murley John 8:1–11 WORD What does the Scripture say? Read  John 8:1–11  together. Take time to slowly read the passage aloud as a group. Encourage everyone to notice details in the text before jumping to interpretation. Observation Questions Where does this story take place and what is Jesus doing before the interruption? Who are the main groups or individuals present in the sto...

15/03/2026 -  Matthew Destry Text: John 4:1-18, 25-30   Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob ha...

08/03/2026 -  Kyle Hanna Series:  Jesus is Lord Scripture:  John 3:1–15 The Setting Nicodemus, a Pharisee and respected teacher of the law, comes to Jesus at night. Though he is moral, religious, and knowledgeable, Jesus tells him something surprising: “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Nicodemus assumes Jesus means a physical rebirth, but Jesus is speaking ab...

Matt Destry Come and see: how Jesus builds the church Big idea This is the raw, first call of Jesus: come and see. They come. They stay. They bring others. Lordship here is relational before it is institutional. Before Jesus gives them tasks, He gives them: friendship, proximity, shared life. The Church is born not as an organisation, but as a shared orbit around a person. Text John 1:35-51 35 The...

Zeke Murley PASSOVER — EXODUS / MANNA / THE LAMB / BLOOD / DELIVERANCE 1ST MIRACLE : FEEDING OF 5000 — BREAD / PROPHET LIKE MOSES / MAKE HIM KING 15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. John 6:15 ESV 2ND MIRACLE : WALKING ON WATER — SELF REVELATION / IT IS I (I AM — EGO EIMI) 20 But he said to them, “I...

15/02/2026 -  Matthew Destry Big idea The best people in the Kingdom are those who know when to step forward and when to step aside, without losing their joy, their identity, or their faithfulness. Jesus has not come to orbit around us. He has come to be the centre. Not to make us famous, but faithful. Not to draw attention to our name, but to His. The mark of maturity is not how many people are f...

08/02/2026 -  Matthew Destry While the world still stands:  Serving a Lord who stoops to serve Reading  – John 13:1–14 (ESV) Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot,...

01/02/2026 -  Matthew Destry John 1:1-14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome[a] it. There was a man se...

25/01/2026 -  Vincent Gulay Solomon was the King, but he was under another authority – the God of Israel. He starts his Wisdom literature with Proverbs 1:7 –  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. “Fear” or reverence, and submitting to the Lord is key to living wisely, and righteously. With relationships – we look to Jesus as the example. Ephesia...

18/01/2026 -  Ps Matthew Destry Proverbs 3:9–10 Honour the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your produce; then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. Thought one:  honour comes before abundance Thought two:  firstfruits train the heart Thought three : abundance follows alignment “The retribution principle” Wisdom assumes that creation is...

11/01/2026 -  Matt Robinson Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 and 12:8-13   Point 1: Vapour The word meaningless comes from the hebrew word “Heval” – which means “vapour” Everything under the sun… everything you can see… Solomon is saying that if we look around us and this is all that there is to life, it’s meaningless. Ecclesieastes is making the point that we can’t just look at everything under the...