Encounter Church Enfield

Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify. This week Jacob Blackwell continues our Summer Sizzlers series by exploring the foundational question of whether we can trust the Bible. By showing the quantity and quality of the manuscripts, oral traditions and witnesses, the testimony of Jesus and the disciples and the unity and unique message the Bible has, Jacob cha...

Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify. Today Ps Mike continues our Summer Sizzlers series by answering the question “can women preach, teach, lead and prophesy in the Church?” He begins in the book of Genesis by exploring the design of both male and females, teaches on the influence of female figures and leaders across the Bible and finishes by unpacking well...

Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify. Ps Brant Jones brings a challenging and countercultural message on the exclusivity of the Christian faith. He reminds us of the crucial and yet uncomfortable truth we are called to hold fast to as a Christian living in today’s Australian society; that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and that no one can come to t...

Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify. Today Ps Mike kicks off the new year by answering the question: are science and religion really at odds with each other? And what do we do about it? Teaching text: Genesis 1:26-31

Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Mike brings us a powerful word on the raw and human-like nature of Jesus’ birth. He encourages us that in the midst of the uncertainty, difficulty and brokenness of 2020, Jesus brings new life for ou...

Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Mike challenges the concept of “peaking” in life as a follower of Christ. Looking at the life of Mary, he proposes that God wasn’t finished with her after she had given birth and the shepherds, that...

Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Mike shares with us the radical impact of a little baby named Jesus. He challenges us to consider who we are making the king of our life, be that Jesus or own own hearts and desires, for these things...

Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Jen challenges us by asking what would change if we believed that 2020 was a year of God's favour- not because of circumstance but because Jesus is ALIVE, that He brings new life, He has still won, a...

VISION SUNDAY: Call it out Ps Mike reflects on the trials and joys of 2020 for Encounter Church whilst looking to what is to come in Jesus in 2021. He announces our core focus for the new year whilst unpacking the new mission goals, these being: Impacting the Generations Bible Fed & Spirit Led For the City Developing Resilient Disciples Teaching text: Matthew 16:13-17

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In our final week of our series, Pastor Mike teaches us what lies at the heart of all our relationships; how to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind. Teaching text: Hebrews 12:1-3

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the third week of our series, Pastor Mike brings an unpacking of Jesus’ controversial teaching on marriage and divorce that helps us understand the holiness of marriage, before Ps Jen joins him for a Q&A on healthy relationships. Teaching text: Mark 10:2-10

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the third week of our series, Pastor David Shepherd joins us from Hills Baptist Church Verdun to bring us a message on sex. Diving into Genesis 2 and 3, he teaches us what God’s beautiful design for sex truly is. Where culture’s understanding rebukes this way of...

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the third week of our series, Pastor Sam Long joins us from Nova Church to bring us a message on sex. Challenging the world’s disposable narrative of “whatever, whenever, and whoever”, he encourages us to look to the word of God as our final authority when naviga...

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the second week of our series, Pastor Matt Phelan from Rise Church brings us a message on dating. He challenges us to seek a partner that is equally yoked; a person who not only claims to be Christian but one that has strong convictions in Christ, is obedient to...

As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the first week of our series, Rev Brant Jones teaches us what it means to practically honour our parents and to raise children up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Teaching text: Ephesians 6:1-4

It's intern week! Two of our current interns Adelaide and Tayla bring a Word on two Heroes of the Faith. Adelaide challenges us to follow the countercultural lifestyle of John the Baptist; a lifestyle that simply but passionately points to Jesus above all else. Tayla dives deep into the story of Ruth to demonstrate the expression of God's heart and faithfulness to His people and teach us the way t...

It's intern week! Two of our current interns Tarin and Eric bring a Word on two Heroes of the Faith. Tarin challenges us to find peace in the daring just as Esther found courage, peace and strength in God when confronted with pressing times. Eric dives deep into the story of David to illustrate that our current position does not shape our ultimate victory in Christ. Teaching texts: Esther 4:10-17,...

It’s baptism Sunday! Today as we celebrate the declaration of new life in Jesus, Ps Mike looks at Phillip, the Ethiopian eunuch and how there is no longer anything truly stopping us from new life in Jesus. Teaching text: Acts 8:26-40

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real. Ps Mike closes out our series on the Encounter Life by tackling the tricky topic of generosity in the church and the way we are challenged to be generous to others, thankful...

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real. Mike preaches on our value of Real by talking about the deceptive nature of reality, the church as a working body and the critical importance of our hearts. Teaching texts: E...

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real. Ps Jen brings to life our most important value - that we are all about Jesus - by talking through Jesus' meeting with the woman at the well in John 4 and how God wants us to...

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real. Ps Mike kicks off our new series by unpacking the story of Lazarus, what that says about God’s love for people and the power of a resurrected life. Teaching texts: John 11:22...

There is a spiritual power in the way we choose, as Moses said, life or death. This week Ps Mike expounds on the spiritual principle of blessings and curses - what they are and are not - and how we can align ourselves with a life of spiritual blessing. Teaching text: Numbers 6:22-27

Compassion Sunday, where we focus our eyes on children in poverty in Java, Indonesia and champion child sponsorship as a form of relational mission. Ps David Helyard from Compassion Australia comes to share about what Compassion does, both spiritually and practically, before preaching a message about identity and how the broken belong with God. Teaching text: Luke 4:1-14

Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament. It's intern week! Our freshly graduated interns Jemima, Emma and Jordan tackle the pastoral letters of John. In this podcast, Jemima looks at the characteristics of God displayed in 1 John to show us what it means to know God as light, love and our example. Teaching texts: 1 John 1:5-7; 1 John 4:7-12