Holy Trinity Rathmines Podcast

In this Epiphany Week 1 sermon, Colin reflects on Paul’s message in Ephesians, written while Paul was in prison. Paul shows us how to live faithfully in difficult circumstances by learning to  name ,  frame , and  receive  God’s grace. Paul names his situation by fully accepting where he is. He frames it by trusting God in the midst of suffering, knowing he is part of God’s bigger story and refusi...

In this second week of Advent, Colin led us in reflecting on the theme of peace. We turned to Matthew 3, where John the Baptist calls the crowds and religious leaders to prepare themselves because  “the kingdom of heaven has come near.”  Advent is a season of preparation, an invitation to ready our hearts for God’s arrival. John’s message is simple and challenging: repent—turn away from false secu...

On Sunday, Ruth opened the Advent season and launched the Christmas series Let There Be Light . As we journey through Advent’s four themes, hope, peace, joy, and love, she reminded us that this season is about more than remembering Christ’s first coming. It also points us toward the promise of His return. Ruth’s message on hope centred on waiting and being ready: waiting in hope, living prepared,...

Ruth closes the Habakkuk series with the fourth and final sermon. This week’s message invited us to consider a challenging question:  Are we willing to trust God even when it leads us through trouble or hardship?  Looking at the prophet Habakkuk, we saw a man who trembled at God’s warnings yet remained confident in God’s ability to lead His people through judgment and into deliverance. Habakkuk mo...

In part 3 of Habakkuk: An Honest Faith, Dilys walks us through God's answer to the prophet's laments and woes he expressed in honest frustration and confusion. God's answer is to wait in faithfulness. But how do we wait well? Dilys directs us to wait with connection, contentment, and courage. To faithfully wait on God's perfect timing we need to fill our time with prayer and praise...

In Part 2 of Habakkuk: An Honest Faith, Rob explores what it means to be honest with God, which includes bringing Him your raw, honest questions in your anger, confusion, or grief. The prophet Habakkuk demonstrated this type of honest faith in his prayers to God and promised to stand at his watch post and listen for God's response. Rob explained that faith means watching and waiting in hope, t...

This new series, Habakukk: An Honest Faith, will explore how the prophet Habakkuk brought his honest questions and struggles before God and how God's answers encourage Habakkuk to trust in God's ultimate plan. In Part 1 of this series, Scott leads us through the beginning of Chapter 1 of the Old Testament book and breaks down the meaning of the word 'lament,' an honest expression o...

Wrapping up the  Making Space  series, Dilys explores what it means to make space for the stranger. Looking at Jesus’ example and His interactions in the Bible, especially with Samaritans, she shows how hospitality isn’t just something we do, but part of who Jesus is. When we welcome strangers, we’re also welcoming Him. But the idea of caring for the stranger doesn’t start with the Gospels. Dilys...

In this message, Ruth continues the  Making Space  series by focusing on the theme of hospitality, specifically, what it means to  make space for your neighbour . She challenges us, as Christians, to be intentional about creating connection, making a difference in our communities, and living as everyday examples of Christ’s love. Drawing from the Gospels, Ruth highlights how Jesus modelled what it...

Continuing with the  Making Space  series on hospitality, Rob’s message this Sunday explores examples in the Gospel where Jesus sat at a table with others. One of the most powerful examples is the Last Supper, a meal Jesus shared with his disciples, a group of very broken people — and yet he still broke bread with them. Creating space at our tables isn’t just about food. It’s about making room for...

In Part 2 of the sermon series Making Space, Scott challenges us to prioritise people over projects, embrace vulnerability, and practice hospitality through friendships. Jesus served as the ultimate example of friendship through his relationships with Mary, Martha, Lazarus and His disciples. Christ continues to connect with us through friendship today and we are encouraged to value our relationshi...

Colin introduces a new sermon series called Making Space . The discussion in Part 1 breaks down how Christian hospitality creates places of radical inclusion, transformation, and invitation. Jesus used hospitality to make a statement and symbolise the Kingdom of God, because hospitality is rooted in love for one another!

This week, Revd. Rob continues the People & Presence series and explores the invitation to spend time in God's living presence. Rob dives into what it means to be in God's presence and why we may struggle to experience this. We are called to accept the invitation to step into God's presence by stepping out of the cave, bringing our emptiness with us into the light.

Exploring our priorities as a community for the term ahead, Colin unpacks what it means for us to be a people of worship, care and space.

Mark Boobyer finishes our summer series sharing on Matthew 11, exploring our expectations and how Jesus is the one who can fulfil.

Kathleen McAllister continues our Summer series, sharing on Psalm 103, leading us to engage with our failures, our frailty and the unchanging, steadfast love of God in their midst.

As part of our August series, Jacob Reynolds shares some reflections on the Creation story in Genesis and what is means for us to be a people who walk in there presence of God.

On his final Sunday with us in Holy Trinity, Scott Evans reflects on Paul's letter to the Ephesians and what it means for us to be a people according to God's purposes.

Rob shares his reflections on Acts 17:16-34, exploring the teachings of Paul in Athens and how we move forward in sharing our faith in the season ahead.

Rebecca wraps up our 10 week deep dive into Paul's letter to the Galatians, looking at chapter 6 in particular exploring (some of) Paul's top tips to living life in The Spirit.

Scott Hill takes the penultimate section of our Galatians series, exploring how we can grow in faith and freedom.

On Sunday, 6 July, we heard from Ruth as she spoke on the end of chapter 5 in Galatians, the comparison of Hagar and Sarah, and living in freedom. 

Dilys continues our teaching series through the letter of Paul to the Galatians, encouraging us to keep moving forward, no longer falling back into ways of living and enslavement from which we are now free.

Colin unpacks Galatians 3:23-4:7, exploring our new identity in Jesus as children. We are no longer slaves, but children who by the Spirit cry "Abba Father"

Scott Hill continues our series in Galatians, exploring chapter 3:1-14 and how we can be a people who live in the freedom of the Holy Spirit, rather than the pressure of success.