Hukanui Bible Church

Chris Ayers from Pioneers Aotearoa joins us this week to share about the work being done worldwide, and also talk about our commission. Chris starts us with an overview of who Pioneers NZ are and their work, while also giving us a small update on the Pothula Family in Australia and their move currently in progress. Chris then moves his attention to two passages from the Gospels of Luke and John, w...

While Professor Darrell Bock is in the country for Winter Bible School in Te Puke, we grasped the opportunity to have him pop over to Hamilton for the day to speak at HBC. Prof. Darrell starts us off by discussing how Americans view sports vs the Commonwealth before tying these concepts into his topic for today, discussing what has happened to the Church in recent years. Looking back in Acts 4 and...

Jeff Samuel brings us our message this week looking at "How To Develop Patience" from James 5:7-12. Jeff dives straight into a review of what Kotie spoke on last week to see how that ties into today's passage before looking at our passage for today in detail. He takes a look at how to hurt someone with grumbling, the opposite of what we should be doing. Jeff then looks at the story o...

Kotie Smith discusses "How To Be Wise With Your Wealth" from James 5:1-6. Kotie opens with a reading of our passage for today, before breaking it down, starting with discussing who this was written to. Kotie then moves verse by verse, looking at how they can be applied to us today, especially focusing on how we view money vs God. He breaks them into "three sins" outlined by Jam...

Dan Pettersen discusses facing our future this week, taken from James 4:13-17. Peter Sun opens up our service today with a Pastoral Prayer over our children before Dan Pettersen jumps in to discuss "the future". Dan looks over three key mistakes that are commonly made about the future as outlined by James, and the warning that he gives. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning servic...

Sam Crosbie brings us a shorter message this morning, focusing on just two verses from James 4. While our passage is short, Sam jumps right in and reads the two verses that he's covering. He then talks to us with a warning about looking at things on the surface, rather than being able to see the deeper level and root cause of what may be going on. Sam then ties this into how James speaks into...

Peter Sun follows up the message from Tim Norris last week, looking at "Friendship with the World" from James 4. Peter gets right into it and reads our passage for today before looking at how it builds on what was spoken about last week. He then breaks the passage into four sections - The Context; Our Actions; Consequences; and Solutions. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning serv...

Tim Norris discusses "Earthly Wisdom" and "Heavenly Wisdom" and what that means from the end of James 3. We jump into Tim giving us a quick overview of what has been covered in the last couple of chapters before he starts going through the passage for today. Tim looks at how we define wisdom based on people around us and their "status", and how the world defines wisdo...

Gavin Lynch looks at how to manage our mouth as James discusses in Chapter 3. Andrew Linton starts us off with a pastoral prayer before handing over to Gavin who gives us a brief intro before asking Jonathan Linton to read the passage for today. Gavin then looks at the clarity that James hopes to give here, with the theme "Our words have the power to be a blessing or a curse – you choose!&quo...

While we take a break from our current series, Lewis Varley challenges us to summarise what the Bible is all about in 12 words or less. Lewis dives straight in with the question for this week, breaking for a couple of minutes to allow those present to discuss their answers. He then turns to Luke 24 to see how Jesus answers the question. After reading the passage, Lewis gives us some context of wha...

Kanda Sami brings us a special Easter Sunday message this morning. Kanda starts with a couple of anecdotes about preaching and the journey he's been on to speak this morning, before turning to Romans 5 and looking at the paradise that Adam lost being re-gained through Christ. He then looks at 1 Corinthians 15 and the Ressurection story presented here. Kanda then looks at five different ways th...

Peter Sun brings us into chapter 2 of James in our new series, looking at the pitfalls of partiality, Peter takes us for a quick overview of our study, reminding us of the overall theme of James being "maturity in Christ". He then tells a story of a conservative church in America, and how it relates to our passage for today regarding partiality. Peter then looks at what partiality is (st...

Andrew Linton wraps up James 1 in our new series this week. Andrew begins with a brief overview of what we know about James, before getting James Broadbridge up to read our passage for this morning. After the reading, he follows up with a survey on how many people skipped lunch that morning, before swinging to look at the concept of "no Bible, no breakfast", which leads into our title fo...

Dan Pettersen brings us verses 12-18 from James 1 this week in our new series. Dan does a quick review of prior weeks before starting with a story of his time in Korea and the test for the English language school, which leads to the discussion of the homonym "peirasmos" which James uses in this part of the passage. He then looks at the homonym and the trials and temptations we may face,...

Kristopher Stout joins us from Word of Life (Executive Vice President of International and Youth Ministries) and shares about righteousness as discussed in Ephesians 6:14. Kris takes us through why this topic has been on his heart before reading through the text on the Armour of God in Ephesians 6:10-17. He then looks at the importance of the Armour of God, and why we need to put it ALL on. Kris t...

Billy Hanna continues our study in James this week, while also taking a chance to chat about baptism. Billy jumps right into it, reviewing the passage from last week for context before looking at verses 5-11. He then looks at his statement "In order to face our trials with a Godly perspective, we need God’s wisdom", looking at three points that this encompasses. Billy then looks at what...

Sam Crosbie jumps right into the book of James in our new series, looking at the first four verses this week. Sam looks at the passage right away, starting in verse 1 of James chapter 1, to introduce us to our audience. He then looks at the analogy of running for the sake of running, or for doing something for an "end goal" but no other purpose, before swinging around to his statement fo...

Dan Pettersen kicks off our new series "Putting Our Faith Into Practice" with an overview of the book of James. Dan starts by looking back at our series from last year and what we covered, which leads into the series we're going into looking at how we take what we learnt last year and make it practical. Dan then looks at who James was, and where he fits into the narrative. He then di...

Gavin Lynch wraps up our book overview of Nehemiah, and our "Who Are We?" series as a whole this week, looking at Nehemiah 13. Gavin gives us an overview of our study this year leading to the question "What do we need to do now?" Gavin then looks at an illustration of how we can tend to "play up when the Master isn't home". Titling his message "Avoiding the P...

Bradley Joubert continues our study in Nehemiah, looking at chapters 8 to 12. Bradley gives us a very brief introduction of himself before diving straight into our text for today after opening with prayer. After reading from the passage, Bradley looks at our first point, "Confession". With four points, he looks at how "the confessions of the Israelites were brought about by the Word...

Jeremy Lind continues our study in Nehemiah, looking at a detailed overview of chapters 4 to 7. Jeremy gives us a quick bio for himself before diving into "story" to give us some context to look at our passage in, looking at what story we tell ourselves that motivates our daily behaviour, and how this "story" drove Nehemiah. He then looks at the contrast between "Effective...

Dan starts us off by taking a look at the series "Who Are We?" that we've been going through as a church over the year, giving an overview of the topics and books we've been focusing on. He then takes us back to look at the first Church in Acts and how they developed. Dan then looks at the four things that we want to become characterised by as a church: "The Apostles Teachin...

Caleb Wilkinson-Mackie shares a bit with us about his time in Nepal, while also sharing from Romans 10:9-15. Caleb starts with a time of prayer as part of the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. He then shares a bit behind the work he recently did in Nepal and the heart behind why he did it, before diving into our passage for today. After reading through the text, Caleb breaks i...

Brian Goodwin is back to talk to us about our life from Acts 20:17-27. Brian starts with a small promo for Lake Learning in January at Lake Taupo, before sharing an anecdote about his "baptismal" story. Brian then brings us around to Acts 20:17-27, where Paul is addressing the Elders at Ephesus, and he breaks down his words into 2 points/challenges - Believe, and Achieve. "Do You Be...

Lewis Varley wraps up our study of Ephesians, looking at "Christ in our problems" in chapter 6 verses 10 to 24. Lewis dives straight into reading our passage this morning before diving into some analogies that tie into our text for today, focusing on how we respond to problems in our lives as Christians. He then looks at how Paul describes how to deal with these troubles in the passage....