Lutheran - St. Paul's Sydney Podcast

Our focus for this week is - Life with Jesus is always reliable       Support the show

This week in worship we explore how life with Jesus, changes our heart, words and actions.  Support the show

This week in worship we look at a familiar story, Jesus walking on water and explore how this story helps us with the challenges we face as individuals and as a church.   Pastor Richards message is based on Matthew 14:22-33. Support the show

This week we begin a new worship series Life with Jesus, with this week's focus being Life with Jesus - does wonders with what we have.   I look forward in exploring with you the Gospel readings over the next few weeks, where we learn from Jesus and His way of life.      Support the show

This week as we continue our worship series, Spiritual Focus based on Romans 8, we explore how a Spiritual Focus means we will see how God is always loving us and what this means for us and others through good and ordinary times.    Support the show

This week as we continue our worship series, Spiritual Focus based on Romans 8, we explore how a Spiritual Focus gives us hope from God, no matter what situation we face.   This hope differs from every other form of hope, because it is guaranteed to come to fruition.  Support the show

This week we begin a new worship series, Spiritual Focus, based on Romans 8.   Over the next three weeks we will be exploring how a Spiritual Focus affects our outlook on life, God and our relationship with God and each other.  In our first episode of Spiritual Focus we will see how a spiritual focus leads to us seeing life as one where there is life and peace.   Support the show

This week our focus is on message from Matthew 11:28-30 that everyone needs to hear....Jesus invites  us to come to Him and He will give us rest.  In our worship today we will explore what rest with Jesus looks like and how to rest well with Jesus.    Support the show

This week we explore a text (Matthew 10: 40-42) that reminds us that when we meet with people...Jesus is also meeting with them.  We explore why it is important for us to be intentionally connecting so others can meet Jesus Support the show

This week we explore a text (Matthew 10: 24-39) that reminds us that God knows us as intimately, that that he sees us as valuable and even though we will face difficulties because of our faith, God still loves us and is with us.  Support the show

Influenced by Matthew 9:35-10:23 our focus this week is transformational.  It changes the way we should approach giving....it moves us from seeing giving as something we do to get something in return....to giving because we have already been blessed and are being blessing by God. Pastor Richard helps us explore how our new start as Christians involves giving because we have already received....and...

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the day where we focus on God being Father, Son and Holy Spirit....which means God is involved in everything and every situation of our lives.    Pastor Richard helps us explore what it means for our new starts to be locally and globally focused based on Matthew 28:16-20. Support the show

There are times in our lives, when we have a new start in our lives, and today's focus on Pentecost reminds us that when God is involved in the new starts in our lives some unexpected but also good things happen..   Pastor Richard helps us explore what it means for our new starts to be led by the Spirit based on Acts 2:1-21 Support the show

This week we explore how our lives as resurrected focused people, gain the purpose of living as witnesses for Jesus in all aspects of our lives.   Our sermon this week is influenced by Acts 1:6-14 Support the show

This week Pastor Richard explores that in following Jesus, we are drawn to focusing on the Genuine and Life-Giving God...based on Acts 17:22-31 Support the show

This week Pastor Richard, explores how the story of Stephen is relevant to our lives, especially how Stephen kept his eyes and heart on the gift Jesus gives us, heaven.   We will look at how this is not only relevant for our salvation, but also how it affects our daily lives.    Our sermon is influenced by Acts 7:55-60 Support the show

This week Pastor Richard explores how the early followers of Jesus adopted 4 key activities regularly, that helped them and potential us grow in our relationship with Jesus. Support the show

This week Pastor Richard explores with us what it means for people who are blessed by the Resurrection to have our lives shaped and guided by the promises of God.  Based on Acts 2:36-41 Support the show

Based on Acts 2:22-32, Pastor Richard Schwedes explore with us the fact that as Christians, the resurrection of Jesus gives us not just hope but a guaranteed hope that will come true. Support the show

Pastor Richard explores with us Celebrating - Jesus styles based on Matthew 28:1-10 Support the show

Pastor Richard Schwedes explores Service - Jesus Style based on John 13:1-17.    Support the show

Pastor Richard's Good Friday message for Hope FM and other Christian Radio Stations Support the show

Pastor Richard reflects on The journey Jesus took for us, based on John chapters 18 and 19 Support the show

Pastor Richard's radio message for the Lutheran Church of Australia (NSWACT) for Easter Sunday Support the show

This week Pastor Richard Schwedes explore what it means for Jesus to be our down to earth king, based on Matthew 21:1-11 Support the show