Myrtle House Podcast

This sermon launched the Growing Together series by focusing on belonging as the foundation of healthy Christian community. Using the story of Mephibosheth and King David, it showed how belonging leads to believing, shaping identity, loyalty, and faith. David’s kindness and invitation to the table transformed Mephibosheth’s life, moving him from shame and isolation into value and honour, and produ...

This sermon continued the theme of loving God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and loving our neighbour, by looking at the life of Moses as a living example. Through Moses’ encounter with God at the burning bush, we saw that loving God is shown through wholehearted obedience, even when God’s call feels challenging or costly. Moses trusted God’s presence and responded in faith, underst...

At Myrtle House Community Church this week, we continued our journey of exploring what it really means to love God and love our neighbour. Martin O’Brien led us deeper into Jesus’ words in Luke 10:27, where love for God and love for others are held together as one inseparable calling. You cannot truly live one without the other. Jesus makes it clear that loving God with all our heart, soul, mind,...

Last Sunday we continued our journey from the previous week, asking a very practical and deeply challenging question. What does it really look like to love your neighbour as yourself? Pete Grieg puts it simply and powerfully when he says, “Adopt Jesus’s lifestyle.” If we truly take on the way Jesus lived, loved, and responded to people, loving our neighbour will no longer be an abstract idea. It w...

A New Year Message from Myrtle House Community Church At our New Year service this Sunday, we paused together to reflect on a question that sits at the heart of every fresh start: what are we really resolving to do with our lives? New Year resolutions are nothing new. Every January people make plans to get fitter, save more money, break bad habits, or achieve personal goals. There is nothing wrong...

The first Sunday of Advent always brings a special sense of anticipation—a stirring reminder that we are a people who wait with purpose. This week at Myrtle House Community Church, Ellen Chapman invited us to rediscover what Advent truly means: a season of preparing, expecting, hoping, and aligning ourselves with the heartbeat of God. Advent isn’t just about counting down to Christmas. It’s also a...

This past Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Carmella brought a stirring word that tied together the rich journey we've been on over the last few weeks—learning what it truly means to walk with the Holy Spirit. This time, she brought us to an often-overlooked figure in Scripture: Simeon, a man who appears only briefly in the Bible, yet models the very heart of a Spirit-led life. And through...

This week at Myrtle House Community Church, we were blessed to hear from guest speaker Stuart Watkins, who brought a heartfelt and stirring word on one of the most central, yet often misunderstood, callings in the Christian life: we are made to worship. Not just on Sunday mornings. Not only in the songs we sing. But in the whole of our being, in every corner of our daily lives, in every ordinary m...

This past Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Martin O’Brien continued our series “Don’t Rely on the Naked Eye”, exploring what it truly means to live a Spirit-led life. If we aren’t relying on what we can see with our natural eyes, then we must learn to rely on the Holy Spirit. Jesus is our perfect example — from His birth to His resurrection, every moment of His life was shaped, empowered,...

This week, we continued our journey exploring what it means to live life beyond the naked eye—to live by faith, led and filled by the Holy Spirit. Bill reminded us that everything God has planned for our lives, every purpose and calling, can only be fulfilled through the work of the Holy Spirit within us. From the Old Testament to today, we see that the Spirit’s presence has always been part of Go...

This Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Martin O’Brien continued our recent teaching series inspired by the phrase: “Don’t rely on the naked eye.” Over the past few weeks, we’ve explored what it means to see life through faith and not just through what we can see physically. This week, Martin turned our focus to the Holy Spirit — the unseen presence of God who lives within every believer — a...

At Myrtle House Community Church this Sunday, we continued exploring the powerful theme, “Don’t rely on the naked eye.” This week’s message encouraged us to move one step further — to believe what we see when God opens our spiritual eyes. We read together the story of Pentecost from Acts 2 — a moment that changed everything. The disciples were told by Jesus to wait until they received the Holy Spi...

Last week, we were reminded not to rely on the naked eye—to see beyond what is visible and to trust in the unseen work of God. This week, we took that phrase even deeper: What does it actually mean to live that way? How do we trust what we can’t see? It’s easy to say, “Don’t rely on the naked eye,” but it’s much harder to live it out when life gets confusing, intimidating, or painful. Yet this is...

Have you ever found yourself saying, “I’ll believe it when I see it”? So often, our natural tendency is to rely on what’s right in front of us—the visible, the logical, the measurable. But as Pastor Bill reminded us this week, God calls us to live by faith, not by sight. This generation remembers what it sees more than what it reads or hears. But what happens when what we see doesn’t line up with...

This past Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Ellen Chapman reminded us that God is on a mission for us to get our ducks in a row. It is about preparation, about being ready for what God wants to do in our lives, our church, and our community. God’s plan is that His Kingdom would come on earth, and He calls each of us to play a part. He does not just want us to survive. He wants our lives to...

This Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Ellen Chapman reminded us that we serve a God of multiplication. From Genesis to Revelation, God has always been about growth—blessing, expanding, and transforming lives. Yet there is a manifesto of Jesus that the church too often forgets: “Go and make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). This is not a suggestion, not just the job of pastors or l...

At Myrtle House Community Church this week, Bill Chapman shared a powerful reminder drawn from Luke 22:17–20, where Jesus said: “Do this in remembrance of me.” When we take communion, we remember the cross, the broken body, and the blood shed for our sins. That alone is monumental—but Bill challenged us to see that it’s not only the cross we are called to remember. Paul urges Timothy in 2 Timothy...

This week at Myrtle House Community Church, Martin O’Brien brought a powerful message about the deep longing within each of us— a longing to live well, to do what is right, to know God more deeply, and to live with true meaning and purpose. Too often, we settle for simply surviving. But God calls us to something greater: to live wholeheartedly for Him. We live in a world overflowing with informati...

This Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Martin O’Brien shared a message titled “Our Eternal Hope”, reminding us that while our journey of faith is often challenging, it is hope in Jesus that gives us the endurance to keep going. The book of Hebrews was written to believers facing hardship because of their faith. They needed courage to endure—and their strength came from clinging to an eterna...

This Sunday at Myrtle House Community Church, Martin O’Brien continued our journey through Scripture by asking a powerful question: “Is anyone thirsty?” From the Old Testament to the New, we see a prophetic thread of living water flowing through the story of God—water that brings healing, refreshment, and eternal life. In Ezekiel 47, the prophet has a vision of water flowing from the temple, bring...

This week, Martin O’Brien powerfully continued his teaching on the altar of fire, showing how the image of fire moves from the Old Testament altar to the New Testament heart—and what we must do when that fire begins to fade. The Fulfilment of Fire: From Malachi to Jesus We began in Malachi 3:1–3, where the prophet speaks of one who is coming like a refiner’s fire—a foretelling of Jesus, the Lamb o...

This Sunday at Myrtle House, Martin O’Brien picked up from last week’s powerful message, diving deeper into the theme of the altar of fire. His questions challenged us all: What is the altar of fire? How do you keep the fire burning? What do you do if the fire has gone out? Through the lens of 2 Chronicles 15:1–15, Martin reminded us that when we seek God, we find Him—and He responds with fire. Th...

This Sunday, Bill Chapman shared a powerful message drawn from the dramatic confrontation in 1 Kings 18-19—when Elijah faced off against the prophets of Baal. But Bill didn’t just talk about fire from heaven; he talked about the fire within us. Fire isn’t just about miracles. It’s about refining. Why Fire? Why Challenges? From Proverbs to Malachi, from Isaiah to 1 Peter, the Bible shows us again a...

This Sunday, Ellen Chapman continued her journey through the life of David, reminding us that before he ever wore a crown, he carried a staff. David wasn’t just the warrior who defeated Goliath or the king who ruled a nation—he was a shepherd boy who knew the heart of his God. The message this week centred around Psalm 23, one of the most well-known and well-loved passages in Scripture. Written by...

This past Sunday, Ellen Chapman walked us through the early life of David—the boy anointed by God to be king, long before he wore a crown. From the anointing in 1 Samuel 16 to the battlefield showdown with Goliath in chapter 17, we explored what it means to be appointed by God, prepared in the wilderness, and called to overcome giants. Anointed & Appointed: What Has God Set You Apart For? Ellen be...