Northside Church - Sydney

9AM & 10:45AM – Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Never Ending Story Week 2: Your Passion/His Purposes Each year you will have been given 525, 600 minutes. Often we look back and wonder where did they go? What you love is seen in your passions, priorities and purposes. Therefore aligning our loves with God’s loves is key to uncovering a life of purpose and passion in even the smallest incremen...

6PM – Speaker: Sam Haddon – New Series: Never Ending Story Week 1: His, Ours, Your Story How do we become difference makers in the world around us? God’s desire since the beginning off time, has been to write His Story across the pages of History, through every day people. This series is about discovering what God has given you in this life and using it, no matter how big or small. How will you us...

9AM & 10:45AM – Speaker: Sam Haddon – New Series: Never Ending Story Week 1: His, Ours, Your Story How do we become difference makers in the world around us? God’s desire since the beginning off time, has been to write His Story across the pages of History, through every day people. This series is about discovering what God has given you in this life and using it, no matter how big or small. How w...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Staying Cool When the Heat is On! Conflict among people (even Christians) is an inevitable part of life. How we handle conflict – especially what we say can make a huge difference to how the issue is eventually resolved. If we’re growing in Christ and allowing His Spirit to control our conversation, we can choose words that will help to minimise the chances of serious confl...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Five x 5 Week 5: Five Things to Say To Help Young People Keep The Faith Most research indicates the present generation of young people are turning their backs on Church and Christianity in droves. This leads many to wonder about the viability of the Christian Church in the future. What can we say today to the young people in our care, to help them stay true to...

Speaker: Sam Haddon Cont. Series: Ditto – Walking as Jesus Walked Join us for a night of insight, as we process what it means to walk as Jesus Walked or do “Ditto”

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Five x 5 Week 4: Five Things to Say To Strengthen Your Marriage On the day of the wedding it’s those two words “I Do” that bring a huge smile to the faces of the Bride, the Groom and their assembled friends and family. However, beyond that day, a married couple choose many words as part of their ongoing journey together and these are the words which either mak...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Ditto Week 5: Read as Jesus Read In Jesus’ time there was no kindle, no self help section of the bookstore, no vast array of” life guiding” seminars, and yet he managed to life the perfect human life. How did he do it? God’s word. God’s word was paramount in every aspect his life, and for those seeking to live a Ditto life – we’ll uncover how we make it centra...

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Cont. Series: Five x 5 Week 3: Five Things To Say To Someone Who Claims Not To Believe With atheism on the rise in Australia and its “evangelists” becoming more militant, most of us will have many people within our circle of family members, friends and acquaintances who claim they don’t believe in God. What does Christianity have to say to them? How can we cause them to have...

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Cont. Series: Ditto Week 4:Obey as Jesus Obeyed Obeying God sounds like it can be restrictive and a “kill-joy”. Yet, for Jesus he appeared to do it with ease? What are the trademarks of a life that naturally desires what God desires? How do you move your life to a pattern of obeying God, not because you have to, but because you want to? Reading: John 15:19-27 (NIV)

Speaker – Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Five x 5 Week 2: Five Things To Say To Minimise Conflict Conflict among friends, within marriage, in the workplace etc. is inevitable; it’s how we handle those conflict situations that’s of crucial importance. Naturally our selection of words in dealing with the issues can make a difference to the outcome. With God’s help, we can choose the right words.. Read...

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Cont. Series: Ditto Week 3: Pray as Jesus Prayed Prayer can be seen as a religious exercise, or something that Christians have to do as part of their church life. Jesus shows us something radically different. Prayer was the very lifeline for God’s guidance in His life, and the good news is that it can be the same for us also. Reading: Luke 11:1 (NIV)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – New Series: Five x 5 Week 1: Five Things to Say When Helping a Friend in Crisis… When a friend, loved one or colleague experiences a crisis (health, financial, relational…) we need to be aware our choice of words as we try to support them is very important. Some words help, but others hinder. With God’s guidance we can make the right choices. Reading: James 2:14-24 (GNT)

Speaker: Graham Agnew Cont. Series: Ditto Week 2: Depend as Jesus Depended The Holy Spirit is a topic of Christianity that often brings a lot of mystery. What is it? How does it work? Yet, when you look closely at the life of Jesus, you see that why and how He did what He did, relied solely on this mysterious person. If we are to live Ditto lives, then how do we learn to Depend as Jesus Depended?...

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 4: Gaining Through Giving It’s paradoxical to be sure, but it’s also true: they key to a life of wholeness, contentment, fulfillment and inner peace, is a spirit of generosity, instilled and nurtured within us, through faith in Jesus. And it’s not just a matter of generosity with our money, but with all we have, are and hope to be....

Speaker: Sam Haddon – New Series: Ditto Week 1: How Real is Your Jesus? What if for one day, Jesus wakes up in your house, walks in your shoes, assumes your calendar? Your boss is now His boss, your circumstances become His circumstances. What if for one day Jesus lives your life with His heart… what would you be like? In this new series, we uncover the great truth of Christianity, that Jesus’ hea...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 3: Greatness 101 In one of His best known statements, Jesus said: “Those who aspire to greatness must be the servant of all”. (Mark 9:35) Long before the business world discovered the terms “Servant Leadership”, Jesus was talking about it as the key to discovering our place within the Community of Faith. As someone as said: “Servi...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 2: Doing Life Together Being a Christian has never been easy but these days, in a society that’s becoming increasingly secular, it’s even more difficult. Today, more than ever, we need the help, encouragement and guidance of fellow believers and one of the most ideal settings in which to build supportive and caring relationships l...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: EXPATS Week 6: The Lions in Dan’s Den “The writing is on the wall…”. This common phrase was sourced in this very chapter of the book of Daniel, and meant that something bad was about to happen. What can we learn from a King who didn’t heed the warning signs? Reading: Daniel 6:1-28 (NIV)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – New Series: Finding You In Community Week 1: The Power of One Hour Spending time in corporate worship is one of the ways we discover our place in the Body of Christ. Regular attendance in worship is vital if we’re going to feel the support and encouragement of our fellow believers, if we’re going to experience that special movement of God’s Spirit that comes when His people...

Speaker: Graham Agnew – EXPATS Week 5: The Writing on the Wall “The writing is on the wall…”. This common phrase was sourced in this very chapter of the book of Daniel, and meant that something bad was about to happen. What can we learn from a King who didn’t heed the warning signs? Reading: Daniel 5:1-6; 17-31 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Winner? | Blues? When daylight savings ends, nights get darker sooner, temperatures colder, community harder. Strangely enough, our spiritual life can often parallel the prevailing season. How do we remain resilient and steadfast in these colder months, and come out a winner over the “Winter Blues”? Reading: 1 John 2:3-6 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 4: Faith for the Furnace Live long enough and you’ll discover that the trials of life are an inevitability. What can we learn from Daniel, in developing a faith “for the furnace”… a faith that will hold true when the challenges of life heat up? Reading: Daniel 3:14-29 (NIV)

Guest Speaker//Troy Blair Troy and Edwina Blair are former Associate Pastors at Northside Community Church. Troy is now the Senior Minister of Campbelltown Church of Christ. Drawing on over fifteen years of ministry,Troy is bound to bring an inspirational message and we welcome him back to the Northside platform.

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 3: Kingdom Hope How do you remain steadfast when the environment around always seems too hostile? Daniel’s example is not one of just behaviour modification, but a focus on a deep seated Hope that we can still have today. Reading: Daniel 2:24-35; 44-45