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Reader: Amy Caruana Preacher: Joshua Henessey Paul’s ministry was about more than simply preaching the gospel and moving on. He was committed to making disciples, gathering believers together, and preserving the unity of the church around the truth of the gospel. Josh looks at what it means to be a church shaped by those same commitments, and why they still matter for us today. Red Door is an Angl...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith The silversmith's complaint is economic before it's religious - Paul's gospel is costing the idol trade its income - but Demetrius wraps it in civic pride and religious devotion: Great is Artemis of the Ephesians! (v.28). Opposition to the gospel is rarely about the gospel alone. Behind the theological objection there's almost always something else -...

Reader: Danita O’Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Paul's time in Ephesus is the longest and most fruitful ministry episode in Acts as he spends two years teaching so that all of Asia hears the word (v.10). Then the sons of Sceva try to use Jesus' name as a magic formula, and it goes badly wrong. The point is serious: Jesus' name isn't a technique - it belongs to a person, and carries power only i...

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith This week we follow Paul to Corinth, a bustling Roman city, where he works with his hands alongside Priscilla and Aquila, a couple recently expelled from Rome. He preaches in the synagogue until opposition drives him next door. Then one night the Lord speaks to him: don’t be afraid, keep speaking, I am with you, and I have many people in this city. Red D...

Reader: Amy Caruana Preacher: Joshua Hennessey "What's the point of the Christian faith, and what are believers called to do?” How would you answer a question like that? This week, Josh preaches through the last chapter of 2 Peter, where Peter signs off with a final encouragement that helps us understand how he might respond. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
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Reader: Esther Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith Jonathan takes us through chapter 2, of 2 Peter - Peter's hard hitting final letter to the church. Peter continues to pull no punches in his stark warnings about false teachers and the judgement awaiting them. This is tempered by the reminder that the Lord knows how to rescue his people from trials. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Austral...

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Josh Hennessy Today we start a 3 week mini-series on 2 Peter. Josh gives us some background on Peter, so we can better understand where this letter is coming from, and so we can appreciate its authenticity. Peter really wants the church to be useful and fruitful. Josh expands on what it means to be useful and fruitful in the Kingdom of God. Red Door is an Anglican Chur...

Reader: Esther Hudson Preacher: Tibor Tumbas Tibor is preaching from Ephesians 4. Paul makes a surprising claim: unity isn't something the church creates, it's something God has already made in Christ - and our job is to guard it. What does that look like in practice, and what kind of church God is growing us into.? Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.
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Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Paul in Athens doesn't begin with Abraham or Moses. He begins where his audience is - their religious instinct, their altar to an unknown god, their poets - then moves from what they already sense to what they don't yet know: a God who made everything, needs nothing, and isn't far from any of us. The sermon is contextualisation without compromise....

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith In Thessalonica, Paul reasons from Scripture that the Messiah had to suffer and rise, and that Jesus is that Messiah (v.3). Some are persuaded; others form a mob. The charge against Paul's community - these people who've turned the world upside down (v.6) - is meant as an accusation. Luke records it as a tribute. In Berea, the response is different: t...

Reader : Amy Caruana Preacher : Jonathan Smith First we meet a girl who is doubly enslaved - owned by men who profit from her, and possessed by a spirit that speaks through her. When Paul commands the spirit out in the name of Jesus, her exploiters don't rejoice at her freedom; they calculate their lost revenue and start a riot (v.19). The demonic and the greedy had been in comfortable partnership...

APOLOGIES: THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH PARTS OF THIS RECORDING. Some of the sound is indecipherable. Reader : Danita O'Loughlin Preacher : Jonathan Smith This passage is full of surprising turns. Paul circumcises Timothy - the same Paul who just fought at Jerusalem against circumcision as a requirement for salvation - because Timothy's mixed heritage would otherwise bar him from synagogue ministry. Pri...

Reader : Jake Elzo Preacher : Jonathan Smith The council's letter acknowledges the unnecessary burden that had been placed on Gentile believers without their authorisation. Regarding their direction to abstain from certain things, scholars generally read their intentions in one of three overlapping ways: 1. Leviticus 17–18 background. The four prohibitions match, in roughly the same order, the req...

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith The Jerusalem Council was the first big test of the early church’s beliefs. There were some Jewish Christians who believed that to be saved you also had to be circumcised and to follow the law of Moses. After much debate, the decision was reached that salvation only comes through faith in Jesus Christ and nothing else. This fundamental truth is one of th...

Reader: Amy Caruana Preacher: John Hudson Today John takes us through Ecclesiastes, chapter 3, where there is a time for everything. We sometimes stress about the time we are in because we are going through a difficult moment, but John teaches that these moments will pass. God has an eternal view of time and we only have a temporal view. God stepped out of eternity into our time so that we can ste...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Nathan Holland Nathan Holland from Open Doors is our guest preacher today. Red Door Church partners with Open Doors by giving some of our income to them as one of the mission partners we support. Today Nathan is exploring what it’s like to live in an environment full of persecution and how Open Doors helps the church in these areas. Open Doors doesn’t actively try t...

Reader: Jonathan Smith Preacher: Josh Hennessy Today Josh is looking at Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae. Paul reminds the people there that they have heard the gospel and its truth, and that it is bearing fruit, not just in their church but all over the world. He could just as well be writing that very same letter to us here at Red Door Church. The only reason why Red Door Church exists is...

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Chris Varughese In Romans 12, from Paul's teachings, Chris tells us that there are 3 things God is calling us to do to live out God's will together: 1. To be Living Sacrifices; 2. To use the gifts we've been given for service; 3. To live as a community God's way. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people...

Reader: Esther Hudson Preacher: Josh Hennessy Regularly we look at the Book Of Jonah and think it's about a prophet and his rebellion against God. This is partially true. It's a reflection on us all, where we also rebel against God. However, the real story of this book is God's sovereignty. Even though Jonah rebels, he still carries out God's will, and in this case, God's will is to save the very...

Reader: Jake Elzo Preacher: Jonathan Smith The final chapter in Part III of our series details a pretty wild conclusion to the first missionary journey. In Iconium, the city is divided and a plot is formed to stone Paul and Barnabas. In Lystra, Paul is first mistaken for Hermes and nearly worshipped, then stoned and left for dead in the street. In Derbe, they make many disciples - and then, remark...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith Paul stands in a synagogue - among people who know the story of Israel - and traces the entire arc of that story to its fulfilment in Jesus: promised, rejected, crucified, raised, vindicated. The response is mixed. Many beg to hear more, but the synagogue rulers contradict and insult. Paul and Barnabas respond directly: since you reject eternal life,...

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith The first deliberate, organised mission in Acts is launched from the new community in Antioch - not in a strategic meeting, but as they worship and fast. Paul and Barnabas's first significant encounter on the island of Cyprus is a head-to-head with Elymas, a sorcerer who tries to prevent the proconsul from hearing the gospel. The encounter is not random,...

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Chapter 12 is a commentary about where ultimate power lies. Herod Agrippa I is at the height of his authority - executing apostles, imprisoning Peter, enjoying the applause of crowds who honour him as a god. By the end of the chapter he is dead while Peter walks free. The church's weapon against its persecutors is not force, but prayer fervent, pe...

Antioch shouldn't have happened. The unnamed disciples who travelled there after Stephen's death were scattered refugees, not apostles. Yet a church was planted and something amazing took root: a community so visibly different that the watching city came up with a new name for them: Christians. Antioch also becomes a model of sacrificial generosity, sending financial relief to Judean brothers and...

Acts 11:1-18 by Red Door Church