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Reader: Levi Dacion Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh & Bek Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 39. Our society today does whatever it can to avoid talking about death. Jonathan even spoke about where in the past he has spoken about death in sermons, some people reomstrated with him. The bible, however, is full of death, and this psalm is no different. If we look at death as inevitable an...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Bek, Josh & Susie Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 4. David, the all powerful king, realises that he does not have the power to solve all problems. So many of our leaders today try to make us believe they can solve society's problems - economic, housing, employment, law and order. Instead, society is left more divided. David tells us t...

Reader: Judy Carr Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Red Door Worship Team Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 46. This psalm opens with the verse "God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble". At certain times in our lives it feels like God is not there, but he is. God also commads us in verse 10 to "Stop fighting, and know than I am God." Other translation...

Reader: Daniel Yong Preacher: Josh Hennessy Music: Josh Hennessy & Bek Hudson Today Josh is teaching from Psalm 36. It seems that this psalm is telling us that evil people will be punished and those who follow God are blessed, however Josh asks us to look deep into this psalm. Jesus told people that many who claim to follow him will be rejected because they are following a God of their own making...

Reader: Gehan Pereria Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey Today Pastor Jonathan is teaching from Psalm 146, a psalm which starts with the command Hallelujah! Literally, this word means "All of you, praise the Lord", and with the exclamation point, it's a command. When we read this, we often take it one of two ways - with pride because we are praising God daily, or with dispair because we...

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today we start our twelfth year of exploring the Psalms during the summer break. Pastor Jonathan is teaching from Psalm 30, a psalm where David looks at how great things are when he's walking with God, but also how bad things are when he turns from God. The message from this psalm is that even though he was far from God at the time he wrote this,...

Preacher: Josh Hennessy Today is Christmas Day, and in this message Josh goes back to the start of creation. This seems like a strange place to start when it's Christmas. Shouldn't we start at the birth of Jesus? No, Josh wants us to understand why Jesus was born, so we can marvel more at what God has done for us. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community o...

Reader: Jonathan Smith Preacher: Doug Carr Music: Josh Henessey Today is Christmas Eve, and in this final message from our series of The Women Of Advent, Doug tells us of the story of Mary, a young woman who would have been ostracised by her culture for being unmarried and pregnant. Yet throughout this whole series we have seen how God has incorporated women considered "scandalous" by their societ...

Reader: Marios Kyriakou Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey & Bek Hudson This week is the fourth week of Advent for 2024. Today Pastor Jonathan is looking into how Bathsheba fits into the birth of Jesus, exploring no matter how broken people are in their behaviour, God can and does use these very people to bring about his plans. We can take comfort in this, particularly when we recognise...

Reader: Graeme Miller Preacher: Josh henessey Music: Leslie Edis, Josh Henessey This week is the third week of Advent for 2024. Today Josh is looking into how Ruth fits into the birth of Jesus, exploring no matter how broken people are in their behaviour, God can and does use these very people to bring about his plans. We can take comfort in this, particularly when we recognise that we are not rig...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Tibor Tumbas Music: Bek & John Hudon, Josh Henessey This week is the second week of Advent for 2024. Today Tibor is looking into how Rahab fits into the birth of Jesus, exploring no matter how broken people are in their behaviour, God can and does use these very people to bring about his plans. We can take comfort in this, particularly when we recognise that we are...

Reader: Levi Dacion Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey & Joanna Justus This week is the start of Advent for 2024. In this series, we look at the women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in the first chapter of Matthew's gospel. Today Pastor Jonathan is looking into how Tamar fits into the birth of Jesus, exploring no matter how broken people are in their behaviour, God can and does use...

Reader: Gehan Pereira Preacher: Jonathan Smith This week Jonathan is preaching from Luke 18:1-8. This short parable reveals that as we wait for Christ's return, Christians will suffer injustice. Unlike the judge in the parable, God is just and will eagerly hear and answer our pleas for help. Our part is to persevere in prayer. Today we are doing something a bit different. Normally we end the sermo...

Reader: Doug Carr Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Leslie Edis & Josh Henessey The Parable of the Prodigal Son reveals that God’s love and grace is immense beyond our wildest dreams. Irrespective of the mess we have made of our lives, his overwhelming desire is to welcome us home with open arms. However, as per all of Jesus's parables, there is more to ths story than we normally think. This story i...

Reader: Anne Miller Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey, John Hudson & Bek Hudson Today Pastor Jonathan looks at the parable of The Grand Banquet. Jesus turns the social norms of the first century ancient world upside down when he says that we shouldn't invite people to our social events because they can return the favour to us. Instead, we should invite those who can never repay the fav...

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: John Hudson Music: Josh Hennessy, Joanna Justus & Bek Hudson Today John looks at the parable of The Good Samaritan. Often times we look at this parable and hope we can be like the Good Samaritan, but John wants us to look at this parable from a different perspective. What if we are the person who was robbed, the victim who the Good Samaritan helped? If Jesus sym...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith God’s forgiveness is vast and extravagant, and he calls the forgiven to exercise grace in forgiving others from the heart. The consequences for unforgiveness are dire. This week Pastor Jonathsn look at Jesus’ convicting parable of the unforgiving servant. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of...

Reader: Daniel Yong Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey Today Pastor Jonathan starts a new series on The Parables Of Jesus. This first message looks at the parable of The Sower, and Jonathan explains to us why Jesus taught in parables. message for us is to investigate for ourselves the underlying truth and message of the gospel that is found in the parables. Red Door is an Anglican Churc...

Reader: Marios Kyriakou Preacher: Josh Henessey Music: John Hudson, Josh Henessey & Natalie Tumbas Today Josh gives Red Door Church his testamony, and part of that is how two young men discipled him when he was a teenager. The unconditionally gave their time and other resources to help Josh understand who he is in God's Kingdom. There was a cost involved by these 2 men - a cost that Josh couldn't...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: John Hudson Music: Josh Henessey & Mel Truong Today John Hudson presents the final week of our Job mini-series. After his friends’ terrible theology, the Lord speaks and gives his answer. Then we see Job’s final restoration. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Mel Truong Preacher: John Hudson Music: Josh Henessey, Joanna Justus & Bek Hudson Today John continues in a three week mini-series on the Book Of Job. Today's message is titled 'Miserable Comforters'. Job's friends initially sit with Job to bring him comfort, but then they try to solve why Job is suffering - saying he must have sinned and so he is being punished. John points out the error...

Reader: Levi Dacion Preacher: John Hudson Music: Josh Henessey, Joanna Justus & Bek Hudson Today John starts a three week mini-series on the Book Of Job. Today's message is titled 'Questions Of Suffering'. John does not try to solve the question of why God allows suffering, but by the same token, he does not give the stock standard cliche responses that are often heard when this difficult topic is...

Reader: Judy Carr Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey & Natalie Timbus Today Pastor Jonathan compares the person King David was and what he was meant, to be to King Jesus. David was tempted and gave in to his sin; Jesus was tempted but did not. David was punished for his sin; Jesus was punished for ours. Finally, David was pardoned from his sin because of the sacrifice he made; we are pa...

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: John & Bek Hudson, Joanna Justus Today's message is hard, however it is in the Bible, so we need to navigate this hard truth and understand both why this story is there and what is its purpose. The story of then rape of Tamar by her half-brother Amnon is full of evil. It proves that as a society, we are no different to the ancient Israelites. S...

Reader: Graeme Miller Preacher: Jonathan Smith Music: Josh Henessey, Leslie Edis & Bek Hudson From the peak where David had God's heart in establishing the kingdom as a nation governed by God's law, he gives into his desires and has an adulterous relationship with another man's wife. When things go wrong (Bathsheba is pregnant), David schemes to cover the affair, ultimately leading to the murder o...