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Preacher: Doug Carr Reader: Anne Miller Music: Josh Henessey & Joanna Turok Today Pastor Doug continues to look into the hope that Peter expressed in his first letter. Though there was persecution and suffering occurring amongst the early church, Peter offers hope. Hope in Jesus, who suffered and was persecuted, so that all who believe in him can be saved through his death and resurrection. Red Do...

Preacher: Doug Carr Reader: John Hargrave Music: Leslie Edis & Joanna Justus Today Pastor Doug looks into the hope that Peter expressed in his first letter. Though there was persecution and suffering occurring amongst the early church, Peter offers hope. Hope in Jesus, who suffered and was persecuted, so that all who believe in him can be saved through his death and resurrection. Red Door is an An...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Joanna Justus Music: Josh Hennesey & Jo Turok An inherent part of our nature is that we come into conflict with other people. Today's message gives us insight into how to deal with conflict within the church by following what Jesus teaches about conflict resolution in Matthew 18. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Judy Carr Music: Leslie Edis & Joanna Justus The biggest problem humanity has ever had to deal with is the reality of death. Jesus solves the problem by being the solution: he is the resurrection and the life. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Marios Kyriakou Human beings across time have sought to connect to something transcendent, something eternal. Here Jesus reveals himself as the object of their search: he is the way, the truth, and the life. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Gehan Periera In today's message we look at where Jesus says he is The Vine, and we are the branches. In the Old Testament, Israel was meant to be fruitful vine, tended to by God, but Jesus himself is the true vine who gives life to those who remain in him. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people m...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Graeme Miller In today's message we look at where Jesus says he is The Gate and The Shepherd. Self-serving shepherds (pastors, priests, leaders) have done great damage to the People of God from the Old Covenant to the present day. Jesus, The Good Shepherd, lays down his life for his sheep. The problem here is, if he has died for his sheep, what's to stop his sheep...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Danita O'Loughlin In today's message we look at where Jesus says He is The Light Of The World. In Anceint Times, people understood the world to be dark and chaotic. They believed that this chaos was balanced by "The Word". In John's gospel, we see that Jesus is proclaimed as "The Word" - the balance to this darkness and chaos, and it is in this that Jesus claims th...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Daniel Wong In today's message we look at wher Jesus says He is The Bread Of Life. Bread is a staple food for most people around the world - it's good, and we need it for survival, but we will continue to hunger for it. However, when Jesus states that He is the Bread Of Life, he's not referring to the baked product of "bread". Instead He's stating that He is the on...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Marios Kyriakou Today we start a new series where we look at the "I Am" statements that Jesus makes about himself. In this first message, Pastor Jonathan asks of us the question that hopefully we have an answer to - "Who is Jesus?" Over the years there have been many people who have attempted to answer this question, but usually in the wrong context. To some he's a...

Preacher: James Truong Reader: Judy Carr In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today James is preaching from Psalm 29. In this psalm, James speaks of how King David has carefully crafted this poetic psalm where he tells all of the creation, including the angels, that their focus is to give glory to God, and it is in this context that James reminds us that our purpose i...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Anne Miller In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 67. Even though this is a short Psalm, there is a lot of depth here. We are called to praise God, and God blesses us. In turn, we then become a blessing to the entire world. A lot of the time, we do not fully recognise the blessings we have r...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: John Hargrave In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 139. There are some very well known verses in htis psalm - so well known that a number of them appear on Christian marketing items such as coffee mugs and tea towels. However, today Jonathan is looking at the lesser known verses in more dep...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Joanna Justus In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 16. David, King Of Israel has everything at his disposal - people, palaces, riches, yet in this psalm he recognises that he has nothing without God who is his refuge. David speaks of the of the sorrows he has for people who have another god...

Preacher: Doug Carr Reader: Judy Carr In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Dougis preaching from Psalm 42. The Psalmist is talking of his depresssion and anxiety, and when he's chastened by his enemies, asking him "Where is your God?", he speaks to the truth that even under the hardest situations, God is there. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne,...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Melissa Truong In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 116. The Psalmist is praising God even though he is going through difficult times. Jonathan, speaking from the heart and from perosnal experience, tells us why he thinks that we don't cry out to God when we should. Red Door is an Anglican...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Gehan Pereira In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 31. This Psalm shows us that lamenting properly is a good thing, particularly when we lament to God, and put our trust and hope into him. Lamenting is not something that western culture is good at, so there are many valuable lessons in this...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Graeme Miller In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 98. This Psalm tells us to worship God, because of what he has done for us in the past, because what he is doing for us in the present and because what he will do in the future. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exi...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith We all bid to make connections with other people. The Christmas Story is about greatest bid for connection in the history of the world where the God of the Universe connects with his creation by sending his son Jesus, born on Christmas Day. 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...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Nora Sulte Following on from the message on Christmas Eve, where the God of the Universe connects with his creation by sending his son Jesus, Pastor Jonathan relects on WHY God did this - and the simple scandolous answer is because He loves us. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of li...

Preacher: John Sugars Reader: Daniel Wong John finishes our Advent series for 2022 where we've been looking at Mary's Magnifcat for the past 4 weeks. Today's world seems to be all about us being the centre of attention, but here, Mary focuses in on God, the hero of the story. Her song seems to be sung in the past tense because what God is going to do through his Son, he has already done in the pas...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Danita O'Loughlin This week we look at the words Mary sang in her song of praise known as The Magnificat. She chooses to magnify God her saviour because she knows his faithfulness. She expresses her joy in something eternal. We tend to express our joy in temporary things - like holidays, places, experiences - but the joy does not last. Being joyful in God is eterna...

Preacher: Helen Cetrangolo Reader: James Truong With being unmarried and pregnant. Mary would have been wondering what was going on, but she was able to lean into the scriptures, lean into confirming signs and lean into friends who believed her. When we're faced with questions on whether a moment in our life is from God or not, we too should do the same - lean into scripture, lean into confirming...

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Anne Miller This Advent we are focusing on Mary's Magnificat. Today Pastor Jonathan gets us to look at these familiar verses with fresh eyes - looking at the things we've read many times but to see the unexpected detail that we usually miss. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life...

Preacher: Gordon Preece Reader: John Hargrave Today Gordon is preaching from Acts 17:16-34. It may seem a strange reading to relate to the issue of gambling, but in Australian society, gambling is an idol. Gordon pointed out that at one time there were over 300 billboards and signs around Melbourne pointing us towards Crown Casino. Like in Acts 17 where Paul was observing all of the false gods and...