The Grainery Church Podcast

Mortgage payments, international threats to our security, the cost of living, Covid, vaccination mandates, health issues, relationships. What do you worry about when you wake up? In unpacking these verses Sue looks holistically at our human condition - the real inner you.  Rather than telling us “just don’t worry “ Jesus speaks of the value of human individuals to God. Sue concludes that if w...

In this weeks PM sermon as we continue through Book of Matthew. Naomi Fraser comes with the topic of Spiritual Blindess and how we need to move our focus on earthly possessions towards God.

We are in the middle of our current series "Book of Matthew" where we are looking at the Sermon of the Mount with the bible verse for this week from Matthew 6:16-24 where Asher gives us a very important question: "What are the desires of our heart"? What Asher teaches us in this weeks AM message at our Steel River Campus is that first need reflect and ask ourselves, what are the desires of our hea...

In this week's Grainery Church PM sermon, Jake Divens continues on the Book of Matthew and preaches on prayer.

On this week's Grainery Church AM sermon, Pastor Paul West continues going through Matthew and talks about prayer.

What is the fruit of your daily life? What surrounds you and follows you and what results from your words and actions? We are not saved by our actions but our actions result from our salvation. So, do you live out your love for God by loving others, even your enemies? Sue encourages us to be filled with God’s Spirit, experience God’s love and value in Jesus, and live out that fullness in joyful lo...

Divorce, Adultery, Lust, Judgement. Hate. Murder. Revenge. They are all a part of the human condition and in this passage Jesus addresses the human condition. He gives a key to an overflowing and abundant life. It goes beyond appearance management to heart change. Fulfilling the desires of our own heart in our own way will be destructive to a thriving in life. Allowing God to renew our hearts, lea...

Divorce, Adultery, Lust, Judgement, Hate, Murder & Revenge. These are all a part of the human condition and in this passage Jesus addresses the human condition. He gives a key to an overflowing and abundant life. It goes beyond appearance management to heart change. Fulfilling the desires of our own heart in our own way will be destructive to a thriving in life. Allowing God to renew our heart...

Jake Divens continues our current topic of "The Book of Matthew" in this week's PM message with Matthew 5:17-20 where he explains how when Jesus was preaching on the hill, what Jesus was saying was that everything that was written in the Old Testament was pointing towards him and to prepare the way for his coming and fulfilment of the Law. He goes on to say that he didn't come to get rid of the ol...

The Bible today has many authors with many different types of literature written over thousands of years. In this week's AM message, Theo preaches that Jesus taught that the Bible is true, that it is meant to belived in obedience, and that Jesus shows us how to obey the Bible (through the lens of Jesus). He gives a careful apologetic for the authenticity and authority of the Christian Bible. Point...

We are called to influence the world around us - and small things can bring a big change. Springboarding from the iconic Australian poem “My Country” by Dorothea Mackellar, Asher unpacks the idea that one young girl’s creativity helped to change the perception of a nation towards its country. Likewise in the historical setting of the Gospel of Matthew, a difficult time for the Jews, Jesus brought...

Ps Sue kicks off our next topic in our 2022 series of "Known and Be Known" with the Gospel of Matthew where she looks at Chapter 5 where Jesus is preaching on the mountainside where he preaches about the Beatitudes or "the 8 blessings"

Naomi Fraser finishes our topic of going through the Book of Luke with her sermon on the Parable of the Blind Man. She also spoke at our Maitland Campus that same day

In our final week of going through the Book of Luke. In our AM service, Ps Sue looks at the story of the blind man in Luke 18:35-43 and goes through the story and explains different aspects of the story.

Ps Sue looks at the story of the 10 lepers where she focuses on two different aspects of the story: The Laws of the Kingdom The Laws of the People She talks about how when all 10 lepers got healed, only the Samaritan came back to ask for forgiveness from Jesus. Ps Sue reminds us that we should always give praise to God especially when he forgives our sins

In this weeks AM sermon, Theo Rule is speaking on the story of Jesus and the 10 lepers but focuses on the one Samaritan leper and the history of Israel at the time of Jesus

From the biblical story of Deborah, Sue brings a message of hope. Life can be exhausting but mothers can help to model and impart hope. She encourages women to rise up as a mother of influence. Deborah knew the ways of the Lord, she understood servant leadership and she was confident in the power of God. Bringing these principles from stories in Deborah’s life, Sue shows how a woman who praises Go...

In this week's PM sermon. Jake Divens looks at the story of Jesus Healing on the Sabbath (Luke 13:10-17) and how back in 1st Century AD, you weren't allowed to do much on the Sabbath and looks at the different points of views from the three main characters in this story: Jesus, the woman who was crippled for over 18yrs and the Head of the Synagogue

What is the message of the Bible? From eternity past to eternity future Neville unpacks Gods plan for mankind - creation, fall, redemption, coming consummation. Applying this to indigenous history and culture, and to Gods call to us to reach all ethnic, social and gender groups, he speaks of the call on Christians to go, preach, baptise and teach. Introducing the mission, work and workers of BCA,...

Bev Murrill looks at the classic story of the feeding of the five thousand and links it up with Matthew 25:14-30 with the message of how instead of us handing out loaves of bread and fish, what we are handing out is how we use the talents God has given us and serve him. **Recording was taken from Grainery Church Online on 24th April 2022**

Paul West talks on Luke 9:10-17 which is the story of Jesus feeding the Five-Thousand and focuses on culture of hospitality in the Middle East from the time of the Old Testament to 21st Century.

In John 20 Jesus is noted as appearing to the disciples and three times telling them “peace be with you”. Peace with God. Peace with self. Peace with others. Social peace. National or international peace. They can be based on false peace - just don’t care. They can be based on avoidance - escapism into different soul soothing endeavours. They can be based on forced peace - ending conflict by force...

In our AM Easter Sunday service, Asher Morrison returns to bring an amazing sermon around the topic of Peace and the different types of peace in today's society and how Jesus brings the best peace by sacrificing himself to save us from sin

On this special Grianery Church Podcast. Four Grainery members share aspects of the meaning of Good Friday: Ps Sue Irwin speaks of the sin in our lives and the release and forgiveness we have in Jesus - he frees us from confemnation. Theo Rule shares how isolation is a curse. From the first sin of mankind, through the first murder when Cain hated his brother and killed him, and even in our own liv...

With Palm Sunday, Ps Sue Irwin continues through the Book of Luke with the miracle of healing of the daughter of a synagogue leader and the healing of a woman who was bleeding for 12 years. As we get closer to Easter, we remember how Jesus came to save us which is why he came on a donkey which means "arrival in peace" and not on a horse like a war-waging king