The Grainery Church Podcast

In Week 5 of the series Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith , Stu Brown continues exploring one of the most difficult but transformative stages of the spiritual journey. The wall. Those moments when life feels stuck, prayers seem unanswered, and faith is tested in ways we never expected. Drawing from Psalm 23 and his own personal story, Stu reflects on how these dark valleys can shape us mo...

In Week 4 of Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith, John Crawford takes us into one of the most defining stages of spiritual growth. The wall. That moment when faith feels hard, disappointment sets in, and we begin to question what God is doing. With honesty and vulnerability, John shares from his own story of hurt, bitterness, and nearly walking away. He unpacks Psalm 73 and the journey of A...

In Week 3 of Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith, Ps Sue Irwin unpacks what it really means to step into the productive life. This is the stage where faith moves from personal experience into active participation in God’s bigger story. Tracing the thread from Genesis to the New Testament, Sue reminds us that blessing was always God’s plan. We were created to reflect His image, to live in tr...

In this Week 2 PM message of Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith, Ps Rachel Baker unpacks what it really means to discover eternal truth. With honesty, humour, and powerful personal stories, she explores how Scripture is more than information to memorize. It is a gift from God meant to shape, equip, and transform us. Rachel walks through the difference between knowing the written word and k...

In this second week of Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith, Ps Sue Irwin takes us deeper into what it really means to grow spiritually. After the initial encounter with God, what comes next? Sue explains that faith is not just about a powerful experience or learning to serve. It is about allowing God’s truth to reshape the way we think. Drawing from Joshua, Psalm 23, and the temptation of J...

In this opening message of our new series called Becoming: Navigating Your Journey of Faith, Ps Sue Irwin invites us to step back and reflect on the journey of faith we are all on. Rather than seeing faith as a checklist of right beliefs or good behaviour, Sue reframes it as a lifelong process of becoming more like Jesus. It is less about what we do and more about who we are becoming along the way...

In this final message of the Anxious for Nothing series, Asher Morrison brings the conversation to a powerful and hope filled close. With warmth, honesty, and insight, he helps us understand what anxiety is really pointing to beneath the surface. Fear is not random. It often reveals what we believe about our future, our worth, and our ability to cope with what lies ahead. Drawing from Philippians...

In this deeply honest and practical message, John Crawford speaks from lived experience about anxiety, fear, and the quiet weight many people carry every day. With vulnerability and wisdom, he reminds us that anxiety is not a failure of faith and it is not something to be ashamed of. It is part of living in a broken world, and it is something God cares deeply about. Drawing from Philippians 4, Joh...

In this powerful and practical message, Ps Sue Irwin speaks directly to one of the quiet struggles many believers face: how faith can slowly weaken under pressure, worry, and disappointment. Drawing from Paul’s words in Philippians, she explores what it really means to rejoice in the Lord, not because life is easy, but because God is trustworthy in every circumstance. Sue unpacks how anxiety, fear...

In this deeply grounding message, Ps Sue Irwin invites us to discover freedom from anxiety by understanding who we really are in Christ. Drawing from Philippians and Ephesians, she unpacks how much of our worry comes from striving to meet our own needs, prove our worth, or gain approval from others. Sue points us to Jesus as the ultimate example. Fully secure in the love of the Father, Jesus lived...

As we begin a new year, Ps Sue Irwin opens this series with a hopeful and practical message about living free from anxiety. Drawing from Paul’s letter to the Philippians, she reminds us that an anxious life is not fixed by willpower, positive thinking, or better planning, but by a deeper shift in what we believe about ourselves and about God. Sue gently explores how anxiety is often rooted in iden...

In this thoughtful and timely message, Ps Rachel Baker speaks into the space many of us find ourselves in at the end of the year. The in between. The moment after Christmas has passed but before the new year has begun. It is a season filled with reflection, expectation, uncertainty, and hope. Rachel explores why we are so drawn to planning, goal setting, and resolutions, and gently challenges the...

In this encouraging and practical message, Ps Sue Irwin helps us reflect on the year we’ve just lived and shows us how to finish it well, no matter what it has held. As we look back on the highs, the lows, and the moments in between, Sue reminds us that nothing is wasted in God’s hands. Every experience can become a pathway for His blessing when our hearts and minds are aligned with Him. Using the...

In this thoughtful Christmas Eve message, Ps Sue Irwin invites us to see Christmas as more than a familiar story we know about, but as an encounter with someone we can truly know. While the nativity often looks peaceful and polished, Sue gently pulls back the curtain to reveal the deeper reality of what was happening when Jesus was born. Heaven was breaking into earth, and it was anything but simp...

In this deeply reflective message, Matt Darvas invites us to wrestle honestly with the tension between the peace promised at Christmas and the pain we see in the world around us. Set against the realities of global conflict, personal loss, and the recent Bondi tragedy, Matt explores what it means to hope for peace when life feels anything but peaceful. Through Scripture, personal family history, a...

In this powerful and honest message, Bev Murrill takes us beyond the polished nativity scenes and into the real world Mary and Joseph lived in. Christmas was not calm, safe, or predictable. It was lived under occupation, fear, uncertainty, and enormous personal cost. Bev invites us to see how God’s light entered the darkness of ordinary, difficult life, not to remove the struggle, but to meet peop...

In this uplifting Christmas message, Stu Brown invites us to slow down and rediscover what the season is really about. With humour, honesty, and warmth, he challenges the busyness and consumerism that so easily take over December and reminds us that Christmas isn’t just a holiday, it’s the moment heaven came to earth. Through stories, Scripture, and reflection, Stu explores Jesus’ question to His...

In this powerful message, Bev Murrill explores how God uses the challenges, pain, and irritations of life to shape us into something beautiful. Drawing from Jesus’ parable of the pearl of great price, Bev reminds us that true transformation takes time and surrender. Like an oyster forming a pearl around a grain of sand, God covers our pain, pride, and fear with His grace until it shines with His g...

In this encouraging message, John Crawford challenges us to stop living with a “not yet” mindset and start stepping into what God is calling us to do now. We all have good intentions, plans to grow closer to God, change habits, or become better versions of ourselves but too often we get stuck waiting for the perfect time. Through Scripture and personal stories, John reminds us that God’s kingdom i...

In this heartfelt message, Ps Sue Irwin invites us to see confession not as something to fear, but as a doorway to freedom. Too often we hide what’s really going on inside because we expect judgment or rejection. But God’s heart is not to punish, it is to heal. When we come honestly before Him, we step out of shame and into grace. Through Scripture and real-life stories, Sue explains how confessio...

In this heartfelt message, Bev Murrill reminds us that every follower of Jesus carries the light of God within themand that light is meant to be shared. Drawing from Psalm 97:11, she explains how light can be sown like seeds, spreading hope and truth wherever we go. Through touching personal stories, Bev reflects on her late husband legacy of shining God’s light and challenges us to do the same in...

In this inspiring message, we are invited to look at life through the lens of grace rather than fairness. So often we find ourselves wondering why things happen the way they do or why life doesn’t seem fair. But through the story of Job, we are reminded that God is not building a world based on fairness. He is creating a kingdom built on grace. Grace is where love is freely given, not earned. It i...

In this inspiring message, we are reminded that generosity isn’t just a nice thing to do, it’s part of God’s design for human flourishing. From the laws of Moses to the life of Jesus and the early church, we see that God hardwired generosity into His plan for healing relationships, communities, and even nations. Through powerful stories from the streets of Nepal to the villages of Uganda and the e...

In this powerful and heartfelt message, Pastor Sam reminds us that life was never meant to be lived all at once. When we try to carry tomorrow’s worries or dwell on yesterday’s regrets, we miss the beauty of what God is doing right now. Drawing from Scripture, he challenges us to slow down, trust God’s timing, and take life one day at a time. Through personal stories of faith, forgiveness, and tra...

Have you ever realized your faith is running on autopilot? In this powerful message, Bev encourages us to move beyond routine Christianity and rediscover the life-giving relationship Jesus offers. Too often we live like people storing stale water in cracked cisterns—doing the right things but disconnected from the source of life. Through vivid imagery from Scripture, Bev reminds us that Jesus call...