Toongabbie Anglican Church Audio Podcast

This Sunday we are starting a three-week series on "memory verses to live by" and we begin by looking at Romans 1:16-17. Brett will remind us that the gospel is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes. We will how this gospel power changes our lives, bringing assurance, confidence and courage.

We finish our series on speaking the story of God by understanding “today” as we locate yourselves in the big story: responding rightly to God and holding out hope to others.

Judgement is taken care of in Jesus which gives Christians hope and peace even as we wait through suffering. There is no other  hope that comprehensively resolves dark days.

This week we continue our series on God’s story and Brett will talk about the “Dark Day” in Genesis 3:1-24 and how the darkness affects the world today. All of us struggle with our own sin and the sins of others. How do we respond to evil? How do we overcome this darkness? We will see how the hero of God’s Story, Jesus, provides the only solution.

As we explore the beginning of God's story and discover why Jesus is its hero, we'll also examine the competing stories our world tells about meaning, work, and purpose—and see how Jesus fulfils our deepest longings.

We start a new series this week, Speaking the Story of God, where we’ll explore the gospel story so that we can tell ourselves and others a better story than the ones our world offers. We begin by looking at the hero of the story — Jesus — and how Paul engaged the stories and philosophies of Athens to expose their limits and proclaim the resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17).

In 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul teaches us how our hope of Christ’s return in the future compels us to live for Him now. He shows us how this hope changes the way we treat others, the way we spend our time, and the way we face trials and hardships.

What hope is there for those who die in Christ? It is always terribly sad when a loved one passes away, and Christian communities have always felt something of the sting of death. But after his resurrection Christ ascended into heaven, leaving behind the promise to return for his dearly loved people. In this week’s sermon we will meditate on Paul’s comforting words of hope in 1 Thessalonians 5:13-...

This weeks sermon is about living to please God in our relationships, work, and facing the future.

This week’s sermon is based on 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 and is about being a church that we can be thankful for, by standing together, growing together and rejoicing together.

In today’s Bible passage (1 Thessalonians 2:17–3:5), we see Paul’s loving concern for the believers he was forced to leave behind, as well as his deep desire that they be strengthened in their faith in Jesus through all the difficulties they were facing.

In 1 Thessalonians 2:1–16, Paul reminds the Thessalonians that his ministry among them was marked by sincerity, courage, and a desire to please God rather than people, even in the face of suffering and opposition. He urges them to recognise the gospel as God’s word at work in them, and to persevere faithfully despite the hostility that often accompanies it.

This week we start our series in Paul's first letter to the church at Thessalonica. Kwabena will open chapter 1 with us and show us how the Thessalonians' journey to faith can encourage us as followers of Jesus and as witnesses to Him.

On Easter Sunday we will celebrate the resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of one of the earliest witnesses, Mary. Her good news applies to us as well and so we will consider how the resurrection of Jesus changes everything today and in the future.

In the trial of Jesus, John's gospel invites us into the drama. We are almost sitting as the jury to determine if Jesus is the promised king of the Jews, if he is free from guilt, if he is the saviour we need. John wants us to make a decision on where we stand: with the crowds baying for blood, or with the man broken for our sake.

On Maundy Thursday we are looking at the arrest of Jesus in John 18:1-14. We will reflect upon the goodness of God and how Jesus willingly laid down His life for His friends. The passage reveals how God can be completely just and completely loving at the same time.

Jesus closes by preparing his disciples for coming sorrow and scattering, yet assures them of the Father’s love and lasting joy, so that in a troubled world they may have peace in him who has overcome it.

As Jesus finishes preparing his disciples for his departure, he teaches them about the work of the Holy Spirit in the world and in their lives.

Jesus prepares his disciples to expect the world’s hatred—not because they have done wrong, but because their allegiance to him exposes the world’s rejection of both the Son and the Father.

In John 15 Jesus uses the powerful image of the vine to speak of how He works in us, as we are grafted into him and called to remain in Him.

In Today’s message, Jesus promises to send the Holy Spirit to anchor us in a world of turmoil, through the relational presence, word and peace of Jesus.

Jesus assures the troubled disciples that his departure (1) secures their belonging with the Father, (2) establishes himself as the only way to the Father, and (3) opens a means to ask the Father anything in his name.

Jesus gives a new commandment to love like he loves... and he does so in the midst of betrayal and denial as he reveals God's glory all the way to the cross (God's greatest act of love).

John 13 is the beginning of a section of Johns Gospel that takes place in the upper room (or guest room) of a house on the night before Jesus is crucified.  Jesus starts by washing his disciples’ feet, which is a picture/sign of the cleansing of sin that he is about to do for all believers when he dies on the cross.

With our vision focus on transformation we will be looking at the glory of Christ and how he transforms us by His Spirit.