Wahroonga Anglican Podcast

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

How do we stay true to God's way during the year or continue throughout the year sticking to God's word? By studying and reading it faithfully.

How the grace and mercy of our king turns all our expectations of what we deserve upside-down.

When the brokenness of the world comes knocking - where do we look?

In times of need, and we will together hear God’s offer of help again. We will meet God as he is - our good shepherd, with whom we lack nothing (Psalm 23.1).

we continue to consider how our God helps us in our times of need. We have a Saviour who knows what it’s like to experience the very things we struggle with, and who shows us a way through… and this week, we’ll see how he helps us when we contemplate the reality of death, or are confronted by one of its many messengers in our world. We’ll rejoice that the one who is the ‘resurrection and the life’...

Josh Lewis is starting our new sermon series - In Times of Need - exploring how God’s mercy and grace meets us in our times of need - be that illness, pain, grief, anxiety, powerlessness.

As Christians we hear that challenge and we want to reply, ‘Yes! Of course I’ll follow’. But, the drift from wholehearted faith to dull, grey, nominal faith is a journey of a 1000 steps, 1000 little decisions along the way. This Sunday 1 Kings 18 will show us that reversing that drift begins by hearing afresh the Lord’s call to follow, and remembering anew that his grace is sufficient to guide our...

We continue to listen to God’s word in 1 Kings 17-19 we will see up close how easy it is to have a divided heart and we will see what wholehearted trust of God looks like and why he is worth that devotion.

What is your one great passion?

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever.
Psalm 48.8

Explore Exodus 3.1-14 with us and encourage us to see that the engine room of a commitment to personal prayer is having a clear view of just how glorious and holy God is.

Dependent personal prayer. And we’ll be reading Psalm 42 together to guide our thinking.

We’ll look together at 2 Timothy 3.14 - 4.8 and see the incredible power of God’s word, the direct usefulness of his commands and the urgent need we have to hear his voice

Why does loving God’s word make sense and what happens to me when my love for the bible grows?

This chapter is really valuable for us as we make sense of disappointments, and it’s with great joy that we can end our study of Nehemiah on a happier note than the book, knowing that the anticlimax only points to the climax of everything in Jesus.

Finally we get an insight into the outcome of all that work… and it’s… joy!

God’s restoration project is well and truly underway - the people have banded together and built the wall surrounding the city of Jerusalem. And yet, having read God’s word together in chapter 8, the city is filled with mourning. What did they read? Why are they mourning? What hope is there?

It gets to the heart of who we are as God’s church. It answers the ‘why’ of our gatherings (physical or online!). And it reminds us of how blessed we are to be swept up in God’s purpose for his world.

We’ll see up close a wholehearted partnership of builders at the work, for the welfare of the city. We’ll see a wholehearted partnership of builders having to defend the work against attacks from all around. And we will hear the call - don’t be afraid, remember the LORD, and fight!

Here as we live in a world that creaks and groans from the brokenness and disorder that our sin has caused; here as we ourselves creak and groan - here, we still rejoice! We rest in the hope, because the essential work our God is undertaking in our world and indeed in us, is a work of restoration. He is in the business of making all things new!

What does it look like to be involved in something really significant, really worthwhile? How do you go about it? In chapter 2, Nehemiah launches himself into the most meaningful project in the world, and we see how we can be part of it too.

The Restoration Project

Live fearlessly

Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us!