Wahroonga Anglican Podcast

Colossians is written to assure your heart and mind that in Christ Jesus we have all we will ever need. To have Christ Jesus is to be wholly full! Colossians is written to help us see just how glorious Jesus is and to see the riches that are ours by faith in him. It is purpose to give us full assurance so that we can live fully for him!

When the first disciples met Jesus, they couldn't help but tell others about him.

When the first disciples met Jesus, they couldn't help but tell others about him.

If you asked someone on the street what they thought about Wahroonga Anglican Church, what do you think they’d say? Depending on the street, there’s a chance they wouldn’t have heard of us at all, but what if they had? In 1 Thessalonians 1, Paul, Timothy and Silas express how thankful they are that the message of the gospel has so effectively impacted the lives of the Thessalonians that the Lord’s...

Colossians 4.2-6 is a call to pray for opportunities and to make the most of them when they come!

Though I am free and belong to no one, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible…I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some…

‘WHO WE ARE’ - exploring together the characteristics that make us God’s church. In John 14.1-11 we will see how this longing can drive all we do as a church, and can anchor us from whatever may come against us.

In the upper room of John 13 we will see the full extent of the love in God’s heart - a love that bends the knee to serve his friends, but also a love that pursues those who want to be rid of him. We will see the heart of a betrayer (and it will look uncomfortably familiar) and we will see the heart of the betrayed (and it is like nothing in the world).

This Sunday we continue our series WHO WE ARE, exploring who we are as a church. This Sunday we will see the mindset that Jesus has established his church on. In John 13, we will see up close our God and King, whose coat of arms we bear as his church - a lowly servant, bent before us, utterly committed to our good. We’ll see him serving us; not in spite of who he is, but because of who he is. And...

Listening to God’s word describe WHO we are as a church family. 1 Peter 1.18 - 2.3 & James 1.19-25

I challenge you to find a more heart-stirring passage than the one we’ll read together this Sunday - Ephesians 3.14-21 - It’s a prayer that brings us to our knees and directs our hearts to powerful love of our heavenly Father.

In the Prayer for a New Year we’re looking at this week - Ephesians 1:15-23 - Paul’s #1 prayer point is that we - i.e. Christian people - would know God more deeply. That’s what we’re going to be thinking about on Sunday!

we are challenged by a small prayer of Paul in Philippians 1:1-11. We see the motivation of love for the Philippians behind the prayer and we see the content of what he prays.

We make all kinds of resolutions at this time of year... but often they're driven by our desire to please the various people in our lives. Instead, let's let Paul's prayer in 2 Thessalonians 1 shape our approach to 2023. This sermon was originally in two parts at one of our all-age services.

As we begin a new year, we reflect on the wonderful truth that whether this year feels 'new' or not, our God is a God of fresh starts. He teaches us to pray 'forgive us our sins,' and he answers that prayer.

Our world really likes the idea of Christmas... and what it represents - things like joy and peace and togetherness. However, these are all abstract concepts that are never fully realised. The true story of the first Christmas is not about a concept, but about a person - Jesus Christ - who is grace, kindness and love.

We tend to be drawn into worshipping lots of different things… from career, to family, to ourselves. The Magi from the East in Matthew chapter 2 travelled from afar to worship an infant - which seems crazy, except for who that infant was! How can we worship Jesus joyfully in every aspect of our lives - at Christmas, but also in our workplaces, our neighbourhoods and our family time?

Matthew 1 - the genealogy of Jesus - seems a strange way to start the greatest story. It's a long list of names and probably not the way we would think to begin! But this list threads through thousands of years of history, creating momentum and finding its satisfying conclusion in the Messiah, the Lord Jesus. His story satisfies us more than decorations, food, gifts and holidays, and his stor...

It's sometimes easy to think that we have everything that we need without God, or to trust God with part of our heart while at the same time trusting in something else. Gus Cameron from St Barnabas' Fairfield - one of our Mission Partners - explains how this was a problem for the Israelites, and how God graciously provided the leader they needed to guide them back to him.

‘My dog is bigger than your dog.’ ‘My God is bigger the your God.’ The Philistines begin chapter 5 of 1 Samuel thinking ‘my gods are bigger than your gods’ because they won a battle and captured the ark of the covenant, a Symbol of the Lord’s presence. We are reminded in 1 Samuel chapters 5 and 6, nations in the Ancient World were both deeply religious and deeply superstitious, most nations had th...

We’ve already seen how vital honouring God is - and the trouble that the nation of Israel is in due to people honouring themselves more than God and his ways, particularly their leaders - Eli and his sons. We are jolted by the reality of where all of that ends up… when God himself exits the building, or, at least, the symbol of his presence does - the ark of the covenant. So, we’re confronted with...

If there is a constant in our experience of human leadership it is that such leadership inevitably fails us. It is hard not to be cynical about such leadership. Of course, that cynicism should extend to ourselves. How often we fail to self-lead, let along lead others? 1 Samuel speaks into this leadership malaise. 1 Samuel 2.11-36 is part of that unfolding story. We will see just how dark human lea...

1 Samuel 2.1-10 reveals that belief in God has the capacity to change everything - both how we see life now and what we know life will be like at the end of history. We will also see that these realities are meant to change the way our how responds to life in this world.

1 Samuel 1 - Does God Care?

We work pretty hard not to be dependent on others. We like to think we can provide for ourselves. But the Bible speaks of the reality behind our presumption. Life and breath and everything else comes from the hand of God our Father. It is he who provides what we need, he who knows what we need long before we even ask, and he who knows our deepest needs, that only he can provide.