Wahroonga Anglican Podcast

Run the race

It is a prayer of surrender before God and it is the key to living freely and fruitfully in this world.

At the heart of our mission as a church is bringing people to Jesus. We know our own desperate need for Jesus - for forgiveness, for hope, for peace, for purpose.

Our hope and only true hope is in Jesus!

We come to the end of the line with Mark. Mark started out his gospel with this: ‘The beginning of the gospel about Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God.” So, what’s the news, and why is it so good? If you’ve got a chance before Sunday, have a skim back through Mark… and remind yourself… what have we learnt about who Jesus is as Messiah, the Son of God)? And how have we seen that that’s such a good t...

The pursuit of truth can be a twisting turning journey. In the trial of Jesus there are two parts: The trial before the Jewish authorities who wanted him killed on the charge of Blasphemy; The trial before the Roman authority Pontius Pilate. Pilate was the only legal authority who could sign off on the capital punishment of treason, and death by crucifixion. In this three-way power struggle Jesus...

Failure and forgiveness.

A successful church, pastor, people - we are weak, proudly not listening to God, proudly trusting ourselves. We need Jesus strength to humble carry us.

In Mark 14.10-26 we are given an opportunity to join Jesus and his disciples at one last meal before his death. We will see God’s sovereign and gracious purposes for the entire world and all history coming to fulfilment in Jesus of Nazareth. We will see the immense love God has for us and the joy He has in suffering to bring His purposes about. We will see why it is he alone we are called to follo...

One Great Passion

Jesus is the Lord over love, sex and marriage

Some of the most challenging words Jesus spoke

Easter is a Trilogy: Jesus died, rose and ascended...

“These people honour [God] with their lips, but their hearts are far from [him]!” So says Jesus, quoting Isaiah, of the religious leaders who gather around him in Mark 7. It’s a stinging rebuke, levelled against the guys who, from the outside, probably looked like they had it all together, like they really knew God and cared about honouring him. We probably look around and can think of certain peo...

When Jesus looked to the crowds following him, he saw that as harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. The Shepherd/Sheep word picture has long been used to describe the relation between God and his people, and the people and their leaders. There is comfort knowing God is our shepherd, as we walk therough the valley of the shadow of death in this present life.. Psalm 23 and Psalm 100 a...

Mark 4:35-41 "Who is this?" Is a good question to ask when discussing the identity of Jesus. How would you answer it? If we took a straw poll of the happy shoppers of the Wahroonga Village, we would get a variety of answers. This week's Mark passage shows us Jesus is the Lord of creation, with a word he calms a storm; Jesus is a liberator of broken souls; Jesus is the raiser of the...

This Sunday, as part of our vision weekend we will be exploring Acts 2.42-27 and considering three things a gospel-shaped church loves.

Mark 4:1-20 I wonder if you’ve ever tried explaining who Jesus is and why he’s great to someone… and have been met with indifference, or worse? It’s news that you think is really great but it just doesn’t seem to register as good or significant at all! You could find yourself wondering whether you’ve got the message right, or whether it’s YOU who is missing something… Jesus’ early disciples may ha...

Mark 2:18-3:35 I love weddings, the celebration and excitement, the joy and the feasting. The Bible uses the image of the wedding in deeper ways to describe the relationship between God and his people. It’s striking then when Jesus uses that image of himself and describes himself as the “Bridegroom” in Mark 2:19-20.

As readers of Mark we are brought into the picture to see He is willing to cleanse, forgive, and welcome us!

The Who, What, Why and How of Church

This is how the musician Nick Cave describes Mark’s Gospel: It is Mark’s Gospel that has truly held me. It is written with such breathless insistence, such compulsive narrative intensity, that one is reminded of a child recounting some amazing tale, piling fact upon fact, as if the whole world depended on it - which, of course, to Mark it did.

Mark 1:12-39 The Kings authoritative word has the power to silence evil, calm sickness, call people. What has the word made you do?

How often when accusations of wrongdoing against a public figure come to light, do we hear that they are ‘vigorously denying the allegations’? Whether the accusations are factual or not in a particular case, the reaction speaks to our impulse to hide at the suggestion that we’re in the wrong, public figures or not. But as wise as that self-preservation may appear, it’s not wisdom according to the...

Are we full of gratitude for what we have received from God or do we just take it all for granted?