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In this message from our I AM series, Greg Nixon gets honest about the narrative he carried about himself for years, and holds it up against what's actually said about us in Christ: chosen, adopted, made new. A look at why identity has to come before authority, and what it takes to start believing what's true about you. Wherever this message finds you, we hope it draws you closer to God an...

In the second message of our new series on identity, Ryan Matthews unpacks the lenses we all carry — the ones we didn't choose and probably don't notice — and how they're quietly shaping the way we see God, ourselves, and each other. Drawing on stories from Jesus' own life and right back to the beginning of the Bible, this one's about what it might take to start seeing clearly...

In this message, we begin a new series exploring Identity, Authority, and Mission, starting with the question of who we really are in Christ. Ryan unpacks how our identity is often shaped by the “lenses” we carry - formed through experiences, wounds, culture, and the stories we believe about ourselves. These lenses can quietly distort how we see God, ourselves, and others, making it difficult to r...

Ryan continues on the theme of lenses that we wear see through. We hope this series encourages you to ask God to show you where you might be wearing/carrying a lense and that the Holy Spirit would free you and lead you in to greater truth in how you follow Jesus.

Rooted in Luke chapter 4, Ryan continues in this theme reminding us what being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit to serve the world.

Ryan continues in his message on being filled with the power of the Holy Spirit for works of service and to see the Kingdom come for the sake of freedom in ourselves and in those around us.

Nicholas reminds us that the created world (nature) points us to God in remarkable ways, catalysing connection to God and ourselves. He suggests ways to be regulated as God designed it through His creation and offers us the practise of rest and space to reflect. Creation leads us to awe and wonder and Jesus, the source of our hope.

In this message, Ryan unpacks what it means to live a Spirit-empowered life. Drawing from Luke 4, he shows how Jesus moved from the river of love, through the wilderness of surrender, and into the power of the Spirit to announce freedom and favor. Love creates safety. Surrender creates sustainability. But it is the power of the Holy Spirit that advances the kingdom. This is a call to move beyond h...

As Freedom House steps into a five-day fast, Ryan opens an honest conversation about hunger—what stirs it, what it does in us, and why it matters. From Luke 11 and Luke 18, he explores Jesus’ framework for prayer and the posture behind it: a bold, persistent “keep asking, keep seeking, keep knocking” kind of faith. Along the way, Ryan shares a personal moment of growing dissatisfaction with the st...

In this message, Ryan continues exploring the baptisms of Jesus in Luke 3 and 4, moving from the baptism of the Father’s love into the  baptism of surrender . Drawing from Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness, he reminds us that Christ confronted the deepest roots of human brokenness on our behalf. Full of the Spirit and secure in the Father’s love, Jesus overcame the cravings that so often drive u...

With our February fast approaching, we're invited to examine what we're truly hungry for Jesus Himself. Ryan remindes us that following Jesus is never passive; it is active, intentional and responsive. We move with Him. Even Jesus, God in the flesh and the perfect example of life with the Father, walked in the power of the Holy Spirit. This week we explore the first two of three spiritual...

In this message, we explore what it means to be planted for purpose and called to move in mission. Drawing from Isaiah 61, we’re invited to step out of hidden seasons and into action, bringing our gifts, our presence, and our hearts into the mix. Nick unpacks how God calls us to grow through obedience, serve through participation, and bear fruit from deep roots, showing His splendor in every spher...

In this message, we explore what it means to grow our capacity to carry God’s favour, purpose, and promises. Drawing from Luke 19 and the parable of the minas, we’re invited to move beyond small thinking and embrace a life of faithful stewardship, practical action, and big-hearted dreaming. Ryan unpacks how God calls us to partner with Him, to think big, pray big, love big, serve big, and grow in...

Nick reminds us of what it is to be unseen and overlooked. A place deeply precious to God. Throughout scripture of accounts of those trained, matured and anointed in private, not public. Like the Shepard Tree which survives the harshest summers in the Kalahari  because it's roots grow down further than any tree. Prioritizing downward growth over above ground growth. It's leaves are nourishment and...

Before any of us submitted to Jesus as King, we were strangers. Scripture calls this  philoxenia,  the love of the stranger and it sits at the very centre of God’s heart. Who is the stranger in Scripture? Do they need to look like us, think like us, or fit our categories to receive our hospitality? Not at all. The “outsider” could be someone homeless or someone wealthy; a neighbour or a newcomer;...

In this message, we return to the centre of our house: grace, restoration, and the calling to love one another well. We explore what love looks like when it becomes a lifestyle: devotion, honour, generosity, and a freedom that expresses itself through service. Ryan reminds us that biblical freedom is not independence, but the Spirit-empowered ability to live beyond ourselves. We are invited to red...

Bazil Sarafidis encourages us to lean on the grace that has been poured out for us. The ability to walk the hard roads and stay faithful is not from conjuring up or manufacturing it. It is by grace provided. Often we don't see the grace in time moving forward but we it looking back how God made a way, held us together. We need grace and mercy and He gives it because we are His and we are precious...

Cedric and Angie van Duyn lead a church in Gig Harbor, Washington (Seattle, USA). They are dear friends of our house, carrying a long and meaningful history with us. Cedric shares from  Ezekiel 37 —looking at what it means for  dry bones to become a body. He looks at the accountability of living tendons and muscles that  hold us together , and to the posture of a  dry-bones heart  in need of renew...

This Sunday, Ryan shares from his own testimony and from the Scriptures. In love, we  devote ourselves to one another  (Romans 12:10). In love, we carry a  continuing debt —not a financial one, but the ongoing call to  love one another  (Romans 13:8). You owe me nothing. But I owe you the continuing debt of love, the very love with which God loves me. This kind of love shifts our centre, it puts t...

God doesn’t just want to visit us for a moment; He desires to  dwell  with us to be one with us and with each other. This changes everything. Unity isn’t something we manufacture; it’s the work of God in us. This Sunday, Ryan takes us through the  “one another”  scriptures, showing how love becomes the foundation for true kingdom unity. Questions to leave you with: Who is the "one another&quo...

In this message, Ryan unpacks what it means to be a community truly connected by grace. Drawing from Ephesians 2 and 2 Corinthians 5, he reminds us that the same grace that rescued us is the grace that keeps shaping us, teaching us how to see one another through God’s eyes. The glory of God isn’t only revealed in miracles or worship moments, but in how we love. To be the kind of people through who...

Welcome to Jesus Community where we have the mandate to  contrast starkly with society. We carry a Christ-focused spirit into our days, the conflicts playing out and in places of division.  Greg leads us through the characteristics carried by those in Jesus.  When it comes to the messy parts of relationship where misunderstanding, conflict or estrangement creates in us an impulse is to isolate, we...

Alexander Venter continues on the theme of relationships, focusing on life together within the Jesus-follower community. Rooted in Ephesians 3, he unpacks God’s eternal intention to create a family—rich, diverse, and united—not defined by ethnicity or tribal factions, but by love that overcomes the powers seeking to divide. We are created by relationship (the Trinity), in relationship, for relatio...

Shame is a story we inherit, a whisper that tells us we’re not enough. But in Christ, that story is undone. To live as a new creation in community is to discover belonging that is not earned but extended, to see differences not as barriers but as a kaleidoscope of God’s image, and to let love, not fear, shape how we connect. The world tells us to compete, compare, and hide our weaknesses, but God’...

Rupture is inevitable in any place where there are people. Misunderstanding and miscommunication is a given. Rejection, conflict and disappointment are in the church as well as in the world. Our repair is the true test of maturity. Taking ownership, true apology and forgiveness are vital to keep the soil of our hearts soft. Rupture and Repair are not signs of failure because blessed are the mercif...