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Advent: Characters of Christmas - Pt 3. The Magi

This Advent season, we’ll reflect on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas and examine how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge our approach to Him today.

This Sunday, Dan took us into the story of the Magi—the unexpected guests who arrive in the story in more ways than just their unexpected arrival with some gifts for Jesus. What can looking at these outside-the-box characters show us?


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Advent: Characters of Christmas - Pt 2. Herod

This Advent season, we’ll be reflecting on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas, looking at how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge how we approach Him today.

This Sunday, Alisha took us into the story of Herod—a man whose encounter with God felt more like a threat than an invitation. It’s a question we all have to face: when God disrupts our lives, will we resist, or will we recognize the invitation hidden in the interruption?


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Advent: Characters of Christmas - Pt 1. Anna

This Advent season, we’ll be reflecting on the lives of the characters from the first Christmas, looking at how their encounters with God’s presence can inspire and challenge how we approach Him today.

This Sunday, Alisha spoke on one of the lesser-known characters of the first Christmas: Anna. She’ll asked the question—are we recognising God’s presence right in front of us, just like Anna did?


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James - pt 8: James 4:13-17 (Plans)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This week, Alisha wrapped up the series by reminding us that God longs for us to invite Him into every part of our everyday life—more than just our big decisions or moments of crisis. He wants to be present in the ordinary, in the mundane. He wants to be with us! How might we respond?


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James - pt 8: James 5:13-16 (Prayer)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This week, Matt Lilly from Coast Vineyard joined us to share what James has to say about prayer. Complementing James' practical nature, Matt taught us the Vineyard Prayer Model, demonstrated how to use it and encouraged us to go and try it ourselves.

You can access the prayer model here.


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James - pt 5: James and the poor w/ Don Barry

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday we welcomed Don Barry from Gateway Church as our guest speaker. Don highlighted a main theme from the book of James, the poor, and James’ plea to us to be generous like our Father is generous.

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James - pt 4: James 4:1-10 (Conflict)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday we explored James’ question “What causes quarrels and fights among you?”, with Alisha unpacking an answer that revealed the heart of our conflicts often springs from inner chaos and distance from God.

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James - pt 3: James 3:13-18 (Wisdom)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday Donald looked at James 3:13-18 asking what is the true nature of wisdom. How can we attend to the invitation to grow in wisdom and what are the markers to living it out?

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James - pt 2: James 1:2-5 (Perseverance)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. This Sunday Alisha looked at James 1:2-5 where James encourages us to look at trials through a different perspective. One which can reveal and produce something in us, turning them into opportunities for joy.

Note: Our primary audio recording failed, so we apologise for the audio quality this week.

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James - pt 1: James 1:22-26 (Doers of the Word)

A series exploring the book of James and his exhortation to a lived-out faith. Today Alisha framed up the series with the reminder we see clearly in James, that we’re called not just to be believers or admirers, but doers of the Word.

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