Here is our Sunday Gathering sermon archive, perfect for if you have missed a Sunday, want to hear something again or want to share with a friend.
Peripheral - pt 10 (The way of family / Mark 3:31-35)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. In part ten, Dan explores who Jesus means when he talks about family, as we try to answer the questions: What is community? And who is our family in God's kingdom?
“When the church was a family, the church was on fire.”
Peripheral - pt 9 (The way of holy time / Mark 2:18-27)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part nine sees Cameron exploring Jesus' comments on fasting and sabbath, raising a question: are these rules to keep or gifts to treasure?
“Busyness is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.”
Peripheral - pt 8 (The way of inclusion / Mark 2:13-17)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part eight sees Dan exploring the story of Jesus calling Levi and taking him to a table of radical inclusion and a vibrant picture of the mercy of God. Also we here some stories from Gratis leader, Katie Myers.
“The strategy of Jesus is not centred in taking the right stand on issues, but rather in standing in the right place - with the outcast and those relegated to the margins.”
Peripheral - pt 7 (The way of forgiveness / Mark 2:1-12)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part seven sees Dan exploring the story of Jesus healing a paralytic man who was lowered through his roof showing the new movement of God's forgiveness.
“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”
Peripheral - pt 6 (The way of wholeness / Mark 1:21-45)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part six sees us looking at Jesus' display of what He has been announcing, showing that the Kingdom of God is making broken things right again.
“Here in Mark, we are seeing some of many snapshots forming a picture of the freedom God wants to offer humanity right now. ”
Peripheral - pt 5 (The abandoned way of life / Mark 1:16-20)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part five sees us looking at Jesus' invitation to each of us to leave our nets and follow Him.
“Who are you going to become?”
Resurrection Sunday
This week Strahan leads us through a celebration of Jesus' resurrection from the dead, discussing two ways it changes things for us, right now.
“The resurrection can only be received and affirmed and celebrated as the new action of God, whose province is to create new futures for people and to let them be amazed in the midst of despair.”
Peripheral - pt 4 (The way of the Kingdom / Mark 1:14-15)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part four sees us looking at the kingdoms around us and how revolutionary Jesus' core announcement of the Kingdom of God was.
“Later on, after John was arrested, Jesus went into Galilee, where he preached God’s Good News. “The time promised by God has come at last!” he announced. “The Kingdom of God is near! Repent of your sins and believe the Good News!””
Peripheral - pt 3 (The way through the desert / Mark 1:12-13)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part three sees us looking at Jesus' not avoiding the desert, but persisting through it. It's a place which our culture will do anything to avoid yet we are invited to find a way to walk through it.
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
Peripheral - pt 2 (Immersion in the new way / Mark 1:9-11)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Part two sees us looking at baptism, salvation and a crazy story of people in church history who killed each other over where these two things meet.
“Salvation is not an object you own — it’s a life you enter and live. Salvation is a form of belonging. Salvation is belonging in the kingdom of God.”
Peripheral - pt 1 (The new way / Mark 1:1-8)
Join us for our journey through Mark's gospel recording of Jesus. Dan kicks us off in part one by looking at how the arrival of Jesus is a whole new way of seeing reality and living life.
“This series isn’t for defining ourselves further as conservative or liberal. This series is our confession that those labels are not enough: the way of Jesus transcends our cultural labels and calls us to find a new way through the borders of all of them.”
Prayer Week - Curation of a sacred space
Prayer Week is our starting point for 2018. You have a part to play in this as we set out as an entire community to spend a week letting Christ shape us.
“Good curation is junction-making. It connects the viewer with the artist. The curator exists to make this junction.”
Prayer Week - Intro
Prayer Week is our starting point for 2018. You have a part to play in this as we set out as an entire community to spend a week letting Christ shape us.
“Herea mātou me te arohanui. Kotahitanga!”
Listen - pt 3 (Love with all)
We're kicking off 2018 with a summer series looking at "The Shema" – an ancient prayer used by Jesus to determine the cornerstone of what the Christian faith was to be known for. Dan finishes the series by looking at the final part which addresses our loves and the importance of loving God holistically.
“Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.”
Listen - pt 2 (You alone)
We're kicking off 2018 with a summer series looking at "The Shema" – an ancient prayer used by Jesus to determine the cornerstone of what the Christian faith was to be known for. Dan looks at the second part which talks of God being God alone in the midst of a world full of gods.
“Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.”
Listen - pt 1 (Rhythm, Proximity and Priority)
We're kicking off 2018 with a summer series looking at "The Shema" – an ancient prayer used by Jesus to determine the cornerstone of what the Christian faith was to be known for. Dan asks how we can listen to God in the midst of a busy and noisey world by finding daily rhythm, closing proximity and making it a high priority.
“Jesus replied, “The most important commandment is this: ‘Listen, O Israel! The Lord our God is the one and only Lord. And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength.”
Blessing
In our final gathering of 2017, and the lead up to Christmas, we're looking at three key ideas that arise out of the Christmas story. Dan Sheed shares on the story of Simeon and Anna blessing Jesus, Mary and Joseph and what we can do with that to be people of a "beautiful waste" together.
“That is precisely what a gift is: a beautiful waste.”
Joyful
In the lead up to Christmas we're looking at three key ideas that arise out of the Christmas story. Dan Sheed shares on Mary's joyful response of praise, AKA the Magnifcat, and what this expression can mean for us this Christmas.
“We are often most joyful for what we are most hopeful.”
The Heart of Matters - pt 8 (Invitation)
Dan Sheed finishes our series, "The Heart of Matters" looking at eight important kingdom values and how we embody them together. Dan shares on the value of invitation and teaches on the open-invitation of the Kingdom of God, yet what we must do with our yes/no/maybe to this in response.
“You don’t have to stay in the dumpster. This is real. You can come.”