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.
We finish 2016 by reflecting on our Good Gifts initiative, Dan Sheed lands the series and we hear an important prophetic word that has been brewing up for a few weeks.
“Beloved, I pray that all may go well with you and that you may be in good health, as it is with your soul.”
Dan Sheed takes us through the third part of our "And I will give you rest" series, looking at how rest is trust in what God is doing when we can't do anything,
“Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for him to act.”
Dan Sheed continues our series "And I will give you rest." looking at how rest is intrinsically tied to freedom and how to live it out joyfully.
“Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”
Dan Sheed kicks of our new series "And I will give you rest" where we look at how work and rest is a rhythm to find.
“Sabbath is deliberate interference.”
Guest speaker, Jacinda Lilly, shares with us a challenge to keep being people who say "yes" to what God is leading us towards: both as individuals and a growing church.
“Every “yes” means a change to the status quo - we must always be ready for change. This is part of a what it is to be dynamic.”
Guest speaker Lloyd Rankin shares on what it is to have a good ambition for building a life and sharing it with others.
“Go and be the people of peace in a culture of chaos.”
Dan Sheed finishes our Gifted series, landing us in 1 Corinthians 13 with a community manifesto to pursue love as our highest calling.
“THIS IS OUR COUNTER-CULTURAL MOMENT; AN ANTITHESIS FOR OUR CURRENT REALITY.”
Dan Sheed shares on Ephesians 4, and how as gifted people we all play a part in equipping each other towards maturity.
“Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. ... As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.”
Dan Sheed continues our "Gifted" series, looking at the gift of healing and why God heals as well as what is happening when we're not healed.
“One day Jesus called together his twelve disciples and gave them power and authority to cast out all demons and to heal all diseases. Then he sent them out to tell everyone about the Kingdom of God and to heal the sick.”
Dan Sheed continues our "Gifted" series, looking at the gift of faith and how it makes us the bridge between the broken and the holy.
“Faith alone is certainty. Everything but faith is subject to doubt. Jesus Christ alone is the certainty of our faith.”
Cameron Thorp shares in our "Gifted" series on the gift of service, and how it changes the way we will see what God is doing and how we will see people.
“The gift of service is foundational to all the other gifts. We are in the pass it on business.”
Georgia Johnstone shares in our "Gifted" series, looking at the gift of discernment and how it works in our lives.
“Discernment is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth. The ability to think with discernment is synonymous with an ability to think biblically.”
Strahan Coleman shares in our "Gifted" series, looking at the gift of prophecy and how we can practice it everyday.
“But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them.”
We took a break from our series this week, with Dan Sheed sharing this talk on how we view God.
“We all live with projected images of God which are intrinsically tied to our view of our earthly Fathers ... rather than being people made in His image, we’re making Him in ours.”
“We’re a Charismatic church: we believe that in our weak and limited state, the gifts are given to us all by the Holy Spirit, to be used to continue the mission of God.”
“The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.”
“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.”
“If you’ve ever built on rock, you’ll know that laying the foundations is the hardest part.”
“To finish this series we pulled together a couple of contributors to create something in the middle of a TED-talk meets tag-team-wrestling.”
“Piety is our outside life matching our inside life.”
