Ask: Are there areas of your life that you are afraid to open up to the light? If so, what can you do this advent season to prepare to let God in? Listen: “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” by Sara Groves https://open.spotify.com/track/0SHqEOAX5JeSl26nboNSkz?si=216fe06d22064cbd Art: The Ancient of Days, by William Blake. Devotional based on the work Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent, by Tsh Oxenreider...
Nov 24, 2024•4 min•Ep. 506
Hey, welcome to our Goodlife podcast, we're so glad your here. This week we celebrated our annual Thanksgiving Sunday - a special time to reflect on God's goodness and faithfulness. Josiah has a top 10 highlight reel for the year and then Mike shares his personal reflections and invites us to join in God’s incredible story of restoration, reflecting on Psalm 145:4 "Generation after generation stands in awe of your work; each one tells stories of your mighty acts." WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife...
Nov 19, 2024•33 min•Ep. 505
On Sunday we were incredibly privileged to have Marjan Beer share with us as a part of our series on JESUS ENCOUNTERS. Marjan is such a wonderful member of our community who has recently been running our Women's Retreats as well as our weekly group Bible Studies. In her message she shared about how she reignited her relationship with Jesus through 2 things: 1. Imagination. Placing yourself in the bible, read the gospels like a novel. 2. Community. Jesus is represented all around us, and how do w...
Nov 05, 2024•27 min•Ep. 504
This week we had Special Guest Rev. Dr. Graham Hill sharing on Jonah. As he takes us through the story of Jonah he shares what we can learn about discipleship and more importantly what we can learn about God. He is waiting for us, in the darkest times call out and he will answer. WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife.org.au/ and https://www.goodlife.org.au/church-notices SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/5tgYs0DLkpe3yxj15nTRUh?si=KWSJIsI-Q7auMNx4WLn6xg Goodlife Collective:: https://open.spotify.co...
Oct 29, 2024•30 min•Ep. 503
Hey, welcome to our Goodlife podcast, we're so glad your here. This week Mike introduces our new series call Jesus Encounters. He focuses on two stories in Luke 18 and 19, the blind man and Zacchaeus, both men were outcasts who encountered the grace of Jesus. Mike brings together three points for our reflection: 1. Jesus hears the cried of the oppressed. 2. Jesus sees the oppressor with eyes of grace. 3. The crowd becomes the oppressor in both encounters WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife.org.au/ a...
Oct 22, 2024•39 min•Ep. 502
Welcome! This week we have a special guest speaker: Jess LeClerc. Jess is an artist and the principal and founder of Art School Co. here on the Sunshine Coast. She is a wife, mother of 4 amazing teens and a much loved part of our Goodlife Community. Given that we are all made in the image of our creator God, Jess calls us to a more creative way of living by sharing: What is creativity? The many ways we are all creative How we can increase our creativity What is the creativity we need to fullfil ...
Oct 16, 2024•35 min•Ep. 501
On the back of our God With Us stories we revisit chatting about embodiment with Dan Gettis. God is within us so how can we be attuned to hear him? If you would like to share you're own personal experience hearing the voice of God please DM our socials or email Hannah at hbartle@goodlife.org.au - it doesn't need to be shared on the Podcast if you don't want. THE PONDERING EPISODES: Have you got thoughts and questions about faith, the bible, church and life in general? Well, so do we! In these ep...
Oct 03, 2024•43 min•Ep. 500
Welcome to our weekly Podcast! Today Greg has been left with teaching duties whilst most of the leadership are away. Our Lead Paster Mike left him to talk on "God, Faith, Life, Family... or whatever!" In this teaching Greg shares how he has been learning that God waits for us, a god who speaks to us. - God is a wholistic God - God's voice always aligns with his nature - Hearing God's voice is about partnership rather than control. Fostering a relational dynamic of faith. Greg leaves us with the ...
Sep 24, 2024•25 min•Ep. 498
For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. Mike is wrapping up and sharing on how important Community and Serving is for a life-changing relationship with Jesus as an apprentice not just a consumer. 1. Community & Service shape us to look more...
Sep 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 497
For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. Today Ryan Smith is sharing on Rule Of Life. That when we have a vision and a goal we can relax into a strong relationship with God. 1. A rule of life is a means to an end. 2. It's about your whole life. ...
Sep 10, 2024•24 min•Ep. 496
Join Hannah and her friends as they try to understand what does the voice of God sound like. Through the months of May and June, the Goodlife Church community has been unpacking the Holy Spirit in a series called 'Empowering Presence'. As a part of this we had the privilege of hearing from Rev. Dr. Tania Harris on how to hear the voice of God. It was in her teaching session that our community began to share their own personal journey of listening, asking and waiting for the voice of God. In refl...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 495
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church on YouTube! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. It's Father's Day and for session 6 Mike is sharing on Sin and a passage from Micah 7:7-8. We also learn key advice he received from his Dad growing up...
Sep 03, 2024•25 min•Ep. 494
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church on YouTube! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. Mike is sharing on Pain and Suffering, including his 5 reflections: 1. Acknowledge - Name the emotions 2. Surrender 3. Community - who do you need arou...
Aug 27, 2024•38 min•Ep. 493
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church Podcast! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. Greg is unpacking the spiritual practices and how we can use these to be intentionally formed in christ, not by worldly desires. The Practices: 1. Sabbath...
Aug 20, 2024•28 min•Ep. 492
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church Podcast! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. As we continue the series, Mike is sharing on the second Goal of becoming a disciple which is to BECOME LIKE JESUS. The 4 ways God forms us to be like Jes...
Aug 13, 2024•33 min•Ep. 491
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church Podcast! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. On the back of Mike's message last week, Stephen Jeffs is taking a look into Goal #1 of becoming a disciple which is to BE WITH JESUS. "To be with him, to...
Aug 06, 2024•34 min•Ep. 490
Welcome to the first of THE PONDERING EPISODES for 2024! Join Hannah and her friends as they try to understand what does the voice of God sound like. Through the months of May and June, the Goodlife Church community has been unpacking the Holy Spirit in a series called 'Empowering Presence'. As a part of this we had the privilege of hearing from Rev. Dr. Tania Harris on how to hear the voice of God. It was in her teaching session that our community began to share their own personal journey of li...
Aug 01, 2024•34 min•Ep. 489
Welcome to the Goodlife Community Church Podcast! For 8 weeks, we are doing the ‘Practicing The Way Of Jesus’ course. A blueprint on spiritual formation and becoming a disciple of Jesus. We hope you can lean in and discover with us what it means to follow Jesus as a way of life, and see formation integrated into our church and us individually. Today Mike kicks off the series looking at following Jesus. There is a clear invitation from Jesus to follow him and become his APPRENTICE. The goals of a...
Jul 30, 2024•38 min•Ep. 488
Today we have another special guest: Graham Kell. Graham is a kind, wise and accomplished clinical psychologist who for many years served as a pastor here on the Coast. He shares with us about Ibex and what we can learn about them: 1. God doesn't remove your opposition; he equips you to face it. 2. God doesn't make your path smooth; he makes your feet strong. 3. God doesn't prevent all dry times; he provides thirst that leads you to find refreshment. WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife.org.au/ and h...
Jul 23, 2024•29 min•Ep. 487
We have a special guest speaker this week! Longtime member of Goodlife and principal of Nambour Christian College: Geoff van der Vliet. Geoff shared from Luke and challenged us to understand NICENESS & how followers of Christ can be doing more GOOD. "Followers of Christ should do more good today than what they did yesterday." WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife.org.au/ and https://www.goodlife.org.au/church-notices SPOTIFY https://open.spotify.com/show/5tgYs0DLkpe3yxj15nTRUh?si=KWSJIsI-Q7auMNx4W...
Jul 16, 2024•33 min•Ep. 486
Are you going to be a Spectator or a Player? At Church on Sunday Mike shared that in our Christian faith there isn't an option to be a spectator, it's a journey that we are invited to A PART OF. For his message, Mike is guiding us through listening to God and reflecting, but most importantly what are we going to DO in response to this. We reflect on our last week through - 1. Our Feet: Where we walk 2. Our Hands: How we contribute 3. Our Eyes: How we see 4. Our Mouth: What we say What is the Spi...
Jul 09, 2024•33 min•Ep. 485
This week Greg is sharing on wisdom, and asks the question that considering your past experiences, your current circumstances and your future hopes and dreams... What is the wise thing to do? "Wisdom is rooted in relationship with God and the outworking of love." Greg shares 4 ideas that stems from Ephesians 5:15 - 1. Wisdom = God's Will 2. Recognition of God's authority 3. Understand that God knows and wants what is best for us 4. Walk in love It's a great message and we hope you feel encourage...
Jul 02, 2024•25 min•Ep. 484
Today Mike and Hannah are answering questions that have come up over our series on EMPOWERING PRESENCE. This includes: 1. What does the voice of God sound like? 2. How do I know it's God speaking? 3. Does God speak beyond scripture? 4. What do we do when God seems silent? 5. Why does God Speak? On the back of Dr. Rev. Tania Harris message last week, Mike also references her 3 questions to discern if god is speaking to you. 1. Would Jesus say this? 2. Is anyone else saying this? 3. Are spiritual ...
Jun 25, 2024•32 min•Ep. 483
This is part five of our 'EMPOWERING PRESENCE' series and we are delighted to have guest speaker Rev. Dr. Tania Harris join us. Tania has a global ministry called God Conversations that equips people to people to recognise and respond to God's voice. Today she shares key insights from scripture and stories to reveal the God who desires to speak to us: • The God who spoke in ancient times • The God who spoke in Jesus • The God who speaks through the Spirit • The God who speaks to us • The God who...
Jun 18, 2024•43 min•Ep. 482
This week Mike continues sharing on Spiritual Gifts drawing from 1 Corinthians 12 as a part of the EMPOWERING PRESENCE series. In this video Mike outlines that ALL of these gifts are SPIRIT-LED and only work when they are used lovingly with the intention to build each other up. Mike also explains each Spiritual Gift found in 1 Corinthians 12:8-11: 1. Word of Wisdom 2. Word of Knowledge 3. Faith 4. Gifts of Healing 5. Working of Miracles 6. Prophecy 7. Discerning of Spirits 8. Different Kinds of ...
Jun 11, 2024•40 min•Ep. 481
In the third installation of our 'EMPOWERING PRESENCE' series Mike is sharing on Spiritual Gifts. Spiritual Gifts are special abilities given by the Holy Spirit to believers for the edification of the church. For example; Word of Wisdom, Word of Knowledge, Faith, Gifts of Healing, Miraculous Powers, Prophecy, Distinguishing between Spirits, Speaking in different kinds of tongues, & Interpretation of Tongues. These Gifts are: 1. Spirit empowered 2. Serve needs for the common good 3. different...
Jun 04, 2024•34 min•Ep. 480
Welcome to Week 2 of our series 'EMPOWERING PRESENCE' looking into spiritual gifts and the holy spirit. Today Hannah Bartle shares on The Holy Trinity, significantly the holy spirit and the relationship we are invited into through communion. Communion involves Presence, Reciprocity & Immediacy. Which Hannah explains what these look like through these topics: 1. God = Communion 2. We are offered communion 3. We are to offer communion 4. The Communion Table WEBSITE :: https://www.goodlife.org....
May 28, 2024•26 min•Ep. 479
This week we kick off a new teaching series, EMPOWERING PRESENCE on the Holy Spirit including, what is Pentecost about? Who is the Holy Spirit? How can we hear God’s voice and even know it’s God? Most importantly, how is this relevant to today's church? Today's Message from Mike looks at the day of Pentecost from Acts 1. The Beauty and Power of Pentecost can be alive in us through: 1. Experiencing - experience intimacy with God. 2. Morphing - being transformed into Christlikeness. 3. Discerning ...
May 21, 2024•30 min•Ep. 478
Happy Mother's Day to all mothers, grandmas, carers & mother figures! "Life is so beautiful. Life is so hard." - Kate Bowler. This mothers day we hold the truth contained in this quote as we seek balance in the beauty, joy, challenges and demands of life and being a parent. Today we have a panel of Mums sharing their wisdom and insights on parenting and the revelation of God's love that comes through becoming a parent. Following this Emma Bell shares her journey of love through her daughter ...
May 14, 2024•34 min•Ep. 477
Welcome to Online Church and our annual Compassion Sunday gathering! This week we are joined by our one of our favourite speakers Ryan Smith. Today he is using his storytelling gifts to provide insight into the powerful work of Compassion and how God uses interruptions to write our life's stories. The invitation is to engage with the opportunities that arise and walk in the way of love, radical trust and open hands. To sponsor a child through Compassion or make a donation follow the link below. ...
May 07, 2024•35 min•Ep. 476
