We're diving into out monthly open topic series this week as Gary Leslie shares from Luke 16. Gary started this message while serving at the Arotahi tent mission in Fairfield, Hamilton in January 2023. Gary starts by reading our passage, before looking at insights into material divide as well as spiritual divide, insights into inequity and human suffering, as well as eternal justice. He also looks to answer the question "why doesn't God rescue His children out of suffering poverty?" We also gain...
Mar 25, 2023•38 min•Season 2023Ep. 12
We continue in 1st Peter this week brought to us by Peter Sun who is speaking on "The Chosen Stone & His Chosen People" from 1 Peter chapter 2. Our passage this week is read to us by Ethan Samuel. Peter starts with an overview of the past couple of weeks to bring us into context for the passage he is covering this week, looking at "Who we are in Christ". He looks at the term "Oxymoron", as we look at the phrase "living stones" in our passage, and Peter explains what a "living stone" actually...
Mar 18, 2023•36 min•Season 2023Ep. 11
With week two of our journey through 1st Peter, Sam Crosbie brings us our message this week speaking on "People Living Under God Our Father" from 1 Peter 1:13-25a. Brian Peden starts us off this week reading the passage from today before handing over to Sam who dives right in to the connecting context of verse 13 from the previous verses. He then continues on to look at how Peter writes about how our identity is in God as his children, we as individuals, and we as a collective of the church. Sam...
Mar 11, 2023•33 min•Season 2023Ep. 10
We start our journey into 1st Peter this week with Jeff Samuel speaking on "People With Heavenly Inheritance" from 1 Peter 1:1-12. Jeff starts us off strong as he looks at the differnt names that we know Peter by. He then dives straight into our text, looking at verse 1 in an inter-linear context, to see who this letter is written to. Jeff pivots for a segment and looks at how a "paradox" works in the context of scripture, looking at some of the controversial topics presented and discussing the ...
Mar 04, 2023•41 min•Season 2023Ep. 9
Bardoe Besselaar brings us an introduction to Peter based on John 21 as we continue into our new series "Who Are We?" Bardoe gives us a brief background on the author John, and his relationship with Peter, before looking at how Peter fits into the narrative of the New Testament. He then looks into our text for today in John 21 where Jesus "reinstates" Peter. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 26th of February 2023 during the 10:00 am service....
Feb 25, 2023•37 min•Season 2023Ep. 8
This week we start our new series "Who Are We?" as Dan looks at the first question, "What is a Christian?". Dan starts by giving a very brief overview of what our series is going to be looking at before jumping straight into our first question for the series of "What is a Christian?" He looks at the history of the word "Christian", and where it's actually found in the Bible. Dan then looks at what the church called themselves in the time of the Bible and the strength of that word. Recorded at th...
Feb 18, 2023•38 min•Season 2023Ep. 7
We wrap up our 2023 Summer Series this week as Lee Hanson shares from John 15:1-11. Lee reads through the passage for today before breaking his message into three segments; "The Vinedresser", "The Vine", and "The Branches". Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 5th of February 2023 during the 10:00 am service.
Feb 04, 2023•28 min•Season 2023Ep. 5
Our 2023 Summer Series continues with week 5 brought to us by Luke Williamson who speaks on Psalm 97. Luke starts by looking at where this Psalm fits in the Bible and what surrounds it, before looking at the structure of the chapter and breaking it down into three segments. He then takes a deeper dive into how the chapter is presented and what it means. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 29th of January 2023 during the 10:00 am service....
Jan 28, 2023•25 min•Season 2023Ep. 5
Our Summer Series continues for 2023 as week 4 is brought to us by Kotie Smith who covers the story of the paralysed man from Mark 2. Kotie reads our passage for this morning before diving into it. He then gives us a brief overview of the circumstances surrounding this event and what led up to it from previous chapters. Kotie then looks at the faith found in the five men in todays passage before looking at how Jesus responded to this, and forgiving sins. He then turns his attention to the respon...
Jan 21, 2023•32 min•Season 2023Ep. 4
Week 3 of our Summer Series for 2023 is brought to us by JJ Rasmussen, a Bible teacher and Bible translation consultant from the Faroe Islands, now living in Italy. JJ starts by giving us an overview of who he is and what he does before diving into our passage this week in Mark 6 (our passage starts at 9:30). JJ looks at the passage in three parts - "When they had crossed over", "they came to the land of Gennesaret", "and moored to the shore". In this, JJ looks at how "we are all crossing over t...
Jan 14, 2023•31 min•Season 2023Ep. 3
Week 2 of our Summer Series for 2023 is brought to us by Matt Symington who poses the question "Do we live of life of Performance, or as a Person of Christ?" Matt talks about how we perceive our sins and how we try to fix them before diving into Galatians 3 to look at how Paul advised the Galatians to handle these issue. Matt then looks at Galatians 2:20 and discusses what it means for Christ to live in us. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 8th of January 2023 du...
Jan 07, 2023•23 min•Season 2023Ep. 2
Our first week back in our church building after 14 months, we start our Summer Series for 2023 hearing from Dan Pettersen, talking about "Predicting Your Future" as we enter a new year. Dan Looks at how we as humans try to predict our own future, even while other people can see what outcomes we're heading for, we often cannot. Dan then looks at how we try to fix personal problems when things go wrong, followed by how we can utilise principals, before he looks at the sermon on the mount when Jes...
Dec 31, 2022•28 min•Season 2023Ep. 1
Part 4 of our End Times series is brought to us by Geoff Smith this week as he discusses the Revealing of the Antichrist - looking at Daniel, the letters of John, and Revelation.
Nov 06, 2022•48 min•Season 2022Ep. 44
As we are still in Lockdown, Peter Sun looks at "God is Love" based on 1 John 4:8-10. Peter discusses the alarming decline of people identifying as Christians today, especially in the younger generation, and how this often hinges on the question "If God is Love, why is there so much suffering?" Peter looks at four aspects at the nature of Gods love - Gods love is sacrificial; Gods love focuses on the good of others; Gods love does not depend on reciprocity; Gods love is propitious. This message ...
Sep 05, 2021•16 min•Season 2021Ep. 35
As New Zealand enters lockdown again we take a break from our series in Philippians, and Gavin Lynch looks at Psalm 118. Gavin shares what Church looks like for his family in lockdown before diving into Psalm 118, a Psalm of Praise. Gavin breaks the chapter down in chunks, and dicsusses the amazing promises declared in the praises throughout. This message was pre-recorded for the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 29th of August 2021....
Aug 29, 2021•23 min•Season 2021Ep. 34
We continue our series in the book of Philippians as Dan Pettersen takes us through Philippians 1:27-2:6. Dan looks at the context of the passage by taking a look at the time when Paul and Silas were in prison together, and how the results of that affected the Church at Philippi. Dan then looks at our passage for today and discusses how the church acted, especially with the local authority surrounding them. This message was pre-recorded for the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the ...
Aug 22, 2021•29 min•Season 2021Ep. 33
This week is week two in the book of Philippians, and Peter Sun takes us through Philippians 1:12-26. Our message this week is opened with Isaac reading through our passage before Peter gives a brief overview of the book itself. Peter then goes on to explain why he changed the title of his message for today from "Paul's Imprisonment" to "Paul's Crucible Moments", explaining what a "crucible" is. Peter then looks at the crucible moments in Paul's life that lead up to the circumstances he talks ab...
Aug 15, 2021•34 min•Season 2021Ep. 32
As we enter week one of the book of Philippians, Peter Cowie takes us through the first 11 verses of Philippians 1. Peter starts our book off with a bit of context around what the book is about as a whole, this letter Paul wrote to the church at Philippi, and why we as a church are going through it. Peter then starts reading through the passage, starting with the first 2 verses, and he looks at the significance of how Paul starts this letter. Peter then dives into the next nine verses, breaking ...
Aug 08, 2021•46 min•Season 2021Ep. 31
This month we are blessed to have Caleb Wilkinson Mackie speaking during our monthly Sunday evening service, this month discussing "Worship". Starting in Amos 5 from verse 21, Caleb discusses how we can't just be blasé about our worship. Caleb then looks at John 4 from verse 19, where Jesus discusses worship with the Samaritan woman. He looks at how this conversation paves the way for how we can worship from wherever, whenever, and what this actually means for us today. Caleb continues, discussi...
Aug 01, 2021•25 min
This week is our final week in 2nd Samuel, and Alan Stanley takes us through 2nd Samuel 24. Our passage is read in its entirety by Mat before Alan dives into it. Alan starts by discussing how "religious people" tend to limit God to their beliefs, rather than experiencing Him, and poses the question "have you ever encountered/experienced God, or is He simply someone that you believe in?" Alan looks at the census taken by David in verses 1-8 and discusses why God would incite David to take this ce...
Aug 01, 2021•40 min•Season 2021Ep. 30
As we near the end of our study in 2nd Samuel, Gavin Lynch takes us through the first 7 verses of 2nd Samuel 23. Gavin starts by reading our passage for today, before discussing the probability of these verses actually being the "last words of David". Gavin then breaks the verses down, firstly looking at "the Grace of God" in verse 1, then he looks at "the Righteous King and the Faithful God" in verses 2-5, and finally, he looks at "the Judgement of God" in verses 6-7. Recorded at the Hukanui Bi...
Jul 25, 2021•32 min•Season 2021Ep. 29
With a slightly different layout this week, Peter Cowie takes us through 2nd Samuel 22. Prior to the message, the congregation sang "When Peace Like a River", and Peter starts by discussing the significance of that song and why he asked for it to be sung before he started. As we start to look at chapter 22 of 2nd Samuel, Peter looks at the similarities between it and Psalm 18. Peter then breaks chapter 22 into sections, asking different people to come up and read these sections before breaking t...
Jul 18, 2021•37 min•Season 2021Ep. 28
Back into 2nd Samuel this week, Peter Cowie looks at chapters 20-21 with us. Peter dives in deep from the start with the question, "How do we be men and women after God's own heart when things get comfortable?" Peter looks back at the story so far, showing the context of the journey David has been on, starting in Chapter 11 through to our chapters for today. As Peter comes into chapter 20, he looks at how David contrasts with those in this chapter. David is passive while everyone is trying to be...
Jul 11, 2021•33 min•Season 2021Ep. 27
Following on from last months message on "The Call to Serve", this month Gavin takes us through one of the three passages from our Young Adults study groups in Acts 20 - "Paul's Life, Work, and Mission" - during our monthly Sunday evening service. Mark Linton opens for Gavin by reading our passage in Acts 20 before Gavin dives in and gives us a bit of context into the passage we're looking at. Gavin then takes a look at how Pauls service to others has stemmed from his desire to serve the Lord, a...
Jul 04, 2021•24 min
This week we take a break from 2nd Samuel to hear from Dan Pettersen, a church planter now working with WEC NZ/East West College, discussing our call from God, looking at the story of Jonah. Dan starts by posing the question "Did you ever get the sense that God was asking you to step out and do something?" He then jumps into the story of Jonah, starting in chapter 1. After giving some background of the area that Jonah was to go into, Dan looks deeper into the struggle that Jonah faced with the c...
Jul 04, 2021•35 min•Season 2021Ep. 26
Billy Hanna dives into 2nd Samuel 19 this week, looking at David's response to the death of Absalom. Billy breaks our passage today into three pieces - the context of David's grief, the enormity of David's responsibility, and considers the failure of David's perspective. The key idea Billy wants to bring across from this passage is "a heart that looks only to its own interests, shows no regard for God's lasting glory". Billy looks at where today's message fits in the story throughout the books o...
Jun 27, 2021•41 min•Season 2021Ep. 25
Join us this week as Shane Wildermoth takes us through part 2 in the story of Absalom in 2nd Samuel 13-18 which he's titled "Overcome by Bitterness". How does a man born into royalty become so bitter? What brought Absalom to turn the people from their king to the point of war? Shane discusses how poisonous bitterness and revenge is in our lives, and how it can ruin lives, and how it created a murderer in Absalom. And what did this result in? It resulted in fear. It caused Absalom to flee, and he...
Jun 20, 2021•41 min•Season 24Ep. 2021
Brett Falconer is back again with another challenge for our monthly Sunday evening service, this month discussing "The Call to Serve". Brett starts looking at three passages from throughout the Bible discussing serving. But why should we serve? How does it help the Church and the body of Christ? Brett breaks his message down to three different parts - Risk Is Right: Better to Lose Your Life Than to Waste It (John Piper), The Body and the Need for Unity, and An Encouragement to You Who Are Servin...
Jun 13, 2021•36 min
Itinerant Bible teacher Rhys Lamont takes a look at our passage this week, looking at how Absalom won the hearts of the people in 2nd Samuel 14-15. Why does this text matter to you? The Old Testament is not simply a collection of stories to pluck moral teachings from. Instead, it’s redemptive history! Kingdom in crises points us forward to a kingdom in consummation. Throughout this text, Rhys considers three points - Absalom’s return, Israel’s heart, and finally, David’s exile - before wrapping ...
Jun 13, 2021•38 min•Season 2021Ep. 23
This week, Peter Sun takes a look at a difficult passage covering the sin of David with Bathsheba in 2nd Samuel 11-12. When approaching today's passage, Peter struggled with if he should hold back on what he talks about on this "sensitive topic" or go all in. Peter looks at how sexual sin can affect anyone, even David who was regarded as "one after God's own heart". But what does this actually mean? How can this affect us today compared to how it affected David? What was David's inner struggle? ...
Jun 06, 2021•38 min•Season 2021Ep. 22
