Mark 3:7-19 and Mark 3:31-33 (CSB) You can be drawn to the power of Jesus and not necessarily get the person of Jesus. It’s easy to make this mistake and fall into this trap because when you get the person of Jesus, you also get His power, but it’s very possible to experience the power of Jesus and completely miss the person of Jesus. The call to repentance and faith is to come to Christ ... for Christ.
Mark 2:18-3:6 Jesus is calling everyone to take a different road, His road, and He promises through the Gospel that this road will make all the difference. The difference between satisfaction and discontentment, joy and agony, purpose and irrelevance, life and death.
Mark 1:35-2:17 What does it look like when Isaiah 40 comes true? What does it look like when God comes and sorts out the brokenness of this world? The Gospel writer, Mark, is unrelenting in answering these questions; story after story in the first part of Mark. He slows down the story in Chapter 2:1 and spends some time to tell one of the most beautiful stories yet in the gospel! Brilliantly crafted, it will blow your mind and introduce you to one of Jesus's main struggles of His earthly mi...
Ready, and action! After Jesus's announcement that the Kingdom of God is near, He jumps right into His public ministry and starts showing the people what this Kingdom looks like. What we'll see is that "the people" include: His first followers, people of Israel (the Jews) and people from the City, not previously part of God's covenant people. EVERYONE has an opportunity to see and experience the Kingdom, and in this portion of scripture all of this happens in one day... ...
EPIC movie —-> EPIC trailer! In this teaching we (yes, another tag team effort) explore the Gospel of Mark's introduction to Jesus and His basic message and mission. We discover that announcing the arrival of God's kingdom was Jesus' greatest priority. What did that mean? Why was that important to him? Go on, give it a listen. It’ll have a different feel than a normal Sunday sermon, but it’s fresh!
The Resurrection of Jesus changed everything. The explosive power of the Resurrection has so many implications for our lives, for today and for the life to come.
In Christ – we are of indescribable worth. We are His masterpiece - His work of art, created for goods to do them for His Glory and for our joy.
In moments of chaos and uncertainty, we can sometimes believe the lie that God has abandoned us, that He either doesn’t love us or that He is not in control. This couldn’t be the furthest thing from the truth. We are loved more than we can ever imagine and God is still fully in control.
We live in an world that requires us to make tons of decisions, from the small mundane ones to the big and exciting ones. The reality is that, it’s not always easy to know what to do, where to go or who to choose. We don’t like uncertainty, it can sometimes paralyse us or cause us to act abruptly and out of character. God does not leave us in this state. He meets us in our worry and anxiety. He provides for us, He leads and guides us, both as individuals and as a community.
As we ask and answer the question, what does it mean to be ALL IN for Discipleship? We must acknowledge that the Great Commission is not a suggestion, but a commandment given to us by Jesus, that we must obey. What is of great importance as we do the work of making disciples who make disciples is to first and foremost recognise that we are disciples. It's from that posture that discipleship flows from our obedience.
If we desire to be generous givers, then we will see three characteristics flow from our generosity. The Apostle Paul in our text reveals to us three markers that will be evident in our lives.
In this new series, we will focus on what we believe it means to be all in, here and now, as Rooted Fellowship. In the midst of all our conflict, we all desire PEACE. External PEACE and Internal PEACE. God promises us both. Internal Peace by reconciling us to Himself through Jesus and then External Peace by reconciling us to each other in His transcultural church. A new kingdom under a new King.
In this new series we will focus on what we believe it means to be all in, here and now, as Rooted Fellowship. As a church we are all in for Gospel-Centred; that means we are in to live a life that is all about Jesus, what He has done and what He is doing! In this message we’ll see that Jesus Christ is the Supreme Encouragement to Humility and Unselfishness, to the whole church, all of us. Therefore, all in for gospel-centred means all in for humility and unselfishness....
Tables are one of the most important places of human connection. We often feel most fully alive when sharing a meal around a table. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised, to find that throughout the Bible, God has a way of showing up at tables. At the centre of the spiritual lives of God’s people in both the Old and New Testaments, we find a table: the table of Passover and the table of Communion – the Lords Supper . This table of fellowship is what Jesus invites us to with Himself and then, in t...
Tables are one of the most important places of human connection. We often feel most fully alive when sharing a meal around a table. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised, to find that throughout the Bible, God has a way of showing up at tables. At the centre of the spiritual lives of God’s people in both the Old and New Testaments, we find a table: the table of Passover and the table of Communion – the Lords Supper . This table of fellowship is what Jesus invites us to with Himself and then, in t...
Tables are one of the most important places of human connection. We often feel most fully alive when sharing a meal around a table. Therefore, we shouldn’t be surprised, to find that throughout the Bible, God has a way of showing up at tables. At the centre of the spiritual lives of God’s people in both the Old and New Testaments, we find a table: the table of Passover and the table of Communion – the Lords Supper . This table of fellowship is what Jesus invites us to with Himself and then, in t...
As we remember the first coming of Jesus Christ this Advent season, One reminded us of who this Saviour truly is...
As we remember the first coming of Jesus Christ this Advent season, One reminded us of who this Saviour truly is...
As we remember the first coming of Jesus Christ this Advent season, One reminded us of who this Saviour truly is...
One of the major themes in the book of Revelation is VICTORY. Jesus’ victory of sin and death AND the implications of that victory. Jesus has overcome sin and death. He has conquered evil and depravity. The Gospel compels us to live out of this victory, especially as we nagivate through this broken world, that this side of heaven, we are being tempted, this side of heaven we will walk through pain and suffering, this side of we will feel the heat of the fiery furnace, but for those in Christ, th...
This past Sunday, Jono took us through the letter to Philadelphia - Jesus' words to all who believe in Him is to Hold on no matter what, as we look to his second coming.
This past Sunday, Clayton urged us to examine whether we are alive in Christ or in actual fact, like the church in Sardis, dead in our sins.
The letter to Thyatira is the longest of the letters to the seven churches. It also contains arguably the harshest critique and the sternest warnings to the church. For us to fully understand this letter, we need to understand who Jezebel was in the Old Testament, and also why Jesus has the tolerance of Jezebel in Thyatira against this church. This sermon these two things, and then applies it to us as a church today. The leading question in the sermon: have we tolerated things that are not pleas...
Just as it was in the church of Pergamum, so it is today, Christians are constantly faced with the pressure to compromise. Jesus promises to be our satisfaction in the face of compromise and godlessness around us.
True faith is always persevering faith; even though it might fall and stumble, it always perseveres to the end; because true faith has its eye not ultimately on the present hardship, but ultimately on the reward of God in the life to come, the promised crown of life.
Jesus’ words to Ephesus in Revelation 2:1–7 teach us that the great commandment matters to God. Jesus identified our greatest obligation as wholehearted devoted love for God - Matthew 22:36–38, which declares to us that God is not pleased by mere dutiful obedience that does not flow from genuine authentic love.
