Sermon , Pentecost 7th A, Sunday July 19, 2020 St Petri The changes are coming thick and fast, aren’t they? How are you going with this time of significant change at every level; world, nation, community, family….? One thing is true. We are God’s people right in the middle of all this change, and we need to respond as best as we can. Adapting to change is always challenging. Sometimes we just want to run away. Sometimes we try to pretend nothing has changed so we can just be

Sunday 12th January Audio Sermon Pastor Robert Voigt – Anchors Aweigh “We have this hope as an anchor for the soul!”https://stpetri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200112_message.mp3 #Anchor #PastorRobertVoigt #hope #bushfires #fear

Sunday 3rd November – All Saints/In Memoriam  – St Petri Church Transcript of Message by Pastor Noel Due Bad Dreams, Big Ideas and Butterflieshttps://stpetri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20191103_message.mp3 Good morning everyone this is a very special morning.  We have come through a year where one way or another, we have all suffered losses and finally we approached death itself through 1000 losses. We lose one thing after another and then finally we lose the connectio

Sunday 29th September, 2019 Pastor Noel Due – audio and transcript of sermon preached at St Petri.https://stpetri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/20190929_message.mp3 We’ve got  three readings before us this morning.  As you’ll see from the bulletin notes on the front page, these are centuries apart. One is the story of Jeremiah buying a plot of land. He is buying that plot of land immediately before the catastrophic destruction of Jerusalem. So when everything is torn up a

Sermon: Pentecost 8B, Sunday July 15, 2018 St Petri Ephesians 1:3-143 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he[a] predestined us for adoption to sonship[b] through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will – 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he h

Sermon Mark 13:1-8 As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher! What massive stones! What magnificent buildings!” 2 “Do you see all these great buildings?” replied Jesus. “Not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, John and Andrew asked him privately, 4 “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that t

St Petri 10.30 Community Opening Input I reckon you may have heard me say at least once, “The local church is the hope of the world”. It has been a long journey for me to believe this to the point of giving my heart and life to it. I heard a guy say that line back when I was about 25. His name is Bill hybels. He is a pastor of a large church and global network of churches now called Willow Creek. Willow Creek is in the western suburbs of Chicago. Why are we here ad why are w

Sermon, Advent 1 – Service of 9 Words Sunday December 2, 2012. Prisoners of Hope Zechariah 9:9-12 Rejoice greatly, Daughter Zion! Shout, Daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. 10 I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem, and the battle bow will be broken. He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea

Day of Fulfilment HANG ON John 5: 21-29 Jesus says…..24 “Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be judged but has crossed over from death to life. Are you always in confusion? Surrounded by illusion? Sort it out, you’ll make out. Seem to make a good beginning, someone else ends up winning, don’t seem fair, don’t you care These are the words of a popular song. We’ll hear more of them soon. But they give us a spri

This is the church and there is no other community on earth like it. I am with Bill Hybels of Willow Creek Community Church in Chicago, Illinois, USA, when he says (and has said for the lst 25 years on the world stage, “The local Christian Church is the hope of the world.” This is the Spirit working through everyday people at St Petri. Peace, Pr A #funeral #baptism #stpetri #local #hope #Redeemer #church