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Trumix.com listings available of Redlands Christian Reformed Church - Sermons Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Walk through the Bible 5th October 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: - Moving beyond Genesis this week, we find ourselves learning more of how God goes about restoring his world and fulfilling his promise to Abraham. The books of Exodus to Deuteronomy can excite us with stories of God's power as well as bore us with long lists of drawn-out laws. But every chapter in these books fits perfectly into God's promise to reverse the fall and rescue his people. He begins with the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ministry 101 5th October 2008 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Titus 1:1-4 - Sometimes I have been called a "minister" in the church, and I don't really like it. It's not because it's not accurate, it's just that it's a half truth. Because when it comes to ministry, it's not something that just the few are called to, it's for every Christian. As we begin to look through the book of Titus today, we see that Paul is spelling out that ministry is something we are a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk through the Bible 28th September 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Genesis 12:1-9 - Reading Genesis can be most fascinating. Some of the stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and the rest of the family can be entertaining, but leave us wondering "What on earth is God trying to tell us here?" But when we read it remembering what we saw in Genesis 1-11, and looking at God's promises in Genesis 12, we see that God is not just trying to entertain us, but tell us some vita ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Worship - Time to Celebrate God 28th September 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Hebrews 12:18-29 - Do you ever think about 'awe' and 'wonder'? If so, does worship ever fit that description? I know, it's a pretty laden comment, but there are ways that we approach worship that will almost definitely set us up for failure. How can worship and awe be more connected in our experience? Read ahead at Hebrews 12:18-29 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Walk through the Bible 21st September 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: - Genesis 1-12 seems to invite us into a world that is very different from our own, so distant from what we know and experience. There are naked people running around talking to snakes and eating fruit. There are hunters and farmers who don't get on, giants and floods and the building of a big tower. We can end up thinking that it's a nice story, but even if it is true, what does it have to do w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Need Some Space? 21st September 2008 AM - Preacher: - Bible Passage: Ps 23 - We see key times in Jesus ministry that he withdrew to be alone: right at the commencement of his ministry, and right at its close, and many times throughout. We have to ask ourselves: are we just too busy, and we can't switch off? Is the pace of life too much? How might that impact on our relationship with Jesus? If we're asking 'what can we do about it?' we need to know that times of solitude of going ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Speaking to God about People 14th September 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Neville - Bible Passage: Acts 4:1-23; 4:23-31 - What happens when God's people pray for him to work powerfully? In Acts 4 we find out how God works through people to bring a community of hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's the deal with fasting? 14th September 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Matthew 6:16-18 - The 'Draw Near' series continues: we'll be looking at what Jesus says about fasting, and what role it may have in giving expression to our walk with God. We'll debunk some myths about fasting and seek to discover its true value. Some important lessons to learn about listening to our bodies, and speaking without our mouths. And we'll get a little healthier, in all sorts of ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community of Love 31st August 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: 1 John 4:7-12 - Why do we love? Are we motivated by feelings? Or is it a simple matter of choice? In John's letter it becomes clear that God is our motivation, our reason and our ability to love. In fact, God is love - without him there is no love. When we think about being a community of love, we see that our love for one another is the way God shows his love today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Homosexuality - A Double Repentance 31st August 2008 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Romans 12:3-16 - Back, due to popular demand... A few weeks ago we looked at the issue of being Christian and Gay. A number of people commented that they would like to have a follow up message thinking about how we, as a church, love and support people who struggle with same sex attraction. Too often, for Christians who struggle in this way there have been only two options. 1) A openly gay lifestyle. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Community of Truth 24th August 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: 1 John 2:18-27 - In the world we live, truth is a matter of opinion. No one is sure of what truth is. People are becoming more and more convinced that there is nothing solid to base life on. Even as Christians, we struggle discerning what is true and what is false. But John shows us in his first letter that those who walk in the light can be confident in the truth of Jesus Christ. The Son of God is the cen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Draw Near to God 24th August 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Psalm 139 - Somewhat introductory, though we'll be looking at what it means to 'draw near to God', asking the question of whether we're really as open to God as we could be, and what we might be able to do about it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Community of Purity 17th August 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: 1 John 1:5-2:6 - Sunday evening we begin a new series in the book of 1 John, looking at how we can be a Community of Light in this world. Through this letter we'll tackle many challenges to our faith, address difficult lifestyle changes, and come out the other side renewed and refreshed in God's love. In the first week, we'll be looking at being a Community of Purity, continually throwing off sin and obeyi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website First of Seven Churches - Ephesus 17th August 2008 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Revelation 2:1-7 - How special it would be if Jesus would write us a letter, specifically to Redlands CRC. Well, He did do that, you can read it in Revelation 2:1-7. True, this letter was for the ancient church in Ephesus, but as it's in the Bible, it is also for us. Lots of activity in this Ephesus church, they couldn't stand wrong teaching, they did not deny Christ. But was it all done with a cold hea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Men and Work 10th August 2008 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: - This is the final in "It's a Bloke's World" series We'll be looking at why is it easy for a man to work too hard and too long too often. How can we find a sense of balance? Is it really possibly to really love your work, really love your family/others, and really love God all at the same time? And why did Jesus invest so much effort as an apprentice carpenter with Joseph, only to become a preac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Goldly Faith for God's Word 8th June 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: 2 Kings 17:24-41 - Israel's role as a 'light to the nations' and how their disobedience to God meant that they were actually a stumbling block to the people, and how now in Christ, the church is again called to be a light to the nations and take a gospel with us wherever we go and the difference that makes in people's lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The End of all Prayer 8th June 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Revelation 21 - The day is coming when prayer will be 24/7. Every longing we have for life, for hope and for justice is a prayer than yearns for fulfilment. The day will come. And it will come when Jesus comes. Are you praying for that? And until the day, are you living your prayer in the here and now? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tomorrow's Hope Today 1st June 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: - When Amos predicted hope for the faithful few in Israel, even he was probably not aware of how much of God's grace was still to be revealed. Thousands of years later, we can look back and see that there was great hope beyond such harsh punishment. Not only did the Lord bring some of his people back from exile, he also sent Jesus to bring hope for all who would believe. This was God's greatest act of mercy. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Persisting in Prayer 1st June 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Genesis 12-21; Hebrews 11:17 - Gen 12-21 Abram first heard God\s promise about a son when he was 75 years old. The promise was fulfilled 25 years later. His life tells us something about persistence and humility. How did he deal with the delay in fulfilment: not particularly well. And if that how Abram managed, what hope have we got? How will we stick it out? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What are you Chasing after? 25th May 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Amos 5:1-17 - We all want the blessing of God in our lives, right? Surely its not a bad thing to want the blessing of God? We want peace, joy, security. Its only natural. People in Amos\ day wanted exactly the same things - and they even wanted them to be of the "God" variety. Only probably was, they bypassed God to get them. They chose 'experiences\ of God, over God himself. They chose the good of them ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Persecuted Church 25th May 2008 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Hebrews 11:1-3, 24-40 - For thousands of years those who chose for God have met with opposition. Persecution - whether big or small - has always been with us. Even today millions are suffering for the Kingdom of Jesus. How is that true of us? How does opposition for Jesus\ sake bring blessedness and joy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holiness and Humility 18th May 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Amos 4 - When worship becomes about us and what we want to do, it becomes a form of plastic religion. We are forgetting what lies at the heart worship - God. Worship is not about music or methods. It\s not about us and what we love to do. Worship is about complete humility before an awesome and holy God. It is about our unworthiness before our perfect God. We quickly limit worship to the things we want to tel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer on the Hard Road 18th May 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Psalm 42 - "Prayers of request tend to fall into one of two categories: trouble or trivia" (Yancey) Does prayer really make any difference? What 'difference' are we wanting to see? What if prayers go unanswered? Did Jesus ever find his prayers unanswered? Have read of Psalm 42 to warm up for the message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are you sure you're safe? 11th May 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Amos 2:6-3:15 - To be perfectly honest, I have no problem with God announcing and bringing judgment on bad, sinful people. Not nice for them, sure, but it kind of fits. But the problem I have with Amos is that it is written to people who were Old Testament "Christians." People who thought / assumed /believed like they were safe from the judgment of God. Now that is scary, because it makes me ask the que ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Prayer: Steering wheel or spare tyre? 11th May 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Psalm 72 - With all the calls for us to have 'devotions' and 'time with God', and that those times should be sustained, informed and worshipful, how can we actually make it happen? What concrete steps can we take? How do we move beyond the stale air of self centeredness? If you observe some of God's praying people in Scripture we see something very enlightening: they hardly ever prayed for themselves! ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's World 4th May 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Amos 1:3-2:3 - The Lord God, the roaring Lion, is Sovereign over all the earth. That's the first thing that becomes clear in the prophecies of Amos: God is our all-powerful God. Every person in the world is under hisLordship, under his love, and under his judgement. And everyone isexpected to live responsibly as his image-bearers. This means lovingothers and treating them as Jesus would. While plastic religi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will God Listen? 4th May 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Hebrews 7:11-28 - What could be more irritating than trying to satisfy a whole bunch of people clamouring for what they want? That's what people at Dominos get paid to do - so keep me out of it! Why should I do that? More: why should God do that? Does he ever get sick of hearing all those prayers? What hope have we got? Just think for a moment: if you were God, would you answer prayers like the ones yo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Word of God 27th April 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Amos 7:10-17 - We often hear that we should read the Bible more. But is this really what God wants, more and more reading? Proponents of Plastic Religion, such as those in the time of Amos, and today, make a great deal of reading the Word of God, knowing lots about the Word of God, but yet still come under the judgment of God. Why is this? This Sunday night we begin our series in the book of Amos, loo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God's Glory in you? 27th April 2008 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Psalm 145 - The Westminster Catechism (17th century) asks the question: What is the chief end of man? The answer: To glorify God and enjoy Him forever. This morning our focus will be on the glory of God as well as on the amazing truth that God's people already in this life are reflecting some of that glory. But how do we, in the nitty-gritty of daily life, bring God the glory in everything we do? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What's the Big Deal? 20th April 2008 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Ephesians 2:11-3:21 - This is the question we ask when we really want to get to the bottom of something: the missing money, the broken window, the stain on the carpet. Our hope is that there is an acceptable explanation. What about life? Can we ask that question about life? About being a follower of Jesus? About the church? Sunday night we ask this question from God's perspective. When you understan ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wise Investments 20th April 2008 AM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Luke 12:13 - 21 - Ever wondered what advice Jesus gives for financial planning? Ever wondered where he thinks is the wisest place to invest your money? In fact, Jesus quite deliberately avoids the issue of such planning, and by recognizing why he does, we can all learn a valuable lesson. Through the story of the Rich Fool, Jesus shows how, what the world might see as wise, can often be regarded as foolishne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Who is God? 13th April 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: - So is God a hard task master, or more like a gentle giant? There are two 'versions' of God that we often hold on to. One where he is stern and mean and punishing (that's the God we would like to unleash on all the bad people out there) The other is where is forgiving, loving and welcome (that's the God its good to come home too). Is it possible that God could be both at the same time? Could he even ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Miracles - and for what? 13th April 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: 2 Corinthians 4:1 - 7 - Miracles - Their Effect and Purpose: We all know about the parable of the talents: we are called to be courageous with the opportunities and gifts God gives. You also see this when God works in wonderful ways: given that God has done this, what does it mean for us, for ministry, for Gospel work? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yours is the Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory 6th April 2008 PM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Rev 5:11-14, 7:9-12 - We've come to the last (and 9th!) sermon dealing with the Lord's Prayer: 'Yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory'. Is that what we see in this world? Is God recognized as King; do people revere Him as all-powerful; does He get all the glory? Sadly, the answer is so often in the negative. There are so many others in our world, competing for power and glory! Nevertheless, in FA ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What makes Miracles Happen? 6th April 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Mark 5:21-6:6a - Skimming through the Gospels we see pretty quickly that there is often a connection between miracles and faith. Often, but not always. But often enough for us to observe the connection. Whether we understand it well, though, is another question. So Sunday, we're going back to Mark 5 - same passage as last week - to ask 'what makes miracles happen'? There is hardly a more difficult or ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Your God Big Enough? 30th March 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Psalm 29 - What does the NT say about miracles? How does that challenge and/or confirm what we believe and express today? During the next few weeks we'll be look at this issue in the PM services. This week, we want to start with what a miracle actually is, and consider how this influences how we go about life as followers of Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is a Miracle? 30th March 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Mark 5:21 - 6:6a - What does the New Testament say about miracles? How does that challenge and/or confirm what we believe and express today? During the next few weeks we'll be looking at this issue in the AM services. This week, we want to start with what a miracle actually is, and consider how this influences how we go about life as followers of Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Light of Life 23rd March 2008 AM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Acts 2:22-39 - On Sunday morning we look at the greatest turning point in the courseof history, and what this means to us. The death and resurrection ofJesus Christ brought light in the darkness and made life possible toall who would receive it. Often we focus on the death of Jesus and hissacrifice for us without moving naturally to the resurrection and theurge to shine the Light of Life! We live in the fut ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's over! 21st March 2008 AM - Preacher: Dave Groenenboom - Bible Passage: John 19:30 - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Next? 16th March 2008 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: - Ok, so what comes next? We've looked at Jesus, we know who he was and what he did, are we finished then? To recognize Jesus as savior and Lord means something, it means something for life. This Sunday we will look at what Jesus invites us into when he takes control of our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Only Fitting Response 9th March 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 19:1-10 - We have covered a lot of ground: Jesus had - as has - all the authority of God himself; he came as our rescuer; he took upon himself the judgement we deserve. The inescapable question is: how do you respond? What do you think? Where do you stand? You cannot ignore him - so, what then? What is the appropriate response to Jesus? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus - Just Another Death? 2nd March 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Neville - Bible Passage: Romans 5:6-11 - "As sad as it is, death happens everyday! What makes Jesus' death anymore special than others? Why did Jesus have to die? Is Jesus just another religious martyr? Come along Sunday night to find the answer to these questions" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Death of Jesus 2nd March 2008 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Luke 23:32-43 - In the event of Christ's death, God shows to the world the extent of His love for disobedient sinners, that's us! The amazing truth of the gospel is that, as regards the way of salvation: ALL has been done for us! God calls on us to accept that with a believing heart!The criminal on the cross was not able to do anything, apart from recognizing Jesus as the King and ask for mercy! And that ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pro Faith Celebration 24th February 2008 PM - Preacher: - Bible Passage: - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lost and Found 24th February 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 15: 11 - 24 - The last few weeks we've seen a lot of it: a chopper swings low over the stricken vessel and the occupants are winched to safety; the small boat pulls up close to the house, now flooded, and the couple are taken to where it's dray and warm; the bronzed Aussie on the beach, vigilant for any swimmer who gets into trouble. These are the rescuers, and life itself is in their hands. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What claim does Jesus have? 17th February 2008 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Luke 5:1 - 11 - We live in a 'take it or leave it' culture. We pretty much choose what we will do, have, etc. If we don't like it, we generally don't do it. Its easy come, easy go. But can we do that with Jesus? Does he boil down to personal preference, ok for you, but not for me? Is he good, if I can get something from him in return? Or is there something more to the claims that this man makes? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What Is Christianity, Really? 10th February 2008 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: John 1: 1 - 14 - It seems everyone has an opinion about what Christianity is. A religion. A culture. A way of life. A set of beliefs. But what it Christianity, really? Read ahead at John 1:1-18 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website You Can Trust the Bible 10th February 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 1: 1 - 4 - In the age of the Da Vinci Code and a plethora of other 'experts' who say the New Testament is inaccurate and pretty much fiction, how can we ever trust what we read? If we want to know about God, how can we be sure the New Testament gives us the right information? You will be surprised by the answers! Read ahead: Luke 1:1-4 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Showing Jesus 3rd February 2008 PM - Preacher: Jack de Vries - Bible Passage: - Taking risks is not always an easy thing to do - but taking risks is at the core of following Christ. What risks? Dietrich Bonheoffer wrote: "When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." Jesus also describes discipleship using the imagery of "dying." What might this look like in the context of living among irreligious people in an ever and rapidly changing environment? This was the challenge ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Overflowing with hope 3rd February 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Rom 15:1-13 - Stock market crashes, rising interest rates, increasing breakdown of family, moral decline. Buy tomorrow's paper and read the human story for yourself. God has a different story: it's one of hope. He's been telling this story since the garden of Eden, and we've seen its outstanding climax in Jesus. The challenge is this: how do we carry the message of hope to the community we live in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deliver us from the evil one 27th January 2008 PM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Ephesians 6:10-17 - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Truly you are a God who hides himself, O God and Saviour of Israel 27th January 2008 AM - Preacher: Greg Tenni - Bible Passage: Isaiah 45:1-8, 12-13, 15-17 - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Right Religion 20th January 2008 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: James 1: 26 - 27 - Is Christianity a religion? Is religion good or bad? Why does everyone view religion so negatively these days? You might have heard it say that religion is all about what people try to do to reach God, and Christianity is what God is doing to reach people. While this is true, we want to look at the place of religion in our Christian lives. Does it have any place, and if so, what is it? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just like Jesus 20th January 2008 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Acts 3 - How do we as a church decide which 'model' of ministry to pick? There are lots out there, some of them are very attractive. But what criteria do we use to choose them. For the early church, the model was very simple. They had seen Jesus at work, believed that Jesus continued to work through them, and so they went about ministry the same way Jesus did. Simple. But that was 2000 years ago. Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming our Culture Through the Gospel 13th January 2008 PM - Preacher: Rod McWilliams - Bible Passage: Psalm 103:1-13 - The main focus will be on how the gospel has set us free and how the church is God's instrument for taking the Good News of the gospel to the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lead us not into Temptation 13th January 2008 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: James 1:2-18; Matthew 6:13 - Lead us not into temptation, that's the start of the 6th petition of the Lord's Prayer. Some Bible stories may indeed give the idea that God does lead people into temptation, but at the same time the Sciptures make it clear that God does not do that. Rather, it is the evil one, Satan, the prince of darkness, who tempts us. But in that same situation God is testing us: will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus Shaped Church 6th January 2008 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Acts 2:42-47 - Who or what should people encounter when they come in contact with the people of Jesus? Perhaps people, pastors, programs, music, love. Maybe all of these. When we read the story of the early church it becomes clear who they are about - and who people come in contact with when they meet with church. Its Jesus - because his life and his story is everything that the church is to be about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great New Years Resolutions: Develop Opportunities for the Gospel! 6th January 2008 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 4:2-6 (b) - God wants us to make the most of opportunities for the Gospel - but what does that mean? And how does that fit with a belief in God as sovereign? How do we balance faith in God, and our responsibility to make things happen - or is carpe diem just a figment of pagan philosophy? Given that we're just about to embark on a major evangelistic effort, there could hardly be a more i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great New Years Resolutions: Pray More! 30th December 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 4:2-6 (a) - Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Surprise Surprise 25th December 2007 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Luke 2:1-20; John 1:14 - The story of Christmas can sometimes becoming uninteresting hearing it year after year. Sometimes the presents you receive at Christmas can seem more important thanwhat Christmas is really about. Today, Clinton will show you why it is the best story everand what implications it has on your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glory Revealed 23rd December 2007 PM - Preacher: John MacArthur, read by Steven Faulkner - Bible Passage: Hebrews 1:1-4 - We all know how we can get impatient, waiting for Christmas morning to see what Santa brought us this year. Sometimes the suspense gets the better of us so we try to guess what it is. We might shake it, poke it, drop it, do whatever we can to get an insight into what the mysterious thing could be. This Sunday night we'll be looking at a mysterious gift that p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Faith - Doing it Tough 23rd December 2007 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Luke 1:57-80 - So easily we think of Christmas as nice and pleasant. Apart from the busy-ness of these hectic days, Christmas does give many of us warm feelings, and all that. But there is much more to the story of Christ's birth, and via Zechariah we realize that there is plenty of doubt, pain and grief. The only thing that enables him and us to go on is a strong focus on the faithfulness of God. His ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What are you waiting for? 16th December 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 2:25-40 - We are in the busiest time of the year - and who wants to be waiting for anything? Not parking spaces, not appointments, not sitting in the car waiting for the kids, not that email that still hasn't arrived, and especially not anything that we might receive for Christmas. But is it possible that 'waiting' may have something to say to us? Can we learn anything from it? About ourselv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simply Jesus 9th December 2007 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Acts 2:14-41 - Why is it that we can talk about the weather, sport, politics, holidays, with ease, to almost any one, but when it comes to sharing our faith, we become shy, tongue tied and uncertain? Perhaps its because we have made bearing witness to Jesus way more difficult than it needs to be. When the early church, empowered by the Holy Spirit, spoke on the day of Pentecost, it was a simply expl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gospel Revolution 2nd December 2007 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 3:18-4:1 - How do you change our world? What different can we really make? If it's true that society has lost its moral fibre, can we ever get it back? Paul says the Gospel has an impact on homes, families and the workplace - but do these things really help us today? Can we apply them in 2007? Or does our society, the quality of relationships, and the state of families today offer us a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spirit in You 2nd December 2007 AM - Preacher: John Hoogenhout - Bible Passage: Romans 7:15-25 - Being filled with the Holy Spirit. Find hope/strength/encouragement in your daily Christian walk. Spring-boarding from Paul's admission of times in his personal life of doing what he doesn't want-not doing what he wants (Rom.7:15-25), rest in God's grace (Is.55:1; Jn.4:14; 7:37-38). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mission Possible 25th November 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Acts 2:1-14 - As an outsider looking in, Jesus returning to heaven is just a crazy idea. I mean, you want a movement that will change the world, and then the leader goes away and leaves it in the hands of the a rag tag bunch of disciples who have stumbled and spluttered their way through three years with Jesus. It's just a crazy way to go about it. Except that Acts chapter 2 happens - and all of a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Forgiveness means Freedom 25th November 2007 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Matthew 6:12 - Our focus will be on the 5th petition of the Lord's Prayer: Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors (Matthew 6:12). Here's how the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) explained the meaning of this prayer: "Because of Christ's blood, do not hold against us, poor sinners that we are, any of the sins we do or the evil that constantly clings to us. Forgive us just as we are fully ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ambassadors 18th November 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 3:1-4, 15-17 - New Life, New Values. Companies in the marketplace work hard to communicate the core principles that govern their operation. Hewlett-Packard 'invent', BP 'The Quiet Achiever', Australia Post: 'we deliver'. What are the core principles that govern all you do? What is the core value God wants form his church community? We want to look at the inspirational picture God paint ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Worthy of Complaint 4th November 2007 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Psalm 13 - We often fall into the trap of thinking that God is at work when we feel good. "If I'm pumped up and on fire for God he must be working overtime!" And when we feel down and depressed God must be taking a break. However, we can see in the Psalms that God is always at work, when he feels present and when he feels absent. We don't praise God just when we're excited and on an emotional high. We pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing, Hope and the Future 4th November 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Revelation 21-22 - So we know Jesus Christ did miracles, and that these were designed more than anything to instil faith in people. We also know they are not common, and that God teaches us about his power and grace in weakness. Last Sunday Clinton so powerfully reminded us that trials happen so we might rely on God, and not on ourselves. This Sunday morning we'll be drawing all this to a close wi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why, God, Why? 28th October 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: - Why does bad stuff happen, even to supposedly good people? It's a question we all wrestle with from time to time. It even seems that Christians get to experience more suffering than those who don't know Jesus yet. In 2 Corinthians 1 Paul gives us a little look into his own struggles, and the reasons why God has put him, and communities, through these times. And we see that in it all, God's loving ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Our Daily Bread 28th October 2007 AM - Preacher: Keith Warren - Bible Passage: Matthew 6:11 - In our country, with plenty of food, as well as plenty of people who have a weight problem, what do we do with the fourth petition of the Lord's Prayer: Give us today our daily bread.In this prayer for bread we give EVERY aspect of our earthly life to our heavenly Father. He is the ONLY source of everything good. Without His blessing everything will fail. So the big word is: TRUST! God's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing and Mystery 21st October 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 - Who has not struggled with the reality of suffering? Whether it's suffering in our personal lives or in our world, it's dark presence can be terrifying and mysterious. There are some things we simply cannot understand. Even so, God allows us to see something of his character and power even in these times. Even then he may bless us with incredible endurance. The Bible tells ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Healing and Faith 14th October 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Matthew 17:14-21 - This is possibly the biggest question after the question 'why': what's the connection between faith and healing? Ask 20 people and you can easily get more than 20 answers on that one. So we'll be looking at a few key passages in the NT and listening to what God has to say to us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get Some Guts 7th October 2007 PM - Preacher: Dan Kroon - Bible Passage: Joshua 1:1-9 - Have you ever thought that the mission of being a Christian is toohard to accomplish? Are you too scared of failure and humiliation todo anything too extreme for God's kingdom? Is God's call to faithjust a little too risky for your liking? You should try conqueringnumerous ancient kingdom with a big bunch of timid desert-slaves.Take a look at the mission Joshua was given by God in Joshua 1:1 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Holy Spirit's Relationship with You 7th October 2007 AM - Preacher: John Hoogenhout - Bible Passage: Selected Scriptures - Who is the Holy Spirit and why did he come? All believers have the Holy Spirit living in them. The gift of the Holy Spirit is to enable us towitness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesus and Healing 30th September 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: - Hey, it's on everyone's minds, so it's time we opened the Word and had the Lord speak to us through it. What sort of healing ministry did Jesus have? Why did he heal people? And how is this relevant for what we are going through as a church family? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Change that Important? 16th September 2007 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 3 - The next few Sundays we are talking about the Heart and Soul of Change: we all know God wants us to change, but what sort of change is it? How does it happen? What's the connection with Jesus? The question we're looking at on Sunday night is this: is it that important? Do I need to change that much? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Continuing Acts of Jesus 16th September 2007 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Acts 1:1-11 - Imagine doing the same job for 40 years. I could imagine that might get a little mundane, boring, some of the enthusiasm might be lost. So what happens with the New Testament church turns 40? Is there a chance that the church could also fall into this danger? 40 years after the birth of the NT church, Luke writes a story, the story so far of the church of Jesus. And as he does so, he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Identity 9th September 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: - Today there's talk about identity theft: people steal your details, your money, your name and you may never get it back. When Jesus does his work of transforming grace he does not de-personalise or steal your identity. He recreates it. He re-humanises people. And all this is possible because he defeats the very forces that separate us from God. The question we might ask is what difference this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What is Worship? 2nd September 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: - If there is something that is going to spark debate amongst Christians for different backgrounds, it would be the question "what is worship?" It is something that the church has grappled with and continues to. In Isaiah 61, we get a vision of God's work in the world, in salvation through Jesus, and where worship fits into His scheme for the church. We are going to explore mission as worship as m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Worship? 2nd September 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Colossians 1:1-17 - When we hear the word 'worship' we often think of what we do and where we do it. When Paul thinks about worship he starts in an entirely different place, and it makes all the difference. We get this right and really gain focus in what the Lord calls us to do and to be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If God is for mission... 26th August 2007 PM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Acts 1:1-11 - So God draws us into his mission. What does that mean? Is this a work of saving 'souls'? Is it just about people? What about the world? How are we ever going to do what God calls us to do when opposition is so great? Is there some way that the message of God's grace can really bring hope to our world? If so, do we actually dare to partner with God in this? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website GO! In the name of the seeking God! 26th August 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Genesis 3:9 - Mission starts with God's response to the problem of humans and their world. Mission is first and foremost a divine act: God is a seeking God. In his calling of Israel, the sending of Jesus, his death, rising, and living in his people, we see God's consistent missional nature. His work in us is to build on the foundation laid in Jesus Christ. This is the core of our task as church. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God Defined Greatness 19th August 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Matthew 20:20-28 - How do we define greatness? How do we identify great leaders? How do we identify great churches? When we read the literature (Christian and other) on the issue, we see a myriad of ideas, goals and suggestions. But Jesus himself has a lot to say, and some of it is extremely challenging. Because in the kingdom economy, greatness is not defined by how many serve us, but on how many we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Serve 19th August 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Romans 16 - So what's with all the names? If all Scripture is God breathed, why do we have passages like Rom 16? Should we take notice of them? What - if anything - can they teach us about being church in 2007? Whether you are one of those people who wonder whether the changes we have seen over recent years at Redlands are for the best, or whether you're wondering whether there's a place for you to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Impossible, made Possible 12th August 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Luke 17:1-10 - Sometimes when we read that Bible, and we are honest about what we are reading, that only conclusion that we can come up with is "That's simply not possible." Luke 17:1-10 is one of those passages. Its demands are too big, its expectations are too huge for me. But maybe that's the point. Maybe the point is that what is impossible with me, actually is possible with God. What I can not d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Road Trips with Jesus 12th August 2007 AM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Luke 9:57-62 - What do you focus on, the journey, or the destination? As followers of Jesus we know that we have so much in store for us when Jesus comes again. Its going to be great, more than we can every imagine, and it will make the things of this life seem pale. But that doesn't mean we put our heads down and duck for cover until that day. As Jesus walks along the road in Luke 9, 3 potential dis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Profession of Faith 5th August 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: John 6:35-40 - This Sunday, in our 5pm service, a number of our people are going to be doing there profession of faith. These people are: Dylan Greeff, Jo Kippen, Tracy Montgomery, Matt Kippen, Rob Ferguson, Lachlan Black, Lily Sikkema, Sarah Bos, Ben Rowan and Ryan Salisbury. This is basically their statement that they believe that Jesus Christ is their Lord and Savior, and that they are followers of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Belong 5th August 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 5:27-32 - Our goal is to have more and more people become followers of Jesus Christ, and to do that we all need a very clear understanding of the sort of community he wants us to build. What we find in the Bible is that Jesus builds a transformational community which had an unmistakable impact on the world around them and beyond. What a blessing that we get to share that mission in our part of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A River for the World 29th July 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Ezekiel 47:1-12 - When Jesus offers himself to us as the 'living water' he is tapping into (mind the pun) an imagery that is used throughout the Bible of a river of life. God's plan is not just to quench the thirst of individuals, but the whole world. This Sunday night we are going to see what it means to not only be the recipients of water, but to be a part of the river of God, and his plan to quench ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website God, Money and Justice 29th July 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Luke 16:1-15 - Ever wondered why you ended up here? Why you have relative financial stability compared with 95% of the world population? Why you have the educational opportunities of this great country? Why you have money in the bank? Or why the bank allows you to have a credit card? Some will reason that all these things are God's blessing of prosperity, a response to who we are and our desire to li ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Just One Sip 22nd July 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: John 4:1-26 - So what makes Jesus so different? When so many things, religions, people are offering a real thirst quenching, what makes the water that Jesus offers us so radically different and fulfilling. This week we'll examine Jesus' claim to give us 'living water' and why it stands out as so radically different from anything else. Just one sip, and life will never be the same again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website More Blessed to Give 22nd July 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: 2 Corinthians 8:1-15 - Why do we roll our eyes when the topic of giving comes up? We are so used to going on a guilt trip about giving that we could even claim frequent flier points! Consider this: 1) our typical response may say more about us than those who speak to us, and 2) our typical response might show that we really have not understood who God really is and the actions that lie at the centre ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Lord's Supper 8th July 2007 PM - Preacher: Steven Faulkner - Bible Passage: Matthew 26:17-30 - Have you ever noticed that as we get older, significant days and events in our lives start loosing their meaning? It's the difference between a 5 year old's enthusiasm for their birthday and the enthusiasm of someone who is 39 for the 8th time. We loose the excitement of the occasion over time. Sunday night we'll be looking at how this natural phenomenon can nudge it's way into the wa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Possessed by Possessions? 8th July 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Deuteronomy 15:1-11 - Money: what we do with it and what it does to us "Mine!" Its one of the first words we learn, and it's one of the most dominant words in our world. People say 'possession is nine tenths of the law' - but could it be that we are possessed by possessions? So: how do followers of God view possessions? Is there any reason to change? Sunday morning we find out... You can read ahead by ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It's All About Jesus 1st July 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Genesis 35:1-15 - What does a community and a life looked like that is grasped and shaken by God? This Sunday we wrap up our series in the life of Jacob and see God bringing Jacob full circle, back to Bethel and the place of promise. We also see a number of changes in Jacob's life and family, some fruit from a life that is grasped and shaken by God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Treaure in Heaven 1st July 2007 AM - Preacher: David Groenenboom - Bible Passage: Matthew 6:19-21 - This week we start a new series: Money! Given that it's the end of the financial year, and we're all thinking about tax time, how much we earn (or would like to earn, or how much we don't earn - as the case may be...) I thought a month-long series on Money would be timely. This won't just be focussing on 'giving', rather it will look at how and why Money is so dominant in our lives, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Cost of Compromise? 24th June 2007 PM - Preacher: Clinton Berends - Bible Passage: Genesis 34 - We all make little compromises along the way, it's part of life, right? But what about with our faith and obedience to God, can we make little compromises there, and still simply hope that everything turns out fine. As we look at the life of Jacob, we look at the cost of compromise what it means to Jacob, his family, and ultimately what God does with it.