Cranbourne Anglican Church

It’s the first Sunday in Advent – the season in the church calendar leading up to Christmas. Advent from the earliest times of the Christian church has been a time when Christians make ready for the coming or ‘advent’ of Jesus Christ. We think firstly of his humble coming nearly 2000 years ago in Bethlehem. […]

It’s been the kind of year in which many people will have thought at some point, what on earth is God doing? Why is this calamity happening in my life? The Joseph of Genesis was someone who must have wondered that himself more than once. What was his response? How did he act in those […]

As a child we all looked forward to Christmas with a sense of excited anticipation, the decorations went up and so did our hopes, Christmas is coming! Well, the Old Testament looks forward to and anticipates Christ! And it does so from the very beginning. In today’s sermon, we are looking at how Adam is […]

The resurrection is at the centre of our faith and the great and sure hope of the world. Mark relates the events of that world-changing morning, showing us the witnesses to the risen King, the grace of the King, and that the resurrection was just the beginning, the breaking out into this world of the […]

This week we are taking a rare non-Good Friday look at Mark’s account of the crucifixion.  The cross stands at the centre of our faith and is full of depths and meaning.  This week we are going to look just one aspect of the cross; what it has to do with Jesus’ identity as King, […]

Do you want to be great?  After more than six months of varying restrictions here in Melbourne and months of looking at the four walls of your house, has life begun to feel small?  We all have a sense that we are made for something bigger, that we are all made for some kind of […]

This Sunday we look at a passage at the very heart of the gospel of Mark, that deals with both the big question of the first 8 chapters – who is Jesus? – and the big preoccupation of the last 8 eight chapters – what has he come to do? Come learn of the King […]

I wonder how satisfied you are with life at the moment?  If you’re in Melbourne, with the restrictions I suspect your satisfaction levels are pretty low!  Where do we turn to be satisfied?  This week we’re looking at Jesus and the feeding of the 5000 – the provision of the King – and discovering the […]

In difficult times, when you’re struggling and things are going wrong, you can find yourself wondering – does God care? Jesus’ first disciples asked the same question as the boat they were in seemed in danger of sinking in the chaos of wind and wave. Join us in the boat in this week’s sermon to […]

This Sunday we’re continuing our series on the gospel of Mark – the king has come and we begin to see just what kind of kingdom he brings, as he acts in surprising and wonderful ways. A man comes to him with what he thinks is his greatest need – the healing of his legs […]