It’s baptism Sunday! Today as we celebrate the declaration of new life in Jesus, Ps Mike looks at Phillip, the Ethiopian eunuch and how there is no longer anything truly stopping us from new life in Jesus.

Teaching text: Acts 8:26-40

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.

Ps Mike closes out our series on the Encounter Life by tackling the tricky topic of generosity in the church and the way we are challenged to be generous to others, thankful to God and filled with joy as we do it.

Teaching text: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.

Mike preaches on our value of Real by talking about the deceptive nature of reality, the church as a working body and the critical importance of our hearts.

Teaching texts: Ephesians 4:17-25

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.

Ps Jen brings to life our most important value - that we are all about Jesus - by talking through Jesus' meeting with the woman at the well in John 4 and how God wants us to shift our mindset from knowing about Jesus to knowing Jesus personally.

Teaching texts: John 4:4-26

At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.

Ps Mike kicks off our new series by unpacking the story of Lazarus, what that says about God’s love for people and the power of a resurrected life.

Teaching texts: John 11:22-34

There is a spiritual power in the way we choose, as Moses said, life or death.

This week Ps Mike expounds on the spiritual principle of blessings and curses - what they are and are not - and how we can align ourselves with a life of spiritual blessing.

Teaching text: Numbers 6:22-27

Compassion Sunday, where we focus our eyes on children in poverty in Java, Indonesia and champion child sponsorship as a form of relational mission.

Ps David Helyard from Compassion Australia comes to share about what Compassion does, both spiritually and practically, before preaching a message about identity and how the broken belong with God.

Teaching text: Luke 4:1-14

Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament.

It's intern week! Our freshly graduated interns Jemima, Emma and Jordan tackle the pastoral letters of John. In this podcast, Jemima looks at the characteristics of God displayed in 1 John to show us what it means to know God as light, love and our example.

Teaching texts: 1 John 1:5-7; 1 John 4:7-12

Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament.

It's intern week! Our freshly graduated interns Jemima, Emma and Jordan tackle the pastoral letters of John. In this podcast, Emma and Jordan tackle the tricky issues of false teachers in the church in 2 & 3 John, in order to discover the truth of Jesus and the hospitality to which God calls believers.

Teaching texts: 2 John 10-11; 3 John 9-11

So often, we think Christianity is about us having our crap together. But looking at Peter's story through the Gospels, guest preacher Matt Gray unpacks how that idea misunderstands what the Christian life is all about.

Teaching text: Mark 14:27-31, 66-72