One Church, Blackburn

Do you ever feel like you're keeping score on your faith? Jesse Morgan opens up Colossians 2, where Paul writes to a young church being told they needed more knowledge, more rules and more spiritual experiences to really have Jesus. Jesse asks what Paul might write to Melbourne today, from wellness culture to hustle culture to church debates.

The good news: there is no Jesus plus subscription. Christ is enough, and in Christ you are made full. Part of our Colossians series at One Church.

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

Is knowing God only for a special, spiritual few? Linda Bailey opens our new series in Colossians with chapter 1, where Paul paints a stunning picture of who Jesus is. Jesus reveals God to all people, redeems us through his death on the cross, and wants to be King of our lives today, not someday.

What we believe about Jesus shapes how we live. So if we say we believe these things, does our life show it? Part of our Colossians: Christ is King series at One Church.

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What do you do when what you have looks nowhere near enough? On Commitment Sunday evening, Ger Jones, pastor of Vintage Church in Los Angeles, takes us to the feeding of the 5,000 in John 6, where Jesus takes a boy's small lunch and feeds a multitude.

From a widow who refused to be robbed of her part in God's story, to a hairdresser who found the one place in her city where she felt safe and loved, Ger shows how God takes our time, talents and treasure and does immeasurably more for a city begging for help. Part of our Reimagine series at One Church.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/reimagine-week-4

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What if generosity isn't you giving your money to God, but you investing God's money on his behalf? Tim Horman continues our Reimagine series at One Church with 2 Corinthians 8 and 9, showing how generosity flows from the grace of Jesus, who became poor so that we could become rich.

Tim explores how we can grow in generosity, the difference between bread and seed, and why money is a useful tool but a terrible god. Plus we hear Stacey and Peter's moving story of walking with a friend's family through cancer and grief, and some exciting news about the Reimagine campaign.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/reimagine-week-3

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

Have you ever felt like God could use other people, just not you? Tim Horman continues our Reimagine series at One Church with Ephesians 3:20-21 and 2 Corinthians 3, reminding us that none of us are competent for the ministry of Jesus, but God makes us competent by his Spirit. No hoops, no ladders to climb, just humble surrender and mustard seed faith.

Tim unpacks the first rail of our vision: Alpha and evangelism training, raising up the next generation, becoming a place of real connection in a lonely, screen-saturated city, and pressing into the power of the Holy Spirit. Plus Darren Rowse introduces Deep Discipleship, and we hear Aidan's remarkable story of finding Jesus.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/reimagine-week-2

🌱 Find out more about Reimagine at https://one.org.au/reimagine

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What is the church actually for? Are we here to root out evil, or have we got it upside down? On Vision Sunday, Tim Horman opens Ephesians 3 to explore why God's people exist: to show the world who Jesus is through the way we stick together and love one another.

Written from a prison cell, Paul's words still overflow with hope. If God really is present among his people, then anything is possible, so are we praying big enough prayers? This message launches Reimagine, a season at One Church to pray, dream and ask what God wants to do through us in the years ahead.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/reimagine-week-1

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What do you do when you hit the bottom, when the plan has failed and no one is coming to save you? In Acts 12, the early church faces exactly that: James has been executed, Peter is in prison awaiting the same fate, and the most powerful man in the land is against them.

Darren Rowse explores how the church responded, not with thoughts and prayers, but with stretched-out, straining prayer, even when they weren't sure an answer would come. It's a story of doubt, grief and a God who answers anyway, sometimes while the answer is knocking at the door. Part of our Acts series at One Church.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/praying-anyway

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

Linda Bailey opens with that story and takes us into Acts 11, where revival breaks out not in Jerusalem, the religious capital, but in Antioch, a city so notorious the Roman Empire used it as the benchmark for immorality.

Some unnamed believers there did something nobody asked them to do. They told Greeks about Jesus in words the Greeks already understood. The Lord's hand was with them, and a great number believed. Linda challenges us to think about the cold leads in our own lives, the people who aren't asking about God but are looking for purpose, and to do the two things the Antioch church was known for: to speak, and to give. Part of our series in the book of Acts.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/making-jesus-accessible

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What if the exile never really ended? Daniel's people went home from Babylon, but Daniel 12 suggests a different kind of exile was only just beginning, and that we are still living in it.

In the final message of our Resisting Babylon series, Tim Horman takes us to the last chapter of Daniel and asks what it means to be among "those who are wise" while living in the middle of Babylon. Babylon, he argues, is not a place but a power. It rarely comes at you directly. It comes through the culture: social pressure first, then legal and political pressure, and eventually something far worse. Daniel saw it coming and stayed awake.

The warning is that the church is asleep. The hope is that Christ will return, the dead will be raised, and everything will be made new. Between now and then, we are called to keep our eyes open, refuse to call any person our enemy, and decide, like Daniel, that Babylon will not come to live in us.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/those-who-stand

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.

What name are you answering to? Not the one on your birth certificate, the other one. The name a teacher used once in front of the class, or a partner reached for in an argument, or a hard season quietly stamped on you.

In Daniel 10, an exhausted old man lies face down by a river. He is seventy years into exile; he has been praying three times a day for something he now knows he will not live to see, and after three weeks of grief and fasting, heaven has said nothing. When the answer finally comes, it does not come as an explanation. It comes as a hand on his shoulder and a name.

Darren Rowse preaches on grief, stalled prayer, a war going on somewhere we cannot see, and the God who names us before he explains anything. Part of our Resisting Babylon series at One Church.

👉 To get questions for small group discussions on this sermon, check out our blog at https://one.org.au/blog/highly-esteemed

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We pray that this message was an encouragement for you.

We go live here on our YouTube channel every Sunday morning at 10am (Eastern Australian time) and meet at One Church Blackburn, Victoria, Australia every Sunday at 9am, 11am and 5.30pm.