Reader: Marios Kyriakou

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

You might have heard people say, “As soon as I became a Christian, life got much harder.” This is often true, and never more so than for Stephen. He became a Christian at Pentecost, was put in charge of the mercy ministry (in last week’s passage), put up on trial for blasphemy, and (in next week’s passage) will be put to death for following Jesus. This Sunday’s passage focusses on the charges levelled at him and his brilliant defence of the truth of the gospel.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: John Hargrave

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

The faithful ministry of Word and Spirit results in rapid growth for the early church. This is a beautiful display of God’s grace, but it also makes life more complicated and potentially divisive. In response to these growing pains, the Apostles appoint faithful servants to aid in the ministry of pastoral care. Churches today must do the same.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson

Preacher: John Hudson

We are in the final week of three where John is taking us on a journey that shows us the resources that we have in the Gsopel. Today he shows how the gospel fully satisfies. Placing our hope in people, careers, material possession, or for that matter, anything other than the gospel, we will eventually be unsatisfied because the circumstances around these other things change. God never changes. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin

Preacher: John Hudson

In week two where John is taking us on a journey that shows us the resources that we have in the Gsopel, he shows talks of a hope that will never disappoint us, unlike anything else we may place our hope in.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Graeme Miller

Preacher: John Hudson

Over the next three weeks John is taking us on a journey where he shows us that all we need is within the Gospel. Today he shows that our meaning and the meaning of life is in Jesus and not in anything we create.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Anne Miller

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 5:12-42 we see the infant church is faced with growing persecution as the religious leaders become more hardened in their opposition to the gospel ministry of the Apostles.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Phillip Ince

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 4:32-5:11, we see how the early church shared their possessions. It was not communism where everthing you own belongs to the state, rather it was "what is mine is yours".

However, whereever this is good, there is the opportunity for evil and deception. We see this is the behaviour of Ananias and his wife Sapphira. This is a difficult passage, and Pastor Jonathan explains this to us with what the real sin of Ananias and Sapphira was.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Graeme Miller

Preacher: Tibor Tumbas

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 4:23-31, we see how the early church, in the face of persecution, prays to God to help them to speak with boldness, and the Holy Spirit responds accordingly.

Tibor teaches that we are not to pray to God as though he is a holy vending machine at our call, but to ask for boldness to represent his church just like the early church.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Judy Carr

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 4:1-22, we see Peter & John arrested for teaching in the name of Jesus. Facing the religious power brokers of Israel, these two men proclaim the Power Of Jesus' name by which the lame beggar was healed (see Acts 3 & last week's message).

Peter goes on to proclaim that it is by Jesus' name that salvation comes, and when threatened by these powerful men to not speak in the name of Jesus again, Peter and John boldy claim that they must server God and continue to speak.

Pastor Jonathan shows us that the same power, salvation and boldness is available to us. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to speak in the name of Jesus.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson

Preacher: Jonathan Smith

Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth.

In today's message from Acts 3, we see Peter & John heal a man who was lame from birth. Peter and John are imitating what Jesus did - healing people in the power of The Holy Spirit. Peter then explains to everybody how and why this was able to happen.

From our perspective this event shows us three important and fundamental things:

1. The forgiveness of all sins;

2. The restoration of all things;

3. The salvation of all peoples.

Pastor Jonathan expounds and explores on each of these principles.

Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia.

We exist to be a community of people helping people make all

of life all about Jesus.