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God … forgive me

Series: Powerful Prayers

Date preached: 18th September 2022

Most Christian prayers begin with “God … give me”. Whether we are praying for healing, for financial help or a good result in our exams, essentially we’re asking God to give us something. This series explores the power we can experience when we expand our prayer life beyond “give me”. In this talk, Matt explores the power of praying “God … forgive me”..

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your experience with the prayer “God forgive me”?

2. What do you think about the idea of ‘repentance’ in your life? What might it look like for you to repent and pray God forgive me?

3. In this series, we’re encouraging people to actually experience these powerful prayers. Today, grab a blank sheet of paper and a pen and find a place where you can sit quietly for 5 minutes. Write down whatever comes to you as something for repentance and forgiveness. Remember, this isn’t just about obvious crimes or big sins, repentance is also about turning away from things like greed, anger and selfishness  and turning toward God and the love and grace he wants for us. Pray “God forgive me” and then destroy that piece of paper (literally burn it or shred it or whatever) as a symbol of God’s forgiveness and ‘new life’.

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God … speak to me

Series: Powerful Prayers

Date preached: 11th September 2022

Most Christian prayers begin with “God … give me”. Whether we are praying for healing, for financial help or a good result in our exams, essentially we’re asking God to give us something. This series explores the power we can experience when we expand our prayer life beyond “give me”. In this talk, Matt explores the power of praying “God … speak to me”..

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your experience with the prayer “God speak to me”? Have you ever heard or felt like God was speaking to you?

2. Where in your life could you start praying this prayer?

3. In this series, we’re encouraging people to actually experience these powerful prayers. Today, grab a blank sheet of paper and a pen and find a place where you can sit quietly for 5 minutes. Pray “God speak to me” and then write down whatever comes into your mind and heart. It doesn’t matter if you don’t think it’s from God - write down whatever comes to you. If you find it difficult, you could reflect on some scripture (Psalm 1, 23 or 41 are good places to start) or play some music quietly to help focus your mind on what God might want to sat to you?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God says about you “you are designed for eternity”

Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion)

Date preached: 4th September 2022

One thing - perhaps an unexpected thing - that God says about each of us is “you are designed for eternity”. We are created to like forever … and God is so desperate for us to live forever with him that he sent Jesus to die to make that possible. Today we explore these really important words God says about each of us.

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What are your first thoughts when you hear that you are designed for eternity?

2. How easy or hard do you find it to lift your eyes from the “right now” and take a long term view of your life?

3. What can you do to live each day with eternity more fully in mind?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God says about you “you are called”

Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion)

Date preached: 28th August 2022

One thing God says about everyone who follows Jesus is … you are called. Every believer is called and today, Matt explores this call and asks how we will respond to God’s call on our lives

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What does it mean to you to be called by God?

2. How would you explain your “call” to others?

3. How do you live out your call day to day?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God says about you “you are unique”

Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion)

Date preached: 21st August 2022

God thinks you are unique. Not because of anything you’ve done, but because of who you are. It’s an easy idea to nod along to. But to really believe this … it’s life-changing. Today Matt explores this idea, asking us to think about how we respond to this truth and what we will do with it.

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What does it mean to you to know that you are unique?

2. What are you going to do with your uniqueness to serve others?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God says “you are loved”

Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion)

Date preached: 14th August 2022

Most people have heard the idea that “God loves you” … but for many people this idea has become a cliche, with little real impact on our day to day lives. Today Matt invites us to sit with this truth in our hearts as well as our minds, asking ourselves “how does this affect the way I live today”?

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your first reaction when you hear the words “you are loved” spoken to you by God?

2. How does this idea affect the perspective you have on your challenges and problems in life?

3. How do you (or could you) live differently this week in light of this image God has of you?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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God calls you “my child”

Series: IGHO (In God’s Humble Opinion)

Date preached: 7th August 2022

We talk a lot about what we think about God … but what does God think about you? Today Matt explores one of the life-changing things God says about his followers when he calls you “his child”. (And if you’re a Christian and this sounds like “Ho hum … I’ve heard this before”, think again. This is radical good news that changed the lives of those who first heard it and when we really grasp hold of this truth it will change us too.)

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your first reaction when you hear the words “my child” spoken to you by God?

2. What is new (or re-new) about this idea for you today?.

3. How do you (or could you) live differently in light of this image God has of you?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere.

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What is the biggest IDOL in your life? 

Series: IDOLS

Date preached: 24th July 2022

In this series we’ve talked about all sorts of IDOLS (see our other messages) and today we wrap up this series talking about the BIGGEST IDOL OF ALL … you! We live in a world that says me first. It’s my life and I’ll live it my way. No one is going to tell me what to do. Jesus came to show us a radically different - and better - way to live. But it won’t be easy …

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your first reaction when you hear the idea that the way you “you” could be your own idol?

2. What would it look like to “die to yourself and live for God”? Be specific.

3. Are you ready to do it? Talk about why or why not.

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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Body & Health

Series: IDOLS

Date preached: 24th July 2022

Diet, exercise, wellness, health … these words drive so much of how we live in the 21st century. Today Matt explores what it looks like when our ‘physical selves’ become an idol, and what we can do about it when it does

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. What is your first reaction when you hear the idea that the way you think about your physical body and your health could be an idol?

2. How does thinking about eternity impact the way you think about your physical self?

3. How would you live differently this week (be specific) if you thought about eternity more in your day to day life?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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Is God more important than my family?

Series: IDOLS

Date preached: 17th July 2022

We can’t talk about things that we put as first place in our life and things that we look to for joy, security and meaning, without talking about … family? But can your family really be an idol? in this message Matt looks at the unexpected words of Jesus on the subject of family and we ask some tough questions about the place of God versus the place of family in our lives.

Questions to reflect on and discuss from this message:

1. How do you first respond to the idea that your family can be an idol?

2. What would it look like for you to put God ahead of your family?

3. What’s one practical step that you could make this week to make this change?

TIDE Church is a diverse community of people on a mission to follow the teaching and life of Jesus. We are a Christian church based in Adelaide, Australia who are sharing the good news of Jesus with people everywhere. 

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