Vision Church Podcast | Christian Church in Canberra

Trevor Galpin | 1 John 3:1 — How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! Trevor Galpin (Fatherheart Ministries) teaches on the Father’s love.

Adam Ritchard | John 20:1-23 — The resurrection of Jesus from the dead has such significance for us. The heart of Resurrection Sunday, and what it proclaims over our lives, is that there is an unshakeable truth that we can build our lives upon; that sin and death have no hold or power because of the victory that Jesus has accomplished; and that we have an endless, living hope in Him. He is risen indeed!

Andrew Baker | Isaiah 53:1-12 — 600 years before Christ was born, His life and death was prophesied and His finished work for us was foretold. Jesus, our Saviour, achieved His saving work through suffering.

Andrew Baker | Acts 6:8-15; 7:1-60 — As we look at the account of Stephen’s death and the subsequent spread of the Gospel, we see God not only permits suffering and persecution but also uses that suffering to victoriously achieve His plans and purposes. We see this principle at work here in the life and death of Stephen and most clearly of all in the life, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus.

Acts 6:1-7 — When you sit down at the table with people who don’t think like you, act like you and look like you, except that you all follow Jesus, that is an act of holy resistance (philoxenos). In the early church, hospitality - the love of the stranger, or the one who is not like you - was taught as an important way of protecting the bond of peace in the body of Christ. How much more important is it in our modern hyper-individualistic society today!? What if our radical hospitality towards one another, even in our differences, was sufficiently counter-cultural that we shone like lights for Jesus and grew healthy, life-filled communities of disciples?