Series: Better Together
Speaker: Jeff Benson

Title: Love One Another

Key Passage: John 13:34-35
Other passages: John 17:21-23, 1 John 2:7-8, John 15:12-13, 1 Peter 1:22, 1 Peter 4:8, Ephesians 4:2, Ephesians 4:32, Romans 12:10, Matthew 25

Description: Launching the new series "Better Together", Pastor Jeff explores the "new" commandment that Jesus have us to draw us into incredible unity and to demonstrate His glory to the world: to love one another, as he has loved us.

Series: N/A
Speaker: Jacqui, Daeng & Ann

Title: Team RADICAL GRACE from Thailand
Key Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
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Descriptions: Radical Grace is a SIM project working in Chiang Mai, Thailand to raise awareness and provide education and support for those impacted by HIV.  Hear from Project Director, Daeng and team members Jacqui and Ann as they share the heart behind their ministry and the love of God that compels them to reach out to the vulnerable and broken.

Series: N/A
Speaker: Jacqui, Daeng & Ann

Title: Team RADICAL GRACE from Thailand

Key Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:11-15
Other passages: John 3:16

Description: Radical Grace is a SIM project working in Chiang Mai, Thailand to raise awareness and provide education and support for those impacted by HIV.  Hear their stories of how God's RADICAL GRACE is transforming individual lives and families as the team respond in the grace and love of Christ.

Series: The Summer Parables
Speaker: Kimberly Smith

Title: Heart Posture
Key Passage: Luke 18:9-14
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Descriptions: Jesus used the story of a Religious Leader and a Greedy Man to demonstrate the posture of our heart and prayers that He desires most.  Pastor Kim challenges us to consider the way we approach God in prayer - if in fact we approach Him at all - that will see us experience the fullness of His grace and mercy.

Series: Awakening
Speaker: Jeff Benson

Title: God's Heart for ME

Key Passage: Ephesians 3:14-19
Other passages: Romans 13:9-11, 1 John 4:8, 1 John 4:16, John 4:14, 1 John 4:18, John 5:41-43

Description: Relentlessly pursuing the need for approval and love, our human condition shows us how desperately we need to become "rooted and established" in God's love.  But how do we go about doing that?

Series: N/A
Speaker: Adrian Rowse

Title: The Shift
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Descriptions:Guest Speaker Adrian Rowse speaks a challenging message on what it looks like to set aside our insatiable need for "more" and set our eyes on God's generosity to us, and what He wants us to do with what He's given us.

Series: Awakening
Speaker: Kimberly Smith
Key Passage: Acts 2:41-47
Other passages: 2 Chronicles 7:16, Matthew 16:18, Revelation 19:7, 1 John 3:1, 1 Corinthians 12:27

Description: In grasping something of God's heart for the church, we are compelled to love one another all the more, and love what God has purposed for us to do and be as a gathering of called out people.

Series: The Summer Parables
Speaker: Brendan Klinko

Title: I Love Being The Younger Brother
Key Passage: Luke 15
Other passages:Matthew 7:2, James 2:10, 1 Corinthians 13

Descriptions: We've all been the younger brother, we've all been rescued and given what we don't deserve.  So out of that grace shown to you, what grace will you impart now as an elder brother.

Series: Awakening
Speaker: Jeff Benson
Key Passage: Psalm 34:18
Other passages: Psalm 57:8, Isaiah 29:13, Mark 7:6, Romans 12:11, 2 Corinthians 5:14, Psalm 68:5-6, Ephesians 2:4-5, John 4, Luke 19, Romans 5

Description: No matter where we are, no matter how much we've done to disqualify ourselves from love and no matter how others might feel about us, God's love meets us right where we are.  As we awaken to God's love - a love that compels Him to draw near to the broken hearted and be a father to the fatherless - so we too are compelled by His love in us to do the same.

Series: The Summer Parables
Speaker: Kim Smith, Yohann Mathews, Abbie Pilat

Title: the Parable of the Talents
Key Passage: Matthew 25:14-30
Other passages:Matthew 25:11, 2 Timothy 1:7, Philippians 1:29, 2 Samuel 22:31-33, 1 Corinthians 12:11, 1 Peter 4:10

Descriptions: Yohann highlights what we should admire about the obedient and faithful servants in the parable.  Their courage, readiness and willingness to serve and the contentment they had with what they had been given are qualities we should aspire to have. Abbie explores the idea of how to not be a "Play-it-safe". We learn through the parable that we should not doubt and fear when God calls us to a specific task, we should do something with the gifts and skills we have been given by God and if we don't use what we have, the opportunity will be given to someone else. So who do we want to be like? The two faithful servants who used their abilities to grow their Master's money or like the unfaithful servant who buried his Master's money out of fear.