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Spirited WordVision NewSend a textIt is Transfiguration Day again. It marks the beginning of the Lenten season now close.There is much in Matthew’s telling of the extraordinary events experienced by some rather overwhelmed disciples. One thing I notice this time around that it is a day of vision.Peter, James and John are privy to a moment of expanded magnificent vision of how things really are when God pull back the curtain on our very limited view of our lives – even just for one stunning moment.The vison given is abou...
2026-02-1722 min
Spirited WordA Bigger LifeSend a text08/02/2026Big questions come along in life. Things happen, things change, transitions come and with them, questions.Questions like:• What kind of person do you want me to be, God?• What kind of things do you want me to do, God?• What does God want my heart and life and directions to be centred on or shaped by the most?• How do I know that what I am living is God-pleasing, and right and true?God’s people were asking these kind of questions after they final...
2026-02-1020 min
Spirited WordTake The Baby!Send us a text2026-02-01As Epiphany season draws to a close, we hear of the first happening post-birth even in Jesus’ young life – the day he was presented to the priests at the Jerusalem temple, in accordance with the requirements of God’s Law in the Old Testament.The day is often named ‘The presentation of Jesus’, for obvious reasons. But there is more than a simple ‘presentation’ going on. It is actually quite a big moment that says a lot about who Jesus is and what he will bring to the world.T...
2026-02-0222 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger - Christmas Eve 2025Send us a textGod is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances. Pastor Adrian Kitson
2026-01-0525 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger - Christmas Day 2025Send us a textGod is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances. Pastor Adrian Kitson
2026-01-0518 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger: From Waiting To Joy Part 4Send us a textSunday 28th DecThis Advent and Christmas we have been hearing two voices shedding different light on the stunning reality that Christians hold in their hearts – God is in the Manger. Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflects on this good news of which Isaiah speaks hundreds of years before it came to be. They are the voices. Isaiah is the speaker of God’s truth long before it comes to be and Bonhoeffer is a Christian in extreme circumstances in which he would eventually lose his life for his faith in WWII. He writes from...
2026-01-0517 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger - New Year's Eve 2025Send us a textGod is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances.Pastor Adrian Kitson
2026-01-0517 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger: From Waiting To Joy Part 3Send us a textThis Advent and Christmas we have been hearing two voices shedding different light on the stunning reality that Christians hold in their hearts – God is in the Manger.Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflects on this good news of which Isaiah speaks hundreds of years before it came to be. They are the voices.Isaiah is the speaker of God’s truth long before it comes to be and Bonhoeffer is a Christian in extreme circumstances in which he would eventually lose his life for his faith in WWII. He writes from Tege...
2025-12-2422 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger: From Waiting To Joy Part 2Send us a textWe are hearing two voices to hopefully see and hear God speaking in a way that helps us receive the glory and splendour of what he did in being in that manger.Isaiah breaks into a glorious and splendid, good news word this morning. In his words that paint many pictures, he will try and break through our normal Christmas expectations to show us the glory and splendour of Jesus.Like the sun rising for another day, we shall know that in Jesus, we are OK and will be OK...
2025-12-1921 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The Manger: From Waiting To JoySend us a textWe are hearing two voices to help us see something new in this God in the manger this Christmas. We are hearing the prophet Isaiah speak of this world-shifting event of “The Servant” arriving to serve the world in love some seven hundred years prior to it happening.We are hearing a Lutheran pastor and eventual martyr under national Socialist regime in WWII speak from his two Advents and Christmases in Tegel prison, Berlin, in 1943 and 44.Today we hear that God is mysterious. Isaiah speaks of wonderful and mysterious imag...
2025-12-1129 min
Spirited WordGod Is In The MangerSend us a textHow do we cope with waiting? This week we hear that there is great value in our waiting. It is in waiting that we hear the invitation to let this Jesus in the manger into our lives. Will we let him into our various questions and troubles and needs? If we can and when we do, we can find the joy in believing in Jesus again.Pastor Adrian
2025-12-0323 min
Spirited WordThe End: Wasting Time Until The End?Send us a textAs the year’s end comes up you might find yourself beginning to think over your year. How has the year gone? How did I do when it comes to our plans, retirement, goals we set, things we did and if we are doing paid work - how is my work going?Paul speaks into this area of our life in Christ. He speaks of work today.There seems to have been a bit of a ‘work’ problem in the Christian community in Thessalonica. It does not seem to be an une...
2025-11-2528 min
Spirited WordThe End: What Do We Do?Send us a textWe come to the Last Sunday of the church year before we switch to that season of waiting and watching for the celebration of the coming of the Saviour.We hear one of those parables Jesus tells to address a particular issue. In this case, it is the issue of how we Christians deal with the end of the world as we know it – the day that all the world and all the church will finally be fulfilled; or completed. In other words, ‘the end of the world’.Some around...
2025-11-2525 min
Spirited WordPowering Your LifeSend us a textIt is strange how the people around Jesus who seemed to have the most trouble receiving his authority over their life were the people who were very religious.We hear from the Sadducees, who were a group of experts in theology, driven by the law. They try to trap Jesus in their conversation. Jesus responds briefly and clearly, and we get to be re-affirmed in this sure hope of resurrection that we share.Listen for the hope and allow the One who has authority over you to power your...
2025-11-1127 min
Spirited WordAll Saints Day - Marked With A SealSend us a textIt is All Saints Day. This is the day to remember and give thanks for who we have lost. It is also a day to remember and give thanks for whose we are and who we are – saints.Hard to believe that we are saints. Often, we hear that word ‘saint’ and think “that’s not me!”. Saints are good people, extra humble people, people who can pray all the time and be so kind all the time, aren’t they?That title, ‘saint’ is something you earn, don’t you? You need to d...
2025-11-0519 min
Spirited WordNew NameSend us a textThere is a lot in a name and no matter what name calling you might hear from others or even what name you may give yourself, God has a name for you. He gives us all names - his names: names like he gave Jacob - true, affirming, future-filled, hopeful.Pastor Adrian Kitson
2025-10-2227 min
Spirited WordCan You See?Send us a textWe come across a familiar account of a 1 in 10 chance today. Ten very unwell and isolated people receive way more than they bargained for from Jesus but only one of them really ‘sees’ Jesus and responds wholeheartedly. It is the story of the 10 lepers. Even though it is a miraculous moment, Luke tells it in a way that at first seems fairly ‘standard’ for those around Jesus. They had seen this before.Person cries out to Jesus for healing a disease. Jesus responds positively.He tells them to head to the medi...
2025-10-1521 min
Spirited WordSowing and Reaping FreelySend us a textAfter several short stints which have seen us journey through the Letter to the Galatians over twelve Sundays, we complete the journey today.We hear Paul signing off to the people he loves and wants the best. He has tried to convince them to stick to what they first believed about Jesus and not cave in to the old nature within them or the surrounding pagan culture or those wanting them to adopt Jewish ceremony and Law to be assured that they are safe and secure in God’s grace an...
2025-09-2529 min
Spirited WordFruit Of The SpiritSend us a textHow do we cope with that struggle within? Our earthly longings and desires and the internal desire of the Holy Spirit within us to bring the glory, beauty and love of Jesus to our hearts day by day. This tussle with human wayward attitudes and behaviours can be a place where Holy Spirit can grow good fruit!Pastor Adrian
2025-09-1730 min
Spirited WordConfidence In FreedomSend us a textWho are the people of God's promise? What is the gift of "living in freedom" and how do we keep being "free"? Pastor Adrian shares some insights as to how we can stand in that freedom for all that we are facing.Pastor Adrian
2025-09-1625 min
Spirited WordFamily Is ImportantSend us a textFamily is important. I think we all know this and spend a lot of time supporting our family in a lot of different ways. This is good. God has put us in families for our wellbeing and for the good of the world.Paul takes up his strong encouragement to these Christians in the Galatians churches to resist going down the road of keeping the Jewish Old Testament Law of God to try and earn God’s favour and blessing and return to how they began with him in the good ne...
2025-09-0227 min
Spirited WordComplaining vs GratitudeSend us a textWe work hard to achieve and to be very good and strive to perform well and live life under our own steam, maybe trying to earn blessing and hope and identity in our lives. Whilst this can be good, we can also become slaves to this. Pastor Adrian shares a message of gospel freedom. Freedom to be free from people pleasing, having to perform and achieve. Free to enjoy lasting peace and joy in our hearts through our all-loving God and his saving work through Jesus.Pastor Adrian Kitson
2025-08-2625 min
Spirited WordChildren Of GodSend us a textI wonder how you think you ensure your life is blessed and goes well? It is very common for people to believe that it is all about doing the right thing, knowing the right things and avoiding the bad things. If you do all that, then you get some blessing and goodness in your life. Problem is, it does not always go that way. Good people suffer unfair and bad things. What of the blessing and wellness of you and your life was not founded on your doi...
2025-07-1722 min
Spirited WordThe Law and the GospelSend us a textI wonder how you think you ensure your life is blessed and goes well? It is very common for people to believe that it is all about doing the right thing, knowing the right things and avoiding the bad things. If you do all that then you get some blessing and goodness in your life. Problem is, it does not always go that way. Good people suffering unfair and bad things. What of the blessing and wellness of you and your life was not founded on your doi...
2025-07-0831 min
Spirited WordNever Left BehindSend us a textA lot of people know that faith in the grace of God in Jesus is the crucial thing for living this life with sure hope and a bright future even beyond suffering and death. But it is very easy to leave this life-giving thing on the shelf as we search for other things; deeper things; wiser things…. to sure up our confidence.But it is very easy to find ourselves right back in keeping rules and expectations of others or ourselves, to find confidence and peace for living. We...
2025-07-0125 min
Spirited WordHoly TrinitySend us a textIt is the Sunday we ponder and celebrate the uniqueness of God and the Christian confession of faith about him. It is Holy Trinity Sunday.It is a difficult thing to try and ponder how God can be altogether one and yet also altogether three. Even the best illustrations of the three-leaf clover or water ice and steam experiment or a tricycle and etc don’t do this mystery any justice.Better to just marvel at God and let him be who he has revealed he is.We do...
2025-06-1722 min
Spirited WordPentecost DaySend us a textEveryone has got problems. We all try to deal with them with some mind of grace. Sunday was Pentecost Day. It is the day we celebrate how the risen Jesus delivered on his promise to fill us with new life, new hope and give us a sure future in his grace. But we tend to think that all our problems are outside of us and the only way to fix them is to draw what we can from inside of us.Not true. Our hope and help and he...
2025-06-1126 min
Spirited WordWhere’s Jesus?Send us a textWe have made it to the end of another Easter Season. Does that mean we have come to the end of Jesus? It can seem that Jesus has indeed departed to some other ‘spirit’ place as if he has no place in this place – until the end when ‘we will all go to heaven’ and somehow be with him wherever he is.If that is the case, what are we meant to be and do now? Are we just waiting around doing nothing in particular, just waiting for our eventual end? And what i...
2025-06-0321 min
Spirited WordPoolside MercySend us a textThere is a question that seems odd to our ears in the gospel account of Jesus healing a man living with a long-term debilitating disability. This man has been living poolside for 38 years. He has been seeking healing in the intermittent bubbling up of the water at the pool of Bethezda – the ‘house of mercy’. But it does not sound like the place is built on mercy! It sounds more like we are used to – an ‘every person for themselves’, competitive, ‘dog eat dog’ kind of life because no matter how hard he tries, the guy c...
2025-05-2718 min
Spirited WordRisen LifeSend us a textIt is easy to believe that Christianity is only for the super-spiritual people who can pray a mountain to move or raise the dead and power on through anything in life untouched by the ordinary things of the day.Big things can happen in this new community where resurrection over even death is entirely a ‘thing’. But, even with that startling claim, the small things still are what counts. Come and hear about a woman named Tabitha.Her life shows that this resurrection life of Jesus is a ver...
2025-05-1422 min
Spirited WordPlenty Of FishSend us a textIt is a beautiful scene we survey: A boat full of fish. Breakfast cooked on the coals on the beach with the resurrected Saviour. Not a bad way to start the day!This is his third appearance since that first Easter morn. It is not down in the city but up here at home. We are back by the sea in Galilee. He is in their place. He has something he needs to do. It centres around Peter.Peter is still close. But is there unfinished business about his...
2025-05-0623 min
Spirited WordEaster: A New Communion + A Suffering LoveSend us a textWelcome to ‘Gather Easter’ – the best ‘Round’ in town! This is because Easter deals not only with winning and losing a game but also with our living and dying in this life. It is BIG. Work, family, unexpected trouble, surprising joy, occasional worry and despair and fleeting moments of happiness meet us all the time. But there is this longing too. We’re looking for a new communion; a love that can handle our suffering. This longing for connection and contribution and affirmation and joy that frees us from the fears.
2025-04-2354 min
Spirited WordPalm Sunday: Face Like FlintSend us a textThe world has taken many turns for the worst these last months. It is easy to worry and fret about what it all means. As Christians we ask why it is that the wicked seem to do so well and the everyday folks have to keep copping it!Maybe it would be a good idea to switch off the news, the social media news feeds and whatever else contains all those voices of chaos and simply enter this journey with Jesus of his last week where he gets to the bottom...
2025-04-1522 min
Spirited WordEarthy Faith: Everything I have is yours!Send us a textAs we continue living this earthy faith in Christ we hear this masterful parable and are confronted with how we can easily be lost, even without ever leaving home. The younger sons lostness is focussed and easy to see. He does all the things that a ‘lost’ person would do. He insults his father, weakens his family, binges on substances and sex, blows previous resources others have worked to earn and destroys himself and his high standing by chasing after the wind – short-term gain, plenty of pain, and for no gain!His da...
2025-04-0128 min
Spirited WordEarthy Faith: Punishment or PatienceSend us a textIt is good that you have followed the Spirit’s call to be gathered with God’s people in the presence of Jesus in the grace of the Father. We are pondering living this earthy Christian life of faith in Christ which he has carved out for us by his cross. In the tragedy and injustice of life, people around Jesus ask him why life is like this and what he means in what we suffer.These questions could be from any one of us when tragedy strikes, or injustice is mete...
2025-03-2527 min
Spirited WordEarthy FaithSend us a textAs we live this earthy faith carved out by the cross of Jesus, we hear heart-wrenching words of sadness and regret expressed by the Messiah over his holy city this morning. With the image of a mother-hen wanting to protect her young, Jesus declares this city to be a ‘city of ruins’ that will one day soon end up that very thing, and yet, that there will be another visit to this same city that will bring something more.This city has a long story of consistent rebellious heart and rejecting beha...
2025-03-1824 min
Spirited WordEarthy FaithSend us a textChristians around the world enter this forty-day period of listening, praying, self-denial, and serving. Lent functions as a bit of ‘spring cleaning’ for the soul.Lent is all about being ready and open in heart and mind to receive the biggest moment in the Christian story – the day death died, at which point a whole new future of hope and light was opened up for a troubled and imperfect world.The forty days has begun. How might you listen, reflect, pray, deny yourself and serve some people as God gets you re...
2025-03-1121 min
Spirited WordGlow On!Send us a textWe find ourselves witnessing that marvellous moment high up on a hill somewhere in Judea with Peter, James and John. The glory cloud descends and the two greats; Moses and Elijah appear, representing the Law of God and God’s prophets sharing a holy huddle with the Son of God. It is mesmerising and then it is gone. But not before that audible voice confirms Jesus as the Saviour is heard and the journey to the cross down there on the plains hots up.Paul reflects on this by remembering th...
2025-03-0424 min
Spirited WordOur UnitySend us a textUnity among any people of any group is so fulfilling. Unity in a team makes it so much fun and is so crucial for any ‘success’. How much the more for a fledgling new community of the resurrected Jesus in a hostile world?!Paul continues recounting his story to try and call the people in the Galatian network back to what he first taught them, - that the gospel of Jesus’ dying and rising for the forgiveness of all sin and new life for the whole world is all they need to be...
2025-02-2527 min
Spirited WordThe New is Here - For all the DoubtersSend us a textThe New is Here Easter series captures those first stunning moment of the church coming to be and calls us back to the newness of Jesus' presence and promises for living now.
2021-06-1031 minSpirited WordThe New is HereSend us a textYou might feel tired, old, lonely or despondent about living. But the New life of God is here now.
2021-05-1717 min
Scenic ValleySo lonelyLoneliness is huge in our community. Is it always other people's fault? Do we at least in part, choose to be lonely? What can help?Send us a text
2021-05-1707 min2021-04-1609 minScenic Valley5 Helpful ThingsWhat five things would you do if you could that would make things a bit better for everyone. Send us a text
2021-04-1406 minScenic ValleyNot So SleepyPeople are on the move out of the cities and into rural towns. Will it last and what does it mean for those towns!?Send us a text
2021-03-1205 minScenic Valley7 COVID ThingsCOVID has brought some things we would do well to learn from as the dust settles on the future.....Send us a text
2021-03-0406 minSpirited WordThose Big TenSend us a textThose old Ten Commandments: are they just rules for keeping or something much more? Might they be rules for living in relationship?
2021-03-0418 minSpirited WordFound - John 1 43-51Send us a text“Can anything good ever come from the local Christian church?”The Teacher is from the wrong places, but he finds you before you find him and as you look in the wrong places he never does.
2021-03-0326 minSpirited WordReluctant Prophet: Gracious GodSend us a textThe most reluctant prophet in history - The most gracious God ever - Jonah's Story
2021-02-2425 minScenic ValleyChaptersFunny how life has its chapters. Like a book you don't rally know what they are about until you are into them and you eventually complete them....Send us a text
2021-02-0805 minScenic ValleyAustralia Day - Invasion DayWe Aussies are struggling with what to do with our national day. We want to be 'one and free', as the change to our national anthem suggests. How can our national day reflect this?Send us a text
2021-02-0805 minScenic ValleyRise AboveThings are a bit tense between us and China. Can we rise above?I hope we can rise above what 's happening with China. I feel twinges of anger about what the Chinese government is doing to several industries. Not being able to sell stuff as you have been doing for years has immediate and telling impact on everyday people here in Australia. A local business operator where I live told me last week that people buying things from him now routinely ask. "Is this from China?" as a part of their purchase conversation. When h...
2020-12-2803 minScenic ValleyThe Best of Times - The Worst of TimesCharles Dickens speaks some words from his time to ours. They make sense. Famous words were spoken by the English author, Charles Dickens in 1859. They have stuck with me over the years... They strike me now. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.” (Charle...
2020-12-2505 minScenic ValleyHard to SayI wonder what sort of Christmas you find yourself in - big or small, going hard or keeping small?Hard to say what Christmas will be like this year. It has been a tough year in so many ways. Christmas seems to tap into some deep heart-felt vision for life we all want. Most people who celebrate Christmas in Australia have no living connection to the community from which it comes. People of all faiths or no faith seem to find some connection to what Christmas has now become. It is no longer a specifically Christian fe...
2020-12-2203 minSpirited WordThunderbolt in the Thunderbox!Send us a textTHE word of the Spirit that re-forms us in God's loving hope.
2020-11-2224 minSpirited WordCrowd SupportSend us a textDoing life alone on your own terms often comes up short. What f we had a constant crowd support for the crucial things in life?
2020-11-1919 minSpirited WordLife: Personal, Communal and FreeSend us a textIn a communal God we live in ultimate community no matter how isolated or disconnected we feel.
2020-11-1921 minSpirited WordIrrevocableSend us a textLife can feel like broken promises and shifting sand. Not with God.
2020-11-1918 minSpirited WordEveryone Needs A MosesSend us a textWhen life goes bad, you need someone to bring God's blessing and life to you.
2020-11-1922 minScenic ValleyWhy I RideAre people who ride motorbikes crazy or stupid?! No and No. There are reasons......People often have serious doubts about motorcyclists. They think it is far too dangerous. We bikers should all just grow up and be sensible. Here's why I ride! I straddled my first motorcycle and found the thrill of riding a two wheeled mode of transport at some age under 10. But it was not until I had reached the mature age of 11 that I had the thrill of that first ride on my own bike. My mum and sister and brother-in-law had o...
2020-10-2506 minScenic ValleyDoing it for the KidsIt is a line often spoken. But is it honest or helpful at times?I have heard couples say this often. And I am not sure it is always true or helpful. I spent some years working in a community that had a high percentage of fly in-fly out mining workers. Mainly the men would be earning huge money in mining but had to be away 2 weeks and back home 1 week. Many of them had young children. For some, the fly-in, fly-out rhythm worked OK. For a lot of others, it did not. At s...
2020-10-0808 minScenic ValleyIt Ain't HollywoodMarriage is a bit of a mystery when it comes to making it world for the long haul. But there are some basic things that give us the best shot at success. I have been working with several couples getting ready for their wedding day lately. Interesting how in this COVID restricted time, weddings are smaller and in often more private locations. Working with couples of all kinds, first time married, previously divorced, long term or shorter term relationships, with kids already or not, makes me think about marriage and how it is in my own...
2020-10-0807 minScenic ValleyCut the Mic's!Joe verses Donald: It was not pretty and quite disturbing. What has the West become? What are we supposed to do as all this plays out?The US presidential debate happened this week. Joe Biden V Donald Trump. Commentators on all sides of politics are deeply disappointed and some are quite disturbed. What have we come to in this Western world? It was two individuals at their base level throwing shaming names at each other mostly over the top of each other at the same time. It was a public words war that was centred no...
2020-09-3006 minScenic ValleyBoring Ourselves To Death?What is COVID doing to us. Is it firing us up or just speeding up the death of our Western society by boredom?Lots of people seem to be pondering what COVID has done to us and what shape it will leave us in. I read something this week that got me thinking about it in a 'big picture' way. Greg Sheridan wrote a piece in the Weekend Australian that was a summary of a new book. The book is written by a guy named Ross Douthat. It is called, The Decadent Society, How we became vi...
2020-09-2308 minScenic ValleyTough BeautyIt seems that things are most beautiful when the conditions are most harsh. This is true of that magnificent little plant - The Sturt Desert Pea. I think it is true of people too. Send us a text
2020-09-1103 minScenic ValleyAll Fathers MatterWe are hearng that the problem of racism is huge. But is there an even deeper more widespread problem that also requires our best efforts? The problem of fatherlessness and what is is doing to kids.......Also available at adriankitson.com https://www.wix.com/dashboard/06ced648-da17-4060-8b83-659ef8132ce9/blog/5f5548413661be0018455998/editSend us a text
2020-09-0607 minScenic ValleyClimb Every MountainThere is something about climbing a mountain, be it actual or personal or relational. Maybe it is the learning from the achievement and the view you get?Send us a text
2020-09-0106 minScenic ValleyFrom Little ThingsIt is 50 years since the Wave Hill walk out. Worth pausing to reflect on how little things that are just can grow to to make things just for all. Send us a text
2020-08-2108 minScenic ValleyCancel or Counter?We seem to be in the mood to just cancel people. Maybe it is more productive to counter the culture rather than cancel people!Send us a text
2020-08-2106 minSpirited WordNo One Gets Left BehindSend us a textThe Good Friday Jesus finds you, no matter what. With him, no one gets left behind, no matter what the wounds, the heartache or pressure you are under.
2020-08-0615 minSpirited WordRekindle MeSend us a textCOVID is Resetting the Word but who will rekindle me? There is resurrection and life on offer. Holy Spirit, rekindle me.....
2020-08-0616 minSpirited WordWill We Miss HimSend us a textRestricted time is causing us to pause. But will we miss Jesus again as many have before?
2020-08-0618 minSpirited WordYou Did No DanceSend us a textThe tunes we are dancing to in this tough 2020 and how we dance to a life-giving tune in it all.
2020-08-0618 min2020-08-0607 minScenic ValleyChance or Fate?How are we responding to this interruption to life? Is it chance or fate?Send us a text
2020-07-2905 minScenic ValleyI Am Officially Tired!It has been an intense time and I think it has caught up with me. I am officially tired! How about you?Send us a text
2020-07-1605 minScenic Valley'Supposed To' TimeWe are living in this 'Supposed to' time under COVID. I wonder how er are working through the limitations and how we can find joy and love in it. Send us a text
2020-07-1305 minSpirited WordThe Call of COVIDSend us a textWhat we are learning and seeking as the restriction lift and God's future opens up.
2020-06-2527 minScenic ValleySuicide: Recovery in the PainPeople are taking their own life in big numbers in this country and the pain is enormous. Recovery in the pain is so hard, but so needed. Send us a text
2020-06-2508 min
Church: UnchartedAdrian Kitson // old churches, hippie camps, the titanic & cultural icebergsEpisode 3 of season 2, a conversation with Adrian Kitson about shifting the culture of a church. Edited by Becca Schubert.Connect with Adrianhttps://www.facebook.com/adrian.kitson.3https://stpetri.org.au/pastor@stpetri.org.auConnect with Matthttps://www.facebook.com/mpschuberthttps://www.rmlc.org.au/matthew.schubert@lca.org.auSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/churchuncharted)
2020-06-2431 min2020-06-2306 minSpirited WordWise Woman WorthySend us a textWhere is a woman's value and worth - fashion, weight, look, partner, children, business? Surprisingly, ancient wise words from Proverbs speaks good news about where everyone's value and worth really lay.
2020-06-1318 minScenic ValleyWhen Listening is UncomfortableIt is hard to listen to people who are challenging your values and the story you hold dear. Is it good to take down Captain Cook's statue?Send us a text
2020-06-1207 minScenic ValleyResist the Saviour ComplexIt a easy to to try and 'jump in and 'fix' this unease around race and injustice we are experiencing. Friends from Minneapolis suggest a better way to respond....Send us a text
2020-06-1206 minSpirited WordWhat You DoingSend us a textIt was the question Terrence Floyd asked those bent on looting and destruction in Minneapolis this week. It is a good question for us all to ask each other as church.
2020-06-0719 minSpirited WordFuture Hope NowSend us a textWe are lifted into that grand vision of God given to the Apostle John in the last book of the Bible; the Book of the Revelation. This hope is spoken to give us hope now, not just later. We pray that the Spirit of the Risen Christ will breath his future hope into you for your now.
2020-06-0720 minSpirited WordThe Challenge of I DoSend us a textEncouragement for the often painful, complex road of marriage, divorce and re-marriage.
2020-06-0427 minScenic ValleyI Gotta ListenWhat a time we are living in. Feels like some Hollywood movie about the end of a country and the end of the world! Black lives matter. So do all lives. Can we find a way to a better way at this time? Send us a text
2020-06-0407 minSpirited WordPentecost DaySend us a textWe long to find 'normal' while the Spirit calls us to ask not what is normal, but what is next!
2020-06-0115 minScenic ValleyA bit of 'extra help'The religious and the irreligious search for extra help when the going gets tough. Hard to know where to find it and if the help works......Send us a text
2020-05-2805 minScenic ValleyWill we Australians ever reconcile?It is Reconciliation Week in Australia. We are so different. Will we ever truly reconcile?Send us a text
2020-05-2806 minScenic ValleyAs We Open UpWhat will be your new commitments come some kind of normal? Will we remember the good things?Send us a text
2020-05-2004 minScenic ValleyThe Dirty Drug: Why, Ben, why?Those dirty drugs are killing us and it is hard to know why and what to do....Send us a text
2020-05-0805 minScenic ValleyThe Dirty Drug - Why, Ben, Why?More evidence of that dirty life destroying drug with the latest sad episode in the long downfall of Ben Cousins. What comes after our condemnation of the many like him?Send us a text
2020-04-2705 minScenic ValleyWhy Do I Do It?In the strangest ANZAC Day ever, I still was drawn to remember them. I wonder why I am drawn to this Day so much....Send us a text
2020-04-2703 minScenic ValleyHope Springs Eternal?These are serious times of challenge to our normal. Where do draw hope from? Questions to myself in COVID time....Send us a text
2020-04-2004 minScenic ValleyValues Re-ValuedAre you finding your values being re-valued in this forced restriction of busyness and security? Could be time to let values be re-valued for the better. Send us a text
2020-04-1503 minScenic ValleyWhen the Wounded HealClear skies over China a clear water in Venice - the Wounded Heal. Do they heal us humans under threat?Send us a text
2020-04-1503 minScenic ValleyShift of the SelfI have noticed something in this COVID-19 journey. There has been a shift from myself to community. It might be a journey you are on too.....Send us a text
2020-04-0806 minScenic ValleyWhen the Fog LiftsHow are you going in the pandemic lock down?To me, it feels like living in a fog. It is heavy and isolating. Then it clears for a while, but you are ever wary. This threat just hangs over you. Send us a text
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