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Wishart Community ChurchServing in Jesus' nameIn this section of the gospel of Mark we see Jesus predicting his own death. Again the disciples misunderstand and even begin to argue about which one of them is the greatest. And so Jesus begins to teach them about kingdom ambition. Not an ambition for personal gain and advancement, but of service in Jesus' name.Preacher: Jono DeenickPassage: Mark 9: 30-50 Support the show
2025-06-0134 min
Redlands Christian Reformed ChurchJesus Who Challenges Us - 16/02/2025Bible Text: Mark 3:20-35Preacher: Jono Deenick As we track through the first few chapters of Mark's gospel we see Jesus growing in popularity as heals many people and casts out demons. When we get to our passage however, we have a bit of a strange turn. Some rejected Jesus, some outright said he was empowered by Satan, some close to him thought he was mad. This may seem strange, but how would we react if Jesus as he truly is didn't match the Jesus we imagine him to be or want him to be?
2025-02-1738 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Good News of Jesus - 02/02/2025Bible Text: Mark 1:1-13
Preacher: Jono Deenick
This week we begin a series through the gospel of Mark. Or as Mark himself calls it, the gospel of Jesus the Messiah, the Son of God. We won't cover every passage in Mark but our prayer is that as we take time to consider Jesus and His ministry we will time and again delight in Him as our 'good news'. This week we will see this gospel in summary but also see that, though we may know it well, it is the key to continued growth and change in Jesus by...
2025-02-0336 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Importance of Lament - 5/01/2025Bible Text: Psalm 13
Preacher: Jono Deenick
2025-01-2036 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchMeeting Jesus – the constant friend 29/12/2024Bible Text: John 13 : 31 - 14 : 4
Preacher: Jono Deenick
What type of friend might Jesus be? In life we are sometimes hurt by those close to us, sometimes we hurt them. How does Jesus react to us? How might he respond to us if we’ve been a less-then-ideal friend to him?
2025-01-2033 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchA Better King - 22/12/2024Bible Text: Isaiah 11:1-10
Preacher: Jono Deenick
This week, as we continue looking at some of the prophecies of Jesus given through the prophet Isaiah we ask the question, who is the better king? Or if you like, who would you rather was in control, Jesus or you? We know the right answer, but is that the day-to-day reality of our lives? Isaiah gives us a picture of king Jesus that is so good, it helps us to long for His rule in our lives.
2025-01-2041 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchLoving Your Saviour - 1/12/2024Bible Text: Matthew 16 : 13 - 18 and Revelation 2 : 1 - 7
Preacher: Jono Deenick
This week is our last week in our series on 'Six Steps to loving your church.' To wrap up, this week we want to consider two things. Firstly, how can have confidence that this grand project called the 'church' is worth investing in? And then, what is at the heart of that investment? That is, what is an essential marker of a healthy and thriving church? Having started our series considering the love of Jesus for his bride, the church, we finish by examining our love for Him.
2024-12-1236 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchBuilding With Words - 10/11/2024Bible Text: Ephesians 4 : 29 - 32
Preacher: Jono Deenick
As we continue in our series, 'Six Steps to Loving your Church,' we turn today to consider our speech. Gathering as God's people is more than just the church service. We come together as Jesus church before and after that formal part of our gathering. Our work of building the church is not just for in the service it's for these other times as well and perhaps our most important tools for building are our words.
2024-11-1134 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchPraise the Lord! - 27/10/2024Bible Text: Psalm 135
Preacher: Jono Deenick
As we celebrate 25 years as a church, we are taking a break from our '6 Steps to loving your church' series to consider some of the many reasons we have to praise our God. Psalm 135 was written to encourage the Israelites to look back and see why they could praise God and we will see that we have just as much and more reason to praise out awesome God.
2024-11-0727 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Bride of Christ - 13/10/2024Bible Text: Ephesians 5:25-33
Preacher: Jono Deenick
This week we embark on a new series called, 'Six steps to loving your church.' The name speaks for itself in many ways, but essentially we will be thinking about how we can love the community of believers which God has made us a part of. Today we start by considering Jesus' incredible love for the church and ask how that should shape our love and actions as we engage with each other.
2024-10-1432 minWishart Community ChurchA choice between two hopesPreacher: Jono Deenick Passage: James 5:1-12 Support the show
2024-09-2938 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchListening and Doing - 28/07/2024Bible Text: James 1:19-27
Ps Jono Deenick
Last week we saw that God's great plan is to give His people new birth through the word of truth. This week James begins to answer the question of how God brings about that transformation in His people. In short, he tells us that we need to not just listen to God's word, but do it. This doesn't mean our transformation is really just self help or self-transforming, that's God's work. And yet, we are called to 'do'. This week we will consider how that works and how God uses...
2024-07-2943 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchKnowing God's Love - 21/07/2024James 1:9 - 18
Ps Jono Deenick
A few weeks ago we began our journey through the book of James and saw trials can be a source of joy. That seems a very strange concept, and James urges us to seek God's wisdom so that we might see the world from His perspective. As James continues he provides us with two examples of the kind of wisdom that will allow us to see God's love for us even in the midst of trial and so to also find joy in our good and loving God.
2024-07-2934 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchResurrection Hope - 9/06/2024Bible Text: 1 Corinthian 15:12 - 34
Ps Jono Deenick
It may seem odd to most of us, but there were some in the Corinthian Church who didn't believe in a future bodily resurrection. It just didn't make sense to them in their culture. In this section Paul writes to tell them how important, central even, the resurrection is to the gospel. While that may not be a question we wrestle with, this section of 1 Corinthians nevertheless gives us great hope and wonderful sense of purpose as we live our lives following...
2024-06-1038 minWishart Community ChurchPlaying our partPreacher: Jono DeenickPassage: 1Cor 12:12-31 Support the show
2024-05-2633 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchPlaying Our Part - 28/04/2024Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Ps Jono Deenick
Last week we began a section in 1 Corinthians that stretches from chapter 12 till the end of 14. In it Paul is helping the church understand the gifts God gives His church by His Spirit and to use those gifts for the good of the Church. This week he uses the metaphor of the body to show that, like our physical bodies, God has designed each part of the Church in just the right way for its good. And so we need to ask, "how essential am I to the...
2024-05-0339 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchOn Heads and Head Coverings - 7/04/2024Bible Text: I Corinthians 11:2-16
Ps Jono Deenick
This week we return to the letter of 1 Corinthians after a long break. And we return to one of the most difficult passages in the New Testament. Difficult because on first reading it seems that to understand it, we need an intimate understanding of Corinthian culture. And difficult because it deals with a matter of controversy in the modern church, that is the question of the role of women teaching in the church. Nevertheless, this is God's word and so we will do our best to understand...
2024-04-1047 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchGood Friday – The King Who Saves 29/03/2024Bible Text: Matthew 27:32-61
Ps Jono Deenick
Matthew’s account of Jesus crucifixion is very brief, 5 words in fact. His focus is far more on what Jesus was doing that it is on His suffering. And strangely Matthew reveals much of what Jesus did, through the taunts of those who stood around and watched Him die. They thought they were victorious but Jesus, our glorious king was winning through staying on the cross and suffering.
2024-04-0436 min
2024-03-3100 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchLove Beyond Reckoning - 17/03/2024Bible Text: Matthew 26:31-46
Ps Jono Deenick
This week as we continue in Matthews account of Jesus' life leading to the cross we come to the garden of Gethsemane. Here we Jesus like no other time in His life, distressed and sorrowful to the point of death. And yet, in the midst of His distress He continues to show love and patience to His disciples. This picture of Jesus helps us especially when we feel we have failed Him terribly.
2024-03-1834 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchJesus Who Cleanses and Renews - 10/03/2024Bible Text: Matthew 26:17-30
Ps Jono Deenick
Last week Phil showed us that Jesus deserves to be worshiped because He is almighty God who came to die for us. If you are like me, you left with renewed desire to live for Him and yet we so easily drift from this good desire. In today's passage as we continue our way towards Matthew's account of the cross, Jesus makes it clear how He will cleanse and renew a people who live to joyfully worship him every moment of their lives.
2024-03-1142 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Useful Word of God - 4/02/2024Bible Text: 2 Timothy 3:16 - 4:5
Ps Jono Deenick
This week as we install Phil as our new Pastor it seemed good to stop and think about what we want Him to do. We could list all sorts of ministries and task all good and helpful, but at the core we really need one thing, the word of God. In 2 Timothy, Paul reminds us of this and helps us to see why it's so crucial to keep listening to God's word.
2024-02-0939 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchConfidence in the Future - 28/01/2024Bible Text: Psalm 146
Ps Jono Deenick
While it is possible to sail through life giving every appearance of being in control of our future, eventually something will happen that will convince us otherwise. We will realise that the future is uncertain and we are not in control. Given that, how can we live with confidence and a sense of security as we look forward? In Psalm 146 the writer gives us an insight into how we can praise God no matter what our circumstances and uncertainties.
2024-02-0939 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe God Who Knows Us - 14/01/2024Bible Text: Psalm 139
Ps Jono Deenick
This we consider a psalm that marvels at our God who knows us. He knows everything about us from before we are born to the moment we leave this earth. The God of the universe knows His people intimately and loves them. This is an enormous encouragement to us and good cause for us to pause and consider our ways and our thoughts.
2024-01-1537 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchGive Thanks to the Lord - 31/12/23Psalm 136
Ps Jono Deenick
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2024-01-0234 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchJesus, Ordinary and Glorious - 25/12/23Luke 2:1-21
Ps Jono Deenick
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2024-01-0225 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchJesus Witnessed By Many - 17/12/2023Ps Jono Deenick
We have been looking at the way each of the gospel writers introduce Jesus. For Luke that takes quite a different form. He writes so that Theophilus might 'know the certainty of the things you have been taught' (Luke 1:4). It's not that Luke will simply be a list of facts, but he does write to assure us that the accounts we have of Jesus life, are accurate and trustworthy. In a world that often deals in uncertainty and half-truth, Luke's gospel can be a great encouragement for us as we look forward with hope...
2023-12-2036 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchIntroducing Jesus: Seed of Abraham, but also God - 3/12/2023Bible Text: Matthew 1
Ps Jono Deenick
This week we begin our Christmas series looking at the way each of the gospel writers introduce Jesus. They all start in quite different ways and they are all highlighting an important truth about Jesus. Today as we look at Matthew 1 we will see that Matthew introduces Jesus as the fulfillment of promises, to Abraham and David, but not the way that was expected. He was a King who came to save people from sin, He is "God with us."
2023-12-0535 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchIdentity in Christ - 19/11/2023Bible Text: Philippians 3:1-14
Ps Jono Deenick
How would you describe yourself? In some ways the way we answer that question tells us a lot about our identity. That is, how we see ourselves or what we see as valuable or significant about ourselves. In Phil 3, Paul has a whole list of things that used to be of great significance to him, but now he sees them as rubbish. Now he finds his identity in Jesus and strives to know Him more and more. This is helpful for us as, like Paul, we can...
2023-11-2441 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchMotivation to Sacrifice - 12/11/2023Bible Text: Phillipians 2:12-18
Ps Jono Deenick
When it comes to the way we treat one another, Jesus is our model. Paul makes that much clear in the early verses of Philippians chapter 2. We are to have the same mind as Jesus (2:5). However, even if look at Jesus and delight in Him and admire His sacrificial love, we find imitating that very hard. Indeed, sometime we are not willing to make even the smallest sacrifices. In today's passage Paul give the Philippians motivation and encouragement to pursue a life imitating Jesus' sacrificial love.
2023-11-1338 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchQuestions on Origins - 29/10/2023Bible Text: Genesis 1
Ps Jono Deenick
In our final week of the questions series we turn to think about origins. Where did God come from? Where did evil and Satan come from? How can we reconcile the Bible's explanation of the origin of the world and the one science gives us? These are important questions, though we cannot be sure about everything. Nevertheless some of the answers to these questions go to the heart of the gospel message and the character and goodness of God.
2023-10-3046 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchWhat Do We Know of the End Times? - 15/10/2023Bible Text: Isaiah 65:17-25
Ps Jono Deenick
The Bible has much to say about the end of this world and the return of Jesus, however it's fair to say that not all of it is easy to understand. So it's perhaps not surprising that there were a number of questions on this topic. This week we'll be trying to look at what different people have suggested about the end times, but also what are the important things to hold onto. What is there to give us hope, and particularly when Satan seems to be winning?
2023-10-1847 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchUnderstanding The Trinity and the Cross - 8/10/2023Bible Text: Matthew 27:32-53
Ps Jono Deenick
One of the most difficult doctrines that the Bible teaches us is that our God is one, but three distinct persons. Indeed, I would say it is impossible for us to fully understand this mystery. But what can we understand and how is that helpful to us. In particular, how does it help us understand what Jesus did for us when He died on the cross?
2023-10-1338 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchPrayer and the Sovereignty of God? - 01/10/2023Bible Text: Acts 4:23-32
Ps Jono Deenick
God is sovereign. God also has a plan for the world and He is carrying out that plan. So why bother praying? And when we pray are we trying to shift God somehow? How is that even possible given He is sovereign? These are our questions today. Though we may not be able to answer all of our questions and uncertainties, we will see that prayer is a wonderful gift given to us by a loving God who wants to engage with us and wants us to rely...
2023-10-0936 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchUnity in the Gospel - 24/09/2023Bible Text: Titus 3:1-11
Ps Jono Deenick
In the coming weeks we will be looking at some topics that many Christian's disagree upon. That's OK and it's good to delve into God's word to try and understand as much as we can of Him and living for Him, but we want to do it with the right mindset. Too often in our somewhat polarising culture matters of disagreement can become arguments and dispute. That hasn't been the case for us and we want to continue to find unity in Christ. And so this week we...
2023-09-2836 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchA Cautionary Tale - 10/09/2023Text: 1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Ps Jono Deenick
We are all familiar with cautionary tales like Little Red Riding Hood and The Tortoise and The Hare. They were designed to warn and to help children make good decisions even when tempted to do otherwise. God often draws us with love and rescue but He also uses warning and in our passage today Paul shows us that incidents in Israel's history stand as warnings. In particular they warn us of the peril of idolatry and they warn us that we are susceptible to that temptation even when we...
2023-09-1836 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchMarriage and the Gospel - 30/07/2023Ps Jono Deenick
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 7:1-16
Last week we looked at the way the truth of the gospel shapes our view of our bodies and by association sex. Key to all of it was that we belong to Jesus, we are bought at great price. This week Paul goes on to discuss various issues around marriage and in coming weeks, singleness. As he does so this concept, that we belong to Jesus, still guides his instruction. As a result, what he has to say would have been counter cultural to the Corinthians, and for different reasons...
2023-08-0340 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchWe Belong to Jesus - 23/07/2023Ps Jono Deenick
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
It's fair to say we are surround by all manner of messages and beliefs regarding sex. We know in many cases they are wrong, but we are perhaps not clear on what God teaches. Or to put it another way, we know the rule, but we don't understand why God told us that. We don't understand God's beautiful plan and design. In our passage today, as Paul begins to correct the Corinthians thinking on sex, he doesn't just say 'here's the command.' He shows them the goodness of God's...
2023-07-2839 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchGospel Success - 02/07/2023Ps Jono Deenick
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 4
We live in a world where the idea that 'bigger is better' is accepted, felt and believed for many things at least. But what about when it comes to the gospel? Without a doubt having large numbers of people coming to faith is a good thing, but how do we measure gospel success? It seems this was a bone of contention between Paul and the Corinthian church and in chapter 4 he outlines some of the marks of gospel success.
2023-07-2835 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Work of the Spirit - 18/06/2023Ps Jono Deenick
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 2:6-16
In recent weeks we have done a little thinking about the Spirit. On Pentecost Sunday we saw that Jesus sent His Spirit to enable His people to carry out His mission. Last week, Paul laid out the need for the Spirit to open our eyes to the wonder of the gospel. This week he continues in a similar vein as he explains the great privilege and wonder of receiving the Spirit. Not only does He enable us to see the wonder of Jesus' death for us, but of all God's...
2023-07-2836 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchAnswering Division - 11/06/2023Ps Jono Deenick
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 1:10-2:5
As we saw last week, one of the problems in the Corinthian Church was division as different factions favoured different leaders. In these verses Paul addresses that problem directly. However, he does so in an unexpected way. He speaks about the nature of the gospel, of the sort of people that are often saved and the way he preaches because of the gospel. Again we learn that as we confront any issue with must begin and end with Jesus.
2023-07-2847 minWishart Community ChurchLiving in the light of God's faithfulnessPreacher: Jono Deenick Passage: Genesis 24 Support the show
2022-10-3043 minWishart Community ChurchThe gift of prayerPreacher: Jono Deenick Passage: Matthew 7:7-12Support the show
2022-08-2134 minWishart Community ChurchPromote lifePassage: Matthew 5:17-26 Preacher: Jono Deenick Support the show
2022-05-2935 minWishart Community ChurchGod's choice or mine?Preacher: Jono DeenickPassage: Romans 9:30-10:21Support the show
2021-10-0341 minWishart Community ChurchIn defence of God's sovereigntyPreacher: Jono Deenick Passage: Romans 9:1-29 Support the show
2021-09-2243 min
Thinking TheologyThe Nature of God (Part 1)Transcript(the following transcript may contain errors)Episode IntroYou and I know what it’s like to be a human being. We know that we can only ever be in one place at the one time. We know that one day we’re born without us even having any say in it. And then another day we’ll die.But what about God? What’s he like?That’s what we’re thinking about in this episode of Thinking Theology.Last time we began looking at the doctr...
2021-02-1823 minWishart Community ChurchThe Joy of promise Fulfilled Genesis 21 Jono DeenickText: Genesis 21Preacher: JonoSupport the show
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Redlands Christian Reformed ChurchCaptured Alive - AudioLuke 5: 1-11
Jono Deenick
Tonight as Jesus continues his ministry drawing large crowds to hear the word of God He begins a new stage. For the first time we see Him calling particular followers. Men who will be trained by Jesus to walk in His footsteps - disciples. He calls them to 'fishing for people', but as He does that, He reveals what it will look like to carry out that fishing work, a work we continue to this day.
2019-11-2430 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchWhy Reject Good News? - AudioAs Jesus begins his ministry people are astounded by the message he brings. He declares that all the promises of God, spoken by the prophets, are being fulfilled in his ministry. This is great news, and yet it is not accepted by all. Some who knew Jesus growing up find it hard to hear his message. Why is that? And how can it help us as we live as his disciples in this world?
Luke 4: 14-30
Pastor: Jono Deenick
2019-11-1034 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchThe Best Laid Plans... (AM Service) - AudioIn our journey through Genesis, we come this week to the account of Babel. It is an event that helps us undertand our world with its myriad languages and cultures, but it does far more than that. It gives us insight into our human tendency to ‘make a name for ourselves’ often by rejecting what God has told us to do. The events at Babel highlight the futility of living life that way, but that is not the end of the story. As we look forward in the Bible to the day when God begins to undo what happened at Babe...
2019-10-2034 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchGrowing Up With Jesus (PM Service) - AudioIn Luke 2:41-52 we have a segment of Jesus life that we don't see anywhere else. Matthew and Luke both report on what happened around Jesus' birth and, of course, all of the gospels tell us about Jesus ministry but this is the only place we read about Jesus as a boy. Here we get an insight into what it meant for Jesus to grow up. It's a somewhat odd thing to think about because He is also God and yet, it is helpful for us as we think about what it means to grow up in the faith as...
2019-10-1332 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchGod of Renewal (AM Service) - AudioLast week we began looking at the account of Noah and asked, 'how such terrible destruction was justified?' We also learnt from Noah's example of faith. This week we will try to answer some of the difficult questions that the flood raises but, more importantly, we will also look at God renewing His creation. The flood was a bit like a 'reset' button. However, it doesn't resolve the problem of sin. It dealt with it, but only in a temporary way. This helps us to think about how we deal with sin, and encourages us with the better solution...
2019-10-0639 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchLife With God - AudioIn Exodus 23 God finished giving commands to His people and then made promises regarding the Land He would give them and told them how He would do it. Here in Exodus 24 the people promise to do 'everything the Lord has said.' Moses and some others even enjoy a meal with God to celebrate the covenant God has made with Israel. This is the closest His people have come to living with Him. However, it is clear that there is still a barrier. Even after their pledge to live God's way only some can approach God, and only Moses can...
2019-09-1532 minRedlands Christian Reformed ChurchCostly Justice - AudioWe all love justice. We love it when we experience it and we love to see it done in cases around us. But do we always act justly? Sometimes being just, or making sure justice is done can be costly. It means making sure we speak the truth about others. It means not siding with the crowd, or being driven by pity rather than truth. And, at the deepest level, it means doing good to those who dislike you or whom you dislike. These are the sorts of things God reveals to us in Ex 23. Join us as we think...
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