Stockton Anglican Podcasts

“Feeling weary? You're not alone. Jesus says, ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28). Come with us as we discover how to find true rest in the Lord.

Anxiety wants to empty your day of its strength. Anxiety wants to sit above the promises of God. Anxiety wants to put you in the driver's seat, when you know full well that it is God who runs this world. No wonder Jesus tells us not to be anxious.

Oppression is a loaded term, full of emotion, subjectivity and deception. Yet we must ask, who are the captives that Jesus came to set free? Who are the oppressed and who are the oppressors?

Why can we trust the Bible? How do we know that Jesus came back to life? Come with us this Easter Sunday.

Am I one of the rulers? Those who falsely accuse and sneer at Jesus, acting as if his righteousness and goodness is of personal offence to me. Am I a soldier? Just following orders, going with the crowd, doing what I am told. Am I an unrepentant criminal? Even in death I am unable to […]

Sweat like blood, betrayed like a dog, rejected like spoilt food, yet innocent as a dove. All of this not for himself, but for you. Luke 22.39-23.12

Blessings and Woe's. Are we sure we want to level up in Christ? Come with us as we look at what it means to be a disciple, what it means to be blessed or woe'd. Luke 6.12-26

The Pharisees made lords of themselves by making themselves lords of the sabbath. They took what God intended for good to serve themselves and little has changed. Come with us as we look at the Bible and see how it applies to the modern movements of Environmentalism, DEI & the Christian Church. Luke 6.1-11

Does sin = sickness? How are we made clean? What is Jesus calling me todo? Luke 5.12-26

What have we given up for Jesus? What idols (this we put before obedience to Jesus) are we still clinging to? What has Jesus changed in our lives? What practical difference has following Jesus made? AND not just in our lives, but this past year, month, week or 24 hours? What has changed because of […]

Luke's Gospel is moving quickly, from Jesus birth to his rejection in his home town to this, casting out demons and healing the sick. Come with us as we work through this together. Luke 4.31-40

When we reject Jesus, we reject not just Jesus, but the truth that He will change us, that His message is for us. Come with us as we look at the first group of people to reject the messiah. Luke 4:14-30.

Just 77 generations from creation and Christ? If this is true, what do we do about the monkeys? Is the bible in conflict with science or something else? Come with us as we look at Jesus baptism, the sacred and the young earth.

Is science in conflict with the faith? Or is it a matter of independence, dialogue or integration? Come with Dr Col Harrison as he unpacks, contextualises and explains Jesus' miracle of turning water into wine. John 2:1-11

God is faithful and his Word is always fulfilled, so lets ask the question. What has God promised you? Luke 1.39-56

When we come to Jesus, the Holy Spirit gives birth to a new nature, a new self inside of us. The question is, what is our response? Luke 1.26-38

John the Baptist is to be a mighty man of God, but what about you and me? What kind of lives are we living? Is the Gospel changing us, making us new? Luke 1.5-25

For some reason God has broken from his usual motif of using the weak to shame the wise and has inspired Luke, a doctor, a historian, a missionary to tell us about the Hope that we can have in Jesus. Luke's Gospel is the longest and the most detailed and it started today.

Who keeps your secrets? Join us as Dr Col Harrison takes us through the themes of Daniel and Job reflecting with his own personal story.

How do we trust God? How do we follow him not just in the good times but in the bad times to? Why does God allow suffering? “Everything under heaven belongs to me.. says the lord…”

Chapter 38 of the book of Job is just at taste of God's first rebuke. In it He takes Job through the creative process of Genesis, and with the use of irony, sarcasm and a series of rhetorical questions He puts Job in his place. Job 38:1-41 & 40:1-5

In Job's darkest moments he expresses a heart that yearns for a redeemer, and yes, God will deliver.

If you have ever felt like God is distance and that you are alone in your suffering, you are in good company as Job experiences exactly this. Of course God will speak, but just not yet. Why? We don't now, perhaps God wants to deepen Job's spiritual insights. Perhaps God who is ever patient is […]

Why does God allow suffering? Does God take part in our suffering? Are we but the play things of the powers beyond this world? Is faith a contract? Does faith guard against suffering? How do we know we have faith? Who is our faith in? Are just some of the questions we try to address […]

God loves you. Be honest with him. Ask for his help to identify the sin that may be behind much of your trouble, your burdens and even your sicknesses. James 5

Words can be powerful, poisonous and polluted. Join us as Dr Col Harrison takes us through the power of words in James 3.1-12.

1- What is Prophecy? 2- Why Prophesy? 3- Who can Prophesy?

This gift is about the Holy Spirit of God, enabling us to grown his kingdom through the service of others. It is about getting our hearts right before God. It is about a group of people that enable the Church to grow and thrive. Lets be encouraged by the gift of service.

Is it when a preacher waves their arms and half the crowd falls over, with catchers ready behind them? Or is it a steady and constant life of asking and seeking God in prayer? Prayers for things that are beyond our ability and control? Lets find out.

The Holy Spirit is a spirit of truth, wisdom and understanding. Through him we can argue for the faith, we can stand up to opposition, we can encourage and we can guide the Church.

Make no mistake, God can give this gift to anyone. You can be rich or poor and you might not even know the gospel all that well and you can still receive this gift, in fact you may already have it.

The gifts of the Spirit are for Christians in community. For the building up and the encouraging of others and to be manifest as an expression of love.

Are the gifts of the Spirit for us today? What does Spiritual abuse look like? How do I receive the gifts? Join us for an overview of Spiritual gifts and to the start of our new series.

The greatest battles are not physical. In fact physical battles are nothing, they are a mere discomfort, an inconvenience when compared to Spiritual battles. For the Spirit drives culture, change and eternity, and battles in these spheres truely matter.

Our next chapter of Nehemiah is a lesson in leadership, in vision, mission, trust, opposition and delegation. There is something here for everyone as we seek to do the mission of Christ on earth. (Nehemiah 2.11-3.12)

God takes great delight in using us to answer our own prayers. I think this teaches that prayer is often like that old saying. You can give a person a fish and feed them for a day, or you can teach them to fish and you have given them not just food for a life […]

George Whitfield, John Wesley, the Hebrides, the Toronto Blessing and the Billy Graham Crusades are just a few examples of great revivals. Meaning, what we see in Jonah is nothing new or out the ordinary. God in times of stress and trouble has been turning the hearts of people towards himself throughout all of human […]

What will it take for us to turn to the Lord, to trust Him, to lean on Him and to receive His love?

In what ways are we ignoring God? How are we limiting our own transformation before God? And whats the take home? God is not passive when it comes to calling us to repentance. Jonah 1

Struggling with sin? Struggling with the sin of others? This message from Galatians 6 is for you.

A Palm Sunday Special with Dr Col Harrison.

Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control are wonderful gifts and they are yours, they are already yours, but do not let it go to your head. That's Galatians 5 in a nutshell!

In Galatians 4, Paul warns of those pushing the old ways, those waiting to deny the freedom we have in Christ.. Those wanting to go back to the so called “good old days”.

No this is not prosperity doctrine, or name it and claim it theology. This is Paul teaching in the strongest terms that we receive Christ by faith and that our salvation is Christ plus nothing. (Galatians 3)

The preverbal hits the fan as Paul rebukes Peter for promoting an inward looking faith, one that makes a mockery of the Gospel. Sadly this mistake is nothing new as scores of Christians today, either exclude themselves or are excluded from gathering under Christ. Come and see where Paul takes us in Galatians 2.

In Galatians 1, Paul blows his own trumpet, or does he? Is his authority really a divine authority? Is his message really a divine message, one received by revelation from Jesus Christ himself? Join us for the first in a series on the challenging book of Galatians.

Today we are not only challenged with the most difficult of teachings, lover the sinner but we are given the tools to expose the true colours of the ungodly. The grumblers, the fault-finders, those who follow their own evil desires, boast about themselves and flatters others to their own advantage. (See Jude 1:24-25)

Today we challenge culture with the word of God. Join me in part 1 of a 2 part series in the book of Jude.

Join us as Keith Griffiths takes us through the Gospel of John, landing in Jesus' famous words of truth. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

Because of Jesus and by the Holy Spirit, we are able to enter into a relationship with God that is so personal that we can't help but call Him Daddy.

Mary was blessed, she received the favour of God, yet her life was not so favourable. Her peers will ridicule her, her fiancé will come close to leaving her and her son will be rejected, tortured and murdered. We can learn much from her obedience in despite of her inexperience and youth.