Stockton Anglican Podcasts

True love for Jesus is not proved by perfect performance but is evidenced by obedience that the Holy Spirit empowers, bringing us the peace of God even now.

Faithful ministry isn't about avoiding hardship or protecting yourself, it is about raising up God's work over your own comfort, operating for others instead of yourself, and taking the greatest risk of all: opening your heart wide towards others. 

Paul is driven by the love of Christ to do the urgent mission of the Gospel. How are we driven? What drives us? What is our value?

King Jesus is the one whom we must hope and trust in.

All lives are temporary and all bodies groan with the pains of decay. Yet Christians are confident and humble at the hope of eternity.

Are you ruled by your Head or your heart? Are you more concerned about outward or the inward? Is your focus on the visible or the invisible? 2 Corinthians 4.13-18

The Ministry of the Spirit is the best, but it is by no means easy. Paul is to quote from 2 Corinthians 4, pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. How can this encourage us? How can this help when we are in a difficult place? Lets find out together.

In Christ, we grow into maturity, not because we are able, but because He is in us and through His Spirit He is changing us from glory to glory.

We must hearts that care like Christ, a confidence that is rooted in Christ and a competence for things done with Christ.

2 Corinthians 2:12-17

Come with us for Advent 4, the last Sunday before Christmas where we open the Gospel of Matthew and look at three great stories, Christmas, Easter and Our Story. Matthew 1.18-25

In world where truth is relative, lost and forgotten, John speaks volumes. But are we ready for it? Are we ready to hear what the real problem is?

In Matthew 24, Jesus speaks of his return and how we would want to amek sure we are well prepared. 3 Questions. 1- What meaningless things are we investing in? 2- What is the first thing that comes to mind at the thought of Jesus returning tomorrow? 3- What are we doing consistently out of pure obedience to His word?

From giggling teenagers to blushing brides, from the poor to the rich, from the young to the old, all have found something in the song of songs to warm the heart and redden the cheeks. Come with us for a brief overview of this timeless book, The Song of Songs.

Paul shows us in Acts 27 what it means to be Brave, Confident, Stable, An Encourager and Trusted. All of this we too have in Christ, lets lean in and see how we might imitate Paul as he imitates Christ.

Acts 26 is Pauls silent sermon to the line of Kings who opposed Jesus from his birth to his death. These Kings to which King Agrippa is the last, choose power and lost their souls. What might we choose?

We Christians, we can get a bit uptight about lots of things, and while this can be a good thing, sometimes our stubbornness can blind us to those who need Jesus the most.

Paul asks a group of God fearers that he just meet, if they have received the Holy Spirit, they so No, so Paul shares the Gospel with them, to which they respond, receive the Holy Spirit and start speaking in tongues and prophesying. Is this how we should do ministry today?

The skill and flexibility that Paul demonstrates in Acts 17 is to be admired. His preaching of the Gospel to be studied and copied, his willingness to accept anyone, jew, gentile and especially women is to be commended.

A demon possessed girl, an exorcism, Paul and Silis in prison, a miracle earthquake and a yet another family saved for the Kingdom of God. Acts 16 has it all.

God works through flawed people and unexpected paths to advance His kingdom.

Is Scripture on equal footing to Reason, Tradition and/or Experience? And why should we sit under the word of God? Acts 15.

Everyone wants to be the main character, but the truth is this. We can't carry that kind of weight and we were never ment to.

Keith takes us through Acts 13 detailing Gods plan for the Jews and our future union in Christ.

Under the direction of the Spirit the word of God spread and flourished, but what about us? Are we flourishing in the Spirit?

Is there just 1 change that we could make that would enable you to invite a particular person to Church? What is it?

For we all know that what really matters, the moments that we remember, the events that touch our lives in the most profound ways, are almost always completely and totally free. Yet, there is one thing amongst these things, that is the best thing. Come with us as we look at Acts 8 and the […]

There are no failures in God's economy. He can and will use the darkest and most difficult times for glory.

In Christ Jesus, we have a tangible kind of hope. It is the kind of hope that both grabs hold of us and that we can grab onto and hold onto. It is the kind of hope that carries us through all trouble, all sin and every trial.

“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.