Village Church – Kelvin Grove

We started Romans 12 thinking about how to not be conformed to the world but transformed in our mind. But now we end Romans 12 thinking about how to not be overcome by evil but to overcome evil with good. What it looks like to see peace within—within our communities of grace and within hearts. And peace without—without retaliation, toward those outside the church. The post Peace Without | Romans 12:16-21 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Last week we saw what it looks like to live together as different members of Christ’s body, especially as we SERVE each other. This week, finishing Romans 12, we’ll see what it looks like to LOVE each other with the love of Christ. The post Loving and Serving | Romans 12:9-21 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Last week we saw that all of life must be lived as a response to God’s mercy to us in Christ Jesus. This week see what that looks like to LIVE TOGETHER as different members of the one body of Christ. The post Romans 12:3-8 | Living as God’s Family appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We begin our new teaching series on Romans 12-16: A Family of Grace. Last year we worked through Romans 1-11, all about the gospel of grace, the good news that Jesus saves us entirely by grace, not by anything good we’ve done. The good news that grace unites even the most separate people of all, even Jews & non-Jews, into one family in Jesus. In Romans 12-16 we’ll see what it looks like to LIVE TOGETHER as a family of grace in our daily lives today. The post Romans 12:1-2 | In View of God’s Mercies appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We end 2025 reflecting on Psalm 131 and how we can have a heart at peace. The post A Heart at Peace | Psalm 131 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

This is the last in our January teaching series: A Praying Church. Today Sam is preaching from the Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6: A Bold Church. What will it look like for us to approach God boldly in prayer this year? The post A Bold Church | Matthew 6 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Our January teaching series is A Praying Church, looking at how we should pray together as a church family in this new year. Today Jeremy is preaching from Ephesians 3: A Loved Church. What will it look like for us to pray knowing that God loves us supremely in Jesus? The post A Loved Church | Ephesians 3 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Our January teaching series is A Praying Church, looking at how we should pray together as a church family in this new year. Today Sam is preaching Psalm 51: A Humble Church. What will it look like for us to confess our sins to God and lament our suffering together this year? The post A Humble Church | Psalm 51 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Our January teaching series is A Praying Church, looking at how we should be praying together as a church family in the new year. Philip starts us off today with Psalm 34: A Praising Church. What will it look like for us to praise God together this year? The post A Praising Church | Psalm 34 appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

It wasn’t first to the emperor or any “important” people that angels proclaimed the Good News of Jesus’ birth – but to ordinary, dirty, untrustworthy, shepherds in fields while minding their sheep. The Good News of Jesus is to and for all! The post Luke 2:1-20 | Good News To All appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Jeremy will take us through Romans 11, where the big mystery is: What on earth is God doing in the world? The post Romans 11 | God’s Heart of Mercy appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We’re up to Romans 10, where Paul’s addressing a big problem. Why have so many of Paul’s fellow Jews NOT joined him in trusting Jesus? Is it something wrong with Jesus? Which also raises the question: Why do so many people reject Jesus today? And is there anything we can do to help them? The post Romans 10 | The Word is Near You appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We're up to Romans 9, where Paul is in anguish, because faith in Jesus, the faith Paul celebrates through Romans 1 to 8, isn't shared by most of his fellow Jews! What does this mean? Is the good news about Jesus defective? Is God not faithful to his chosen people? If so, can how can […] The post Romans 9:1-29 | God is the Centre appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Last week we started Romans 8, about our new life in Christ by the Spirit. But what if our experience of this life isn't positive right now? What if it's actually marked by suffering more than victory? What does say about our salvation? The post Romans 8:18-39 | The Hope of Glory appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

In Romans 7 we heard how our human nature is wrecked by sin. We can't do the good we want. Instead we do things we hate. But this week we start Romans 8. Where we hear how Jesus saves us out of that by his Spirit. How does that work? The post Romans 8:1-17 | Life by the Spirit of Christ appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

In Romans 6 we've heard Paul say that because of Christ's death for us, we now have a new life of living for God. This week Romans 7 raises the question: What's the place of God's law in this new life? Do we live for God by trying really hard to obey to his law? […] The post Romans 7 | Law; What Is It Good For? appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Last week we heard the start of Romans 6, that we're united with Christ, so we should consider ourselves dead to sin and alive to God. But what should we actually DO with our lives now? Do we just sit there trying really hard not to sin anymore? Sam will take us through the rest […] The post Romans 6 – Slaves to Righteousness appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We've heard so much in Romans 1-5 about how totally forigiving God is because Jesus died for our sins. As Philip takes us into Romans 6, the question is: with all this great forgiveness on offer, why wouldn't we just keep sinning? The post Romans 6 – The Hope of Holiness appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

During school holidays we take a break from Romans to look at Raising & Reaching.Today Sam is talking about passing the gospel on to the next generation. It raises the question for all of us: How are we making sure the next generation is growing to know Jesus? The post Raising the Next Generation appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

We continue our series on Paul's letter to the church in Rome, all about the good news of Jesus.As we continue in chapter 5, we see just HOW CERTAIN is the HOPE we have in Jesus.As we see all the brokenness of this world, Paul will say the salvation of Jesus is even bigger! The post Romans 5:12-21 | Great Grace appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

When the hardest things in life come at us, we can feel shaken. But in Romans 5, we get a picture of the clear and certain hope that we have in Christ, anchored in our past justification and our future hope of glory. Philip helps us to see the bridge that we stand on, anchored […] The post Bridge of Hope appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

After hearing the great promise of righteousness by faith in Christ, Paul goes back to see how this was true even before Christ, looking to Abraham as the key example. Jeremy helps us to see the power of faith to give us life before God. The post One Faith, One Family (Romans 4) appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

This week, we continue the deep-dive into the human condition, into Paul's argument that we are all under sin. Philip helps us to see that these words are meant to...

We heard last week the BAD news about what Jesus saves us FROM — our rejection of God and mistreatment of each other. But this week Paul addresses the question:...

We heard last week that Paul is writing about the GOSPEL, the GOOD NEWS of Jesus Christ come to save us. But now as we read further through chapter 1,...

The book of Romans is filled with some of the clearest, richest teaching on faith, justification, sin, hope, community, God's sovereignty, sanctification, and Jesus' fulfilment of the Old Testament in...

Philip gives a one-off talk from Philippians 4, looking at the life of peace that the gospel opens up for us: to enjoy the peace that we have with God...

Last week Philip walked us through an emerging trend in Western culture's value set transitioning to a more Pain/Pleasure paradigm. However, this week Jeremy addresses the value set of Guilt...

Philip explores perhaps the most defining element of our contemporary Western culture – the “good” drive to minimise pain and maximise pleasure. He shows how it affects us everyday and...

Sam continues our series on cultural worldviews by exploring how fear and power interact in our lives and how the gospel speaks into that.

What drives the way we see the world? Across cultures, communities and experiences, we live according to different “lenses” that shape how we understand right and wrong, identity, and meaning....

This is the LAST in our teaching series on the book of Ecclesiastes! The Teacher's been showing that all of life is weightless, ungraspable vapour. But today we'll hear the...

We continue our teaching series on the Old Testament wisdom book of Ecclesiastes. The last few weeks we've heard the Teacher wrestling with WHY everything is senseless vapour. This week,...

This week Jeremy explores the paradoxical and vaporous nature of wisdom itself.

Sam follows the Teacher in Ecclesiastes as he explores worship and wealth as vapour.

Sam goes through how friendship and fellowship with one another is affected by and experienced through the vapour of life.

Sam goes through how friendship and fellowship with one another is affected by and experienced through the vapour of life. The post Ecclesiastes 4 – Fellowship in the Vapour appeared first on Village Church - Kelvin Grove.

Philip explores the seasons of our lives – the good and the bad – and how God draws them together.

Jeremy continues our series in Ecclesiastes as the Teacher decides to explore what can be gained from pursuing pleasure, wisdom and achievement under the sun.

Jeremy kicks off our new series in Ecclesiastes by exploring the wisdom of ‘the Teacher' as he considers the meaning of life under the sun – if any can be...

In this one-off talk to kick off our term, Sam helps us to hear about the value and power of friendship, and how Christ calls us to walk closely in...

In our final talk in Matthew, Sam takes us through just how lifechanging Jesus' being raised was for the first witnesses and us today.

This week Sam continues to look at how Jesus takes our shame upon himself by being humiliated and beaten by the Roman and Jewish leaders. Warning: this passage deals with...

Jeremy takes us through the kangaroo court set up to find any way to convict Jesus and sentence him to death. At the same time, Peter waits outside.

In His darkest moment, when He needs His friends most, Jesus is either abandoned or betrayed by His closest friends. Jeremy goes through this passage this week delving into what...

This week Philip takes us through the Passover meal Jesus has with his closest friends and disciples.

Jeremy takes us through the anointing of Jesus as the Pharisees plot to kill him.

“Who is then that faithful and wise servant…?” Philip continues our series in Matthew this week by unpacking Jesus' parables that help to dig deeper about who and what we...

This week Sam unpacks Jesus' predictions for Jerusalem and us and what that might mean for how we live our lives in Christ.

No one likes a hypocrite – including Jesus. This week Sam unpacks what Jesus has to say to hypocrites.

A wedding feast, tested loyalties and a theological riddle. Jeremy continues our series in Matthew as Jesus is put to the test by the religious leaders of his day.