Merri Creek Anglican

[Beck Miller] Gideon: Victory for Weakling (Judges 6:1-40)12.05.19 by Merri Creek Anglican

The drama of Judges continues. In the second week of this Judges series Peter looks at another extraordinary story of Deborah and Barak and at God’s mysterious ways. God is mysterious, God uses flawed people but ultimately God always wins.

Peter starts of a series on Judges with the spectacularly strange story of Ehud and the king of Moab. Peter talks about how God is a "left-handed" God - God's methods and God's deliverers are surprising but also effective.

Highlights from our Easter Sunday service with the theological theme: Water

Highlights from our Good Friday service with the theological theme of blood.

Humility. Gravitas. Suffering. Eternal glory. That’s heavy, dude! Pete finishes the Good Shepherd series looking at 1 Peter 5. While following the Good Shepherd in leadership is a heavy responsibility, the reward is great and lasts forever.

Beck wraps up the 2019 vision series by encouraging us to taste and see that the Lord is good! Creativity and creatives are essential in the life of the church, inspiring us through new expressions and reflections, inviting participation, inviting interpretation of ideas and helping people to respond emotionally. Here is an encouragement to be creative, soak up the arts, and invite God - the ultimate creator - into your creative works.

In this sermon Beck reminds us of our opportunity to accept God's invitation either to repent & turn back to God or to celebrate over those who do repent. The church, as the family of God, are invited to go with the good shepherd into unknown territory in order to bring back the lost. Prayerfulness, training, remembrance and the serious cultivation of joy are ways to accept that invitation.

Peter continues the Good Shepherd series looking at how Jesus as shepherd models pastoral care. Following Jesus pastorally leads to caring for people by speaking God's truth, by promoting flourishing through leading with a Christ-centred approach, through sacrificial leadership, and through having an evangelistic and outward focus.

Peter continues a series on the biblical theme of the Good Shepherd. After a week of sad and heavy news, this is a timely talk reflecting on Jeremiah 23. 1-8 and on how God views bad leadership.

Peter starts the new series on the biblical theology theme of the Good Shepherd. Psalm 23 is perhaps the most famous example of this theme in the Old Testament. Listen and be encouraged by the God who is with us in the green grass and the dark valley.

Jerome tells us how he went from being a dried up piece of fruit (spiritually speaking) to finding true spiritual nourishment.

There have always been people who claim that you can be spiritually enlightened apart from faith in Jesus Christ. But the Apostle John shows why this will never work. This is the third in our 2019 vision series .

In this second of the vision series, see how the Kingdom of God parables about the mustard seed and the yeast in dough help us to know how to understand our role (and God's role) in the Inner-North of Melbourne to bring Kingdom change.

Peter teaches the Apostle Paul's approach to "outsiders" which is to be watchful, wise and winsome.

One of the most famous miracles of Jesus was when he walked on the Sea of Galilee and freaked out the disciples, who had been rowing across in a headwind. What does the miracle mean for us?

Anthea McCall preaches on the very famous miracle when Jesus fed a crowd of 5000 men plus the women and children with just some loaves and fish. This is an amazing story of the God who provides us with more than we need.

Flyck looks at the question from John 5, is Jesus really God in the flesh? If he is, then what does this mean for us? What does it mean if we trust in this radical idea?

Beck explains how Jesus is no ordinary man or Rabbi. This sermon shows how Jesus has a unique kind of authority that comes from God.

This sermon is about one of the unsung heroes of the Christmas story: Anna the prophetess. In this sermon Peter talks about why she was included by Luke in the narrative, and what it means for us today.