Encounter Church Messages: Recent Episodes
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The Church Just Wants Your Money...? // The Power Of Contentment by Encounter Church Adelaide
Ps Mike Wardrop preaches on Tithes and Offerings in the second instalment of The Church Just Wants Your Money…? We are challenged to check our hearts and ask ourselves if we are giving to God out of obligation or worship.
Join us for Encounter's new series, The Church Just Wants Your Money...? Ps Pietta brings us the first instalment titled Sowing and Reaping where she leaves us asking: how do I become more aware & intentional with my sowing?
Ps Katie Isles brings us the final instalment of The Power of Encounter series, Spiritual Authority. We are given authority with and through Christ Jesus, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Ps Peter Steicke preaches on Moving in the Opposite Spirit for our third message of The Power of Encounter series. Allow time for the Fruit of Father's love to grow in you and others, there is Fruit for every situation.
Craig Bailey brings us a moving sermon about legacy for our second instalment in The Power of Encounter series. He reminds us that when we make a decision to follow Jesus we are not just making it for ourselves, we are establishing a supernatural legacy that goes from one generation to another.
Ps Mike brings us a powerful sermon on consecration in the first of our four part series - The Power of Encounter. Challenging us to live a life that looks less normal, as a consecrated life is meant to look different.
Ps James Wong from Anchor Church Sydney reminds us that community is central to who we are. We are designed, by God, to be in loving community just as He is.
As citizens of heaven and representatives of earth will you participate in God's mission to help expand His kingdom throughout the world?
Rev Dianne Holden from Enfield Uniting Church preaches on God's plan this week in a Enfield and Encounter joint service.
This week Tayla brings us a moving sermon on waiting and poses the question - in the waiting, are you able to sit with your own discomfort, and the discomfort and sorrow of others?
Interns Josh and Cheryl bring us the word on our hunger for God and sitting with Him during the storm.
PS Jenny Wardrop brings us a touching sermon on Grace and poses the question, 'are you open to receiving God's grace'?
PS Pietta Brown brings us the word on Pentecost and challenges us:- are you brave enough to ask for the Holy Spirit to come?- are you brave enough to be obedient to go where the Spirit calls you to?
PS Mike Wardrop preaches on the gift of mothers, and reminds us that we are treasured and favoured by God.
Sarah Boyens from Open Doors Australia talks about how we can surrender to the call to follow Christ.
Ps Dan Beasy from Rostrevor Baptist Church preaches about how when we compare ourselves to others our joy is eroded.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! If you'd like to know more about Encounter Church, you can check out our website for all the links to socials, events, prayer, and much more.Sunday's in person and online. 3:30pm for free coffee, and 4:00pm service at Encounter Church, Enfield. -------------Connect with Us:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/connectLife Groups:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/abou...Give:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/give/Linktree:https://linktr.ee/encounteradelaide------------Copyright Licence513962Streaming Licence380114
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! Come join us as Pastor Mike brings a word on Unity and Uncertainty. If you'd like to know more about Encounter Church, you can check out our website for all the links to socials, events, prayer, and much more.Sunday's in person and online. 3:30pm for free coffee, and 4:00pm service at Encounter Church, Enfield.
Ps Pietta continues our Easter sermon series, Jesus Changes Everything, by looking at how He changes the Kingdoms that we build around us.
This week Ps Mike kicks off our new Lent and Easter Series, Jesus Changes Everything looking at how Jesus Changes Every Nation
Ps Josh Scherer from Gawler UC joins is this week to talk about how Jesus is the Greatest of All Time (GOAT) and what that means for us.
PS Mike Wardrop finishes off our core four values for this year, looking at Evangelism.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!If you'd like to know more about Encounter Church, you can check out our website for all the links to socials, events, prayer, and much more.Sunday's in person and online. 3:30pm for free coffee, and 4:00pm service at Encounter Church, Enfield.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!This week we have Ps Tim Littleford preaching on Prayer.If you'd like to know more about Encounter Church, you can check out our website for all the links to socials, events, prayer, and much more.Sunday's in person and online. 3:30pm for free coffee, and 4:00pm service at Encounter Church, Enfield.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!This week we have Ps Jenny Wardrop preaching on Hospitality.If you'd like to know more about Encounter Church, you can check out our website for all the links to socials, events, prayer, and much more.Sunday's in person and online. 3:30pm for free coffee, and 4:00pm service at Encounter Church, Enfield.
Ps Mike wraps up our Lineage series, taking a closer look at Bathsheba.*Caution - some of the topic spoken on today is sensitive may be distressing to some people.
We are fortunate to have guest speaker Emmy Wilson from Alpha UK sharing stories from her time running prison ministry and what it looks like to bear fruit.
Ps Mike continues our Lineage series looking at the person of Rahab in Jesus' genealogy.
Jacob Blackwell kicks off our first sermon in our new year series - Lineage - where we take a closer look at the women listen in Jesus' genealogy.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! This week we have Will Hall to talk about Compassion!3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!This November, we have our Lovember series. Join us this week as Ps Pietta brings the word on Sex and Intimacy.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!This November, we have our Lovember series. Join us this week as Jacob bring the word on Singleness and Dating.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! This week we have two of our interns bringing the word.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! This week we have two of our interns bringing the word. We also have the pleasure of baptising 2 members of our congregation.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! This week we have a one off sermon as Ps Jen dives into the book of Esther.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human?For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.Join us for nine compelling weeks at Encounter as we invite God to speak to us and shape us about who we are and who we are to become to see the kingdom of God come on earth like in heaven.
Rev Dianne Holden from Enfield Uniting Church preaches as part of our current series; The Meaning of Life.The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human?For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human?For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online! The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human? For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live? The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human?For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.Join us for nine compelling weeks at Encounter as we invite God to speak to us and shape us about who we are and who we are to become to see the kingdom of God come on earth like in heaven.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human?For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.Join us for nine compelling weeks at Encounter as we invite God to speak to us and shape us about who we are and who we are to become to see the kingdom of God come on earth like in heaven.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!
The most important question for the 21st century is this: what does it mean to be human? For followers of Jesus, made in the image of God, this question should be in our mind as we approach some of the biggest topics in our culture. Being human is to be created to be like God. So how, then, do we best reflect God as we live?
The Meaning Of Life boldly wades into topics addressing issues of human life in the 21st century - heart, mind, body and soul.
Join us for nine compelling weeks at Encounter as we invite God to speak to us and shape us about who we are and who we are to become to see the kingdom of God come on earth like in heaven.
This week we have a one off sermon as Ps Pietta brings us the word on Impacting the Generations and what that looks like at Encounter Church.
Welcome to Encounter Church Online. This week, Ps Jen wraps up our series, talking about the gift of Prophecy.
God’s great desire for our lives is that we would become more like Jesus.
We tend to pursue that through growing in information, but the Bible is clear: the goal is transformation. Renewed, changed lives that reflect the image of God - and begin to impact the whole world.
How do we do that? Through an encounter with God. One encounter can change everything. Join us this winter as we go deep into understanding and using the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the blessing of the world. The Power Of Encounter: July at Encounter Church
God’s great desire for our lives is that we would become more like Jesus.
We tend to pursue that through growing in information, but the Bible is clear: the goal is transformation. Renewed, changed lives that reflect the image of God - and begin to impact the whole world.
How do we do that? Through an encounter with God. One encounter can change everything. Join us this winter as we go deep into understanding and using the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the blessing of the world. The Power Of Encounter: July at Encounter Church
This week Jacob Blackwell unpacks the gift of faith.
God’s great desire for our lives is that we would become more like Jesus.
We tend to pursue that through growing in information, but the Bible is clear: the goal is transformation. Renewed, changed lives that reflect the image of God - and begin to impact the whole world.
How do we do that? Through an encounter with God. One encounter can change everything.
Join us this winter as we go deep into understanding and using the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the blessing of the world.
The Power Of Encounter: July at Encounter Church
God’s great desire for our lives is that we would become more like Jesus.
We tend to pursue that through growing in information, but the Bible is clear: the goal is transformation. Renewed, changed lives that reflect the image of God - and begin to impact the whole world.
How do we do that? Through an encounter with God. One encounter can change everything.
Join us this winter as we go deep into understanding and using the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the blessing of the world.
The Power Of Encounter: July at Encounter Church
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!
We have Pastor Mike Wardrop bringing us the word today, so please join us for worship and community along with Enfield Uniting Church for Pentecost Sunday.
3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.
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Welcome to Encounter Church Online!Please join us for our new series "MULTIPLIERS" as we have Pastor Mike Wardrop bringing us the word.3:30PM in person, 4:00PM online.-------------Connect with Us:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/connectLife Groups:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/about/life-groups/Give:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/give/Linktree:https://linktr.ee/encounteradelaide------------Copyright Licence513962Streaming Licence380114
Welcome to Encounter Church Online!We are so excited to have you join us this Mother's Day. Today we have Ps Mike Wardrop bringing us the word, and we cannot wait to hear what God has put on his heart. -------------Connect with Us:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/connectLife Groups:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/about/life-groups/Give:https://encounteradelaide.com.au/give/Linktree:https://linktr.ee/encounteradelaide------------Copyright Licence513962Streaming Licence380114
This week in a one off message Pastor Mike Wardrop unpacks revival and how we prepare ourselves for it.
Tex Horner shares his vision of our missional goal, 'Welcoming People Home' through the parable of the prodigal son.
Tayla continues our series on our Missional Goals, looking what it means to be a culturally engaged leader.
Ps Mike Wardop unpacks one of our four missional goals; Contenting in Prayer, and talks about what it means to be a church that fights on it's knees.
Join us for week one as we unpack our 2023 Missional Goals. This week Ps Pietta shares on what it means to be a Resilient Disciple.
Join us at Encounter Church this week as Ps Mike Wardrop shares about who Jesus is in the minor prophet, Zechariah.
This week we continue our Golden series by looking at David's Jesus.We are privileged to welcome Ps Katie Isles from Journey Uniting Church sharing about David as a 'man after God's own heart' and a worshipper of God.
Ps Mike continues our Advent series Golden by looking at Jesus arrival through the book of Isiah. Join us at 4pm every week at Enfield Uniting Church, or online through our YouTube page.
Join us as we kick off our advent series in the lead up to Christmas; Golden. Ps Mike shares the story of Daniel and how this old testament story points to the saviour Jesus to come.
Adelaide wraps up our series 'Hey Google' with a brilliant summary as she asks the question 'How do I be a Christian?'.
Continuing our Hey Google series this week is Tayla P. Hear her message on 'How do I go to Church, a question we often think has a very simple answer... but maybe there is something deeper as well.
Join us at Encounter Church as we look at some of the simplest questions about being a Christian and we 'Ask Google'.
In week one, we have Andy Hogarth look at the question, 'How do I read the Bible?'.
Encounter Church welcomed Skip Smith from Alpha Australia to share a message on one of Jesus' evangelism methods, 'Come and See'.
Ps Jen finishes off our three week series, Light Years with a simple but powerful message from Psalm 119.
Join us for our newest three week series - Light Years as we dive into the idea of 'The Light'.
Light Years - What does the bible have to say about 'Light'? And how does it apply to us today? Join us for this 3 week series as we unpack the concept of 'light'.
We are so excited to hear from two of our completing interns! Join us as Katie and Alaura share a message that has been on their hearts, as they put their last year of growth and development into practice.
Live No Lies: The Flesh, Part 1
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them - and they sabotage our peace. Live No Lies: identifying and challenging the great enemies of the Christian life - the world, the flesh, and the devil.
This week, Pastor Mike helps us see how the enemy of the flesh is something that is common to us all, and leads us into a moment of confession, to help face this enemy head-on.
Live No Lies: The Devil Part 2
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them - and they sabotage our peace. Live No Lies: identifying and challenging the great enemies of the Christian life - the world, the flesh, and the devil.
This week, Pastor Mike guides us through the ways that the devil plants deceptive ideas in our heads, and equips us powerfully with tools to combat them.
Teaching Text: Matthew 4:1-11
Live No Lies: The Devil Part 1 The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them - and they sabotage our peace. Live No Lies: identifying and challenging the great enemies of the Christian life - the world, the flesh, and the devil.
In this week's message, guest preacher Charlie Burke guides us through seeing the ways that the devil uses deceptive ideas to chip away at our vision of God, and the ways God is forming us against the devil's schemes.
Live No Lies: The World, Part 2
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them - and they sabotage our peace. Live No Lies: identifying and challenging the great enemies of the Christian life - the world, the flesh, and the devil.
In this week's message, Pastor Mike shows how the only way to combat the systems of the world is to be engaged with the Church as a counter-formation machine. Teaching text: John 15:18-25
The problem isn’t so much that we tell lies but that we live them - and they sabotage our peace. Live No Lies: identifying and challenging the great enemies of the Christian life - the world, the flesh, and the devil. In this week's message, Pastor Mike explains the three ancient enemies of the soul and shows how 'the world' forms us against the vision of God, but that followers of Jesus commit to following 'the way, the truth and the life' instead. Teaching text: Romans 12:1-2
This week Pastor Jenny brings a word about God's Holy love for us and why it is important to live in the love of Jesus.
Teaching text: Exodus 2:1-10
Encounter is built around 4 core values - but values only matter when we internalize them and live them out from Monday to Saturday.
To kick off the new series, Mike encourages the church to grow deeper in their relationship with Jesus by finding time to spend with Jesus outside of our Sundays.
Teaching Text: Luke 5:5-16
Encounter is built around 4 core values - but values only matter when we internalize them and live them out from Monday to Saturday.
In this message, Jen unpacks how we are called to be Generous in three different areas of our lives: our time, talents and treasures.
Teaching Text: 1 Corinthians 12:12
On Encounter's fourth Birthday, Encounter moves location.
Through the lens of Jesus sending out the disciples, Pastor Mike preaches about the power of the name of Jesus. What is the purpose of the church and how do we as the church fulfill this purpose in our own lives?
Teaching text: Luke 10:1-9
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
On Palm Sunday Pastor Mike brings a powerful message about Jesus being the true Prophet, Priest and King. That Jesus is not the King we want but he is the only King who will never let us down. Yet the cost of him being King is high.
Teaching text: Luke 19:28-40
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
On Good Friday Pastor Mike tells the compelling story of Jesus' death. Why he needed to die in our place and why it could have only been Jesus.
Teaching text: Luke 23:13-46
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
On Ressurection Sunday Pastor Mike gives a compelling reason for believing Jesus is who he said he was, unpacking C.S Lewis' liar, lunatic or Lord adding legend to this argument. Is Jesus who he said he was?
Teaching text: Luke 24:1-12
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
In our second week of this series, Jacob Blackwell unpack what it means to be called by Jesus, what it costs us to answer that call and what kind of mission Jesus is calling us into.
Teaching text: Luke 5:1-11; 27-32
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
In our third week of this series, Tayla Priebbenow talks about how the miracles of Jesus turns us from our expectation of hope in ourselves towards hope in Jesus
Teaching text: Luke 6:1-11
Lent, the road to Easter, is a time to press into the story of Jesus of Nazareth - a story that is built around the redemption work of God for his people. Join us this Lent as we unpack the life of Jesus in the gospel of Luke.
In our first week of this series, special guest Pastor Peter Steicke unpacks the temptation of Jesus in the desert and how that affects the three major themes of our life: our destiny, security and identity.
Teaching text: Luke 4:1-13
Missional Goals are fundamental to Encounter Church in how we engage with the community, share the gospel and ultimately help people have an encounter with Jesus.
Missional Goals are fundamental to Encounter Church in how we engage with the community, share the gospel and ultimately help people have an encounter with Jesus.
This week Ps Mike shares some of our 10 Missional Goals, and dives deep into the goal of 'Developing Resilient Disciples'; how we can become a resilient disciple, and how we can sow into others to do the same.
Teaching text: Luke 8:4-10
As we begin 2022 we explore the 'Big Dreams' God has placed on our hearts.
Adelaide Cooper shares from the story of Zacchaeus to show how we need to have Open Hearts, Open Hands and Open Homes in 2022
Teaching text: Luke 19:1-10
As we begin 2022 we explore the 'Big Dreams' God has placed on our hearts.
Jacob Blackwell kicks this series off by talking about an overflow of grace in our lives. Once we accept the grace of God, what do we do with it?
Ps Brant talks about his journey of faith with Jesus and the small habits and disciplines he has formed to keep Jesus close.
Healthy relationships are at the heart of who we are as people and especially as followers of Jesus, as we are guided and governed by the God who is love and who displayed his love for us in Christ.
Tim Littleford brings a message that helps us understand that great parenting is great leadership, shows us four movements of helpful parenting and show us that we have in God the ultimate role model: the God who went first.
Teaching text: John 5:19-21
Lovember: The Love of God
Healthy relationships are at the heart of who we are as people and especially as followers of Jesus, as we are guided and governed by the God who is love and who displayed his love for us in Christ.
Ps Mike addresses the western, cultural concept of freedom, and how re-focusing on the example set by Jesus both demonstrates how deep, sacrificial love is the only form of freedom that truly works, but also the only path that breaks us free from the slavery that separate us from salvation.
Teaching text: John 4:7-19
Lovember: Singleness
Healthy relationships are at the heart of who we are as people and especially as followers of Jesus, as we are guided and governed by the God who is love and who displayed his love for us in Christ.
Our guest Ps Kimberly Smith from Baptist Union of Victoria shares a powerful message on singleness that reminds us that singleness is not life on hold, but a grace from God to be used for God.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35
Lovember: Dating
Healthy relationships are at the heart of who we are as people and especially as followers of Jesus, as we are guided and governed by the God who is love and who displayed his love for us in Christ.
Jeremy D'Lima takes us through a biblical framework for dating to help people work out their belief, missional and personal compatibility with somebody that God might be leading us to marry, reminding us that all relationships are stronger when we put God first and our relationship second.
Teaching text: Galatians 6:4-5
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Teaching text: Galatians 6:11-18
Ps Mike talks about how we express the kingdom value of ekklesia by valuing the local church as the hope of the world and participating in it in such a way that neighbours become family.
Ps Mike talks about how we express the kingdom value of koinonia by using our homes as spaces of radical hospitality that welcomes the stranger, before leading a panel of hospitality gurus in a conversation about radically ordinary hospitality at home.
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Ps Jen leads us into the final chapter of Galatians by showing how all of Paul's wisdom points to how we live out our faith - and how we best live it out by bearing each other's burdens in the name of Jesus.
Teaching text: Galatians 6:1-10
On a huge day for our church, Pastor Mike leads us through Jesus’ teaching of the blessing of the children and the rich young ruler to show that we need to encounter Jesus, to encounter our futures.
Teaching text: Luke 18:15-22 CSB
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Our special guest Rev Steph Tai unpacks chapter 4 of Galatians to understand slavery to the law and the freedom that comes in the gospel - and why we need the full gospel to be fully free.
Teaching text: Galatians 4
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
This week Jacob unpacks what the Law and the promise is that Paul talks about in this letter and how do we live as though we belong to Jesus.
Teaching Text: Galatians 3:10-29
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
This week Tayla unpacks what it means to live according to faith in the promise and our call to be a large multi-ethnic family united in Jesus.
Teaching Text: Galatians 3:10-29
Our special guest Ps David Helyard from Compassion Australia shares a special message on the 5 P’s of faith that help us take hold of what God has for us.
Interns Preaching!
This week we hear message from Encounter Interns Tash & Jasmine as they unpack what it means for us to be 'Salt and Light' to others. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear!
Teaching text: Matthew 5: 13-16
Ps Mike shares a special Father's Day message on how despite the struggles we sometimes have with our earthly fathers, God wants us to understand him as our Father - and that he's truly the Dad we've always wanted.
Teaching text: Matthew 7:7-11
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Rev Mark Schultz joins us today to unpack Paul’s harsh rebuke to the Galatians in Galatians 3, to show that at the heart of Paul’s desire for them is that they would continue having faith in the true gospel.
Teaching text: Galatians 3:1-9
Galatians: Living the Gospel // Identity Crisis Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Ps Mike embraces his favourite text in Scripture, Galatians 2, to show how living enslaved to the law or to our passions destroys both the gospel and our personal identity, before giving us some wisdom on how to live by faith.
Teaching text: Galatians 2:16-21
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Ash Littleford continues our exploration of Galatians by looking at the trajectory our lives go on as we let the gospel take hold of us - and celebrate what God is doing within us.
Teaching text: Galatians 1:11-24
Living the gospel together as we explore Paul's letter to the Galatians.
Galatians is, at its heart, an explanation of the gospel. To kick off this series, Ps Mike takes us through the first ten verses of Galatians, the fight to keep Christianity for everybody and why there is ultimately only one gospel.
Teaching text: Galatians 1:1-10
The Power of Encounter: God’s Spirit Dwells in You
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
In the final week of the Power of Encounter, Ps Jen brings us a great word on how we can walk closer in line with the Spirit, and be fully alive in Christ.
Teaching text: Romans 8:5-8
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
How do we start doing God’s work? Just start doing good. National Director of Alpha Australia, Melinda Dwight, blesses the Encounter community with stories, insights and challenges on how we can get doing, so the Holy Spirit can get moving.
Teaching Text: Acts 10:38
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
The Holy Spirit comes in many different forms - so many, in fact, that it can be hard for us to see just how frequently we’re journeying with him! In this message Alpha Director Melinda Dwight points is to the way the Spirit comes and what that does.
Teaching Text: Mark 1:4-11
The Power of Encounter: Ordinary People
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
Ps Mike continues The Power of Encounter by showing us how being ordinary undeniably points to the works and greatness of Jesus Christ, and let’s the incredible power of God work and shine through us into the world.
Teaching text: Acts 3:1-11
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
It's time to call again on the name of the Lord; to seek the face of God with desire and joy and listen to the whisper of the Holy Spirit. It's time to recognise the power of a divine encounter. Holy Spirit, come.
Ps Mike kicks into our new series The Power Of Encounter by explaining the theology of the Holy Spirit, touching on the Trinity, the HS in the Old & New Testaments, how to be sure it's the Holy Spirit speaking and finally, what we need to do to actually let the Holy Spirit move.
Teaching texts: John 16:7-13; Galatians 5:16-26
In this one-off message, Rev Brant Jones brings a theology of Christian work, based around 1 Corinthians, that shows whatever kind of work we do, we do it for the glory of God.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 10:31
What does it mean to be good neighbours to our city, to see the kingdom of God break into our world?
Ps Jen finishes off our series with a practical example of how to serve others in our neighbourhood by being God’s hands and feet. Short message as the church gathered to pray, pack hampers and backpacks and write letters to freed slaves.
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Teaching text: James 2:14-18
What does it mean to be good neighbours to our city, to see the kingdom of God break into our world?
It's God's mission, before it's your mission. This week Ps Ben Rowe, from Streetlight Adelaide, shares with us how we are called to follow Christ's example of mission - we are first saved in our helpless state, then we are to hear and obey the command to love God & love others - living a selfless life like Christ!
Teaching text: Luke 10: 25-37
What does it mean to be good neighbours to our city, to see the kingdom of God break into our world?
Pastor Jen continues our For The City series by looking at the very heart of mission: the idea that it is our true role and responsibility as followers of Jesus.
Teaching text: Galatians 5:13-14
God wants us to be a part of his missional work, but it isn't always easy. Our own past and our relationship with our families can often get in the way of demonstrating the love of Christ in meaningful ways.
This week Ps Mike shares what we can do in order to see transformation in our families lives and how we can demonstrate the picture of God's family for our families to catch.
Teaching text: Matthew 12: 26-50
This week we welcome Elly Lloyd, Church Engagement Manager, from Open Doors Australia.
Listen as Elly shares powerful stories of faith and thankfulness from Christians in the midst of persecution. Hear how a discipline of thankfulness can have a profound impact on our lives, and our ability to glorify the testimony of Jesus Christ, even in our most challenging moments.
This week Tayla address our spiritual dehydration, the living water offered by Jesus and how we get to that living water.
Teaching Text: John 4:4-26
This week, Jacob unpacks our teaching texts to explore what Generosity is, where a Generous Heart comes from and what true Generosity looks like.
Teaching Texts: Luke 21:1-4, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15
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Intern Sunday!
This week we hear message from Encounter interns Keith, Cara, Lucy and Jasmine as they unpack some of Jesus’ teachings in the gospel of Matthew.Those who have ears to hear, let them hear!
Teaching text: Matthew 13:10-16
Intern Sunday!
This week we hear message from Encounter interns Keith, Cara, Lucy and Jasmine as they unpack some of Jesus’ teachings in the gospel of Matthew.Those who have ears to hear, let them hear!
Teaching text: Matthew 13:10-16
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning.
Resurrection Sunday - He Is Risen! In this Easter message, Ps Mike looks at the way a new day was dawning through the resurrection of Jesus and how that same new day is ready to dawn in our own lives - if we are positioned to step into it.
Teaching text: Matthew 28:1-10
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning.
Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion of Jesus. In this Easter message, Ps Mike looks at the way an old day and an old way was dying on the cross as God took the wages of sin personally.
Teaching text: Matthew 27:27-54
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning.
Ps Mike shares the next message in our Easter series by exploring the image of the Lamb through the scriptures, in the Old Testament and New, before showing the key to understanding why the Lamb is so important to us today.
Teaching text: Matthew 26:17-30
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning.
Ps Mike continues our Easter series by exploring the idea of the Cup: what does it mean that Jesus drank the cup of God’s wrath? Is God angry, or loving? By looking at Jesus’ teaching to his disciples in Matthew 20, we are gently reminded that we don’t always know what we’re asking - but Jesus knows where he’s going.
Teaching text: Matthew 20:17-28
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning. Our guest preacher, Ps Katie Iles from Journey UC, brings an incredible word on revival. By looking at the model of David in his life and the psalms, Ps Katie points to humble repentance as the key to see revival. Teaching text: Psalm 51:10-13 NIV
In a moment of cultural upheaval, this Easter God is declaring that a new day is dawning.
Ps Jen kicks off our Easter series by looking at the way the cross of Christ challenges our understanding of human wisdom and allows us to bring our mess to Jesus.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 NIV
In a culture of seemingly overwhelming “new normals” with the presence of COVID-19 and continuous change, the Renewed Normal explores a constant promise of the Bible: the renewal of our hearts, minds, soul and strength as draw close to Jesus.
In the final week of our series, Pastor Mike teaches on renewing our souls to be deep and restful in Jesus. He gives four spiritual disciplines alongside bible reading and prayer that encourage space for God to speak, for us to delight in the Lord and for the Holy Spirit to continue His transformative work.
Teaching text: Mark 8:34-38
In a culture of seemingly overwhelming “new normals” with the presence of COVID-19 and continuous change, the Renewed Normal explores a constant promise of the Bible: the renewal of our hearts, minds, soul and strength as draw close to Jesus.
Just as we make Christ our heart’s affection and our mind’s attention, this week Pastor Mike challenges us to point to Jesus with our bodies and their actions. This is difficult in a culture that idolises independence, self gratification and control. However using 1 Corinthians, Mike gives us 5 reasons to care for our bodies; being made in the image of God, being made a steward of God’s creation, being made a temple of the Holy Spirit, being made to reflect our inner life and being promised resurrection bodies. He finishes explaining that the most important reason to do so is because Jesus did- he gave it all so that we may know and be known by the Father.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 6
In a culture of seemingly overwhelming “new normals” with the presence of COVID-19 and continuous change, the Renewed Normal explores a constant promise of the Bible: the renewal of our hearts, minds, soul and strength as draw close to Jesus. This week, Pastor Mike leads us from the heart to the mind, showing us how the Bible urges us to take our thoughts captive and renew our minds with the mind of Christ. Finally, he leads us through the four voices our mind must discern before helping us see three ways that we can take our thoughts captive to win the battle over anxiety and depression. Teaching text: Romans 12:1-2
Im a culture of seemingly overwhelming “new normals” with the presence of COVID-19 and continuous change, the Renewed Normal explores a constant promise of the Bible: the renewal of our hearts, minds, soul and strength as draw close to Jesus.
Pastor Mike kicks off the series by exploring the renewal of our hearts. He teaches us on the importance of guarding our heart in the midst of cultural attack and illustrates the posture of a heart that can be renewed: one of humility, conviction and fire for Christ.
Teaching text: Luke 24:13-16, 28-35
Pastor Mike teaches us on Encounter's 2021 vision; to call it out. Using the example of Elisha, he challenges us to consider what parts of our old life before knowing Christ we need to put to death in order to fully live the new life God is calling us to. Teaching text: 1 Kings 19:21, 2 Corinthians 5:17
Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify.
This week Adelaide Cooper and Tayla Priebbenow talk among themselves about the bad habit of gossip: is it really so bad? As they create a framework for understanding what gossip is, they begin to show us why it is so offensive to God and damaging to others - and what we can do about it.
Teaching text: Ephesians 4:20-5:1
Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify.
This week Jacob Blackwell continues our Summer Sizzlers series by exploring the foundational question of whether we can trust the Bible. By showing the quantity and quality of the manuscripts, oral traditions and witnesses, the testimony of Jesus and the disciples and the unity and unique message the Bible has, Jacob challenges us to not only trust in the Bible as a divinely inspired, authoritative text, but to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and live it out.
Teaching text: 2 Timothy 3:16 and Hebrews 4:12
Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify.
Today Ps Mike continues our Summer Sizzlers series by answering the question “can women preach, teach, lead and prophesy in the Church?” He begins in the book of Genesis by exploring the design of both male and females, teaches on the influence of female figures and leaders across the Bible and finishes by unpacking well-known texts regarding the involvement of women in the Church such as 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2. Aiming to balance the tension of the gospel, he challenges us to consider a perspective supported by all of Scripture, one based not only on preference or ease but the very Word of God.
Teaching Text: 1 Corinthians 14 and 1 Timothy 2:8-15
Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify.
Ps Brant Jones brings a challenging and countercultural message on the exclusivity of the Christian faith. He reminds us of the crucial and yet uncomfortable truth we are called to hold fast to as a Christian living in today’s Australian society; that Jesus is the way, the truth and the life and that no one can come to the Father except through Him. He encourages us to follow the posture of “the poor, the violent and the least of these”, who in their desperate state, realise and understand their need for the power and grace of God.
Teaching text: John 11:2-15
Summer is time to heat things up with some tasty topics to educate and edify.
Today Ps Mike kicks off the new year by answering the question: are science and religion really at odds with each other? And what do we do about it?
Teaching text: Genesis 1:26-31
Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church.
In this message, Pastor Mike brings us a powerful word on the raw and human-like nature of Jesus’ birth. He encourages us that in the midst of the uncertainty, difficulty and brokenness of 2020, Jesus brings new life for our spirit, just as He brought new life to the world through His birth.
Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church.
In this message, Pastor Mike challenges the concept of “peaking” in life as a follower of Christ. Looking at the life of Mary, he proposes that God wasn’t finished with her after she had given birth and the shepherds, that bright star and the wise men disappeared. In the same way, Mike reminds us that God is not finished with us after our salvation. He grants us new life as He calls us to work with Him and through Him to redeem and restore. You haven’t peaked… God is only getting started.
Teaching text: Luke 2:1-21
Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Mike shares with us the radical impact of a little baby named Jesus. He challenges us to consider who we are making the king of our life, be that Jesus or own own hearts and desires, for these things become the act of our worship. He encourages us to choose Jesus- a king marked by justice, sacrificial love, radical kindness and generosity. A king who offers us new life.
Jesus is the bringer of new life to the world. It’s what the world has always truly needed - in 2020 more than ever. This Christmas we celebrate (new) life at Encounter Church. In this message, Pastor Jen challenges us by asking what would change if we believed that 2020 was a year of God's favour- not because of circumstance but because Jesus is ALIVE, that He brings new life, He has still won, and He is wanting to move in our lives? How would this truth transform our understanding and celebration of Jesus' birth this Christmas? Teaching text: Isaiah 61:1-4
VISION SUNDAY: Call it out Ps Mike reflects on the trials and joys of 2020 for Encounter Church whilst looking to what is to come in Jesus in 2021. He announces our core focus for the new year whilst unpacking the new mission goals, these being: Impacting the Generations Bible Fed & Spirit Led For the City Developing Resilient Disciples Teaching text: Matthew 16:13-17
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like?
In our final week of our series, Pastor Mike teaches us what lies at the heart of all our relationships; how to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind.
Teaching text: Hebrews 12:1-3
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like?
In the third week of our series, Pastor Mike brings an unpacking of Jesus’ controversial teaching on marriage and divorce that helps us understand the holiness of marriage, before Ps Jen joins him for a Q&A on healthy relationships.
Teaching text: Mark 10:2-10
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the third week of our series, Pastor David Shepherd joins us from Hills Baptist Church Verdun to bring us a message on sex. Diving into Genesis 2 and 3, he teaches us what God’s beautiful design for sex truly is. Where culture’s understanding rebukes this way of life and loudly declares that it is “denying ourselves” to only enjoy sex within a committed marriage, Dave reminds us that God’s design flows from a place of love, forgiveness, freedom AND understanding, for He too denied Himself His place in Heaven for the cross so that we may live. Teaching text: Hebrews 13:4, Genesis 2:7 & 20-25, Genesis 3:1-7, Philippians 2:5-11
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the third week of our series, Pastor Sam Long joins us from Nova Church to bring us a message on sex. Challenging the world’s disposable narrative of “whatever, whenever, and whoever”, he encourages us to look to the word of God as our final authority when navigating sex. He reveals God’s intention for sex, explaining that it was designed to glue a committed marriage together spiritually, emotionally, and physically. However, no matter our histories, he reminds us that in Jesus, there is forgiveness, grace, freedom and purity. Teaching text: Genesis 1:28, Proverbs 5:15-20, Mark 10:6-9
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like?
In the second week of our series, Pastor Matt Phelan from Rise Church brings us a message on dating. He challenges us to seek a partner that is equally yoked; a person who not only claims to be Christian but one that has strong convictions in Christ, is obedient to His leadership and direction and chooses daily to become more like Jesus.
Teaching text: 2 Corinthians 6:14, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Proverbs 4:23
As followers of Jesus, we are called to first love God and then love each other. So what do true Christ-like relationships look like? In the first week of our series, Rev Brant Jones teaches us what it means to practically honour our parents and to raise children up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Teaching text: Ephesians 6:1-4
It's intern week! Two of our current interns Adelaide and Tayla bring a Word on two Heroes of the Faith. Adelaide challenges us to follow the countercultural lifestyle of John the Baptist; a lifestyle that simply but passionately points to Jesus above all else. Tayla dives deep into the story of Ruth to demonstrate the expression of God's heart and faithfulness to His people and teach us the way that Jesus is our ultimate kinsmen redeemer. Teaching texts: Matthew 3:11, Ruth 1:16-17
It's intern week! Two of our current interns Tarin and Eric bring a Word on two Heroes of the Faith. Tarin challenges us to find peace in the daring just as Esther found courage, peace and strength in God when confronted with pressing times. Eric dives deep into the story of David to illustrate that our current position does not shape our ultimate victory in Christ.
Teaching texts: Esther 4:10-17, 1 Samuel 16:6-12
It’s baptism Sunday! Today as we celebrate the declaration of new life in Jesus, Ps Mike looks at Phillip, the Ethiopian eunuch and how there is no longer anything truly stopping us from new life in Jesus. Teaching text: Acts 8:26-40
At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.
Ps Mike closes out our series on the Encounter Life by tackling the tricky topic of generosity in the church and the way we are challenged to be generous to others, thankful to God and filled with joy as we do it. Teaching text: 2 Corinthians 9:1-15
At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.
Mike preaches on our value of Real by talking about the deceptive nature of reality, the church as a working body and the critical importance of our hearts.
Teaching texts: Ephesians 4:17-25
At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.
Ps Jen brings to life our most important value - that we are all about Jesus - by talking through Jesus' meeting with the woman at the well in John 4 and how God wants us to shift our mindset from knowing about Jesus to knowing Jesus personally.
Teaching texts: John 4:4-26
At the heart of our church is that you would have an encounter with Jesus. Over the next four weeks at Encounter Church, we will be unpacking the four core values at the heart of our church - Jesus, People, Generous and Real.
Ps Mike kicks off our new series by unpacking the story of Lazarus, what that says about God’s love for people and the power of a resurrected life.
Teaching texts: John 11:22-34
There is a spiritual power in the way we choose, as Moses said, life or death.
This week Ps Mike expounds on the spiritual principle of blessings and curses - what they are and are not - and how we can align ourselves with a life of spiritual blessing.
Teaching text: Numbers 6:22-27
Compassion Sunday, where we focus our eyes on children in poverty in Java, Indonesia and champion child sponsorship as a form of relational mission. Ps David Helyard from Compassion Australia comes to share about what Compassion does, both spiritually and practically, before preaching a message about identity and how the broken belong with God. Teaching text: Luke 4:1-14
Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament.
It's intern week! Our freshly graduated interns Jemima, Emma and Jordan tackle the pastoral letters of John. In this podcast, Jemima looks at the characteristics of God displayed in 1 John to show us what it means to know God as light, love and our example.
Teaching texts: 1 John 1:5-7; 1 John 4:7-12
Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament.
It's intern week! Our freshly graduated interns Jemima, Emma and Jordan tackle the pastoral letters of John. In this podcast, Emma and Jordan tackle the tricky issues of false teachers in the church in 2 & 3 John, in order to discover the truth of Jesus and the hospitality to which God calls believers.
Teaching texts: 2 John 10-11; 3 John 9-11
So often, we think Christianity is about us having our crap together. But looking at Peter's story through the Gospels, guest preacher Matt Gray unpacks how that idea misunderstands what the Christian life is all about.
Teaching text: Mark 14:27-31, 66-72
Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament. Ps Mike continues our Lost Letters series by unpacking the tough letter from Jude. In it, we discover why understanding the difference between a false teacher and a true teacher matters and why coming under the authority of Jesus is at the heart of it all. Teaching text: Jude 3-4, 20-23
Going deeper, faster, in the overlooked letters of the New Testament. To kick off our new series, Rev Brant Jones brings us the hopeful message that is Paul’s letter to Titus. Teaching text: Titus 2:11-3:9
There is nothing quite like an encounter with Jesus. It changes everything.
Our special guest Ps Barry Littleford finishes this series by encouraging us to chase the voice of God and recognise the way God's voice speaking to us is more important than any spiritual experience we might chase.
Teaching text: Acts 3:1-10
There is nothing quite like an encounter with Jesus. It changes everything. Today Ps Mike uses Acts 2 to teach us the principle of seeking God’s refining fire in our hearts before we seek the fire of revival across the world. Teaching text: Acts 2:1-4; 14-17; 36-39
There is nothing quite like an encounter with Jesus. It changes everything.
Today our special guest Ps Layla Nahavandi brings us a message about wrestling with God and the way this helps us discover our true identity and move us into the person God longs for us to be.
Teaching text: Genesis 32:22-32
There is nothing quite like an encounter with Jesus. It changes everything.
In this new series, Ps Mike teaches on the importance of longing for the manifest presence of God and inviting the Holy Spirit to meet us and transform us.
Teaching text: 2 Corinthians 3:17
Back meeting in person after nearly four months away, Encounter celebrates with a welcome home party. Pastor Mike leads us through a story of homecoming to show us how we are meant to find our home in the presence of God, but that we only come home when our reason is better than to stay away.
Teaching text: Luke 15:11-32
The Lord's Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God. Ps Jenny comes this week to preach a word on the Glory of God and how it impacts our lives. Teaching texts: Genesis 41:15-16 and Acts 16: 25-33
The Lord’s Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God. Special guest Ps Dave Shepherd comes this week to preach a powerful word on temptations, testing, evil and how to be kept by God in the middle of it all. Teaching texts: Matthew 6:13
The Lord’s Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God.
This week: the powerful, painful process of forgiveness. Ps Mike unpacks Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness of sins and explains that forgiveness is not just about us personally, but about us as a community.
Teaching texts: Matthew 6:14-15; 18:21-22
The Lord’s Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God.
Ps Mike unpacks the biblical theme of bread, from Exodus through the gospels, to help us see that both our daily needs and eternal life is met in Jesus.
Teaching text: John 6:24-35
The Lord’s Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God.
Ps Mike continues our series on the Lord’s Prayer by focusing on the ‘kingdom’, the enticing future that Jesus calls us towards, and how the Lord’s Prayer neatly explains our role in seeing God’s vision for the world break into our own.
Teaching text: Matthew 13:44-46
The Lord’s Prayer. The most commonly used - and misunderstood - prayer on earth. The prayer Jesus gifted us to build our relationship with God.
Ps Mike opens this series by sharing some background for the Lord’s Prayer, before explaining why trusting the Father heart of God is essential for our prayers and our lives.
Teaching text: Matthew 6:5-15
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
As we celebrate our 2nd birthday and move slowly out of lockdown, Pastor Mike challenges us to remember the lessons of COVID and step into the presence of God as we return to normal life.
Teaching text: Hebrews 10:19-25
Ps Jen shares an important Mother’s Day message on understanding the mother heart of God, God’s character and the characteristics of God we are meant to aspire to in our own lives.
Teaching text: Psalm 145:8-18
Guest preacher Ps Ben Rowe from Streetlight Ministries takes us through the journey of the shepherds in Luke 2 as they dealt with a terrifying divine interruption and how they journeyed from fear to faith through an encounter with Jesus.
Teaching text: Luke 2:6-20
Guest preacher Ps Mike Hands from Newlife Brisbane challenges us not to walk by sight as he discusses the F Word, how it’s different from belief and challenges us all to get in the wheelbarrow.
Teaching text: Mark 2:1-12
As we close off our Easter series for 2020, Ps Mike leads us through the beginning of Acts; the ascension of Jesus, the confusion of the disciples and the beginning of the church. In it, we discover a sense of God’s mission and calling for us as the church - even from our lounge rooms.
Teaching text: Acts 1:1-14
It’s Resurrection Sunday, the high point of the Christian calendar and today Ps Mike leads us through the resurrection narrative stories of Lazarus and Jesus to show that when Jesus rose again he offers us eternal and internal lives of fulfilment in God: resurrection lives.
Teaching texts: John 11:20-27; 38-44 and John 20:1-10; 19-23
In an age of coronavirus and social isolation, how do we find a sense of hope and meaning in what God is doing?
In this powerful Palm Sunday message, Ps Mike leads us through the story of David to show us that God is longing to do a life-bringing, restoring work in us that turns the things we think are dead into spaces of flourishing life.
Teaching text: Ezekiel 36:33-36
Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond.
Ps Jen finishes our series, Faith For Exiles, by expanding our view of mission to our whole lives and seeing how exiles are called to live - in every part of life.
Teaching text: Jeremiah 29:4-14
Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond.
Ps Mike continues our series, Faith For Exiles, by looking at how living faithfully to God in our workplace is an act of counter cultural worship.
Teaching text: Genesis 39
Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond.
Ps Mike continues our series, Faith For Exiles, by explaining the underrated importance of intergenerational relationships in the church and how, by taking responsibility for our own discipleship and the discipleship of others, we can see many generations flourish in Christ together.
Teaching text: Joel 2:12-16; 28-30
Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond.
Ps Mike continues our series, Faith For Exiles, by showing how we become culturally engaged leaders- by knowing the times. There are many unwise and unhelpful ways to respond to the cultural trends around us but one healthy way; and one true lens, Jesus, to look through as we see the world.
Teaching text: Colossians 2:1-10
Five traits to teach us to live faithfully and passionately as followers of Jesus in 2020 and beyond. Ps Mike opens our new series, Faith For Exiles, by sharing the first trait: Intimacy With Jesus. As we spend unhurried time pursuing intimacy with Jesus we discover that global revival begins with personal renewal. Teaching text: Daniel 1:1-16
Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples.
Ps Mike closes our Vision//Values series by unpacking our goal of Developing Resilient Disciples and how ultimately resilience is not a test of simply getting through life, but by living out of the power of the resurrection.
Teaching text: John 21:12-19
Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples.
This week Rev Brant Jones shares about our goal of Contending In Prayer and how prayer is a good fight and a fight we are called to - but not a fight we do alone.
Teaching text: 1 Timothy 6:11-12
Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples.
This week Ps Mike Wardrop shares about our goal of growing Culturally Engaged Leaders; leaders who can read culture, set culture and ultimately work towards building a culture called the Kingdom of God.
Teaching text: Acts 17:16-24
Unpacking the four missional goals that God has called Encounter Church in 2020: having Hearts On Fire For Jesus, becoming Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Developing Resilient Disciples.
In week 1 of our new series on Encounter’s 2020 missional goals, Ps Jen Wardrop talks about our goal of being a church that has Hearts On Fire For Jesus and how that is truly maintained by pursuing the presence of God in our lives.
Teaching text: Luke 10:38-42
What if God is trying to talk to us but we haven’t learned to listen?
Ps Mike finishes our January series on hearing God by showing us how God uses other people to speak to us and how we can’t hear God well without being deeply embedded in community.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 14:26
What if God is trying to talk to us but we haven’t learned to listen?
Our guest speaker Ps Josh Greenwood from Influencers Church continues our Hearing God series by reminding us that we hear God naturally when we rest in Him in prayer and receive His love, before sharing a few helpful tests to make sure we know whose voice it is we’re listening to.
Teaching text: Jeremiah 33:3
What if God is trying to talk to us: but we haven’t learned to listen?
Ps Mike continues our Hearing God series by showing us how Jesus’ pattern of engagement and retreat creates space to hear from God. Our distractions lead us to a place of anxiety, but intentional rest leads to personal renewal in God.
Teaching text: Mark 6:30-45
What if God is trying to talk to us: but we haven’t learned to listen?
We kick off 2020 with Jemima D’Lima bringing a message from our new series Hearing God; sharing about how the Bible is the first, clearest and most consistent way to hear from God.
Teaching text: 2 Timothy 3:15-17
Ps Mike finishes our Advent series, O Glorious Light on Christmas Day, by exploring the prophetic text in Isaiah 9 and the way the presence of God is our ultimate good news at Christmas.
Teaching text: Isaiah 9:1-7
Ps Mike continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by examining the angel Gabriel’s appearance to Mary, the damaging lens of cynicism and Christmas as a marker of global hope.
Teaching text: Luke 1:26-38
Ps Mike continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by looking at the story of the wise men and asking what makes them wise and showing us that we don’t have a Superman God - and that’s very good news.
Teaching text: Matthew 2:1-12
Guest preacher Tim Hein continues our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by discussing the coming of Jesus shown in John’s gospel and how this deeply personal action helps us discover a sense of meaning in the universe.
Teaching text: John 1:1-14
Ps Mike opens our Advent series, O Glorious Light, by explaining how the light of the world came into the world and ultimately made his home in us.
Teaching text: Psalm 72:1-7
Ps Mike shares the vision for Encounter Church in 2020 and unpacks the four key directions we will explore: Developing Resilient Disciples, Culturally Engaged Leaders, Contending In Prayer and Hearts On Fire For Jesus.
Teaching text: Romans 8:31-39
The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other.
Our special guest Ps Steph Tai closes off our Lovember series by sharing about the powerful witness of agape love - God’s divine love - and how to receive it and share it with others to change the world.
Teaching text: 1 John 4:7-21
The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other.
This week Pastor Jen looks at storge - the love of family affection - and teaches us to find our true sense of family and deepest affection in God’s adoption of us as sons and daughters.
Teaching text: Genesis 43:29-30
The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other.
This week Pastor Mike looks at philia- the love of friendship - and challenges us to create spiritual friendships that lead us deeper in trust, accountability and faith in Jesus.
Teaching text: Proverbs 18:24
The Four Loves: ways to understand the depth of our relationship with God and each other.
In the first message of our series on Love, Ps Mike explores the idea of eros - romantic love & sexual attraction - and shares wisdom from scripture on how eros In every relationship stage can bring glory to God.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20
Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine.
As we finish the series, Ps Mike speaks to our greatest desire - for God to come in power in response to our prayers - and challenges us to instead long for the presence of God as our daily reality.
Teaching text: Matthew 9:1-8
Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine.
Our deepest prayer happens when nobody is looking. In this week’s message, Rev Brant Jones shares about the beauty of intimacy with Jesus in the quiet moments of our lives and how our prayer lives are driven by that intimacy, with both strategic and spontaneous benefits coming from it.
Teaching text: Matthew 6:5-8
Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine.
Spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues and prophesying can be controversial and confronting, but in this message, Ps Jen explains why both of them are gifts in different measures and how they can bring benefit to our prayer lives and the whole church.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 14:1-25
Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine.
If we want to live like Jesus, we should pray like Jesus. Ps Mike unpacks Jesus’ teaching on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, before showing us Jesus’ own prayer habit and how we need habits like this to prepare us for times of trouble in our lives.
Teaching text: Matthew 6:5-15
Prayer: where theology becomes experience and we have conversations with the divine.
Ps Mike kicks off our fresh new series on prayer by taking a look at why we pray and showing us why putting praise first in our lives reorients our entire lives around God and helps us find purpose.
Teaching text: Philippians 4:4-7
In this one-off message 3 of our brilliant Encounter interns, Sarah, Jacob & Jemima share their stories and unpack what it looks like to have faith, hope and love in God as shared by Paul to the Corinthians.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 13:11-13
Community is a delicate and beautiful thing. It requires sacrifice, dedication and mutual respect. In this interactive message from our first Encounter Camp, Ps Mike talks us through Paul’s use of the Body of Christ to show how in order to belong to each other, we need to die to ourselves.
Teaching text: 1 Cor 12:12-27
Our sense of belonging and the love we have for each other is diminished if it isn’t nourished by the love we receive from God the Father. In our final camp message, Ps Mike unpacks part of Peter’s first letter to show us characteristics of people who belong to God - and how we’re called to live.
Teaching text: 1 Peter 2:4-10
5 weeks in James: practical wisdom for living out your faith with integrity, resilience, justice and grace. Let’s make our lives count.
Ps Mike closes our series on James by unpacking James’ teaching on persistence in prayer in James 5 and helping us see why it’s critical that we pray not just once, but AGAIN.
Teaching text: James 5:13-20
This Father’s Day Ps Mike shares the greatest gift - the grace of God - using Ephesians 2 to unpack how we are torn between the two thieves of the gospel.
Teaching text: Ephesians 2:8-10
5 weeks in James: practical wisdom for living out your faith with integrity, resilience, justice and grace. Let's make our lives count.
This week Ps Mike explores James 4 and the way James challenges our hearts, calling us to humility and obedience to Jesus that is counter-cultural and totally transformative for our lives.
Teaching text: James 4:1-10
5 weeks in James: practical wisdom for living out your faith with integrity, resilience, justice and grace. Let’s make our lives count.
This week Ps Jen explore James 3, and unpacks the danger and value of the tongue and how it reflects the character of our hearts.
Teaching text: James 3:1-12
5 weeks in James: practical wisdom for living out your faith with integrity, resilience, justice and grace. Let’s make our lives count.
We continue our series on James in James 2, with Ps Mike explaining why James’ insistence on faith proved by deeds is living proof of our relationship with Jesus.
Teaching text: James 2:14-19
5 weeks in James: practical wisdom for living out your faith with integrity, resilience, justice and grace. Let’s make our lives count.
We kick off our new series on James with Ps Mike exploring why endurance is a critical part of our faith journey and how we gear up for that journey by focusing on what Christ has done and what is to come.
Teaching text: James 1:1-8, 22-25
It all begins with an encounter with Jesus.
Guest speaker Ps Josh Greenwood finishes off our series on the power of encounter by unpacking for us the ways of the Holy Spirit as guide, counsellor and illuminator - and that we find our ultimate ‘yes’ in God through Jesus, revealed by the Spirit.
Teaching text: 1 Corinthians 2:9-12
It all begins with an encounter with Jesus.
Guest speaker Ps Andy Hogarth continues our series on the power of encounter by sharing stories about the way the Holy Spirit has been given to us, changing lives and offering direction and wisdom.
Teaching Texts: John 14-16, Acts 1.
It all begins with an encounter with Jesus.
Ps Dave Hamalainen gives a message on Jesus being living water and how an encounter with Jesus can quench your thirst
Teaching text: John 4:4-15 and John 4:25-30
It all begins with an encounter with Jesus.
Ps Jen continues our series on the power of encounter by talking about the miracles we need in our lives, the reasons behind them and how Jesus wants to heal and restore us into eternity with him.
Teaching Texts: Luke 8:43-48, Matthew 20:30-34
It all begins with an encounter with Jesus.
Ps Mike kicks off our new series on the power of encounter and the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives by bringing us back to Jesus and the way he meets and transforms us: physically, emotionally, spiritually
Teaching Text: Matthew 8:1-4
Championing our creative capacities for the glory of God, through the story of Joseph.
Ps Mike closes off our series on creativity by showing how all great stories point to the Great Story of Jesus and equipping us to fight the three great enemies of our lives: the world, the flesh and the devil.
Teaching Text: Romans 8:12-17
Championing our creative capacities for the glory of God, through the story of Joseph.
Ps Katie Iles from Journey Uniting Church brings a powerful message on the creativity of God and how our responsibility is to shape the future through our own creativity.
Teaching Text: Galatians 6:4-5
Championing our creative capacities for the glory of God, through the story of Joseph.
Ps Jen continues our series on creativity by exposing our egos and showing how we can either submit them to God or allow them to derail our lives.
Teaching Text: Genesis 37:1-11
Championing our creative capacities for the glory of God, through the story of Joseph.
Ps Mike continues our series on creativity by showing us that success can be damaging, but failure is often what sparks us to our greatest triumphs and God is always ready to take us where we need to go next.
Teaching Text: Genesis 39
Championing our creative capacities for the glory of God, through the story of Joseph.
Ps Mike opens our new series by exploring the nature of God’s creativity and how that impacts - and guarantees - our own creative possibilities.
Teaching Text: Genesis 41
Our special guest Ps Luke Rasmussen unpacks texts from Ephesians and Ecclesiastes to show is how humility and obedience to God is a necessary response to God’s love.
Teaching text: Ephesians 4:1-7
At our big first birthday celebration, Ps Mike shows us the importance of needing hunger and thirst in our relationship with God.
Teaching text: John 4
Rev Brant Jones shares the wisdom of understanding God as a good father and what that means for how we understand ourselves as daughters and sons of God.
Teaching text: Genesis 1-3
The King has come. In this practical message, Ps Mike unpacks some of the key proofs of the resurrection of Jesus and leads us to the conclusion that the evidence about Jesus demands an experience with Jesus
The King has come. Ps Mike invites us to consider the isolation of Jesus on the cross and how our own feelings of loneliness have been effectively ended by the finished work of Jesus.
The King has come. Ps Mike brings a challenging message to us about King Jesus, the king who defies all expectations and dies so we can live.
Encounter's guest speaker Josh & his family have planted churches in some of the world's most difficult regions, sharing the gospel across cultures.
In this challenging message, he encourages us to remember the preeminence of God in our lives and to step confidently into the calling God has for our lives.
Teaching text: Joshua 1
Unpacking Paul's passionate letter to the church in Philippi.
Ps Jen finishes our Sparking Joy series by challenging us not to let our joy be stolen away but to firmly ground it in God's love for us.
Teaching text: Philippians 4:4-9
Unpacking Paul's passionate letter to the church in Philippi.
Ps Mike continues our Sparking Joy series by challenging us to run the race God has set before us and showing us 4 hurdles that cause us to stumble on the way.
Teaching text: Philippians 3:12-16
Unpacking Paul's passionate letter to the church in Philippi.
Ps Mike continues our Sparking Joy series by exploring the theme of humility in Philippians chapter 2 and the idea that true humility is confidence in God.
Teaching text: Philippians 2:1-11
Unpacking Paul’s passionate letter to the church in Philippi.
Rev Brant Jones opens the series by reminding us that chasing temporary happiness often leads to deep unhappiness but of the depth of joy found in Jesus.
Teaching text: Philippians 1
Rev Dr Nick Hawkes is a theologian, writer, scientist, pastor... and he has a diagnosis of terminal cancer. Listen in as Nick shares about his hope in Jesus over and above his sickness and circumstances. Teaching text: Philippians 1:21-25
What do Australia's most common New Year's resolutions say about our inner desires?
Ps Jen looks at our aspirations to read more and how this is an echo of the heart God gives us to fall in love with the Bible.
Teaching text: Psalm 119:105
What do Australia’s most common New Year’s resolutions say about our inner desires?
Ps Mike looks at our self-sacrificing desire to give more to charity and be more generous - and how this is a response to the generosity of God.
Teaching text: Matthew 6:1-4
What do Australia's most common New Year's resolutions say about our inner desires? Ps Mike looks at our deep desires to develop relationships and how this reflects God's heart for us to be in deep relationship with Him Teaching text: Gen 2:18
What do Australia's most common New Year's resolutions say about our inner desires? Ps Mike explores by far the most common resolution - to be healthier - and shows how it can reflect our desire for perfection and our fears of being insufficient, as well as offering practical wisdom on how to be more 'real' in our lives. Teaching text: 2 Cor 12:7-10
The greatest story ever told shines through the stories we tell on screen. Join Ps Mike as he explores the concepts of kings and kingdoms in Black Panther and ultimately asks the question: whose kingdom are we really building?
The greatest story ever told shines through the stories we tell on screen. Join Ps Mike as he shows how Fantastic Beasts 2 is an exploration of the concept of manipulating truth - but how in Jesus, truth sets us free.
The greatest story ever told shines through the stories we tell on screen. Join Ps Jen as she kicks off our new year by showing how A Star Is Born warns us off the peril of seeking fame rather than seeking Christ.
Experience beauty and joy at Encounter this Christmas. Joy is such a common Christmas emotion, but why? And what is the joy we should feel at Christmas? Ps Mike unpacks the joy set before us by reminding us that we are the joy set before Jesus
Experience beauty and joy at Encounter this Christmas. Christmas is not just the most wonderful time of the year; it's the most beautiful time of the year. In this Christmas Celebration message, Ps Mike unlocks the beauty of the intimacy and the awe of God.
Experience beauty and joy at Encounter this Christmas. Jesus didn't simply live: he broke into his own creation, entering our story in order to change our hearts. A message from Ps Mike.
Even with the best intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God's true relationship goals for us?
Ps Jen shares the ancient secret of circles: from David to Jesus, knowing the value of deep friendships and wide, open communities - but knowing that our deepest friendship has to be with Christ
Even with the best of intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God's true relationship goals for us?
Reflection on the covenant of marriage. Ps Mike & Ps Jen share in a live Q&A about what makes a great marriage, divorce, their toughest times together and God's actual goals for your marriage.
Even with the best intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God's true relationship goals for us?
Is God anti-sex? Why does it seem like there are so many rules around sex? And why should we listen to those rules anyway? Pastor Mike takes us through God's design for sex and human flourishing to answer the question: what is God's plan for our sex life?
Even with the best intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God's true relationship goals for us?
Our guest preacher. Pastor Katie Iles from Journey UC gives God's best wisdom for dating and reminds us that who we are becoming in Christ is so much more important than who we are dating.
Even with the best intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God's true relationship goals for us?
Pastor Mike shares a message of hope in the reality of life for single people, showing that while culture and even the church may have damaged the value of singleness, God has better plans.
Even with the best intentions, we make a mess of our relationships. So what are God’s true relationship goals for us?
Pastor Mike kicks off our new series, Relationship Goals, by showing us that our relationships are healthy not when we base them on our love for others, but on God’s love for us and that it’s the love of God that truly drives all our relationships.
Ps Jen Wardrop brings a challenging message on evangelism and life transformation that asks the questions at the depth of all human hearts.
Sending Capacity: Your Mission to Judea - Brant Jones "A church's health is measured by its sending capacity, not its seating capacity." - Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Church
One of the country's most prolific church planters, Rev Brant Jones has been called to begin new churches over the last 30 years. In this message he shares how the book of Acts gives us wisdom and insight in how to reach our nation with the message of Jesus.
"A church's health is measured by its sending capacity, not its seating capacity." - Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Church
Persecuted Christians rarely have their stories told - yet throughout the last 2 millennia they have been present with us. Tim Reid shares with us the stories of Stephen, Saul and the present-day persecuted church and dares to ask: why does faith seem to increase under persecution and decrease in comfort?
"A church's health is measured by its sending capacity, not its seating capacity." - Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Church
Inspiring testimonies from some of our incredible Encounter family as they share their stories of wider mission in different parts of the church across the globe.
The Parable of the Good Samaritan is arguably the most misunderstood story in the Bible. Have a listen and find out why!
"A church's health is measured by its sending capacity, not its seating capacity." - Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Church The church is built for mission.
To love, serve and reach the world by living out and sharing the transformational message of Jesus is the very purpose we were put here for.
But how do we do actually do that in 2018?
Join us for the next six weeks as we explore how God wants to use your life to change the lives of others and how you never stop living on mission.
A church’s health is measured not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity” - Rick Warren, Purpose-Driven Church.
“The medium is the message.” - Marshall McLuhan. This quote describes how we are to live out mission - we the church are the ‘medium’ God has chosen to communicate his message of grace and forgiveness to the world.
Here Ps Mike teaches us the importance of taking responsibility for this in our homes, workplaces and universities.
Ps Mike Wardrop explores our understanding of Abba Father in our own lives - scripture from Romans 8.
JESUS - the most compelling figure in history. Healer. Miracle-worker. Friend of the outcast. Saviour. Who was the real Jesus? And what was his message? Maybe it's simpler than we think. Maybe the questions we have can actually be answered. Discover the true message of Jesus
A short series on what the message of the gospel is and what we should do about it today.
JESUS - the most compelling figure in history. Healer. Miracle-worker. Friend of the outcast. Saviour. Who was the real Jesus? And what was his message? Maybe it's simpler than we think. Maybe the questions we have can actually be answered. Discover the true message of Jesus
A short series on what the message of the gospel is and what we should do about it today.
JESUS - the most compelling figure in history. Healer. Miracle-worker. Friend of the outcast. Saviour. Who was the real Jesus? And what was his message? Maybe it's simpler than we think. Maybe the questions we have can actually be answered. Discover the true message of Jesus
A short series on what the message of the gospel is and what we should do about it today.
The second series from Encounter Church Adelaide - Altar Ego.
"We are not our labels. We are not who others say we are. And we aren’t the broken self-image we see in the mirror. So how can we get to our true identity? By laying down who we think we are to become who God says we are. Let’s discover our Altar Ego."
This series is based on Craig Groschel's book, Altar Ego.
**Week 3 is missing due to technical difficulties :(
The second series from Encounter Church Adelaide - Altar Ego.
"We are not our labels. We are not who others say we are. And we aren’t the broken self-image we see in the mirror. So how can we get to our true identity? By laying down who we think we are to become who God says we are. Let’s discover our Altar Ego."
This series is based on Craig Groschel's book, Altar Ego.
**Week 3 is missing due to technical difficulties :(
The second series from Encounter Church Adelaide - Altar Ego.
"We are not our labels. We are not who others say we are. And we aren’t the broken self-image we see in the mirror. So how can we get to our true identity? By laying down who we think we are to become who God says we are. Let’s discover our Altar Ego."
This series is based on Craig Groschel's book, Altar Ego.
**Week 3 is missing due to technical difficulties :(
Ps Mike Wardrop brings us the fourth and last message in our Encounter Life series. He unpacks our fourth core value - Generous - and what that should mean to us as followers of God...
Ps Jen Wardrop brings the third message from the series Encounter Life. She unpacks our second core value - being real - and what that means to us as individuals and as the corporate Encounter Church.
Ps Mike Wardrop brings us the second message of our Encounter Life series. He discusses our second value - People - stating that we don't have to be lonely if we have People to grow in faith and community...
Ps Mike Wardrop brings the first message from our Encounter Life series. He unpacks our first core value – Jesus – and how important it is to believe, love and follow Him...