Every Nation Brisbane: Recent Episodes
Every Nation Brisbane Christian Church
This week Pastor Neli reminds us of the power of worship during our darkest "midnight hours". Worship is dependent on who God is rather than our circumstances. We are encouraged to lift up a bold, audible praise - even before seeing a breakthrough - knowing that our worship impacts those around us and can remove darkness in difficult seasons. So bring your praise into every situation, standing firm in the promise that God is faithful to save, transform hearts, and bring light into any dark place.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them, and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened. - Acts 16:25-26 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us how to navigate disagreement in the Christian life. We should address our conflicts directly by gathering at the table with scripture, prayer, and wise counsel rather than shrinking back or allowing bitterness to take root. Conflict is not a sin. When handled with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, hard conversations and healed scars can ultimately multiply God's mission and serve as powerful testimonies of His grace.
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work. - Acts 15:36-38 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores the core value of spiritual family. Doing the will of God opens up an invitation for everyone to belong to a global, eternal family. By involving our families in active faith and ministry, and seeking godly mentors, we can live as an intergenerational community that welcomes others home. You are not isolated, but rather sealed in Christ and called to actively walk together in spiritual family.
And his mother and his brothers came, and standing outside they sent to him and called him. And a crowd was sitting around him, and they said to him, “Your mother and your brothers are outside, seeking you.” And he answered them, “Who are my mother and my brothers?” And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of God, he is my brother and sister and mother.” - Mark 3:31-35 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli is joined by Joel and Katrina Renkema from Every Nation Leiden as they explore the vital role of outreach and sharing the good news of the gospel. We can face our fears, step outside of our comfort zones, and cross the boundaries of our everyday lives to connect with those around us. Life often begins outside of your comfort zone. You can confidently take the next faithful step in full dependence on Jesus, leaving the ultimate outcome to Him.
But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem. And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.” But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. - Acts 9:13-15 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores the core value of discipleship and what it truly means to follow Jesus. True discipleship requires a continuous posture of repentance, life-on-life relationship, and a dedication to growing into spiritual maturity. Instead of chasing our own comforts we are encouraged to step into proximity with a spiritual family, allow others to speak truth into our lives, and actively pour what we receive back into others. Discipleship is a step-by-step journey whose sole destination is Christ. He promises to be with you every single day as you take up your cross and follow him.
And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. - Matthew 4:19-20 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores the core church value of biblical worship. True worship is sacrificial and becomes genuine when it costs us something rather than just remaining convenient. Worship is not an obligation or a mood-dependent activity, but a deliberate posture where we build an altar for God's presence and surrender our everyday lives, finances, and control to Him. When we delight in sacrificial worship from the heart, we create a powerful environment that invites the miraculous moving of God.
On that day Gad went to David and said to him, “Go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.” So David went up, as the Lord had commanded through Gad. When Araunah looked and saw the king and his officials coming toward him, he went out and bowed down before the king with his face to the ground. - 2 Samuel 24:18-20 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores how we can truly live in the Spirit and prepare our hearts for an outpouring of God's presence. Instead of chasing after our own agendas or trying to fool God with impure hearts, we are called to a space of confession and repentance - intentionally turning away from sin to let Jesus take complete lordship over every area of our lives. The Lord moves mightily through holy vessels who are completely sold out to Him, ready to embrace silence, and willing to give Him their all.
So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” - Acts 1:6-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores the attributes and characteristics of the Holy Spirit. We can recognise Him as a person who has a mind, will, and emotions. The Holy Spirit is fully God, is already present, and is inviting you to step out in faith, surrender your will to His, and walk closely with Him in complete freedom and grace.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment: concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will see me no longer; concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. - John 16:7-11 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores how the Holy Spirit has been actively moving throughout the many years of church history. We see that God promises to pour out His Spirit abundantly on all people, breaking down every human-made barrier of race, language, and gender. We can stop trying to manage the Spirit, instead name your exhaustion, and lay it down so you can fully step into a fresh surrender and experience His personal presence in your daily life.
“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. - Acts 2:17-18 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that the Holy Spirit is not just a theological idea, but a living person who actively desires to work in and move through us every day. Our bodies are now the living temples of the very same Spirit who has been present since creation. Instead of relying on human effort, we should open our hearts, acknowledge His presence, and engage once more with Him in our daily lives.
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about him went out through all the surrounding country. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified by all. - Luke 4:14-15 (ESV)
This week Samantha Thomas reminds us that before God formed us in the womb, He knew us intricately and set us apart for a purpose. We are encouraged to reject the limiting "I am" statements, doubts, and fears that we often carry like a cloak, such as feeling inexperienced or not enough. Take this truth as a reminder that you are fearfully and wonderfully made, and you do not need to be afraid because the Lord is faithfully with you to deliver you.
Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak, for I am only a youth.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak.
Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 1:6-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores how we can become "Revival Ready" by examining the powerful move of God that occurred during Pentecost. We are encouraged to move beyond searching for emotional experiences and instead position ourselves expectantly through obedience, physical gathering, persistent prayer, and deep spiritual hunger. We can organise our life around God's promises and allow the Holy Spirit to purge distractions, so that we can be a holy vessel prepared to receive His fresh outpouring.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. - Acts 2:1-4 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores how God moves powerfully through the persistent and consistent prayers of ordinary believers. We are reminded that prayer is far more than just asking God for help - it is an invitation to participate in His work. Even when our faith feels weak or an outcome doesn't match our exact expectations, we are encouraged knowing that our imperfect faith rests on a God who remains completely faithful.
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands. And the angel said to him, “Dress yourself and put on your sandals.” And he did so. And he said to him, “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me.” And he went out and followed him. He did not know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision. - Acts 6:7-9 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Acts: Season 2. This week, Pastor Tina explores how God uses all people, regardless of gender, age, or social class, to advance His kingdom. Be encouraged to recognise that the Holy Spirit's equalising work makes everyone an active participant in God's mission. Take this truth into your week as a reminder that you are not just an observer, but are called to step into your specific calling as a vital part of what God is doing in the world today.
“‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. - Acts 2:17-18 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli encourages us to overcome personal biases. Actively resist the urge to distance yourself from others based on social class, ethnic background, or previous mistakes. We must move past our religious and cultural prejudices to embrace the missional recalibration God desires for us.
So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. - Acts 10:34-35 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on whether our faith is visible to those around us. Stephen from the Book of Acts is a man full of grace and power, his character shaped by his time with God. We have complete freedom available through Christ so we must live a life formed and shaped by our beliefs for the sake of the gospel.
And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and of the Alexandrians, and of those from Cilicia and Asia, rose up and disputed with Stephen. But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking. - Acts 6:88-10 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explains the conversion of Saul, from threats against the church to believer through an encounter with Jesus and the disciple Ananias. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to illuminate the Scriptures to discover fresh purpose and a way home. Find strength in the fact that God has a specific design for our lives and that His Word serves as a constant guide for how to live with true meaning.
So Ananias departed and entered the house. And laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road by which you came has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.” And immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he rose and was baptized; and taking food, he was strengthened. - Acts 9:17-19 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the question, “What prevents us from coming to God?” No matter our insecurities, past failures, or how busy and noisy our lives may be, the invitation to come to Jesus and find rest remains open to everyone who is weary and heavy-laden. God measures your growth by your heart's obedience rather than your worldly success or visibility, and He can use your life as a light to help others find their way home to Him .
And the eunuch said to Philip, “About whom, I ask you, does the prophet say this, about himself or about someone else?” Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture he told him the good news about Jesus. - Acts 8:34-35 (ESV)
Pastor Neli helps us understand how the resurrection determines the way we live our lives. Jesus is "the resurrection and the life," providing victory over the sting of death through His finished work at the cross and the empty tomb. The Holy Spirit is alive within you today, illuminating the Word of God and offering the greatest gift to all of humanity.
So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will give you.” - John 11:20-22 (ESV)
Pastor Neli encourages us to take heart by reflecting on the powerful words of Jesus during the most important week of the Christian calendar. The Good News that Jesus has already overcome the world speaks of His victory as a finished work. We are never alone because Jesus endured His suffering in isolation so that we could be relationally connected to Him and to the broader body of Christ. So embrace the power of the resurrection, walking in the freedom and peace that comes from knowing Jesus is victorious.
“I have said these things to you in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures of speech but will tell you plainly about the Father. In that day you will ask in my name, and I do not say to you that I will ask the Father on your behalf; for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.I came from the Father and have come into the world, and now I am leaving the world and going to the Father.” - John 16:25-28 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores how discovering our mission begins with following the template of Jesus Christ’s life. We are reminded that every one of us is created for a purpose, but fulfilling it requires embracing God’s wisdom - which looks different from the wisdom of the world. The entry point to truly knowing Him and experiencing His power is the willingness to take up our cross. So lean into the example of Jesus, and choose to live out a wisdom that is active and rooted in integrity
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. - 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli deconstructs the common misconceptions surrounding boldness, moving beyond personality traits to uncover its true biblical definition. Rather than a self-generated confidence, true boldness is a spiritual byproduct that flows from being Spirit-filled and grounded in a deep understanding of God’s character. By leaning into God's sovereignty, we find the courage to shift our posture—moving away from a desire for personal comfort and instead praying for the strength to remain faithful in all circumstances. Ultimately, boldness serves as the public evidence of a life fully surrendered to Jesus, existing solely to put the glory of God and the power of the Gospel on display for the world to see.
"And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness. - Acts - 4:29-31 (ESV)
This week Michael Coe encourages us to shift our focus from seeking a counterfeit, self-serving power to embracing the true lordship of God. The society we live in is obsessed with power - whether through physical strength, financial status, or even spiritual tools used for personal branding and control. While the world may offer temporary comfort, the gospel provides a profound relationship with a heavenly Father who offers unconditional love and forgiveness. We can move beyond treating God's grace as a transaction and instead seek His heart, finding that true greatness in His kingdom comes from a place of humility and service. So stop bargaining for benefits and instead be changed by who God is, allowing His presence to be your ultimate source of strength.
But there was a man named Simon, who had previously practiced magic in the city and amazed the people of Samaria, saying that he himself was somebody great. They all paid attention to him, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is the power of God that is called Great.” And they paid attention to him because for a long time he had amazed them with his magic. But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed. - Acts 8:9-13 (ESV)
Join us this week at the Alexandra Park Conference Centre as we are join by special guest speaker Pastor Jennifer Tower (Highpoint Church, Orlando FL). This week Pastor Jennifer Tower's message helps us to overcome fear and insecurity to truly Thrive Missionally. We often put on ourselves self-imposed limits, which prevent us from fully embracing God's call. We serve a limitless God who made the heavens and the earth, and therefore, the only limits on our mission are the ones we create. So move beyond personal boundaries, and step into a life of purpose, knowing that God has already equipped you.
Now those who were scattered went about preaching the word. Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ. And the crowds with one accord paid attention to what was being said by Philip, when they heard him and saw the signs that he did. For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who had them, and many who were paralyzed or lame were healed. So there was much joy in that city. - Acts 8:4-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli encourages us to be empowered to influence the world around us rather than conforming to its pressure. We need to stop acting like a thermometer, which simply reflects the surrounding cultural temperature, and start living as a thermostat, actively determining and transforming our environment from the inside out. Don't just reflect the culture—change it.
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. - 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli explores the importance of both giving and receiving loving correction for spiritual growth. True grace sometimes involves difficult conversations, like confronting sin, rather than ignoring it. Confrontation and correction are not unloving acts but are just as important for both individual and communal spiritual maturity. Honest and loving correction is a vital part of growth, leading us to be the church that walks in holiness and glorifies God.
For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. - 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 (ESV)
This week Samantha shares an encouraging about spiritual maturity. Spiritual maturity is a process of growing with God, similar to how we grow from childhood to adulthood. We can allow ourselves to be stretched and moulded to become more like Jesus, guided by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit provides guidance and helps in the process of spiritual growth. So today, pray to God to reveal both the areas where you have grown and the areas where you still need to grow.
For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual - 1 Corinthians 2:11-13 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli dives into the "Upside Down Kingdom" from 1 Corinthians. Consider trading in worldly wisdom for the foolishness of God, and remember that God uses the weak to shame the strong. So keep your focus on Christ's work on the cross. Don't let the distractions of the world obscure the true message. Put your full confidence in Jesus Christ and find the strength and encouragement you need.
God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.” - 1 Corinthians 1:28-31 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli talks about how we can stay united. It's easy to get distracted by minor issues, but what really matters is coming together on the big things. Be encouraged to stay focused on what truly matters and let the Holy Spirit guide you to a more mature faith. So grow in your faith and move from being a mission field to a mission force.
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. - 1 Corinthians 1:10-11 (ESV)
This week Pastor Joshua Harris from Every Nation Singapore delivers our message on the themes of mission, intergenerational living, and community. The Bible describes God's command for people to be fruitful, multiply, and rule over the earth through cultivation and protection. However sin caused division and wandering, but God, as the hero, restores what was broken through Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate rescuer and is the bridge for reconciliation with God and with one another. We can be encouraged to live a life of significance by becoming a "bridge" for the next generation, investing in their destiny, and allowing the Holy Spirit to bring about genuine unity.
After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying: “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel. - Joshua 1:1-2 (NKJV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on being an intergenerational community. Transferring of the gospel is like a relay race, where the baton is the gospel itself. It’s important to have a teachable spirit, faithful obedience, and proximity in relationships. We can pass the "baton" by setting the pace, running in proximity, and timing the pass with a focus on character over talent. It is just as important to also receive the baton from our own mentors so we can faithfully pass it on to the next generation, helping them to do even greater works.
Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us. - Titus 2:7-8 (ESV)
This week we are encouraged by Pastor Neli to become an intergenerational community that empowers every generation to live out God's purpose. Are we making room for God, and increasing the capacity for intimacy with Him? We are not to hold back but be obedient to God's assignment, as God is the one who will remove the things that hold you back.
4 “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called. - Isaiah 54:4-5 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, GEN United: Bridge Builders. This week Pastor Neli brings a us a message, "Called and Chosen," where we see how God has intentionally placed us in this generation. Discover why your age or circumstances are never an excuse when God calls. You can embrace your unique season of life, understand your purpose, and lean into the power of community, knowing that God's presence is truly all you need.
But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Do not be afraid of them,
for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.” - Jeremiah 1:7-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that God designed each of us for deep relationship, both with Him and with one another. Our ability to love others flows from the revelation of God's profound love for us. God is interested in the unseen parts of us - our hearts. Discover how God continually builds us as family, placing us in the body as He desires.
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates. - Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (ESV)
This week Pastor encourages us to walk in the way of love, living as children of light, and discerning what pleases the God. An upward relationship with God is key to strengthening all other relationships. Embrace your current season, including singleness, as a purposeful opportunity for growth, service, and building healthy, holy friendships within your community.
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. - Ephesians 5:2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Love Actually. This week Pastor Neli explores missional friendship and God's design for love. It’s important to be deeply connected, growing spiritually by leaving immaturity behind, and understanding that we are created for authentic connections with others. Consider how deep your friendship is with God and how your friendship with Him informs your friendships with others?
If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. - John 15:7-8 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli highlights love as patience, kindness, and having enduring qualities. God has a design for relationships, including friendships and marriage. We can embrace God's lordship in all areas of life, because as we delight in God, He grants the desires of our hearts.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends… - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli reminds us where the true treasure lies. The riches of life is found not in earthly possessions but in eternal investments and the wealth of relationships. God's extravagant love and grace reshapes us to live generously, transforming giving from a command to a natural expression of a heart transformed by His grace, ultimately bringing a life of overflow.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV)
This week Pastor Dennis centres his message on generosity and the stewardship of finances. We must understand the nature of God and how He gives. In doing so we can mirror the nature of Christ in our own approach to wealth. True abundance comes not from a self-serving pursuit of wealth, but from understanding and mirroring God's character as a bountiful giver. We can trust that God will provide all sufficiency, enabling us to abound in good works and experience the joy of generosity that brings glory and thanksgiving to Him.
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. - 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli guides us to reflect on the true ownership of everything in our lives. All that we have belongs to God, and we are called to be faithful stewards. Remember the importance of honouring what belongs to God and be good stewards over your resources, relationships, and life. Trust that remaining faithful in these areas aligns you with God's greater purpose.
And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ - Matthew 25:20-21 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the meaning of Pentecost. We are reminded of the transforming power of God's Spirit, the unity of believers, and the call to live in bold faith. The Holy Spirit is still present and active today. Let this word encourage you to live filled, led, and empowered by the Spirit.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. - Acts 2:1-4 (ESV)
This week Paster Neli focuses on Jesus’ rhythm of retreating to quiet places for prayer. There is power and importance of personal, private time with God. Be encouraged to reconnect with the Father in the stillness. Pause, step away from the noise, and be refreshed in His presence.
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:5-6 (ESV)
Pastor Neli shares a powerful where Jesus speaks about the kind of worship the Father desires, worship in spirit and in truth. True worship goes beyond location or tradition and flows from a genuine connection with God. Be encouraged to reflect on the nature of your own worship and to be reminded that God is seeking hearts that are fully open to Him.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” - John 4:21-24 (ESV)
Pastor Neli reminds us of Jesus’ Great Commission from Matthew 28 and Mark 16 - to go, make disciples, baptise, and teach. We have a clear call to believe, follow, and share the good news. Be encouraged to walk in faith, embrace your calling, and live out your purpose with confidence. Whether you're new to the journey or growing in your walk, remember that God is with you every step of the way, empowering you to love people and honour Him.
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)
This week Pastor Tina highlights the mystery of Christ revealed to His people, and the hope of glory found in Him. Faith has always been central to a life that pleases God. We can trust in God’s promises, even when we can’t yet see the outcome. Be encouraged to anchor your hope in the unseen promises of God.
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. - Hebrews 11:1-3 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli dives into the heart of biblical prosperity and generosity, exploring how God is our ultimate provider. Wealth isn’t something we earn on our own - it’s a gift from God, meant to be stewarded well. We’re called to live with open hands, sowing generously and trusting that God, who supplies every seed, will also provide the harvest. Be encouraged to walk boldly in God’s provision, living a life marked by gratitude and generosity.
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. - 2 Corinthians 9:6-8 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli helps us to remember that God calls us to be set apart, living differently from the world by His grace and strength. Be encouraged to live lives that reflect Jesus, standing firm in our faith even when challenges arise. Our identity is rooted in Christ, and through Him, we have the power to live in holiness, not by our efforts but by relying on His Spirit. Let's hold onto the truth that we are chosen, loved, and empowered to make a difference wherever we are, shining His light through the way we live.
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. - Acts 2:39-41 (ESV)
In our special Resurrection Sunday message, Pastor Neli reflects on the significance of Easter, focusing on the period between Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday. Although Jesus had been crucified and placed in a tomb, God was still at work behind the scenes. We can find comfort in the idea that waiting seasons are not wasted, as God often works in the unseen and unknown. This is a reminder of God's presence even when He seems silent. Resurrection is always on the way.
For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.- 1 Corinthians 15:16-19 (ESV)
In a special Good Friday service, Pastor Neli reminds us that no matter how far we try to run, we can never outrun God’s love or His presence. Be encouraged to embrace the truth that we are part of a family where grace is real and God is always near. Let this Good Friday message strengthen your faith and remind you, you are never alone.
For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. - Exodus 12:23-25 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that your private devotion to God is powerful. Jesus teaches us that when we give, pray, and fast in secret, our Father who sees in secret will reward us openly. Your unseen disciplines—your quiet prayers, your unseen acts of love, your intentional times of worship—are building a firm foundation that cannot be shaken. Let His grace strengthen you as you walk in faith, stay connected in community, and live out your calling.
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:5-6 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us discipleship isn’t just about knowledge—it’s about relationship, obedience, and legacy. Jesus calls us not only to follow Him, but to walk with others, serve humbly, and lead by example, just as He did. Whether you're engaging your community, growing in your faith, or equipping others, He who holds all authority is with you every step of the way. Let your life be built on the firm foundation of knowing Him, and trust that as you disciple others, you're part of a generational ripple that carries the heart of God into the world.
But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Matthew 20:25-28 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli lets the Word of God be your anchor and guide. It is God-breathed, equipping us for every good work. As you go about your days, remember that the Bible is more than words on a page; it is a living, transformative force that reveals God’s heart and His purpose for you. Lean into it, meditate on it, and let it shape your thoughts, decisions, and actions.
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. - 2 Timothy 16-17 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli focuses on living a transformed life through the Holy Spirit. Be encouraged to renew your minds, embrace your God-given gifts, and walk in unity as the body of Christ. The Holy Spirit empowers you to live with purpose, humility, and love, using your unique gifts to serve others.
For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. - Romans 12:4-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that repentance isn't about shame—it's about grace. Just as the prodigal son turned back to his father, we are invited to turn from sin and walk toward God, who runs to embrace us. Baptism symbolises this transformation, burying the old self and rising in new life with Christ. No matter where we’ve been, God’s grace gives us a fresh start. Let us embrace the journey of walking with Him, knowing He never leaves you and His love never runs out.
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life. - Romans 6:1-4 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to realise how our trust in Jesus as Lord should shape every aspect of our lives. When you trust in God, surrender to His Lordship, and walk in obedience, you are securing your life on an unshakable foundation. Even when uncertainty, fear, or doubt try to creep in, stand firm in the truth that He is with you, guiding you, and strengthening you.
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. - Luke 6:46-48 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to realise that not matter the challenges that come your way, your foundation is secure in Christ. You were once lost in sin, but God, in His rich mercy, has made you alive in Christ. Your salvation is not something you earned—it is a free gift of grace, a reflection of God’s immeasurable kindness. No matter what the world throws at you, stand firm—because your story is written by the One who redeems and restores. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. - Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that true faith is more than just words—it's action. James reminds us to be doers of the Word, living out our faith with love, humility, and social responsibility. Listen first, speak with wisdom, and let your actions reflect the heart of Christ. When we care for those in need and treat everyone with dignity, we bring God’s love beyond the four walls of the church. So let’s talk like you talk, love without favouritism, and let our life be a testimony of God’s grace in action.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. - James 1:19-22 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on our own journey in life, reminding us that Jesus offers living water that truly satisfies. Are you drawing from temporary sources, or are you drinking deeply from His truth and Spirit? Worship isn’t confined to a place or a moment; it’s a daily walk in Spirit and truth, shaping how we live, love, and lead.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” - John 4:22-26 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to compare the storms in our life. No matter what storms you face, remember that Jesus meets you right where you are. Just as He called Peter to step out in faith, He calls you to trust Him beyond your comfort zone. When the waves of doubt and fear rise, fix your eyes on Him—He is your steady foundation. Even if you stumble, He is always there to reach out and save you. So step into His purpose with confidence, knowing that He is with you every step of the way.
He said, “Come.” So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me.” Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshiped him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.” - Matthew 14:29-33 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that worship is more than a song; it’s a way of life. It’s found in our obedience, in our willingness to trust God fully, and in the sacrifices we make for His glory. Just as Abraham showed unwavering faith, we, too, are called to trust that God will provide in every circumstance. What are we willing to sacrifice everything for? Let’s choose to place God first, knowing that in surrender, we find true fulfillment, purpose, and the assurance of His perfect plan for our lives.
So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” - Genesis 22:3-5 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli lets Simon of Cyrene’s story remind us that God can use even the briefest moments of obedience to create ripples of transformation. Just as Simon, an unexpected bystander, carried the cross for Jesus and became part of a greater story, so too can the everyday steps of faith and compassion you take be used by God to impact lives. Whether your role seems small or goes unnoticed, know that God is still writing your story, weaving it into His grand design. Trust Him to author your path, and step boldly into the purpose He has for you.
26 And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. - Luke 23:26 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us of the story of Nicodemus—a man who moved from curiosity to conviction. His journey reminds us that no matter where we start, Jesus meets us with patience and truth, calling us to a deeper understanding of His love. Nicodemus sought Jesus in the quiet of night, finding clarity and transformation that led him to boldly honor Christ in the light of day. Let this be a reminder that even in our questions and uncertainties, God is working to renew us through His Spirit. Know that when we fix our eyes on Jesus, He equips us to live boldly and shine His light in every corner of our lives.
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” 3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. - John 3:1-5 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli lets Mary Magdalene's story remind us of the incredible transformation that God can bring into our lives. Once defined by brokenness and bondage, Mary became a bold evangelist, chosen to share the profound news of Christ’s resurrection. In the same way, no matter where you’ve been or what burdens you carry, God sees you, calls you by name, and redeems you for His purpose. So lean into His grace and remember: your past does not define you—His love and plans for your future do.
Jesus said to her, “Mary.” She turned and said to him in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means Teacher). Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord”—and that he had said these things to her. - John 20:16-18 (ESV)\
This week, Pastor Neli reminds us of the transformative power of encountering Jesus. Are you able to see beyond the natural, to trust in God’s miraculous power working in and through you? Whatever challenges or uncertainties you face, remember that Jesus is the light that shines even in the darkest moments. Surrender your heart to Him, and watch how His presence can change your perspective, renew your hope, and inspire you to live a life that reflects His grace and power.
The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!” - Matthew 27:52-54 (ESV)
For this special message, Pastor Neli encourages us that Jesus is not just the reason for this season, but for every season. Whether you find yourself in a joyful summer of celebration, an autumn of shedding old layers, a winter of waiting and resting, or the new life of spring, know that God is with you, working in every moment. He strengthens you in the trials, walks with you through the valleys, and rejoices with you in your victories. Embrace His presence, trust His process, and invite others to experience the joy of His love. Every season has its purpose, and through it all, God is faithful.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. - Ecclesiastes 3:11 (NIV)
This week Samantha Thomas helps us to remember that no matter how dense or unpredictable life may feel, God is still writing your story. Life’s trials and triumphs are all part of a greater narrative authored by a God who sees every detail and provides refuge in times of need. Take heart and find peace in knowing that His plan for you is purposeful, and His love is unwavering.
And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh. And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way. - Matthew 2:11-12 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Neli helps us to remember that generosity isn't just about giving resources—it’s about reflecting God’s heart. God loves a cheerful giver and supplies all we need so we can abound in every good work. Embrace each moment as a gift, sow seeds of kindness and love, and trust that God, who has already given His best in Jesus, will supply abundantly for every need. Let His generosity flow through you, making an eternal impact.
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. - 2 Corinthians 9:7-7 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli inspires our walk with Christ. God’s love isn’t passive but it’s active, sacrificial, and deeply personal. While the world’s view of love may waver, God’s love remains steadfast and true. He gave His very best—Jesus—so we could have eternal life. This love invites us to trust fully, surrender completely, and walk boldly in His grace. Remember that His passionate love empowers you to live abundantly and to share His goodness with those around you. Embrace the gift of life He’s given and let it shine through all you do.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. - John 3:16-17 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli inspires us to see your daily tasks as opportunities to glorify God and love others. Whether in a high-profile role or a seemingly ordinary job, remember that every act done with excellence and heart reflects God’s beauty and purpose. Work hard, not for mere recognition or rewards, but as an offering to Him, knowing He values your efforts and has placed you exactly where you are for His glory. Remember to commit your work to God, embrace His creativity, and trust that He will guide you in making a meaningful impact in the lives of those around you.
Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality. – Colossians 3:22-25 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that God’s calling for each of us is unique, intentional, and full of purpose. We are also called to use our specific gifts and talents. Whether in our workplaces, families, or communities, God has placed us right where we need to be for His kingdom purpose. God knows you intimately, has called you by name, and is empowering you through His Spirit to bring beauty, meaning, and hope to the world around you. Embrace this calling and let your everyday actions reflect His glory.
The Lord said to Moses,“See, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic designs, to work in gold, silver, and bronze, in cutting stones for setting, and in carving wood, to work in every craft. - Exodus 31:1-5 (ESV)
This week, Pastor Brian teaches us that no matter your background or circumstance, God is at work in your life. When we open our hearts to His love and embrace the call to bring His Kingdom wherever we are, He can use us in miraculous ways. Be encouraged to step out with faith, knowing that every sacrifice for His sake is worth it. Trust that God’s plans are bigger, His love is deeper, and His Kingdom is already at work through you.
And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. - Matthew 24:14 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli guides us to reflect on our purpose. Wherever God has placed you—in your job, studies, creative work, or even at home—He’s given you a unique space to bring His presence and purpose. Embrace each task as an opportunity to honour God, knowing that your work, no matter how big or small, can be filled with His glory. When we align our work with God’s purpose, we become vessels of His love and light to those around us, transforming even the ordinary into something truly extraordinary.
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” - Genesis 1:28 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to build godly customs that anchor us to God’s heart and guide us home, no matter how far we may feel. Each choice and habit we cultivate—whether it’s nurturing wisdom, building influence, or finding favour with God—shapes us and those watching our lives. We’re invited to establish life-giving routines that reflect God’s love and keep us grounded in His presence. Choose what brings you closer to Him, cutting away distractions, and welcoming practices that align with His peace and purpose. As you choose God’s customs, He gives you the strength and clarity to live freely, loved, and guided by His hand.
And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?” And they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. - Luke 2:49-52 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that God’s purposes for our lives often unfold in unexpected ways. No matter where you are in your journey, God’s timing is perfect, and His faithfulness endures through every season. We are called to trust Him even when things don’t make sense, and to walk in faith, knowing that He is with us every step of the way. Remember that God has already paved the way ahead of you—rest in His promises, stay rooted in His word, and embrace the hope and joy He gives daily.
7 The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel. 8 When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates, Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? 9 My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the Lord. - Judges 5:1-9 (ESV)
Pastor Neli guides us to navigate life’s choices and challenges, while remember the example of King Josiah. His journey reminds us of the power of intentionality, surrounding ourselves with godly influences, and embracing a legacy that goes beyond ourselves. Let’s not just focus on quick fixes or instant gratification but commit to the kind of growth and faithfulness that outlasts us. Whatever you’re facing, trust that God, who began a good work in you, is faithful to complete it. Let go of anything that holds you back, and step forward in faith, knowing He is with you every step of the way.
Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem. And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father; and he did not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. 2 Chronicles 34:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, NOW Gen. This week Pastor Neli reminds us that God’s call on our lives is intentional and purpose-filled. Remember that God’s true power in our lives calls us to be genuine, not just outwardly strong but inwardly transformed by His Spirit. So lean into that authentic power, allowing God to shape you into a person of real impact and purpose. It’s a call to live with integrity, rejecting superficiality, and choosing a life of substance, grounded in His love. You are empowered by God to make a difference – not as a poser, but as a true vessel of His power.
And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” - Acts 19:11-15 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us that God’s love and design for our lives are filled with purpose, hope, and direction. God's principles guide us like give-way signs, requiring us to seek wisdom, while His precepts are like stop signs, clear and direct. Whether it's our relationships, struggles, or desires, when we trust in God's design, we experience true freedom. Obedience to His Word isn't about limiting joy but embracing the fullness of life He has for us. Remember that in every moment of challenge or decision, God’s love is inviting you into a deeper intimacy with Him. Trust Him, let go of anything holding you back, and walk in His perfect plan for your life.
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. - Ephesians 5:15-21 (ESV)
Join us this week at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, The Questions: Hard Questions of Faith. This week Pastor Neli encourages us to have wisdom to walk with Christ. He reminds us that any philosophy apart from Christ is found to be empty. With Christ there is promise of richness in spirit, in relationship, in how we live in accordance with His will, and to overcome circumstances. We can either center our existence on ourselves, or center our existence on God, and understanding who He is.
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. - Colossians 2:1-5 (ESV)
Join us this week at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, The Questions: Hard Questions of Faith. This week Pastor Neli helps us to remember that the truth is not a fact, the truth is a person and his name is Jesus Christ, for He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And as followers of Christ, our lives must reflect the truth we preach. We must learn to study the truth, present the truth, and live the truth.
But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
- 1 Peter 3:15-16 (ESV)
Join us this week at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, The Questions: Hard Questions of Faith. This week Pastor Neli helps us to remember that God, the ultimate Creator, designed life with a divine and intentional purpose. He breathed life into all of creation, and He invites us to breathe in His presence—through prayer, worship, and moments of stillness—so that we can exhale His love and purpose into the world. Every breath you take is a gift, reminding you of His goodness and empowering you to live out His mission, sharing His life and light with others.
Then God said, “Let us make man n our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. - Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli guides us to remember that truly knowing God goes beyond just knowing about Him—it’s about building a personal, intimate relationship with Him. Just as a dove descending on your shoulder would require you to walk more carefully, be mindful to walk through life with an awareness of the Holy Spirit's presence. Slow down, be still, and let God's love and guidance fill your heart. As you reflect on His love, know that He calls you His beloved, takes pleasure in who you are, and desires a deep, personal connection with you.
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. - 1 John 3:1 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to remember that true worship goes beyond songs; it's about offering your whole life as a living sacrifice to God. As you lay down your burdens and surrender to His will, trust that He is transforming you by renewing your mind. Whether you're facing dark moments or carrying heavy burdens, know that you are not alone. As you walk in humility and rise in His strength, be encouraged that God's perfect will is unfolding in your life. Stay grounded in His grace, and let His joy be your strength.
For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. - Galatians 6:8-10 (ESV)
This week at we are joined by special guest Sandra Sellmer-Kersten from Elijah House Ministries as we are encouraged that God calls each of us to stand firm in our integrity, and to be real in our walk with Christ. As we navigate our daily lives, let’s strive to be "Oaks of Righteousness," grounded in honesty, integrity, and justice. Remember our true strength comes from being the same person in private as we are in public. And even when the task seems overwhelming, ask God for the strength to save "just one more." Keep this spirit of authenticity knowing that through your actions, others will see Jesus clearly and be drawn to Him. Be encouraged—God is using you to make a difference!
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. - 1 Corinthians 15:10 (ESV)
This week we are joined by special guest Sandra Sellmer-Kersten from Elijah House Ministries to help us navigate our daily challenges and to remember that God has called and anointed us for the race we’re running. We all have been given everything we need to fulfil our purpose. Don’t let fear hide you from your calling. Instead, trust in God's provision and face each challenge with the integrity and courage He has instilled in you. Stand firm in your faith, knowing that God is with you every step of the way, transforming and guiding you to finish well.
Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. Now when these signs meet you, do what your hand finds to do, for God is with you. - 1 Samuel 10:6-7 (ESV)
This week Pastor Tina encourages us by the truth that God is deeply invested in every part of your journey, from the foundations of your childhood to the complexities of adulthood. Even when life’s experiences have left cracks in your trust and relationships, remember that God, the ultimate healer, can mend and rebuild your heart. Lean into His love, knowing that He is both your foundation and your guide, helping you navigate relationships with grace, wisdom, and a tender heart. You are being made new in Christ, and through Him, you can find the strength to forgive, to love, and to live with true confidence.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. - 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us of the importance of cultivating authentic, intergenerational relationships within our faith community. We are encouraged to be genuinely present for one another, balancing space and support as led by the Holy Spirit. Whether through sharing meals, supporting each other's endeavours, or simply being a listening ear, let's strive to be useful vessels for God's glory. As we build canopies of trust and let our guard down with the right people, we create a safe space for healing and growth. Let's embrace the challenge to love deeply, serve faithfully, and foster genuine connections that reflect Christ's love.
Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will. - 2 Timothy 2:23-26 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to navigate the different types of love God places in our lives. True friends are a gift from God, walking with us through life's storms and helping us build stormproof lives. Cherish the deep bonds of friendship, the oneness with a spouse, and the unconditional, sacrificial love that God has for you. Let God's agape love be the foundation of all your relationships, guiding you to love others as He first loved you. Embrace the assurance that you are deeply loved, cherished, and pleasing to God, and let this truth transform how you engage with those around you.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli emphasises the importance of approaching God's Word with an open heart and a diligent mind. By doing so, we can grow in wisdom and understanding, allowing us to live out our faith more authentically and powerfully. Be encouraged to delve into the Scriptures with eagerness and discernment, trusting that God will reveal His truths to you and strengthen your walk with Him. Your dedication to knowing God’s Word will cultivate a noble character that honours Him in all you do.
The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. - Acts 17:10-11 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the story of Paul and Silas in the prison. Their unwavering faith and praise, even in the darkest of times, not only set them free but also brought salvation to the jailer who had lost all hope. Let this be a reminder to keep your vision, praise, and faith strong, no matter the circumstances. Trust in God's plan for your life, knowing that He can turn any situation around for His glory and your good. God is at work in your life and the lives of those you love, bringing hope and transformation where it's needed most.
Then he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family. - Acts 16:30-33 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli encourages us that God is actively working on your behalf, even when you can’t see it. Just as Peter and Cornelius experienced profound transformation and reconciliation through the Holy Spirit, you too can trust that God is at work in your life and relationships. Let go of your worries, knowing that God controls every situation. As you move forward, remain open to learning, listening, and loving those around you, especially in areas where healing and understanding are needed. Remember, God shows no partiality—His love and grace extend to all people, and through His power, you can make a meaningful difference in your community.
When the angel who spoke to him had departed, he called two of his servants and a devout soldier from among those who attended him, and having related everything to them, he sent them to Joppa. The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. – Acts 10:7-9 (ESV)
We are joined by special guest Pastor James Byles who reminds us this week of the stories of Ezra and Nehemiah. Let's remember that even in the face of great opposition and personal comfort, they responded to God's call with boldness and faith. Their dedication to rebuilding the temple and walls of Jerusalem symbolises the importance of addressing both the physical and spiritual needs of our communities. So let’s be encouraged to step out of our comfort zones, recognising and acting upon the needs around us with the same fervour and compassion. As Nehemiah prayed and sought God's guidance before taking action, let us also seek His direction and boldly participate in expanding His kingdom, knowing that His good hand is upon us.
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel, that Hanani, one of my brothers, came with certain men from Judah. And I asked them concerning the Jews who escaped, who had survived the exile, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.” As soon as I heard these words I sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the God of heaven. - Nehemiah 1:1-4 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to remember the transformative power of Jesus and the incredible grace that He extends to each of us. Reflect on how far you've come in your faith journey and take heart in knowing that, despite our imperfections, God continues to use us for His glory. Embrace the call to gather in community, sharing in fellowship and generosity, and let the Holy Spirit guide you in creating spaces of welcome and support for others. Know that you are invited to deepen your commitment and actively participate in the mission of the church. Let this week be one where you invite others into the love of Christ, grow in your devotion, and experience the joy of being part of a vibrant, faith-filled community.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. - Acts 2:1-4 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli helps us to embrace the call to be faithful stewards of all God has entrusted to us— our time, talents, and finances. Remember that our relationship with God should guide how we manage these resources, using them not only to glorify Him but also to bless others. Just as Jesus taught, faithfulness in small things prepares us for greater responsibilities. Let our lives be trellised to His presence and principles, reflecting His generosity in everything we do. Trust in His provision and be encouraged that as we steward well, we pave the way for greater blessings and opportunities to serve His purpose.
One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” - Luke 16:10-13 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Think Outside The Bucks. This week Pastor Neli reminds us not to be anxious about our lives. Just as God cares for the birds and flowers, He cares for you even more and knows all your needs. Trust in His provision and prioritise seeking His kingdom, knowing that He will take care of the rest. Let go of worry and embrace the peace that comes from knowing your Father is faithful and generous. Use your time, talents, and resources wisely, living generously and with confidence that God’s got you covered.
And do not seek what you are to eat and what you are to drink, nor be worried. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them. Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you. - Luke 12:29-31 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli teaches us to be on our guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not consist in an abundance of possessions. Consider how greed might subtly influence your actions and priorities. Are we aligning our hearts with God’s purpose? Remember, true wealth isn't measured by possessions but by being rich toward God. Let's trust in God's provision and live generously, knowing that our lives are held in His hands. Embrace the posture of generosity, and let God's abundance flow through you to bless others.
And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.” - Luke 12:18-21 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us of the transformative power of spending time in God's presence. Just as Jesus drew strength from his intimate relationship with the Father, we're urged to inhale God's presence and exhale justice, mercy, and humility in our daily lives. Whether it's standing up for the marginalised, showing mercy to others, or humbly surrendering to God's plan, we're reminded that our mission flows naturally from our worship. Let's embrace this week with renewed zeal, knowing that God equips us with everything we need to make a difference in the world around us.
“With what shall I come before the Lord, and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?” He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? - Micah 6:6-8 (ESV)
This week Pastor Tina reminds us to pause and embrace the wonder of God's presence in our life. Let’s be still and open to God's revelations, allowing His love and promises to fill us with awe and gratitude. Reflect on God's goodness, seek His vision for your life, and let His wonder guide your actions and decisions. Surrender your routines and let the Holy Spirit refresh and renew you, sparking a renewed sense of wonder and purpose in your daily walk.
Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran. And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! - Genesis 28:10-12 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli invites us to an enriching experience of diving into God's word. There are blessings of delighting in the law of the Lord and meditating on it day and night. Embrace the life-changing potential of scripture, and be reminded in every age and place, that the Bible has supernaturally transformed lives, offering joy and eternal life to all who engage with its timeless truths. So let's take this encouragement and embrace the transformative power of God's word as we navigate life's journey with faith and hope.
1 Blessed is the man
who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
nor stands in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree
planted by streams of water
that yields its fruit in its season,
and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
4 The wicked are not so,
but are like chaff that the wind drives away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous;
6 for the Lord knows the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 1:1-6 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli invites us into a space of encounter with God, reminding us of the importance of making time for God both in the good times and amidst the busyness of life. Drawing from Jesus' example of retreating to desolate places for prayer and rest, be encouraged to cultivate a designated space and time for daily encounter and reflection with God. Just as Jesus prioritised communion with the Father even amidst crowds and demands, we're reminded to seek God's presence when life is both abundant and overwhelming. So, whether life is thriving or bustling, let's carve out moments to be still, to encounter God, and to find solace in His presence, knowing that He is always there, ready to meet us in the quiet spaces of our hearts.
Now many saw them going and recognised them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. - Mark 6:33-34 (ESV)
This week Pastor Neli reminds us of the journey we're on as a community committed to honouring God and living out the Gospel. Despite life's challenges, we're encouraged to embrace joy in trials, knowing they produce endurance and growth. Through faith and action, we navigate the tension between grace and works, understanding that both are vital in our Christian walk. Remember, you're fearfully and wonderfully made, and your journey with God is a progression toward restoration and fruitfulness. So let's lean into God's Word, grow in character, and continue to shine His light in our world. You're not alone in this journey; we're in it together as a Christ-centered family. Stay encouraged, stay connected, and keep pressing forward in faith!
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - James 1:2-4 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Gospel in Action. This week Pastor Nelly shares powerful insights, reminding us of the transformative nature of the gospel. We're crafted for a purpose, yet often, we seek fulfilment in fleeting things—property, provision, and partnerships—forgetting that true satisfaction lies in Christ alone. Let's not be like those who missed the banquet because they were full on worldly pursuits. Instead, let's hunger for the feast of God's presence, inviting others to taste and see His goodness. Together, let's embrace the gospel of restoration and be vessels of reconciliation wherever we go. You are made for worship, made for glory—so let's live out that purpose this week, shining brightly with the love of Christ!
Be patient, therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient about it, until it receives the early and the late rains. You also, be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. - James 5:7-9 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Gospel in Action. This week Pastor Neli challenges us to examine our hearts and our relationship with the world. It is important to live in alignment with God's purpose for our lives. From understanding the four facets of the Gospel – creation, fall, redemption, and restoration – we are empowered to live victoriously in Christ. Remember that God has called you for a purpose, and His power is available to you for every situation. Let's walk in the freedom and restoration that the Gospel offers, being vessels of His love and redemption wherever we go.
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. - James 4:1-3 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Gospel in Action. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the call to live out your faith through actions, free from favouritism. Allow the essence of the Gospel—grace, redemption, and restoration—to resonate deeply within you and recognise the profound impact of God's love in your life. Embrace the truth that your story is being rewritten by His grace. Let your life be a testament to the transformative power of the Gospel, as you embody grace and extend it to others.
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. - James 2:14-17 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series this Resurrection Sunday, Gospel in Action. This week Pastor Neli reflects on the profound reality of Jesus' resurrection and the transformative impact it has on our lives. Jesus is not merely a historical figure or a distant deity; he is alive, present, and intimately involved in every aspect of our existence. Embrace the truth that Jesus is Lord, and let this knowledge guide your thoughts, words, and actions. Let worship be your response to his unfailing love and grace, and may it ignite a fire within you to live boldly for him. Be encouraged to cultivate a deeper relationship with Jesus, allowing his presence to permeate every area of your life.
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. - John 1:14 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, We Are. This week Samantha Thomas reflects on the profound significance of the Next Generation in God's redemptive plan. Embrace the truth that God's love extends through generations, weaving a beautiful tapestry of faithfulness and continuity. Take heart in knowing that God's presence transcends time, guiding each generation with His unchanging love and grace. As you encounter the challenges and joys of life, remember the invitation to witness God's redemptive power at work within the Next Generation. Be encouraged to engage with youth in your community with a heart filled with love, understanding, and a desire to impart the timeless truths of the Gospel.
Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” - Acts 17:29-31 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, We Are. This week Pastor Neli reminds us that worship extends far beyond the confines of a church service or a fast paced Christian songs; it encompasses the entirety of our lives. Let's challenge ourselves to identify and dethrone the idols that subtly vie for our attention and allegiance, whether it be our careers, families, or societal expectations. Instead, let's offer our lives as living sacrifices, glorifying God in every decision, action, and thought. Remember, true fulfilment and joy are found not in the fleeting promises of this world, but in the eternal embrace of our loving Creator. So, as we navigate the week ahead, let's anchor ourselves in worship, trusting in God's faithfulness, and allowing His presence to permeate every aspect of our lives.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident. One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. - Psalm 27:1-4 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we Continue with our current series, We Are. This week Pastor Neli reflects on the essence of familial bonds within the church community. It is genuine love, abhorrence of evil, and dedication to goodness which are foundational pillars of Christian relationships. You can rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, and steadfast in prayer, knowing that God hears and answers. Even in moments of challenge or persecution, choose to bless and overcome evil with good. As you walk in harmony with your spiritual family, may you find strength and encouragement in the bonds of Christ-centered love.
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. - Romans 12:9-13 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, We Are. This week Pastor Neli discusses the power and potential of sharing the word of God, despite opposition and persecution. Your life carries a message, therefore it is vital to ensure that it aligns with the Gospel message of creation, redemption, and restoration. When we reflect the image of God, we convey His nature and message. This may attract opposition, but take heart, for we know that the Lord is with us, transforming lives through His presence within us.
For so the Lord has commanded us, saying, “‘I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’”And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region. - Acts 13:47-49 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we commence our new series titled, We Are. This week Pastor Neli explores the significance of discipleship through the lens of Every Nation Brisbane's values and vision. Discipleship is a transformative journey of character formation. It is not a checklist but a lifestyle that mirrors the teachings of Jesus. It's about being in close proximity to Christ, allowing His word to penetrate our hearts and minds, and replicating His actions in our lives. Take heart, for through discipleship, we are not alone. Stay the course, embrace the journey, and let His light shine through you.
While walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Immediately they left their nets and followed him. And going on from there he saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets, and he called them. Immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him. - Matthew 4:18-22 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli compares a Christian’s journey as a race with the perseverance required in sports competitions. It's easy to get caught up in the daily grind, feeling like we're constantly running a race with no finish line in sight. The truth is, we are part of something much bigger. We are training to become champions. Our journey as Christians is likened to running a race, with strict training, obstacles, and a finish line that promises a prize beyond measure. Let's stay focused, let's keep running with endurance, and let's remember that the journey is worth it, for the prize is eternal.
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment. The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son. - Revelation 21:5-7 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli, helps us to reflect on the powerful words from the Book of Colossians, to take heart in the profound truth it conveys. Even though there may be trials and doubts that attack us, we are reminded that through Christ's sacrifice, we have been transformed from a state of alienation and hostility to one of reconciliation and holiness before God. Let us draw strength from this truth, knowing that no matter what challenges we face, we are not alone. Let's lean into this community, offering support and encouragement to one another, and let's remember that through Christ, we are empowered to overcome every obstacle and stand blameless before our Heavenly Father. Keep the faith, for God's grace is more than sufficient for all our needs.
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before him, if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister. - Colossians 1:21-23 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli brings a powerful message of encouragement to our hearts. As we navigate the complexities of life, we are reminded of the shortcomings of the old priestly system, marked by mortality and the need for continual sacrifices. The eternal priesthood of Jesus offers us a promise of salvation, atonement, and unhindered access to God's presence. Let this revelation fill your hearts with gratitude, for in Jesus, we are not only set free from the limitations of the past but also embraced by a love that is eternal. Let the assurance of Jesus' enduring priesthood be a source of strength, hope, and unwavering faith in your journey of holiness.
The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. - Hebrews 7:23-25 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli offers insights on holiness and the rituals prescribed by God for approaching the sacred space. As we navigate our spiritual journey, let us recognise the gravity of holiness and the need for sincere repentance. Just as Aaron meticulously prepared to enter the holy place, may we approach our relationship with God with reverence and humility. Remember, even in our shortcomings, God provides a path to atonement and cleansing. Let the pursuit of holiness be a continuous journey, marked by sincere reflection and repentance.
The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat. - Leviticus 16:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli encourages us to recognise the value of holiness, understanding that God's commands reflect His nature. Despite challenges, steadfastness in faith is emphasised, urging us to be vigilant against compromising our faith in comfortable situations. True holiness comes from aligning oneself with God rather than personal efforts. How do you recognise God's call to holiness?
So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. - Genesis 3:6-8 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Tina delves into the transformative power of singing a new song to the Lord, drawing inspiration from the Book of Psalms. There is an authority of God's voice and we should recognise He invented music as a means of expression. It is important to live a lifestyle that reflects God's glory, strength, and power, and the pursuit of experiencing God's best. Our songs are not merely words but a lifestyle that introduces others to God's beauty and faithfulness so embrace the continuous renewal God offers.
Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength! Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name; bring an offering, and come into his courts! Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness; tremble before him, all the earth! - Psalm 96:7-9 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we commence a new series, Set Apart. This week Pastor Neli emphasises the transient nature of life and the need to align personal plans with God's will. Prioritise relationships, both with God and fellow believers. Be encouraged to shift from pursuing personal prosperity to building the kingdom of God, advocating for a life lived in love rather than fear. View this year through a relational lens, focusing on how your lives reflect love for God and others.
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. - James 4:13-17 (ESV)
Join us for a special Christmas message at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Unto Us. This week Pastor Henry delves into the Messianic prophecy found in the Book of Isaiah, dissecting the titles attributed to the coming Messiah. There is an importance of seeking divine guidance over human understanding. Be encouraged you can rely on the Messiah's counsel, recognising God as our eternal father, and embracing the multifaceted peace offered by the Prince of Peace. Trust in the Messiah's guidance, teaching, and discipline. Through faith, you can navigate the unknown, lean on the Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. How does knowing King Jesus as the Everlasting Father and Prince of Peace help you to live differently today?
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Unto Us. This week Samantha Thomas highlights the birth of Jesus as a pivotal moment from the Book of Isaiah. There’s an urgency for recognition and representation of Jesus, the wonderful counsellor and mighty God. Be encouraged to embrace your dependence on God as it’s important for us to acknowledge Jesus in our lives.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)
Join as at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, Unto Us. This week Pastor Neli delves into the vulnerability of God as the ultimate power, choosing to manifest as a child for the salvation of humanity. We must have open hands in love and worship, rejecting fear's closed fists for the Gift Giver is also the gift himself. Embrace imperfections as God's rejoicing love surrounds you. There is a transformative power of God's vulnerability. We invite you to receive the gift of His Son with open hearts.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon[a] his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)
Join us this week at Brisbane Central as we welcome special guest Bishop Manny Carlos to bring a special message. This week, special guest Bishop Manny emphasises the significance of actively stepping out of comfort zones, showcasing the transformative power of proactively sharing the gospel beyond familiar boundaries. Embrace diversity, recognise the impact of unintentional church plants, and understand the potential for actively experiencing spiritual growth when venturing beyond comfort zones. Christianity transforms into an engaging adventure as you actively perceive limitations as God's orchestration. Actively reflect on how God is working in your life.
News of this reached the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch. When he arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts. He was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to look for Saul, and when he found him, he brought him to Antioch. So for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people. The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch. - Acts 11:22-26 (NIV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our series, Transformers. This week Pastor Neli discusses the story of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and emphasises the idea of having a faith that's not just worth living for but also worth dying for. Stephen had unwavering faith even in the face of persecution. It is important we have faith with action, when we are faced with the challenge of living out our faith authentically. Be challenged to live a faith that's truly worth everything we have. Is your faith worth living and dying for?
Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not hold this sin against them.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep. - Acts 7:58-60 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, Transformers: Gospel Metamorphosis in the Book of Acts. This week Pastor Neli delves into the character arc of Peter, a fisherman from Galilee, who became a pivotal figure in early Christianity. Peter heard the call of Jesus to become a "Fisher of Men." You too can respond to Jesus' call, even in the face of cultural influences. We can be encouraged to be like Peter, we can leave behind our past and follow Jesus, experiencing a remarkable transformation.
For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. - Acts 2:39-41 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, One Anothering. This week Pastor Neli highlights the quality of God's love, emphasising that love is both a source and a capacity given by God. Have you ever examined the company you keep, and the impact it has on your journey of faith? It's important to understand the “why” behind setting healthy boundaries and how this can contribute to spiritual growth. Be encouraged that relationships are an integral part of our faith journey and can be a means of deepening our connection with God. Where is Christ visible to others in your love life?
For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. - 1 Thessalonians 5:9-11 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, One Anothering. This week Pastor Neli talks about the theme of singleness within the context of relationships and Christianity. You can move beyond the idea that marriage guarantees happiness and fulfilment. We should shift our focus towards prioritising the Kingdom of God and righteousness, as not everyone is destined for marriage. You can embrace singleness as a valid and meaningful path. Are you fulfilled in Christ and are earnestly seeking Him in what season you are in?
I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord. - 1 Corinthians 7:32-35 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, One Anothering. This week Pastor Neli delves into the universal issue of loneliness and highlights the essential psychological and spiritual needs that every individual possess. It’s important to build on authentic connections. True connections stem from genuine listening, a skill often overlooked or underdeveloped. Be encouraged to embrace intimacy and understanding, and the gift of being needed can bring a powerful shift in your relationships and help you build a world of meaningful connections. Be focused on collectively cultivating the bonds that may enrich your life today.
Sing to God, sing praises to his name; lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts; his name is the Lord; exult before him! Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land. - Psalm 68:4-6 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we commence our new series, One Another-ing. This week Pastor Neli delves into the essence of true friendship based on the biblical passage from the book of John. What is unconditional love and mutual support in friendships? Genuine friendship starts with experiencing Christ's love and friendship, forming an unbreakable foundation. It’s important to seek solutions and hope in Christ when facing vulnerability within relationships. Be encouraged to cultivate relationships grounded in empathy, trust, and a shared commitment to walking towards healing and growth together.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, The Sacred Space. This week Pastor Neli stresses the need to build a strong foundation on God's teachings to weather life's storms and trials. We may acknowledge that storms and trials are inevitable but we can navigate the storms with a resilient faith and trust in God's plan. Have you considered how you navigate life's challenges?
But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. - Matthew 6:6-8 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, The Sacred Space. This week Pastor Neli emphasises the solitude in the life of Jesus, and how it can benefit us as well. Solitude is not about being alone but finding moments to connect with God, seek His guidance, and reassess our life's direction. It allows us to recognise the rhythm of life and find rest in the midst of life's challenges. By practicing solitude, we can prepare ourselves for major tasks, build healthy relationships, and let God shape our character before seeking platforms or promotions. Solitude is a vital practice for finding strength, peace, and direction in our journey with God.
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, The Sacred Space. This week Samantha speaks about our connection and relationship with God. Have you reflected on your relationship with God? Without relationship with Jesus, we toil in vain. There is a beauty of Gods presence and vulnerability that he wants to walk together with us. How do you respond to God when He invites up to be with Him?
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold[a] of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.- Psalm 27:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, The Sacred Space. This week Pastor Henry speaks about our internal and external behaviours and responses to different scenarios around us. Do you want to live a fruitful life? What is the root cause of your fruitfulness? God wants us to be active participants in His kingdom building vineyard. What part is God inviting you to play in His great story?
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.’ And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?” - Matthew 21:38-40 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, The Generosity Effect. This week Pastor Neli helps us realise our source of generosity. In order to trust God with our finances, we must put Him first. You do not need to fear when God is your source. Are you willing to trust God in everything, including being your source of generosity?
And she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.” And Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go and do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it and bring it to me, and afterward make something for yourself and your son. For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘The jar of flour shall not be spent, and the jug of oil shall not be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain upon the earth.’” - 1 Kings 17:12-14 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, The Generosity Effect. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on how we may priorities our finances. Have you ever considered what you lean on as your safety net? We tend to worry sometimes about money because we think it belongs to us but are you willing to let God have full control of your finances?
And Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, only with difficulty will a rich person enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” - Matthew 19:23-26 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, The Generosity Effect. This week Pastor Neli talks about the building blocks that make up a fruitful storehouse. Have you ever thought of money as a sensitive topic? How do you prioritise your finances? When we prioritise God in giving, we are blessed until there is no more need and are promised His protection and fruitfulness. Does God have the priority in your fiancés and resources?
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. - Malachi 3:10 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, The Generosity Effect. This week Pastor Neli talks about money and how this is connected to our heart. Our heart is often connected to the way we use our finances. Being generous with money is not based on an amount you give but the capacity of your heart. What is God’s heart around finances? If you trust God, you will see fruitfulness is all areas of your life. Who is Lord of your finances?
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. - 2 Corinthians 9:7-8 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on our calling with regards to the way we engage with our community. Deeper callings require deeper friendships, revelation, and conviction. There is power in proximity when others see your faith up close. How does your public faith match your private faith?
Daniel answered and said: “Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him. - Daniel 2:20-22 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Sam shares a powerful message reminding us on how we ought to represent God in our daily lives. Who do we stand for and how is our representation glorifying God? Who is pouring into us and where we are to pour out in the overflow. Coming together in church is important, that we are re-aligned again to know who is pouring into us and how to pour out of us being vessels. Pour out and be in positions where you can pour out and see God's glory amongst the people around you. Who do we stand for and how is our representation reflecting God's glory? And you his son,Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored. - Daniel 5:22-23 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Pastor Neli shares how we can be a salt and light in our society. We are called to be a salt amidst the hurt and light that will shine forth out of the tombs and dens. How public is your faith in Christ?
Then, at break of day, the king arose and went in haste to the den of lions. As he came near to the den where Daniel was, he cried out in a tone of anguish. The king declared to Daniel, “O Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not harmed me, because I was found blameless before him; and also before you, O king, I have done no harm. -Daniel 6:19-22 (ESV)
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Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Pastor Neli talks about how God can open your heart for the sake of others. Is it easier to believe in God’s capacity but not believe in God, that he is Lord over all? Is Jesus sovereign and supreme over every area of your life? Be a kingdom representation where ever God has called you.
While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, “O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.” Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws. - Daniel 4:31-33 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Pastor Tina shares the importance of not quitting. Do you succumb to the practises of society? Do you know who you are in Christ Jesus? The trials we go through help us to understand God more but don’t just stay in your suffering. You are an over comer and you will endure. What does conviction, adoration, passion, and endurance look like in your life?
Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste. He declared to his counselors, “Did we not cast three men bound into the fire?” They answered and said to the king, “True, O king.” He answered and said, “But I see four men unbound, walking in the midst of the fire, and they are not hurt; and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods.” - Daniel 3:24:25 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, A Light in Babylon. This week Pastor Neli discusses what can happen when we discover the purpose and meaning behind why God us put us on this earth. Have you ever asked the question, “What am I doing with my life?” Don’t live by accident but rather live a life based on God’s purpose for you. Embrace Gods calling and live excellently for His glory.
But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king's food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself. - Daniel 1:8 (ESV)
Join us in Brisbane Central as we welcome special guest Dr Adam Claasen to bring us the Word of God. This week Dr Adam Classen speaks to us about about some of the faith versus science myths. Faith and science are not opposing world views but enhances our understanding of who God is. Are you willing to have your understanding challenged today?
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! - Matthew 23:37 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Gone Fishing. This week Pastor Neli continues with the pillars of the Gospel, focusing on restoration. There is a purpose behind your redemption. We can have eternal life in Jesus, not just life forever, but forever with Him, and fulfilment in Him. If you want God’s eternal life, are you willing to trust Him with your all?
No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him. They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever. - Revelations 22:3-5 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central for a special Resurrection Sunday service. Today Pastor Neli tells of the redemption story with regards to Resurrection Sunday. See how the resurrection of Christ can change our minds, give grace to our hearts, and encourage our lives missionally. Are you willing to receive God and see that He is worthy of all our surrender?
And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed. And he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.” And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them, and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. - Mark 16:5-8 (ESV)
Join us for a special Good Friday Service. Today Pastor Neli reveals the death of Christ through fact, reason, and motive. Why did God forsake Jesus on the Cross? God puts his righteousness on us but why did Jesus go to extreme lengths to die for us?
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised,and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”
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But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last. Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying, “Certainly this man was innocent!” And all the crowds that had assembled for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts. And all his acquaintances and the women who had followed him from Galilee stood at a distance watching these things. Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, who had not consented to their decision and action; and he was looking for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid. It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning. The women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. - Luke 23:28-56 (ESV)
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And when the hour came, he reclined at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. For I tell you I will not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves. For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. But behold, the hand of him who betrays me is with me on the table. For the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!” And they began to question one another, which of them it could be who was going to do this. A dispute also arose among them, as to which of them was to be regarded as the greatest. And he said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them, and those in authority over them are called benefactors. But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves. For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. - Luke 22:14-30 (ESV)
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It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest him by stealth and kill him, for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.” And while he was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he was reclining at table, a woman came with an alabaster flask of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and she broke the flask and poured it over his head. There were some who said to themselves indignantly, “Why was the ointment wasted like that? For this ointment could have been sold for more than three hundred denarii and given to the poor.” And they scolded her. But Jesus said, “Leave her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want, you can do good for them. But you will not always have me. She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” - Mark 14:1-9 (ESV)
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Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven. But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness. Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives. “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
“And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.” And he told them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. As soon as they come out in leaf, you see for yourselves and know that the summer is already near. So also, when you see these things taking place, you know that the kingdom of God is near. Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all has taken place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. - Luke 21:10-33 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, Gone Fishing. Pastor Neli continues to discuss the different facets of the Gospel, with this week focusing on the fall. The fall breaches the relationship we have with God. Are you willing to let go of your "fruit" and your "fig leaves", and trust God with your life?
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the LordGod called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.” He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” - Genesis 3:8-11 (ESV)
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On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry. And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs. And he said to it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard it. And they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. And he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. And he was teaching them and saying to them, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” And the chief priests and the scribes heard it and were seeking a way to destroy him, for they feared him, because all the crowd was astonished at his teaching. And when evening came they[a] went out of the city. As they passed by in the morning, they saw the fig tree withered away to its roots. And Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. - Mark 11:12-23 (ESV)
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And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it said, “Behold, he is calling Elijah.” And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.” And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. - Mark 15:33-37 (ESV)
And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine - Luke 23:33-36 (ESV)
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but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home. - John 19:25-27 (ESV)
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One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” - Luke 23:39-43 (ESV)
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And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments. And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!” The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine and saying, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” There was also an inscription over him, “This is the King of the Jews.” - Luke 23:33-38 (ESV)
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And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. - Genesis 1:30-31 (ESV)
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And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him. But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’ For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” - Luke 23:27-31 (ESV)
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So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. - John 19:16-17 (ESV)
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So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. And the soldiers led him away inside the palace (that is, the governor's headquarters),and they called together the whole battalion. And they clothed him in a purple cloak, and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on him. And they began to salute him, “Hail, King of the Jews!” And they were striking his head with a reed and spitting on him and kneeling down in homage to him. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him. And they led him out to crucify him. - Mark 15:15-20 (ESV)
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Pilate then called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them, “You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him. Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him. I will therefore punish and release him.” But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”— a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city and for murder. Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus, but they kept shouting, “Crucify, crucify him!” A third time he said to them, “Why? What evil has he done? I have found in him no guilt deserving death. I will therefore punish and release him.” But they were urgent, demanding with loud cries that he should be crucified. And their voices prevailed. So Pilate decided that their demand should be granted. He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will. - Luke 23:13-25 (ESV)
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Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly. - Matthew 26:69-75 (ESV)
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar. Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.” And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. And he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So they went both of them together. - Genesis 22:4-6 (ESV)
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Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end. Now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward. At last two came forward and said, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to rebuild it in three days.’” And the high priest stood up and said, “Have you no answer to make? What is it that these men testify against you?” But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, “I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.” Jesus said to him, “You have said so. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Then the high priest tore his robes and said, “He has uttered blasphemy. What further witnesses do we need? You have now heard his blasphemy. What is your judgment?” They answered, “He deserves death.” Then they spit in his face and struck him. And some slapped him, saying, “Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?” - Matthew 26:57-68 (ESV)
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And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.” - Mark 14:32-42 (ESV)
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Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled. And he said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man also have kept this man from dying?”
Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.” When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.” The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” - John 11:32-44 (ESV)
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“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” This figure of speech Jesus used with them, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. - John 10:1-10 (ESV)
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As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” - John 9:1-11 (ESV)
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“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. - Joshua 24:14 (ESV)
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but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”]] - John 8:1-11 (ESV)
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He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” - Luke 18:9-14 (ESV)
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“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. And he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in anguish in this flame.’ But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.’ And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” - Luke 16:19-31 (ESV)
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Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.” - Luke 10:38-42 (ESV)
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And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How do you read it?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this, and you will live.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was, and when he saw him, he had compassion. He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him. And the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper, saying, ‘Take care of him, and whatever more you spend, I will repay you when I come back.’ Which of these three, do you think, proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell among the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” And Jesus said to him, “You go, and do likewise.” - Luke 10:25-37 (ESV)
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And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” - Mark 16:15-18 (ESV)
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When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans, to make preparations for him. But the people did not receive him, because his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” But he turned and rebuked them. And they went on to another village. - Luke 9:51-56 (ESV)
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Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away. - Matthew 19:13-15 (ESV)
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Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times. “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants. When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made. So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.’ And out of pity for him, the master of that servant released him and forgave him the debt. But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, ‘Pay what you owe.’ So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay you.’ He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt. When his fellow servants saw what had taken place, they were greatly distressed, and they went and reported to their master all that had taken place. Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. And should not you have had mercy on your fellow servant, as I had mercy on you?’ And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers, until he should pay all his debt. So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” - Matthew 18:21-35 (ESV)
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“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish. - Matthew 18:10-14 (ESV)
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When they came to Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma tax went up to Peter and said, “Does your teacher not pay the tax?” He said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tax? From their sons or from others?” And when he said, “From others,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are free. However, not to give offense to them, go to the sea and cast a hook and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth you will find a shekel.[a] Take that and give it to them for me and for yourself.” - Matthew 17:24-27 (ESV)
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No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything. - 2 Timothy 2:4-7 (ESV)
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And when they came to the crowd, a man came up to him and, kneeling before him, said, “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he has seizures and he suffers terribly. For often he falls into the fire, and often into the water. And I brought him to your disciples, and they could not heal him.” And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.” And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.” - Matthew 17:14-20 (ESV)
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And they were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. And taking the twelve again, he began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death and deliver him over to the Gentiles. And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise.”
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.” Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” And they said to him, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized, but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.” And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John. And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” - Mark 10:32-45 (ESV)
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And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.’” And he said to him, “Teacher, all these I have kept from my youth.” And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is[a] to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” And they were exceedingly astonished, and said to him, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” Peter began to say to him, “See, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.” - Mark 10:17-31 (ESV)
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And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.”
And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it. For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.” - Mark 8:31-38 (ESV)
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The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.” - John 11:8-10 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Miracles. This week Pastor Neli reveals to us the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead. How well do you know God? Do you know God well enough to put your faith in Him? God wants more than just a religious knowledge of Him, He wants to have an intimate relationship with you. What might be holding you back from having a deeper relationship with God?
Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, by this time there will be an odor, for he has been dead four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?” - John 11:38-40 (ESV)
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But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So, when he heard that Lazarus[a] was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was. - John 11:4-6 (ESV)
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So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.” They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” - John 9:10-15 (ESV)
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and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” - John 9:7-9 (ESV)
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Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, - John 9:6-7 (ESV)
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Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” - John 9:3-5 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Miracles. This week Pastor Neli helps to see God for who He truly is. Are you working towards God’s plan for your life? You only discover your purpose in life when you recognise what you’re sent here to do. Where do you see Jesus in your life?
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing. - John 9:5-7 (ESV)
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As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. - John 9:1-3 (ESV)
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Now when it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the day is now over; send the crowds away to go into the villages and buy food for themselves.” But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.” - Matthew 14:15-16 (ESV)
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And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. - Matthew 14:12-14 (ESV)
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Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread always.” Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. - John 6:32-36 (ESV)
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Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.” - John 6:26-27 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our series, Miracles. This week Pastor Neli talks about the miracle of Jesus walking on water. Have you ever set off without Christ and and become overwhelmed by the storm? Do you recognise Jesus in your life and what He is calling you to do? If your “boat” is your life, can you say that Jesus is in control of your life or have you pushed off without Him? How will get you through the storm?
The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened.But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” - John 6:18-20 (ESV)
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When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. When they had rowed about three or four miles,[a] they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going. - John 6:16-21 (ESV)
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And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself. - John 6:12-15 (ESV)
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Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” - John 6:10-12 (ESV)
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One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” - John 6:8-9 (ESV)
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Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” - John 6:5-7 (ESV)
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After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. - John 6:1-3 (ESV)
Join us as Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Miracles. This week Pastor Neli tells the story of the feeding of the 5000. If you were given the responsibility to feed a large amount of people, how would you do it and what would you serve? Is the God that you walk with, enough? When God is your daily living bread, you will always have enough. How will you steward that which God has blessed you with? Do you trust God with your bread to be your overflowing source?
Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” - John 6:11-12 (ESV)
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One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy. And Jesus responded to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?” But they remained silent. Then he took him and healed him and sent him away. And he said to them, “Which of you, having a son[a] or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?” And they could not reply to these things. - Luke 14:1-6 (ESV)
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Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! Sin no more, that nothing worse may happen to you.” The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. And this was why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.” - John 5:14-17 (ESV)
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Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. - John 5:8-13 (ESV)
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One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. Now that day was the Sabbath. - John 5:5-9 (ESV)
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After this there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic[a] called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” - John 5:1-6 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Miracles. This week Pastor Neli encourages us from the Book of John as we reflect on God’s healing. God wants to make you whole. There is a wholeness that comes when you recognise the source of the wholeness. We get to enjoy everything when we recognise we are nothing without him. Is there anything that is blocking you from your miracles and what God has planned for you?
The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked. - John 5:7-9 (ESV)
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and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him. - John 2:10-11 (ESV)
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When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” - John 2:9-10 (ESV)
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Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. - John 2:7-8 (ESV)
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His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. - John 2:5-7 (ESV)
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On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” - John 2:1-5 (ESV)
Joins us at Brisbane Central as we are join by International City Church Pastor Jonathan Mok. This week Pastor Jonathan helps us to unravel the mystery of one of the first Miracles Jesus had performed, turning water into wine. Do you believe in miracles? Miracles are signs that point to Jesus. The divine reality behind the miracles is more important than the miracle itself.
Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.”So they took it. When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew) - John 2:7-9 (ESV)
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And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. - Luke 7:13-17
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Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his mother. - Luke 7:11-15
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Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was recovering. So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household. This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee. - John 4:50-54
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So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. So Jesus said to him, “Unless you[a] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. - John 4:46-50
Join us at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, Miracles. This week Samantha helps us to understand our responsibility to exercise our faith in Jesus. Do you have enough faith to go to God as your source? God understand your needs and desires and knows the miracles required. Sometimes we’re not willing to have our faith stretched while waiting for the miracles or prayers to be answered. Let’s not focus on the miracle but rather on the miracle worker. Are you ready to see Jesus in a fresh and new way?
So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. - John 4:46-47 (ESV)
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After the two days he departed for Galilee. (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast. - John 4:43-45
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, Christmas Unwrapped.This week on Christmas Eve, Pastor Neli refers to the past, present, and future to determine what we are missing during the Christmas season. How many clues will it take to convince you of God’s goodness, and His love for you in your life? Will you see the clues, radically obey, and trust Him trajectory?
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. - Isaiah 9:6 (ESV)
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Bianca as we delve into God's word today, reading from Matthew 1:21
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Luke 2:11
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Bianca as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 1:41
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Matthew 12:40
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Bianca as we delve into God's word today, reading from Matthew 16:20
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, Christmas Unwrapped. This week Pastor Neli focuses on unwrapping the real meaning of Christmas, looking at the name Immanuel, God with us. What is your focus during this Christmas season? It’s one thing to experience God but another thing to meet Him personally. Christmas is about getting near to Him and out of that flows loves towards family and friends. He has come down to receive you, will you come close to receive Him?
She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us). - Matthew 1:21-23 (ESV)
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Stephanie as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 10:11
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Bianca as we delve into God's word today, reading from Revelation 22:16
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Stephanie as we delve into God's word today, reading from Acts 2:36
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 14:6
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Stephanie as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 9:6
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Revelation 1:8
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Stephanie as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 53:3
Join as at Brisbane Central as we start our new series, Christmas Unwrapped. This week Pastor Neli focuses on unwrapping the real meaning of Christmas starting with Logos, the written word of God. Logos is an anchor towards the authority to the one doing the writing. What is it that anchors your time, talents, and treasures? God is the true Logos to which we centre our lives. Don’t allow the noise of the society we live in to draw us away from the truth that is the Logos.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:1-5 (ESV)
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 40:5
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Stephanie as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 15:1 & 5
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 6:48, 51
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Samantha as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 28:16
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 7:14.
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Samantha as we delve into God's word today, reading from 1 Timothy 2:5-6.
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 1:29
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue in our current series, Owned. This week Pastor Neli talks about what it looks like to be a son of God. We are to pray, give, and go. Listen to God by connecting your spirit to His. Have you built a culture of giving or a culture of obligation in your life? If you are building what God has called you to build, He will provide. Do you trust God wholeheartedly?
give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” - Luke 6:38 (ESV)
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Samantha as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 8:12.
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from Isaiah 59:20
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Samantha as we delve into God's word today, reading from Luke 1:35.
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Mike as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 8:58
Advent is the celebration of the coming. Therefore, in preparation of celebrating the birth and coming of the Saviour of the world, we will focus on the names of Jesus.
Let's hear from Samantha as we delve into God's word today, reading from John 1:14.
Join us as at Brisbane Central as we continue with our series, Owned. This week Pastor Neli discusses the differences between being a son and servant of God when it comes to building His kingdom. What are you building with your life? The things you do today will affect the generations to come. When you consider the way you lead or parent, how are you building? Are you building attitudes of sons or servants?
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. - Romans 8:15-17 (ESV)
Join us as at Brisbane Central as we continue with our series, Owned. This week Pastor Neli discusses the differences between being a son and servant of God when it comes to building His kingdom. What are you building with your life? The things you do today will affect the generations to come. When you consider the way you lead or parent, how are you building? Are you building attitudes of sons or servants?
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. - Romans 8:15-17 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Owned. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on what God is desiring to build in us. We are called to live differently. We are called to be a non-anxious presence as we carry the calling to be a royal priesthood. How do you shape the culture around you as you walk in God’s peace? Will you put your trust in God and embrace the calling to be a royal priesthood in your life today?
Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem. And the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem the holy city, while nine out of ten[a] remained in the other towns. And the people blessed all the men who willingly offered to live in Jerusalem. - Nehemiah 11:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we start a new series, Owned. This week Pastor Neli discusses how we can take ownership of what God is building. Are we using our lives to build walls that will outlast us? What you build in this life, will it echo for generations to come? Knowing that we are called to a digital Babylon, are you built to last? How might we be builders with an eternal mindset?
Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep.- Psalms 127:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, On The Job. This week Pastor Neli talks about what it means to be excellent for God. If you are made in the image of God, then how best do you reflect that image excellently? We are called to walk in a spirit of excellence. Excellence does not happened accidentally. When you stand out, do so to the glory of God. What will it take for you to live an excellent life?
And the king spoke with them, and among all of them none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. Therefore they stood before the king. And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom. - Daniel 1:19-20 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, On The Job. This week Pastor shows us examples of generosity and how we should live in light of this. How can we be a shining light and example to those around us? You can’t be generous according to Jesus, until you experience His generosity first. Have you found yourself in wonder and awe at what God has done in your life? Generosity is not just an act, it starts in our hearts. How can you be an example of a living God through your generosity?
This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:12-13 (ESV)
Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, On The Job. This week at Pastor Neli helps us to understand the importance of friendship. God is inviting you to enable Him to be the master gardener that will prune you so you can bare much fruit. This is all apart of friendship. Who has God called you to value their worth, know more deeply, and love sacrificially?
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:12-13 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, On The Job. This week we are honoured to have Pastor Timothy Loh, Senior Pastor of Every Nation Malaysia. God is the engineer and architect and put lives together so you can do greater things together for God. Think about what we do in the marketplace and how we can shine for God. Are you an ambassador ready to boldly proclaim the Gospel as you ought to speak?
Do all things without grumbling or disputing, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world - Philippians 2:14-15 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, The Greatest Hits. This week Pastor Neli is joined by Dr Wallace Panlilio, expert in research based learning principles and techniques, to discuss how we interrupt wisdom and learning. The benchmark for wisdom is the scriptures but what does wisdom look like through a biblical lens? Godly wisdom delights in God’s ways. The gift of God is wisdom, but the choice is yours. Will you choose to live in wisdom or will you choose your own way?
Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. - Psalms 37:3-4 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Greatest Hits. This week Pastor Henry teaches us how we can Praise the Lord. Praising God is not just what happens on a Sunday during service but rather in our daily lives. God is so much bigger than what happens to us. When was the last time your were grateful and thankful to God? Choose to adore and obey God in your every day life as praise is our genuine response to the goodness of God.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. - Psalms 146:1-2 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Greatest Hits. This week Pastor Neli talks about how we can meditate in the Psalms. What does it mean to meditate? To meditate is to find God in deeper and unseen places. Try slowing down for loving union with God, hear God's word and let it transform your heart.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. - Psalms 1:1-2 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Greatest Hits. This week Pastor Neli talks about how we can meditate in the Psalms. What does it mean to meditate? To meditate is to find God in deeper and unseen places. Try slowing down for loving union with God, hear God's word and let it transform your heart.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. - Psalms 1:1-2 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, The Greatest Hits where we discuss the different genres of the Book of Psalms. This week Pastor Neli talks to us about what it means to lament. Have you ever cried out to God? Do you tend to lament towards God or do you stand and point the finger at Him? Choose to turn towards God in prayer and bring your complaints to Him, ask boldly and choose to put your trust in Him.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer. All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. - Psalms 6:8-10 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, The Greatest Hits where we discuss the different genres of the Book of Psalms. This week Pastor Neli talks to us about what it means to lament. Have you ever cried out to God? Do you tend to lament towards God or do you stand and point the finger at Him? Choose to turn towards God in prayer and bring your complaints to Him, ask boldly and choose to put your trust in Him.
Depart from me, all you workers of evil, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping. The Lord has heard my plea; the Lord accepts my prayer. All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled; they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment. - Psalms 6:8-10 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the destiny which God’s has promised. The Bible reveals God to be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and who ever does not honour Jesus Christ as God, does not honour God. The true promised land is in the presence of God. It is not a geographical location. If we are to experience our promised land, we must work to stay in God’s presence. Are you willing to give up what you think is best for what God knows is far better than your best?
And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there." Deuteronomy 34:4 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the destiny which God’s has promised. The Bible reveals God to be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and who ever does not honour Jesus Christ as God, does not honour God. The true promised land is in the presence of God. It is not a geographical location. If we are to experience our promised land, we must work to stay in God’s presence. Are you willing to give up what you think is best for what God knows is far better than your best?
And the Lord said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, ‘I will give it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there." Deuteronomy 34:4 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Henry helps us reflect on the journey of Moses with the Israelites. Have you ever come to a point when you wanted to quit? Our thoughts and attachment to the past can at times keep us captive from moving forward into all that God has for us. Consider the people that surround you. Are they helping you draw closer or further away from God? Who has God placed your amongst to journey alongside?
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. - Number 11:16-17 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week pastor Henry helps us to understand the priority we give God. Have you ever tried to seek God with a different priority? Sometimes God can be a third option for to the areas of our lives we need help. What daily rhythms do you have in your life that build, feed, and strengthen your soul? Do you trust God enough for your daily portion?
And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them, saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.” - Exodus 15:25-26 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Neli and Tina help us to understand our transitional and spiritual journey. When we progress in terms of God’s will we understand we have an eternal God who has an eternal perspective. The healthier we are in the deep part of our life the greater our journey will grow in Him. What does God desire to do in your life to help you progress in everything that He has for you?
And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” - Exodus 14:13-14 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Neli teaches us how we can live within our limits so we prevent burning out. You are of no value if you are burnt out. There is a reason God lays out a pattern to include a holy day of rest. How can you honour God by setting limitations so that you don’t burn out but burn brightly for His glory?
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you. If you do this, God will direct you, you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.” - Exodus 18:21-23 (ESV)
Join us as we commence our new series, The Deeper Life. This week Pastor Neli teaches us how we can develop a deeper life in God through the lens of the life of Moses. How is your soul, mind, will, and emotions? Do you have the right measure in place to recognise your soul needs attention? The Holy Spirit wants your attention. Have you considered turning away from the things that stress you and turn towards God who bring you into a place of rest for your soul?
Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” - Exodus 3:13-14 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Right On The Money. This week Pastor Neli talks to us about the importance of money. We are called to manage our finances well. We are meant to be the steward of what God has blessed us with but who is the master of your finances? What is the kingdom vision God has put in your life? How can your money go beyond yourself in a way that honours your master?
“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.” - Luke 16:10-13 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, Right On The Money. This week Pastor Neli speak to use about the different aspects of stewardship. Everything in life belong to God and is an opportunity for stewardship. Are you stewarding the money God has blessed you with in a way that honours Him in your giving, saving, and spending? How will you steward what God has blessed you with today?
So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. - Matthew 25:28-29 (ESV)
Join us as we have special guest speaker Senior Pastor Joshua Opadiya (Every Nation Sydney City Church) bring our message today. Pastor Joshua encourages us about a new season God has prepared. No matter where you have been or how you have been, God is doing a new thing in this moment. Don’t let the past keep you from the rewards God is preparing now.
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven - Ecclesiastes 3:1 (ESV)
Join us as we continue in our current series, Right On The Money. This week Pastor Neli speaks to us about biblical generosity. When we give ourselves to the church that is Gospel-Centred, and to His causes that are Kingdom Centred, we never find ourselves at a loss. Do your values line up with the way you use your finances? You can tell the way someone has been transformed by the generosity of God, by looking at their own generosity.
And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.” And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham. - Luke 19:8-9 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, Right On The Money. This week Pastor Neli helps us identify how we might perceive the blessings from God in the context of money. What is your master? Is it God or is it money? God is your source of provision so worship him with all you have. Money is a magnification of what’s in your spirit so looking within and identify who is the master of your money?
No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. - Matthew 6:24 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, We Love This City. Henry Peterson helps us to understand that we are to build our community through building relationships. The foundational relationship to build our community begins on our own personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Do you look for opportunities to pray for your community? How active are you in your relational prayer life?
So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.” - Nehemiah 4:13-14 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, We Love This City. This week Pastor Neli helps us to determine the importance on where we are called. When you work where you are, your work becomes your worship. God calls you based not only on what you can do but it’s more about where you are called and the people in that place. Is the work that God has called you to do a great work? Be obedient in the place God has called you.
And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.” - Nehemiah 4:19-20 (ESV)
Join us in person or online as we continue with our current series, We Love This City. This week Pastor Neli Helps us realise how we can worship God by bringing excellence in the work we do. How are your day to day activities extending the kingdom of God? Who has God called you to build along side and who are you to be as builder?
And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work. - Nehemiah 2:18 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, We Love this City. This week Pastor Neli starts our new series by talking about a spiritual wall that God has called you to build around your city and your life, a wall to protect from the enemy, preserve God’s glory, and to provide peace. The person that God uses has a burden for His people, and a vision for and commitment to His purpose. So be encouraged to build the wall that God’s called you to build today.
Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples, but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’ They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. - Nehemiah 1:8-10 (ESV)
Join us online or in person as we continue with our current series, The Mystery of Us. This week Pastor Neli continues with our focus on spiritual warfare by explaining the use of the armour of God. Do you trust the Lord with all your hearts or trust in your own capacity? Take the word of God and yield it against the enemy when we pray so when we pray the word of God we yield it like a sword.
Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak. - Ephesians 6:14-20 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, The Mystery of Us. This week Pastor Neli helps us determine how we can battle and defend ourselves in spiritual warfare. There is no maturity in our Christianity if we isolate. The best way to grow in God is to stay connected to his church. So put on the armour of God, doing all you can, and stand firm.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. - Ephesians 6:11-12 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, The Mystery of Us. This week pastor Neli helps us to identify how we can walk in our new self in Christ. We should worship God with our integrity and excellence. Will you choose today to follow the new life that God has for you or will you hold onto the old life?
assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. - Ephesians 4:21-24 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our series, The Mystery of Us. This week Henry Peterson talks to us about our relationships with God and to those around us. How does the biblical lens look when it comes to relating to others? Trust, honesty, and humility are essential in building strong and healthy relationships with the people around us as we reflect to them the kind of relationship we are having with God our Father.
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. - Ephesians 5:31-33 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, The Mystery of Us. Pastor Neli continues to reflect from the Book of Ephesians, this week focussing on chapters 3 and 4. Grace by nature is undeserved. We don’t deserve God’s grace but He gives it to us. True worship happens wether you’re suffering or not. He is glorified while we walk along side one another.
And this is God’s plan: Both Gentiles and Jews who believe the Good News share equally in the riches inherited by God’s children. Both are part of the same body, and both enjoy the promise of blessings because they belong to Christ Jesus. By God’s grace and mighty power, I have been given the privilege of serving him by spreading this Good News. - Ephesians 3:6-7 (NLT)
Join us as we continue our series, The Mystery of Us. This week Pastor Neli reflects from the Book of Ephesians chapter 2 as we focus on following God rather than the course of this world. Do your actions flow out of your thankfulness for the grace that God has given you?
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. - Ephesians 2:8-9 (ESV)
Join us as we start a new series, The Mystery of Us. This week Pastor Neli helps us to develop a deeper relationship with God's word starting in Ephesians 1. What ever you believe will determine how you live but be encouraged that God wants His power to be upon you and living through you.
For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. - Ephesians 1:15-21 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our series, The Road to Sunday. This week Pastor Neli and members of Every Nation Brisbane family provide a creative story about the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.” And they remembered his words, and returning from the tomb they told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. - Luke 24:1-9 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series, The Road To Sunday. This week Adam Longfield goes in-depth about Passover and the blood that was shed by our king Jesus. How can you be in right standing with God and know what it means to be born again and enter His Kingdom?
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. - Matthew 26:26-28 (NIV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, The Others. This week Pastor Neli speaks to us about parents and children and the purpose for these roles. God wants to use us to build in the life of others especially those who will become our offspring. What are you building with your life? Are we going to disciple our children or will we allow culture to disciple them? As parents are we creating environments where the anointing of the Holy Spirit can flow in our parenting towards our children?
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
- Psalms 127:3-5 (ESV)
Join us live or in person as we continue our series, The Others. This week Pastor Neli helps us to be contempt in the season God has us in, as he talks about marriage and single-hood. When we look at the model for love we should look at how God loves us. How is your intimacy with God? How does “being filled with the Spirit of God” help you to live out in the company that you keep?
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit - Ephesians 5:15-18 (ESV)
Join us in person or online as we commence a new series, "The Others". This week Pastor Neli encourages us how we ought to be towards our neighbour. When we experience the power of God's love in our life, we’ll know how to apply that to others. You’ll only be able to love your neighbour out of the abundance of God’s love and the revelation of God’s love in your life. Are you willing to love God with all you have in how you love your neighbour?
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” - Mark 12:30-31 (ESV)
Join us in person or online as we continue our series, A Church That. This week Henry Peterson helps us to look at what God does in relation to the design of families. Whoever does the will of the father and loves God, this is family. God has a design and a plan for families. How might you see more of God in your family?
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. - Colossians 3:12-14 (ESV)
Join us online or in person as we continue our current series, A Church That. Pastor Neli and Campus Minister Samantha Thomas talk about God's Love for the next generation. Are we willing to be a people and a church who still has hope for the next generation? God is utilising you to reach the next generation but what role will you play? What kind of report is your life for the current generation?
Fear seized them all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has visited his people!” And this report about him spread through the whole of Judea and all the surrounding country. - Luke 7:16-17 (ESV)
Join us online or in person as we continue our current series, A Church That. This week Pastor Neli talks to us about making disciples and whether we see this as a duty or a delight. Before we make disciples, we need to meet God so we can be a disciple first. There is no making disciples without coming back to your first love, coming back to Him who is our priority, and having his vision so we can see things from His perspective. Are you imitating the way you follow Jesus in life?
And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)
Join us in person or online as we continue with our current series, A Church That. This week Henry Peterson helps us assess how we reach out to others using three parables from The Bible. What connection do we have with the lost? Who are we befriending and building with relationally? We cannot reach out to others unless we ourselves have been reached by God and experienced Him in lives first.
And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’ Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance. - Luke 15:6-7 (ESV)
Join us as we start a new series, "A Church That...". This week Pastor Neli talks to us about what it means to truly worship God. A church is not just a building. It’s who we are and Worship is more than just singing. Real worship happens in places of disappointment and trial when things don’t work out the way we want them to. Be encouraged that God is more interested in your heart rather than the notes you sing.
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. - Luke 24:25-27 (ESV)
Join us in person or online as we continue with our current series, Abide. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect personally how our lives line up with the word of God. Do you believe that God can do what he has done in his word, in your life? If you don’t have the word of God in you, you will be defeated. Will you trust God with your life today?
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. - John 17:6-8 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Abide. This week Pastor Neli talks about the stretching and cutting it takes to bear good fruit. If you abide in the vine you will be fully satisfied and it’s through your life, others will taste and see that the vine is good. Will you trust God’s “pruning”, that you would live a fruitful life?
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. - John 15:1-2 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, Abide. This week Pastor Neli brings us closer to the Word of God as it sets us free from stumbling. Jesus is the light that will light our paths in the darkness. He shed his blood for us so that we may be set free. Have you considered how you're living with a Kingdom mindset?
So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me. And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him." As he was saying these things, many believed in him. So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - John 8:28-32 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, Abide. This week Pastor Neli compares the word of God to bread in how it can nourish and sustain us. Have you thought, If life doesn’t work out the way you want it, will you still worship God? When you consume the Word of God you will feel fulfilled. How are we intending to feed our spirits today?
As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever." Jesus said these things in the synagogue, as he taught at Capernaum - John 6:57-59 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, Abide. This week Pastor Neli talks about how the Word of God can bring life. When we’re able to turn down the noise of how the world defines life, our soul cries out for more meaning. Have you every questioned if there was ever more to life? Are you fully alive in the life God has given you?
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. - John 5:24 (ESV)
Join us as we start our new series for 2022, Abide. In order to know and understand who Jesus was, Pastor Neli takes us back to the beginning. Do you desire to be near to God? There are times we need to turn down the noise around us in order to hear and live the word of God. How close are you to Jesus, the living word?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:1-5 (ESV)
Join us for a special Christmas service as part of our current series, A Christmas Story. If Jesus was never born, our lives could be very different. There was one who was born 2000 years ago who desires to speak new words over you to shape your future. This is the greatest gift you can receive this Christmas. Have you accepted true life in Christ or are you trying to live well wrapped but unfulfilled inside?
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. - John 1:1-5 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, A Christmas Story. This week Pastor Neli helps us look for signs so we don't miss Christmas. What if we miss the impact of Jesus in our lives, at the centre of the message of Christmas? When we miss Jesus we miss the real meaning of Christmas. Let's not be so caught up in the world that we miss Christmas. How will you keep Jesus at the centre of your life this Christmas?
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.” - Matthew 2:1-2 (ESV)
Join us for our new series, A Christmas Story. This week Pastor Neli poses the question, “What if Jesus had never been born?” How would we know the truth if the truth was never born? What if God had never existed? Would the world be any different? If Jesus is alive in you, would the world be different because you came?
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God. - Galatians 4:6-7 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on our relationships as we compare to the friendships of Paul. Consider the relationships and friendships you have. Who you surround yourself with will determine your direction. God will help you to discern His will for the relationships you keep. How is God glorified and seen in your closet relationships?
I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them. For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive. - Romans 16:17-18 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli teaches us how we should love well, serve well, and how to finish well before we start something new. What has God called you to finish?
I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf, that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, so that by God's will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company. May the God of peace be with you all. Amen. - Romans 15:30-33 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli teaches us about our strengths and how we can be a blessing to your community. You have been called to a relational life of discipleship and God has given you strengths but how are you using these to help others? What are your strengths are who is God calling you to care for?
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. - Romans 15:1-2 (ESV)
Join us at Every Nation Logan as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. Have you had difficulties deciding what is right and wrong? This week Henry Peterson encourages us to seek God’s word to determine His will in the grey areas. Are you willing to let go of everything that causes you to stumble and ask the Holy Spirit how you can honour God in the situations you are faced with?
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. - Romans 14:7-8 (ESV)
Join us at Every Nation Brisbane Central as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. Pastor Neli helps us how we are to approach non-essential matters within Christianity. How do we find God’s will in these grey areas? Are you willing to let go of everything that causes you to stumble and seek God in all circumstances?
For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. - Romans 14:7-8 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli motivates us to wake up from our slumber. Have you ever thought to yourself if you have woken up spiritually? Wake up and get dressed, clothed in Jesus. Put on the armour of light and be encouraged to live awakened today.
Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. - Romans 13:11-12 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli makes us aware of how we should respond in terms of the governance that rules and helps us live our lives. All of Government is under God’s rulership and authority. Let us have God as the centre of our life so that we may learn to govern ourselves under His authority and by His Spirit.
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. - Romans 13:1-2 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli speaks to us about the gifts God has provided us. Each one of us have a gifting that God wants to use for His glory but our gifts are more about how we serve rather than what our gifts are. Let's posture ourselves in humility so we’re able to identify how God has called us to serve.
Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching; the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness. - Romans 12:6-8 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli helps us to see the victory that God has for us by the transformation in our lives. God has a plan and will for our lives, but there are times where we question God's will. If all things belong to Jesus, how will you offer yourself to Him? How might you be transformed by the renewing of your mind?
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect - Romans 12:2 (ESV)
Join us as we continue our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Henry Peterson helps us to realise the importance of being ministers to where God has called us. What sort of effort do you put into being a minister where God has placed you? What does your life reveal about the evidence of God?
Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them. For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? - Romans 11:13-15 (ESV)
Join us as we continue with our current series, Grace Changes Everything. This week Pastor Neli helps us to understand the declarations we make when compared to the life we are leading. How will the people you're connected with relationally hear the Gospel unless you're willing to preach it and show it in your life? Let faith come to you so faith can flow through you. How is your faith in God?
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!” - Romans 10:14-15 (ESV)