TRAC Chapel
116 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago -Listen to The Riverina Anglican College's Chapel messages from College Chaplain, Gareth Tyndall.
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Term 1, Week 10, 2024 – Luke 4vv38-44
April 03, 2024 01:22 - 4 minutes - 4.01 MBHow would you respond if you'd just been raised from the brink of death? I doubt you would cook everyone a meal, but that's what happens in our final scene in Luke 3-4, and it's exactly what should be on our menu as we respond to Jesus. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 8, 2024 – Luke 4vv31-37
March 20, 2024 06:41 - 6 minutes - 6.4 MBJesus has been causing a scene everywhere he goes so far in Luke's Gospel. Is he just a troublemaker or can this scene be believed because Jesus’ authority has been seen? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 6-7, 2024 – Luke 4v14-30
March 13, 2024 01:42 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBOver the last two weeks we've been working through this tense scene in Jesus' hometown, where Jesus is able to move the locals from indifference, to violence, to silence. What could Jesus possibly say that would make us want to jump out of our chairs and kill him, only to then silently let him go on his way? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 5 – Luke 4:1-13
February 28, 2024 02:05 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MBDo you believe in the Devil? More importantly, what if he believes in you? What if he believes that he can easily lead you away from taking God at his word? This was the battle of beliefs that took place for Jesus, the Word of God, who took on these temptations for us in the wilderness and at the cross. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 3, 2024 – Luke 3:23-38
February 15, 2024 00:53 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBFamily likeness is an interesting thing, but sometimes we shape our expectations of people based on this likeness. These family ties can pull at us from different directions and perhaps create confusion. Jesus knows this tension all too well, and part of his ministry was to weave us into God's family as we grow in his likeness. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 2, 2024 – Luke 3:21-22
February 07, 2024 04:04 - 7 minutes - 7.36 MBOne week in and we might already have begun the merry go round of comparing ourselves to others in the classroom or the playground. There is hope to break out of this negative feedback loop, but not until we've compared ourselves to Jesus, the one with whom God is well-pleased. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 1, 2024 – Luke 3:1-20
January 31, 2024 05:49 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBAre you fearful about the year ahead? Fear can be an effective kickstarter, but it's terrible at sustaining change. How can we hope to move forward in 2024 and not be paralysed by fear? John the Baptist and Jesus the King team up in today's passage to bring us both fear and hope. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 8, 2023 – Luke 1vv57-80
November 30, 2023 00:39 - 8 minutes - 8.16 MBChristmas is all about the memories, often of presents we receive! But how often we forget that Christmas never really measures up to our expectations. We need to remember that the tender mercy of our God makes Christmas something we don't want to forget. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 7, 2023 – Luke 1vv39-57
November 22, 2023 00:25 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MBBehind the Scenes Christmas Dad is a mysterious figure who mows lawns, purchases batteries and assembles trampolines long into the night on Christmas Eve. But there is an even more mysterious figure whose glory is in his grunt behind the scenes at that first Christmas. Today, we meet Father God. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 6, 2023 - Luke 1vv26-38
November 15, 2023 04:15 - 8 minutes - 8.25 MBLong before Paul McCartney conceived a vision of his mother, Mary, speaking words of wisdom to him, there was another mother to be, named Mary, whose mind could not conceive that the wisdom of God would be conceived in her. Let's consider how her reasoned faith could come to conclude 'Let it be'. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 5, 2023 - Luke 1vv5-25
November 08, 2023 00:07 - 10 minutes - 9.44 MBWe've all probably got a wacky uncle who overdoes it at Christmas and needs to take a nap by the afternoon. And we've all probably got a patient aunt who will exclaim that our uncle should've known better! Today we meet Jesus' uncle and we'll see that he too should have known better when it comes to the promises of God at Christmas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 1, 2023 – Luke 1vv1-4
October 18, 2023 03:55 - 7 minutes - 7.24 MBAs we begin the countdown to Christmas, our world seems as hectic and unpredictable as ever. As we ask 'what now?' of our world, we find that we are not so different from those of Jesus' world, especially his relatives. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 10, 2023 - Revelation 21-22
September 20, 2023 04:47 - 6 minutes - 5.78 MBOn the occasion of Year 12's Graduation–the day that they could not believe was finally here–we considered another day most people believe will never arrive. However, we will see that because of two other certain days that have come and gone, the arrival of Earth 2.0 will certainly unfold. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 9, 2023 – Revelation 17-20
September 13, 2023 04:19 - 5 minutes - 5.14 MBWe look to our new leaders to follow up their words with actions, but as we come to the Devil's end in Revelation the action is outdone by words. The Word comes riding atop a battle horse and his weapon is the word of the Gospel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 8, 2023 - Revelation 12-16
September 06, 2023 05:06 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBHow will you make your mark? It's a question we've all asked at times, but do we really get to make our mark or is it given to us? This is the tension at play in Revelation 12-16 – what marks us out in this world and is it even a mark we make for ourselves? And what exactly is the mark of the Beast... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 6, 2023 - Revelation 8-11
August 23, 2023 01:05 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBTrumpets decree momentous moments. Much like God's word decreed the creation of all the elements of our universe. However, today's trumpets in Revelation seem to decree de-creation! How can this be and how can any sweet hope be found amidst the bitterness? Thankfully, as we shall see, the bittersweet symphony that is this life is composed by Jesus. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 5, 2023 - Revelation 6-7
August 16, 2023 00:56 - 9 minutes - 9.01 MBAs of this week there are currently 114 uprisings, insurgencies, battles, wars raging across our globe. While we may not hear about all of them, they all have similar traits. It is the relentless nature of war that helps us realise that the figures of Revelation are not mapping out a timeline for the end of history, rather they diagnose the cause of our distress. No 4 figures have caused greater distress in interpretation than the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but it is all just horseplay co...
Term 3, Week 3 - Revelation 4-5
August 02, 2023 02:18 - 12 minutes - 12 MBMascots matter. Choose the wrong one and your team will be forever ridiculed. The forever mascot of the Christian faith is revealed in today's portion of Revelation and it would have certainly espoused ridicule from the empires of Earth. But for Christians looking into the loaded coded language of Revelation, the lionhearted lamb who was slain is the centre of power they were waiting for. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 2, 2023 - Revelation 2-3
July 26, 2023 01:01 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MBChurches exist in our world. That may not be your preference, but it is the reality. The reality for churches, however, is that their existence is not about their preference in this world. The existence of the local church depends on the reality of Jesus, and the otherworldly descriptions of him that we learned of last week, which dwell amongst the church as it lives amidst the world. We should hope to have an out of this world experience, then, when we enter a church. That's the stern ...
Term 3, Week 1, 2023 - Revelation 1
July 19, 2023 04:02 - 9 minutes - 8.99 MBHave you ever passed coded messages in class? Maybe you used some Pig Latin to sneak a message past your teacher because they couldn’t make sense of it? This term in Chapel we embark upon the most loaded, coded book of the Bible—Revelation. What might seem at first to be spiritual gobbledygook, is actually the clearest and truest picture of our world today and where it is all heading. The good news is that the message of Revelation is simple— Jesus Wins. That’s a message that doesn’t need to ...
Term 2, Week 9, 2023 - Jonah 4:1-11
June 21, 2023 02:04 - 13 minutes - 12.1 MBYou might have thought we were done with Jonah. We've had a couple weeks off from Chapel and the story did seem to resolve itself insomuch that God's plan of restoring Nineveh through Jonah's preaching had occurred. But there's an outtake, an extended scene, a denouement that is no denouement and it all centres on a plant, a worm and a jerk... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 6, 2023 - Jonah 3:1-10
May 31, 2023 02:06 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBJustice and mercy. We love them both but can never seem to get the balance right. But what if instead of dilution of the two, we saw them both done to the max? This tension plays out as Jonah finally goes to Nineveh... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 5, 2023 - Jonah 1:17-2:10
May 24, 2023 02:03 - 7 minutes - 6.53 MBLast week Jonah was prepared to die instead of obey God, but now God has rescued him. It's cause for praise of the Lord, but has Jonah learned his lesson? We stopped by the belly of the beast to see how Jonah was travelling. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 4, 2023 - Jonah 1:4-16
May 17, 2023 01:23 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBEver had a sulk under the doona? We all have probably tried to shut out the world for a moment longer under the covers, but Jonah was trying to shut out the Creator of the world, and it didn't go well... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 3, 2023 - Jonah 1:1-3
May 10, 2023 04:03 - 10 minutes - 9.4 MBDoes God desire our good? How can we find our good without God? Where can you find a good place away from God? These are the questions that Jonah is confronted by as his quest begins. The meme referred to in the talk can be viewed here. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 2, 2023 - Jonah Series Intro
May 03, 2023 01:16 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBIt's Mermaid Week at TRAC as we prepare for our College Musical, The Little Mermaid, so who better to learn from about life under the sea than Jonah himself. He stopped by to say hello this morning at Chapel. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 11, 2023 - John 3:14-18
April 28, 2023 04:23 - 6 minutes - 6.33 MBI believe in the life everlasting! We have come to the end of the creed and at Easter we look to the life everlasting, but do we really want to live forever? NB: Two lines from the Creed were covered in our Easter Chapel in different ways. 'the forgiveness of sins' was a Kids' Spot delivered by our Junior School Chaplain, Amanda Farrelly, and 'the resurrection of the body' was presented as a free verse, which you can view here: https://youtu.be/_R2EUip1APc --- Send in a voice message: ht...
Term 1, Week 10, 2023 - Romans 12:1-5
March 28, 2023 03:45 - 9 minutes - 8.44 MBChurch is good for you...seriously. Church is good for your health, but that's not the main reason why I believe in the church. There are reasons greater than my health, greater than me at all, that make the church worth believing in. Note: This recording sounds a little different as it was recorded in my office after our service was cancelled for logistical reasons. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 9, 2023 - Galatians 5:16-26
March 22, 2023 03:09 - 7 minutes - 7.22 MBI'll be there in spirit. What does that even mean? Where is your spirit and how can you tell? Where is God's Spirit and why should we believe in him? The shortest clause in the Apostles' Creed creates a long list of questions for us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 7, 2023 - Acts 17:24-31
March 08, 2023 01:01 - 9 minutes - 8.87 MBWhere does El from Stranger Things actually go when she enters that empty blackness and what has that got to do with Jesus' Ascension and Judgment? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 6, 2023 - 1 Corinthians 15:51-58
March 01, 2023 00:29 - 8 minutes - 7.82 MBWhy did Jesus have to come back to life? That's a very different question to the how (Science) or the what (History) of the resurrection. It's a question we might not always ask, but it's best to ask it first before getting tangled in the how and what of Jesus' resurrection. Why would we want Jesus to come back to life? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 5, 2023 - Romans 5:1-5
February 22, 2023 01:10 - 6 minutes - 5.73 MBJesus' death is situated in the past, according to the Apostles' Creed, way back in the days of Pontius Pilate. So what difference can it make for our lives in the present, even into eternity? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 4, 2023 - Luke 1:26-37
February 17, 2023 01:19 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MBWhat is the go with the virgin birth of Jesus? Why did it make the Apostles' Creed and not all the teachings and miracles of Jesus? Surely, they're more important and believable than a far-fetched tale about Jesus' birth? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 3, 2023 - Romans 1:16-25
February 08, 2023 03:09 - 9 minutes - 8.69 MBGod is described as Father, Almighty and Creator in the first line of The Apostles' Creed. But do we really need an almighty, creating father, if we live in a universe that seems almighty enough and has done so forever without anyone parenting it? Maybe we should look again at our universe and at God? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 1, Week 2, 2023 - Mark 9:22-24
February 01, 2023 03:38 - 8 minutes - 7.84 MBWhat do you believe in? Do you mean that you believe that something exists or that it is good and right when you say 'I believe in...'? We're often more willing to speak of what we don't believe in, which leads to conflict. Christianity is centred on a series of 'I believe in...' statements, which we call The Apostles' Creed, and this term in Chapel we will see that Christians believe that key figures exist, we believe in things they have done, believing that these things are good and that t...
Hark the Herald Angels Rhyme
December 19, 2022 03:31 - 5 minutes - 5.36 MBHere's the free verse I wrote for our 2022 Christmas Chapel. Thanks to Tim Keller for the insight into Luke 2:8-20. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 8, 2022 - Matthew 7:24-29
December 01, 2022 21:22 - 7 minutes - 6.88 MBWell, we are finally here at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, but now that we've reached the summit we can look over the horizon and see that we've only just begun. There is now building work to be done! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 7, 2022 - Matthew 7:15-23
November 25, 2022 03:17 - 10 minutes - 9.97 MBLast week Jesus said the narrow gate was hard to find and this week he steers us away from the wrong gates to enter. Using the Food and Toy Drive as a vehicle for travelling the narrow path let's see how to finally enter the kingdom of heaven. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 6, 2022 - Matthew 7:13-14
November 17, 2022 23:14 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBWe like to think that whatever path we take in life, that eventually we will end up in the same place; some sort of eternal hope over the horizon. But is that how Jesus sees things? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 5, 2022 - Matthew 7:7-12
November 11, 2022 10:53 - 4 minutes - 4.15 MBThis week as we continue in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount we launch our annual partnership with Anglicare's Food and Toy Drive --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 2, 2022 - Matthew 7:6
October 16, 2022 23:45 - 6 minutes - 6.33 MBPigs, pearls and dogs? What is this passage all about and why does an old banknote and a dropped pie help us understand why this verse does NOT apply to TRAC? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 4, Week 1, 2022 - Matthew 7:1-5
October 12, 2022 00:37 - 7 minutes - 6.49 MBJudgment is prohibited by Jesus, but this talk was delivered on the occasion of the outcome of a long process of judgment -- student leadership elections! Have we done the wrong thing? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 10, 2022 - Matthew 6:25-34
September 23, 2022 04:46 - 6 minutes - 6.28 MBAs Year 12 graduate and look forward to celebrating at their formal, it seems such a carefree time. But there are still worries. Hair, dresses, suits and spray tans of course, but there's also the worries of tomorrow and the days to come post school. Can we really take seriously Jesus' call to not worry about tomorrow? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 8, 2022 - Matthew 6:19-24
September 08, 2022 01:50 - 8 minutes - 8.25 MBWhat do you treasure? Where do you treasure? Who do you treasure? These are the 3 simple questions that Jesus asks and he gives seemingly simple answers, but there's always a deeper meaning. The question is whether we're willing to answer these simple questions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 7, 2022 - Matthew 6:16-18
September 01, 2022 23:11 - 10 minutes - 10.2 MBFasting might seem like a strange thing to talk about in this day and age, but amongst our College community, fasting is alive and well. Today Jesus outlines how to live and be well in his kingdom if you fast. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 6, 2022 - Matthew 6:12-15
August 28, 2022 23:06 - 8 minutes - 7.5 MBWhat does the Tour de France have to do with forgiving others their debts against us? Find out in this live action K-12 Chapel, with special guest, Mr Kingsland assisting. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 3, 2022 - Matthew 6:11
August 02, 2022 00:51 - 7 minutes - 6.99 MBBread is easy to come by. There are over 50 bakeries in Wagga alone. So why does Jesus want us to pray each day for something that is so easily accessible? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 3, Week 2, 2022 - Matthew 6vv9-10
July 25, 2022 00:21 - 9 minutes - 9.22 MBGoldfish can't see water, but it is all around them. That's how it is with the Kingdom of Heaven, it's all around us, but we don't see it. Why is that? As we park ourselves in the Lord's Prayer for a few weeks we begin first with Jesus' call to our Father in heaven and his kingdom come. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 8, 2022 - Matthew 6:5-8
June 15, 2022 03:58 - 8 minutes - 8.23 MBHave you ever prayed? If praying can be defined as longing, hoping or wishing for something, then we've all prayed. We've all felt disappointed when it didn't work out too. Is that all there is to prayer? There is some truth to prayer being about what we're longing for before we've even prayed for it, but how can that be the case, and how can we deal with the disappointment of unanswered prayer? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message
Term 2, Week 7, 2022 - Matthew 6:1-4
June 09, 2022 04:39 - 10 minutes - 9.49 MBWhy do you donate to causes? Is it because there's a need or is it about your own needs? Needing to be noticed, affirmed? It's so hard to know our own hearts, but what if there was someone who does know our hearts better than us? Jesus now turns to the hearts of those who would hope to enter his Upside Down Kingdom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gareth-tyndall1/message