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Fitzroy Presbyterian Church - The Sunday Download

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2014 10 12 am: The Compelling Verb

October 12, 2014 12:00 - 25 minutes - 11.3 MB

In his continuing series looking at our fruitfulness on the front lines of our lives, Steve reflects on John Mayer's song 'Love is a Verb'. He speaks of the challenge and inspiration of the double reflex of God's grace which sends us out to be ministers of grace and love.

2014 10 05 pm: How to Read the Bible - Literature

October 05, 2014 12:00 - 47 minutes - 21.2 MB

In the second of three talks, Stephen outlines the different types of literature found in the Bible

2014 10 05 am: 10:10 Work

October 05, 2014 12:00 - 24 minutes - 10.9 MB

In the second of his sermons based around Mark Greene's book 'Fruitfulnesson the Frontline', Steve looks at Making Good Work, seeing from Colossions how we should serve others, bringing order and joy to the world around us.

2014 09 28 am: Liberating Jonah - The Mystery of the Human Heart

September 28, 2014 12:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MB

In the second of Jonathan's series looking at the book of Jonah, we get onto the boat, and see the various reactions to a perilous situation

2014 09 21 pm: How to Read the Bible 1

September 21, 2014 12:00 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB

In the first of a three part series, Stephen gives an overview of the over-arching story of the Bible

2014 09 21 am: What Would Jesus Be?

September 21, 2014 12:00 - 28 minutes - 12.6 MB

Steve looks at at Modelling Godly Character on our frontlines and looking at the importance of What Jesus Would Be to being able to do What Jesus Would Do

2014 09 14 am: Liberating Jonah 1

September 14, 2014 12:00 - 18 minutes - 8.26 MB

Please leave a message: No one is available to take your call. Jonathan starts a six part series looking at the book of Jonah, and asks from what we might be running away, and to where

2014 09 07 am: Outta John and Onto the Frontline

September 07, 2014 12:00 - 23 minutes - 10.4 MB

Steve reminds us of Jesus' call to go and bear fruit. He then looks at the frontline to which we are sent and begins a new series based on Mark Greene's book Fruitfulness On The Frontline

2014 07 09 pm: Not fully there yet…

September 07, 2014 12:00 - 12 minutes - 5.49 MB

As members of Clonard join the Fitzroy congregation for a service of Holy Communion, Steve looks at how we have progressed as the church worldwide, but still full short of Jesus' prayer in John 17 that all believers should be one

2014 08 31 am: Faith That Moves Mountains

August 31, 2014 12:00 - 23 minutes - 10.4 MB

Philip conjours up a sermon, expounding how great trees grow form small seeds

2014 08 17 am: Wake Up and Smell the Charcoal

August 17, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 10 MB

Steve takes his turn to look at John 21, and looks at how Jesus might deal with our foibles and quirks and then how are we called to love others and work around their foibles and quirks

2014 08 10 am: Heaven in the Mundane

August 10, 2014 12:00 - 21 minutes - 9.54 MB

Jonathan explores the role of the individual as part of the whole within the church, with the help of some Lego

2014 08 03: BBQ at the beach

August 03, 2014 12:00 - 15 minutes - 7.04 MB

Jonathan finishes the series on John's Gospel by looking at Jesus' post-resurrection appearance at the lakeside

2014 07 27 am: The men had fled but the women remained - building resurrection communities

July 27, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 10 MB

Jonathan explores Jesus' resurrection appearances in John 20

2014 07 20 am: There's Still One Way I Can Honour Him

July 20, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 9.97 MB

Jonathan gives his insights into John 19, 1-38

2014 07 13 am

July 13, 2014 12:00 - 25 minutes - 11.4 MB

Steve continues the series on John's Gospel, looking at chapter 19, 1-38

2014 07 06 am: Jesus and Pilate: Two Kingdoms Clash

July 06, 2014 12:00 - 9.11 MB

Steve looks at John 18:26-40

2014 06 29: Who Do the Crowds Say that You Are?

June 29, 2014 12:00 - 28 minutes - 12.6 MB

Steve looks at John chapter 18 19-27

2014 06 22 am: I am He

June 22, 2014 12:00 - 18 minutes - 8.27 MB

In John 18, where Jesus allows Himself to be handed over to the authorities, Jonathan marvels at His willingness to embrace His Father's will, knowing what was to come.

2014 06 15 am: The Prayer and The Glory

June 15, 2014 12:00 - 29 minutes - 13.1 MB

Steve takes us into John 17 and looks at Jesus' prayer for himself, his disciples and those who would believe a long time later; us! In it all one word stands out - GLORY!

2014 06 08 am: Hornets' Nests, Bumpy Roads and Conquered Worlds

June 08, 2014 12:00 - 16 minutes - 7.29 MB

On Pentecost Sunday Jonathan looks at John 16, and the promise of Jesus that we will not be left alone, but wil be sent the Comforter

2014 06 01 am: Caressing and Colliding with the World

June 01, 2014 12:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB

In this passage from John 15 Steve looks at what Jesus said would be inevitable; the we would be hated for following Jesus

2014 05 25 am: Love Actually Is the Command

May 25, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB

Jonathan explores John chapter 15, and Jesus' great discourse on love, asking in what ways we can lay down our lives.

2014 05 11 am: A New Way to Live and How it Can Be Lived

May 11, 2014 12:00 - 28 minutes - 12.9 MB

Steve looks at the second half of John 14, and ponders the relationship between love and obedience

2014 04 27 am: Love one another like Judas, Peter or Jesus?

April 27, 2014 12:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MB

Returning to the series on John's gospel, Steve asks where the Judas and Peter is in us all, and just how revolutionary is the love that Jesus reveals and asks us to follow

2014 04 20 am: Interruptions of Grace

April 20, 2014 12:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MB

On Easter Sunday morning Steve helps us look with fresh eyes on the interruption of Grace in the resurrection that has the potency to transform our lives

2014 04 13 am: Easter in a Jar

April 13, 2014 12:00 - 15 minutes - 6.9 MB

In the family service on Palm Sunday, Jonathan takes everyone through a week in the life of Jesus

2014 04 06 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Saíd

April 06, 2014 12:00 - 55 minutes - 25.1 MB

In the final part of the series, David examines the works and thoughts of Palistinian thinker Edward Saíd

2014 04 06 am: A New Belfast

April 06, 2014 12:00 - 20 minutes - 9.1 MB

Peter looks at a passage from Jeremiah, and discovers ancient advice for modern exilic living

2014 03 30 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Bonhoeffer

March 30, 2014 12:00 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB

In the penultimate talk in the series, Stephen looks at the Christian philisopher Dietrich Bonhoeffer

2014 03 30 am: Jesus' Feet Smell of Perfume

March 30, 2014 12:00 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MB

In this passage from John's gospel, we encounter a familiar story line and a familiar meal and are asked what are we holding back...

2014 03 23 am: 10:10 Fitzroy in All Its Fullness

March 23, 2014 12:00 - 25 minutes - 11.4 MB

Steve moves back a chapter in the series on the Gospel of John to take another look at Jesus' statement that he came to bring life, and life in its fullness.

2014 03 23 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Foucault

March 23, 2014 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB

In the fourth of a six part series, David Livingstone looks at Michel Foucault

2014 03 16 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Freud

March 16, 2014 12:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB

In the series on Christianity and modern thinkers Stephen turns his attention to Sigmund Freud

2014 03 16 am: It's Time to Take Off Your Grave Clothes

March 16, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 9.93 MB

As the series on John's Gospel reaches chapter 11, Jonathan asks what grave clothes as individuals and as a church we are wearing and are we up for dying to self to fully live a Resurrection life

2014 03 09 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Nietzsche

March 09, 2014 12:00 - 48 minutes - 21.9 MB

In the second part of this series, Stephen explores Friedrich Nietzsche

2014 03 09 am: Our God is Able

March 09, 2014 12:00 - 19 minutes - 8.42 MB

Linda Wray from PCI's Board of Social Witness talks about some of their work, and their attempt to reflect the heart of God by sharing His love and values

2014 03 02 am: Keep Living to Become Fully Alive

March 02, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 10.1 MB

Jonathan takes us into John 10, and asks what it means for us as individuals, a church and a community not to just be born but to fully live

2014 03 02 pm: Christianity and Modern Thought: Darwin

March 02, 2014 12:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

In the first of a six part series, David Livingstone explores Charles Darwin

2014 02 23 am: Fear and Love… Darkness and Light

February 23, 2014 12:00 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB

Steve looks at the ramifications of the blind man's healing in John 9, seeing how tenderness of love beats hard cold theological correctness in God's future breaking into the present

2014 02 16 am: How's Your Vision?

February 16, 2014 12:00 - 26 minutes - 11.6 MB

Jonathan tells the story of the healing in John 9 from the perspective of the blind man, and then asks what or who we might not be seeing in our daily lives

2014 02 09 am: All Because of You I AM

February 09, 2014 12:00 - 29 minutes - 13.2 MB

Steve looks at John 8, and talks of light and darkness, Skainos, the Temple, Fitzroy and you

2014 02 02 am: What Stones are You Stockpiling?

February 02, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB

Jonathan looks at Jesus' response to the woman caught in adultery, and reminds us of God's verdict on us today - 'Not Guilty'

2014 01 26 am: How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

January 26, 2014 12:00 - 21 minutes - 9.5 MB

Peter looks at the situation in which Daniel and his friends found themselves in Babylon, and looks at parallels with Christians living in today's 'post-Christendom' society, drawing from his own experiences.

2014 01 19 am: Rivers of Living Waters Will Flow

January 19, 2014 12:00 - 34 minutes - 15.3 MB

Steve looks into John 7 and asks what the streams of living water do to the life of a believer or believing community

2014 01 19 pm: The Psychology of Peacemaking from the Sermon on the Mount

January 19, 2014 12:00 - 40 minutes - 18.3 MB

As part of the 4 corners festival, Prof Roddy Howie looks at the Sermon on the Mount and talks of the need for a credible Christian theory of peacemaking

2014 01 12 am: Who do You think You are?

January 12, 2014 12:00 - 21 minutes - 9.76 MB

Jonathan looks at the passage in John 7 where Jesus confronts the religious leaders at the Feast of Tabernalces, and asks what we can learn for our own lives from the passage

2014 01 05 am: The Bread of Life in all its Fullness

January 05, 2014 12:00 - 21 minutes - 9.74 MB

Steve looks at John chapter 6, uncovers an Exodus parallel, and discovers that which feeds the world, if we can but see the wood for the trees

2013 12 29 am: Esther's message for the New Year

December 29, 2013 12:00 - 26 minutes - 11.7 MB

As we look forward to a new year, Brent looks at Esther's message for us, a call to be brave

2013 12 22 am: In the Straw

December 22, 2013 12:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB

Looking at Luke's account of the birth of Jesus, Steve asks us to what we need to say yes, to whom we are Elizabeth, to what like the shepherds do we respond, and what keeps us from focussing on the Christ child