Fitzroy Presbyterian Church - The Sunday Download

2013 02 10 am: Shepherds, Pastors, and Content in Their Skin

Steve looks at the end of St.Peter's first letter, and draws out some characteristics with which an elder should be endowed.

2013 02 03 am: The Angry Christian

Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley helps us journey further into the Sermon on the Mount looking at Jesus and his teaching, not only on murder, but anger.

2013 01 27 am: Be More Righteous than 'The Righteous'

As we journey through the Sermon On The Mount, Steve asks how Jesus can dare ask that we are more righteous than the Pharisees who kept the law to the letter.

2013 01 20 am: God's Rainbow Coalition

Jonathan looks at Jesus' challenge to impact the world for God's causes by being who we are in Christ

2013 01 13 am: When Upside-Down is actually Rightside-Up!

Steve continues our series on the Beatitudes, and ponders our role as peacemakers against the backdrop of the current violence in our Province.

2013 01 06 am: From the Manger to the Mount… and Beyond

In the first of a series on the Sermon on the Mount, Steve introduces us to where the sermon comes in Matthew's account of Jesus' life.

2012 12 30 am: My Trouble Soul, Why So Weighed Down?

In the last service of the year, Jonathan Abernethy Barkley reminds us how we can rely on God to help us deal with anxiety and worry

2012 12 23 am: Meek and Mild: As If!

Jonathan Abernethy Barkley asks what type of baby we see in the manger, and draws from the Beatitudes to see who we are called ot be.

2012 12 16 am: The Most Marvellous Gift

Chris Hunter tells the story of the Wemmicks' Christmas, encouraging us to gift ourselves to God this Christmas.

2012 12 09 am: Bethlehem's Boy - Just Another Superhero?

Jonathan asks the question - as a society what do we want our Saviour to look like? A caped crusader or a crying baby in a manger?

2012 12 02 am: Live 58

Tearfund director in Northern Ireland, Tim Magowan, looks at Isaiah 58 and challenges the congregation to contemplate how they can help bring about the end of extreme poverty in the world

2012 11 25 am: Standing Firm

Steve concludes the series on Ephesians by looking at a very rich passage of Paul's warning us against the wiles of the devil

2012 11 18 am: Heaven in the Ordinary

Jonathan ponders mutual submission in everyday relationships, with the help of Eugene Peterson and pirates!

2012 11 11 am: Language of Love

In the continuing series on Ephesians, Steve looks at how to marinate in the life and love of God so that we can love in the world

2012 11 04 am: Times Square, Jimmy Savile, Madonna and the Futility of the Thinking

Steve ponders the futile thinking behind recent media stories, and reminds us that the instructions for Christian living in Ephesians 4 flow from the fact that we are accepted by God, and are not meant as a means to achieving that acceptance

2012 10 28 am: Maturity - not a yellow brick road but a car crash

Jonathan preached about how the journey of growing up in faith was not a yellow brick road but more like a car crash and how Church is a safe place for such a messy mystery of finding the fullness of Christ

2012 10 21 am: The Wemmicks - You are Special

During the Family Service, Steve Stockman retells Max Lucado's story of the Wemmicks, introducing us to Stevensonerella

2012 10 14 am: Fulness

Steve Stockman ponders a life lived in the fullness of both the human and the divine, looking at Ephesians 3:14-21 and reflecting on John 10:10

2012 10 07 am: Messy Mystery

Jonathan Abernethy Barkley looks at Ephesians 3:1-13 from the perspective of Eugene Peterson's book Practise Resurrection

One Spirit

Song by Dave Thompson based on Ephesians chapter 2

2012 09 30 am: The Brambles of Individualism

Steve Stockman looks at The Ulster Covenant in the context of what Paul tells us about the Church and how to grow up spiritually here in Ephesians

By Any Means

Song by Dave Thompson about the Ulster Covenant, written from the viewpoint fo his great-grandfather

2012 09 23 am: Grace

Jonathan Abernethy Barkley looks at Ephesians chapter 2

2012 09 16 am: Opening the Eyes of Our Hearts

Stewve Stockman looks at Ephesians 1: 15-23, and exhorts us to look in the mirror and see a saint

2012 09 09 am: Lost in the Cosmos

Jonathan looks at Ephesians 1, and the certainlty of God's love for us

2012 09 02 am: The 'Growing Up Agains'

Using Ephesians 4, Steve Stockman argues that we should be 'Growing Up Again', rather than continually 'Born Again'

2012 08 26 am: Reflections on the Olympics - Boxing for Gold and God

Biblical reflections on the Olympics, vocational focus and the team needed to make it happen

2012 08 19 am: Love the sinner, hate…

In Northern Ireland we have all heard the saying 'love the sinner, hate the sin'. This saying was challenged for Jonathan Abernethy Barkley reading Tony Campollo who gives his own unique take on the saying 'love the sinner, hate your own sin'. With the help of Jesus words in Matthew, JAB explores the murky world of judgementalism

2012 08 12 am: The Place of Wounds

David Livingstone looks at the ways in which human wounds and the wounds of Christ are intimately connected together

2012 08 05 am: Doing Things Differently

Brent van der Linde looks at how we might live out 1 Corinthians 13

2012 07 22 am: Being the Justice of God in the World

Dr Gary Burnett takes a fresh look at 2 Corinthians 5:21 and asks what it means for us to become the "righteousness" or the "justice" of God

2012 07 08 am: The Word became Flesh… in Post 'troubles' Northern Ireland

Steve Stockman looks at how we can can bring true incarnational love in our society

2012 07 01 am: A long obedience in the one direction

2012 06 24 am: Loved into Beauty

Steve Stockman looks at the story of Beauty and the Beast, and parallels between it and the Gospel of Jesus

2012 06 17 am: The Gospel in Their Own Vulgar Language

Steve Stockman talks about incarnational Christianity as a way to connect with the unchurched in today's culture

2012 06 10 am: And all the lights went out!

Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley looks at the Passion of Christ, with the help of the Pre-Raphaelites and Sufjan Stevens

2012 06 03 am: Come and See…

Fitzroy welcomes Professor Mark Noll as its guest speaker, who exhorts us to come and see God's great plan of salvation

2012 05 27 am: Born to be Wild: as the breeze that blows

On Pentecoast Sunday, Steve Stockman looks at the hidden and yet powerful nature of the Holy Spirit in our lives

2012 05 13 am: Counter Cultural Star Gazing

Jonathan Abernathy Barkley looks at the examples of Paul, Timothy and Epaphroditus in Philippians in contrast with today's obsession with celebrity and 'me'

2012 04 29 am: One Eye on Forever

In a live Radio Ulster morning service, Steve Stockman asks where we should look to live a meaningful life

2012 04 22 am: Hope: Believing in spite of the evidence…

Steve Stockman looks at Revelation 19

2012 04 15 am: God of This City: Airplay of our version of events

Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley's reflects on what God is going to do in Belfast today.

2012 04 08 am: Bursting through the surface of the Waters

Steve Stockman's Easter Sunday morning address

2012 04 01 am: The Carpenter: Corridors of Power to the Cross

Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley looks at the Passion narrative

2012 03 25 am: Blessed…

Steve Stockman looks at the Beatitudes

2012 03 18 am: Eyes Open… to Endless Energy

Steve Stockman looks at Paul's prayer in Ephesians and the challenge to continuing growth as a community of Christ

2012 03 11 am: Who Do You Say Jesus Is?

Poems and a talk by Rev Steve Stockman, with readings by Thomas Carey and Sophia Hart, and other poems read by Sarah McNeill and Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley

2012 03 04 am: The Holy Spirit - Trying to Spell What Only the Wind can Explain

As the congregation reads through the New Testament during Lent, Steve Stockman looks at the book of Acts

2012 02 26 am: The Fruit of Repentance

Rev Steve Stockman looks at Luke chapter 3, and what the fruit of repentance that John the Baptist exhorts followers to produce looks like in practise

2012 02 19 am: Jesus loves me, this I know, because…

Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley concludes the sermon series on Hosea