21st Jan 2026 Eternity from Johnny For about three decades, Arthur Stace wrote the word Eternity on the pavements of Sydney. He had first been captured by the word in a sermon at his church, Burton Street Tabernacle, a Baptist church in Darlinghurst. The sermon was by an evangelical preacher, John Ridley, who said, “Eternity! Eternity! I wish I could sound, or shout, that word to everyone in the streets of Sydney. Eternity!” Arthur thought to himself, 'perhaps I could write i

14th Jan 2026 Pursue Prayers for a New Year from Travis I love nerding out on statistics to do with church life and health (especially ours!). One of the stats that stood out from last year's NCLS report, is that 9 in 10 people who filled in our survey last year said that they experienced personal spiritual growth and transformation over the past 12 months. 90%!! And when asked about what our church should prioritise in the coming 12 months, the top priority by a substantial

7th Jan 2026 New Year, Renewed Rhythms from Travis It is a new year, HAPPY NEW YEAR to each of you! It is also the time where many rethink their rhythms and habits that they desire to build into their life in the coming year. Looking back on my own life, I know that some Januarys have involved bold declarations of gloriously ambitious "new year's resolutions"... that then turn out to be embarrassingly short-lived. Oops! In other years though, I can look back on deliberate shi

31st Dec 2025 2025: A Year of Pursuing Jesus Together As 2025 makes way for 2026, we want to give an enormous PRAISE GOD and share a heartfelt THANK YOU for an incredible year together!! At the beginning of 2025, we set the theme of 'Pursue' over the year as a church from Philippians 3:12-14. Our heart and hope was to see a year of pursuing Jesus - both individually and collectively - and taking hold of all that he has for us. It flowed from the faith-fuelled conviction t

22nd Dec 2025 Merry Christmas from our pastoral team From all of our team we wish you each a very Merry and Meaningful Christmas Celebration! Whatever the coming days hold for you, we pray that Jesus will fill your vision and heart. Allow the scandal of God becoming flesh to lead you in wonderous amazement, as you are moved afresh by the depths of God's love for you and for our world. Teen Missions Update Continue to pray for our amazing teens (Leo, Amity, Mercy & Sarah) who

17th Dec 2025 Prayer for Bondi from Johnny "The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." John 1:5 On Sunday night, Jewish communities around Australia and across the world gathered to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. Yet in Bondi, the celebration was turned to tragedy as two gunmen opened fire of civilians in an act of terror and hatred. I know we are all reeling as we seek to come to terms with what has happened. Many of us have seen footage

10th Dec 2025 Advent: A Season for Peace from Johnny I think our world is desperate for peace at the moment - so many people seem to be living with a background level of fear, a sense of dread gnawing away at the back of their minds. Perhaps you feel this too - fear of war, fear of natural disaster, fear of economic collapse, fear of evil people with too much power... God's people have lived in fearful times before. Throughout the bible there are countless examples of people

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3rd Dec 2025 Advent: A Season of Hope from Travis This week I found myself hoping for the best. I had chosen to take a longer, in-land, less direct but hopefully more beautiful route up to my Arrow Leadership Residential in QLD. It would be a single lane road that had experienced flood damage earlier in the year with questionable phone reception. As I sat in my mid-way stop before tackling this alternate route, I admit I was hoping for the best - "I hope the traffic is light.

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