Spirited Word
By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia.
St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia.
www.stpetri.org.au
Episodes
148 episodes
Where’s Jesus?
We have made it to the end of another Easter Season. Does that mean we have come to the end of Jesus? It can seem that Jesus has indeed departed to some other ‘spirit’ place as if he has no place in this place – until the end when ‘we will all ...
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21:57
Poolside Mercy
There is a question that seems odd to our ears in the gospel account of Jesus healing a man living with a long-term debilitating disability. This man has been living poolside for 38 years. He has been seeking healing in the intermittent bubblin...
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18:25
Breaking Down Barriers
Human beings love to erect boundaries. In Jesus day, there was a big barrier between Jew and non Jew. Today, we have our own barriers that separate people on social, racial and political lines.So you can imagine the scene when Peter meet...
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34:41
Risen Life
It is easy to believe that Christianity is only for the super-spiritual people who can pray a mountain to move or raise the dead and power on through anything in life untouched by the ordinary things of the day.Big things can happen in t...
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22:49
Plenty Of Fish
It is a beautiful scene we survey: A boat full of fish. Breakfast cooked on the coals on the beach with the resurrected Saviour. Not a bad way to start the day!This is his third appearance since that first Easter morn. It is not down in ...
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23:14
The Freedom Of Thanksgiving
On the sanctuary wall hangs our theme: Set free to live free. But the fact is that no one can appreciate freedom unless they have known slavery – in whatever form that might take. No one can appreciate the incredible gifts they receive every da...
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25:16
Easter: A New Communion + A Suffering Love
Welcome to ‘Gather Easter’ – the best ‘Round’ in town! This is because Easter deals not only with winning and losing a game but also with our living and dying in this life. It is BIG. Work, family, unexpected trouble, surprising joy...
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54:54
Palm Sunday: Face Like Flint
The world has taken many turns for the worst these last months. It is easy to worry and fret about what it all means. As Christians we ask why it is that the wicked seem to do so well and the everyday folks have to keep copping it!Maybe ...
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22:00
Earthy Faith: Why Are We Here?
Why are we here? This is one of the fundamental questions of life. People seek purpose in many places - success, pleasure, relationships, or self-fulfilment. But for us as Christians, our purpose is given to us by God, not something we create f...
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36:17
Earthy Faith: Everything I have is yours!
As we continue living this earthy faith in Christ we hear this masterful parable and are confronted with how we can easily be lost, even without ever leaving home. The younger sons lostness is focussed and easy to see. He does all the things th...
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28:00
Earthy Faith: Punishment or Patience
It is good that you have followed the Spirit’s call to be gathered with God’s people in the presence of Jesus in the grace of the Father. We are pondering living this earthy Christian life of faith in Christ which he has carved out for us by hi...
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27:57
Earthy Faith
As we live this earthy faith carved out by the cross of Jesus, we hear heart-wrenching words of sadness and regret expressed by the Messiah over his holy city this morning. With the image of a mother-hen wanting to protect her young, Jesus decl...
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24:59
Set Free to Live Free: Only One Gospel
How good is it that in this country we have the freedom to gather in public worship! We are glad you have joined us to sing and pray and receive God's freedom in Christ. We dive into the first parts of Galatians; Paul's letter concerning the fr...
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30:08
Earthy Faith
Christians around the world enter this forty-day period of listening, praying, self-denial, and serving. Lent functions as a bit of ‘spring cleaning’ for the soul.Lent is all about being ready and open in heart and mind to receive the b...
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21:17
Set Free to Live Free
Every year we locate our spiritual centre around a particular bible passage as a way of ‘dwelling in God’s word’ as we discern his will for our life and mission.This is because we are convinced that our health and effectiveness and faithful...
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28:36
Glow On!
We find ourselves witnessing that marvellous moment high up on a hill somewhere in Judea with Peter, James and John. The glory cloud descends and the two greats; Moses and Elijah appear, representing the Law of God and God’s prophets sharing a ...
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24:59
Awake and Listening
It is hard to be confident sometimes. It is hard to be sure of the world’s future, our church’s future, the whole Christian church’s future. It is hard to sure of my own future when it come to my health, aging, my relationships with everyone.&n...
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Episode 124
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27:22
Our Unity
Unity among any people of any group is so fulfilling. Unity in a team makes it so much fun and is so crucial for any ‘success’. How much the more for a fledgling new community of the resurrected Jesus in a hostile world?!Paul continues r...
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27:31
Changing Plans
God has his plans, but can they ever change? Are we on some unchangeable schedule that is set in concrete that can never be undone and re-shaped? Seems that in the account of this conversation between Jesus and a gentile woman way ...
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Episode 122
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27:22
Pivot as Church
These are changing times for anyone living life as part of a local church. it feels like it is all new and we have to try and figure out the 'silver bullet' that will fix all our problems. Of course, there is no silver bullet, but there are som...
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Episode 122
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31:14
God's Decision for You
In the pressure cooker of a rapidly changing world where it seems we are all somehow supposed to now not RECEIVE our identity but MAKE our OWN identity based on our own experiences, values, feelings and thought, what does define you and who cho...
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Episode 121
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24:40
Who We Are Not
John 1:6-8,19-28 God entering our human flesh and bones in this Messiah long-promised, chooses a fellow human of the same flesh and bones to point to his move, his presence, his light, his Star of Christmas. Makes me w...
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22:34
Christmas Does Things to You
Titus 3:4-7Christmas actually does things to us because this Saviour-child did things and is still doing things he began back in that shed. Of course, it is safer to keep Christmas happy and traditional famil...
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