Sermon Podcasts at St Thomas' Moonee Ponds
Gospel reading and sermon from St Thomas' Moonee Ponds each week.
Episodes
82 episodes
Disagreements are an unexpected engine of church growth.
What if the disagreements apart are actually the raw materials God wants to use to build it up?Most leaders avoid conflict, but conflict is an inevitable part of church growth. Scripture gives us a radical alternative way to view this si...
The Boy Who Dared to Rise - A testimony.
Share this if you know someone who wants to rise from their situation.This song is my real life. Every word is true, and I make myself vulnerable to make sure that one person knows they are not destined to be the circumstances th...
The Cost and the Crown: Rediscovering the Cross-Shaped Mission
What if the greatest threat to the church isn't opposition from the world—but our own desire to stay comfortable?In this episode, we explore Matthew 16:21–28 and the paradox at the heart of the Christian life: if you try to save your lif...
The perils of living a comfortable life
We love having God neatly labeled, safely categorized, and comfortably predictable. But Jesus refuses to stay in our boxes.In this episode, we step into Matthew 16:13–20—where Jesus asks the question that shatters our spiritual comfort z...
The Crumbs That Change Everything: Jesus, the Canaanite Woman, and Radical Inclusion
A Canaanite woman—ethnic enemy, religious outsider, and a mother at the end of her rope—does something the religious insiders couldn't do. She teaches the Master. Her wit, her humility, and her audacious faith crack open the door for the entire...
Preparing the soil how the next generation hears the word Part 2
You've survived the distractions. You've weathered the emotional crashes. But now comes the real battle—the slow, subtle choke of everyday anxiety and the relentless pressure to prove your worth.In this concluding installment of o...
Sinking, Swimming and the hand that catches you
Spoiler alert: You are going to fail. You are going to have anxious thoughts. You are going to doubt. And guess what? Jesus is not surprised, and He is not stepping back.In our latest podcast episode, we break down Matthew 14—the ...
Wade In, Don’t Just Watch
“Where the river flows, everything will live.” (Ezekiel 47:9)Water in the desert isn't a luxury—it is survival. In Ezekiel’s vision, God sends a life-giving river straight from the Temple into the most stagnant, salty, dead plac...
Winter Waiting, Eternal Warming – Are You Prepared for His Return
It's July in Australia. It's freezing. The frost is on the windscreen, the sun sets before dinner, and everything in us wants to hibernate. But what if this winter, instead of just surviving the cold, we started preparing for the Dawn?In...
For the Harvest - Archbishop Ric Thorpe
We sit with the stirring message from Archbishop Ric Thorpe’s recent video reflection, “For the Harvest.” Drawing from Matthew 9:35-38, Archbishop Thorpe invites us to look at the world the way Jesus did—with compassion, urgency, and a...
Sowing gospel seeds in the diverse world of our kids - Part 1
Is modern life hardening the soil of our hearts before the Word even has a chance to land?In this first installment of our special intergenerational series, we begin unpacking Jesus' Parable of the Sower—not as ancient farmland wi...
The Rest that Comes from Stopping the Reputation War | Matthew 11:15-30
Are you exhausted? Not just from your schedule, but from the constant, draining effort of managing what everyone thinks of you?In this episode, we dive into Matthew 11:15-30 and uncover the real root of our soul-tiredness. It turns out t...
From Wages to Welcome: What Are We Really Receiving?
Is your hospitality just good manners—or do you reframe it as a divine encounter?We all understand wages: you work, you get paid. You sin, you face consequences. Romans 6:23 lays it out bluntly: "The wages of sin is death."<...
One Day One Song One God
What if picking up a microphone on World Music Day wasn't just about performance—but about allegiance?In this episode, we dive headfirst into one of Jesus' most unsettling and electrifying sermons: Matthew 10:24–39. If the Head ...
Courage of the displaced and the witness
What does courage really look like?We often imagine heroic one‑time acts. But for refugees, courage is quieter – and harder. It’s leaving everything behind. Learning a new language while grieving a lost home. Standing before officials wh...
Mercy for the bleeding Earth.
What does the healing of a bleeding woman and a dead girl have to do with caring for our planet? More than you might think.In this episode, we dive into Matthew 9:9–13 and 9:18–26 – a passage where Jesus declares, “I desire mercy, no...
All In - Trinity Sunday and Reconciliation Week.
What does it mean to go “All In” – with God, and with the First Peoples of this land?This Trinity Sunday, we sit at a holy intersection. The church celebrates the God who is community – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and Reconciliation W...
Reading from Acts 2:1-21 in languages as well as English.
Today's reading was done in a number of languages including English,Croatian, Bazaar, Spanish, Cantonese, Italian and Mandarin.Listen in to hear the reading in the languages of the world.
From Natural Capacity to Supernatural Testimony – Pentecost + Volunteer Sunday
What if the Holy Spirit isn’t primarily interested in making you a better volunteer? What if the real Pentecost moment is when your natural ability gets overtaken by supernatural testimony?This week on the podcast, we explore a powerful ...
Sent into hard places service like Jesus.
You don’t need a pulpit to release the kingdom – just a kettle, a kind ear, and a willingness to go to the hard places. We unpack two powerful scriptures from our lectionary today:John 17 – Jesus prays for you before...
We are people longing to be with God.
Bishop Alison spoke at out 10am service today about our desire and longing to be with God. She spoke about being in a culture that offers us a lot of stimulation, yet fails to satisfactorily fulfil the deeper desire for meaning. Jesus off...
God is in us as we are in God.
What does it really mean that God lives in you? And how do you actually stay there? In John 14:15–21, Jesus makes a staggering promise: the Holy Spirit will not just be with you—He will be in you. The Father ...