Red Door Church

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today in Acts 10:1–33 we see God preparing Peter and a Roman big shot named Cornelius for a meeting that will change history. We hear how God breaks down walls and calls his church to welcome all kinds of people into his kingdom. However, there is a warning for us in this message. God had to show Peter that his prejudices needed to be overcome, and yet, later in his ministry, Peter fell back upon his old prejudices. We may think we do not hold any prejudices, but we do. Prejudice is not tolerated by God, so we must continue to fall upon the mercy of God and repent of our own hidden prejudices. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today we are looking at Acts, chapter 9, verses 31 to 43, where there is peace in the church following Paul's conversion. As a result of the peace, the church is able to do what it is meant to do - proclaim the name of Jesus by living like Jesus. Peter does exactly this. He witnessed Jesus healing a crippled man and bringing a person back to life. Peter is faced with the very same situtions. Imitating Jesus, Peter heals Aeneas and has him walking, and he raises Tabitha from the dead BUT it is not Peter who is doing this. Peter clearly states it is Jesus who is performing these miracles. Peter is just the conduit. Peter was an ordinary man living doing extraordinary things in the power of the Holy Spirit - and that is the lesson for us. We too are ordinary people and we too can do extraordinary things in the power of the Holy Spirit, to bring glory to God. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping peop

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today we witness one of the most dramatic transformations in the Bible - the conversion of Saul - which turns the church’s greatest threat into one of its greatest gifts. What we should also be aware of is that God does exactly the same with us. Because of his intimate love for us, he has called us to him through his sovereign power, just like he called Saul. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today Pastor Jonathan is teaching on Philip's encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch and how he witnesses to this man and teaches him who Jesus is. Philip was just an ordinary person in the church - he wasn't an apostle or one of the leaders, but God used him to present the gospel to this Ehthiopian official. Was this coincidence that these two men met, or was it a divine appointment, orchestrated by God? Jonathan presents that it was a divine appointment. Anytime when we are challenged to present the gospel to someone, God has already started the process for the person to hear, so we need to adopt the attitude that something extraordinary will happen when we obey God and be both obedient and expectant. After all, the entire Book of Acts is about ordinary people doing extraordinary things by the power of the Holy Spirit, and these things did not stop in the first century. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people he

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: Jonathan Smith Acts 8:4-25 After the persecution in Jerusalem scattered the early believers, they began preaching the gospel wherever they went. This Sunday we will meet Simon the Sorcerer, a man who had previously amazed the people with his magic and claimed to be someone great. We’ll see that the gospel brings transformation - not just belief, but a change of heart - and that the power of God cannot be bought, but only received by grace. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Marios Kyriakou Preacher: Jonathan Smith You might have heard people say, “As soon as I became a Christian, life got much harder.” This is often true, and never more so than for Stephen. He became a Christian at Pentecost, was put in charge of the mercy ministry (in last week’s passage), put up on trial for blasphemy, and (in next week’s passage) will be put to death for following Jesus. This Sunday’s passage focusses on the charges levelled at him and his brilliant defence of the truth of the gospel. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith The faithful ministry of Word and Spirit results in rapid growth for the early church. This is a beautiful display of God’s grace, but it also makes life more complicated and potentially divisive. In response to these growing pains, the Apostles appoint faithful servants to aid in the ministry of pastoral care. Churches today must do the same. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: John Hudson We are in the final week of three where John is taking us on a journey that shows us the resources that we have in the Gsopel. Today he shows how the gospel fully satisfies. Placing our hope in people, careers, material possession, or for that matter, anything other than the gospel, we will eventually be unsatisfied because the circumstances around these other things change. God never changes. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin Preacher: John Hudson In week two where John is taking us on a journey that shows us the resources that we have in the Gsopel, he shows talks of a hope that will never disappoint us, unlike anything else we may place our hope in. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Graeme Miller Preacher: John Hudson Over the next three weeks John is taking us on a journey where he shows us that all we need is within the Gospel. Today he shows that our meaning and the meaning of life is in Jesus and not in anything we create. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Anne Miller Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 5:12-42 we see the infant church is faced with growing persecution as the religious leaders become more hardened in their opposition to the gospel ministry of the Apostles. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Phillip Ince Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 4:32-5:11, we see how the early church shared their possessions. It was not communism where everthing you own belongs to the state, rather it was "what is mine is yours". However, whereever this is good, there is the opportunity for evil and deception. We see this is the behaviour of Ananias and his wife Sapphira. This is a difficult passage, and Pastor Jonathan explains this to us with what the real sin of Ananias and Sapphira was. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Graeme Miller Preacher: Tibor Tumbas Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 4:23-31, we see how the early church, in the face of persecution, prays to God to help them to speak with boldness, and the Holy Spirit responds accordingly. Tibor teaches that we are not to pray to God as though he is a holy vending machine at our call, but to ask for boldness to represent his church just like the early church. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Judy Carr Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 4:1-22, we see Peter & John arrested for teaching in the name of Jesus. Facing the religious power brokers of Israel, these two men proclaim the Power Of Jesus' name by which the lame beggar was healed (see Acts 3 & last week's message). Peter goes on to proclaim that it is by Jesus' name that salvation comes, and when threatened by these powerful men to not speak in the name of Jesus again, Peter and John boldy claim that they must server God and continue to speak. Pastor Jonathan shows us that the same power, salvation and boldness is available to us. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to speak in the name of Jesus. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Bek Hudson Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 3, we see Peter & John heal a man who was lame from birth. Peter and John are imitating what Jesus did - healing people in the power of The Holy Spirit. Peter then explains to everybody how and why this was able to happen. From our perspective this event shows us three important and fundamental things: 1. The forgiveness of all sins; 2. The restoration of all things; 3. The salvation of all peoples. Pastor Jonathan expounds and explores on each of these principles. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Mel Truong Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 2:42-47, we see how the early church lived. The people followed the teaching of the apostles, fellowshipped together, broke bread and prayed. The early church did not have the New Testament like we do today, so the teaching focussed on the Old Testament and how the scriptures pointed to Jesus. Fellowship, in the context of the early church, is a word we don't fully understand. It is MUCH more than "hangin gout" together; instead it is sacrificially giving ourselves for others. The Breaking of Bread may have meant communion, or it may have meant sharing meals together - possibly it was both. Prayer was something the early church did multiple times per day - coming from a Jewish background these people were used to praying at fixed times of the day and spontaneously. We need to t

Reader: John Hargrave Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 2:14-41, the apostle Peter explains what the people are seeing and hearing and why it is happening. The Old Covenant has been replaced by a New Covenant, where the Holy Spirit is poured out upon all who find their lives in Jesus, no matter the circumstance. Because God sees Jesus when he looks at those who call Jesus "Lord", God will NEVER remove the Holy Spirit from us. This is new! Unlike the Old Covenant, God would give his Spirit to a few and only for a specific purpose, and once that purpose was done, he would remove his Spirit because the person was not holy and righteous. But not now! Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Mel Truong Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from the first week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 2:1-13, God sends his Holy Spirit upon the apostles at Pentecost. The Holy Spirit comes like Wind and Fire, synonomous with the way God has appeared many times in the past throughout the Old Testament, and like wind, we cannot control the actions of God's Spirit. However, as a church, we need to ask ourselves if we are truly welcoming The Spirit or are we hindering The Spirit with our actions. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Graeme Miller Preacher: Jonathan Smith Recalling the big picture message from last week, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. In today's message from Acts 1:12-26, the remaining 11 apostles choose a new member to bring htem back to twelve apostles. But they didn't do it in an ad-hoc manners. They consulted scripture to ensure that they should be twelve apostles, not eleven. Then they prayed and sought the counsel of others, including God. This is how it shoudl be for us as we make decisions in out lives and in the life of our church. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.

Reader: Gehan Periera Preacher: Jonathan Smith Today we start a new series in the Book Of Acts. This series will cover almost a year, so it will be broken down into smaller parts. The first part covers Chapters 1 through 5 and will take 10 weeks. Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Acts 1:1-11. Jesus spends forty days with his disciples preparing them for when he will ascend back to Heaven and to empower them with the Holy Spirit. The big picture message from this week is like the disciples, we are ordinary people empowered by the Holy Spirit to witness to the Lord Jesus to the ends of the earth. Red Door is an Anglican Church in Melbourne, Australia. We exist to be a community of people helping people make all of life all about Jesus.