Red Door Church

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Graeme Miller In today's message we look at where Jesus says he is The Gate and The Shepherd. Self-serving shepherds (pastors, priests, leaders) have done great damage to the People of God from the Old Covenant to the present day. Jesus, The Good Shepherd, lays down his life for his sheep. The problem here is, if he has died for his sheep, what's to stop his sheep from then being devoured by the wolves, etc? The answer is Jesus not only chose to lay down his life, but he also had the authority to to take it up again, which he did - and thus he continues to save the sheep. PLEASE NOTE: During the recording of this message, there were some minor technical glitches, which results is some moments where there is no audio. We apologise for this issue. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Danita O'Loughlin In today's message we look at where Jesus says He is The Light Of The World. In Anceint Times, people understood the world to be dark and chaotic. They believed that this chaos was balanced by "The Word". In John's gospel, we see that Jesus is proclaimed as "The Word" - the balance to this darkness and chaos, and it is in this that Jesus claims the He has overcome the darkness because He is The Light Of The World. PLEASE NOTE: During the recording of this message, there were some minor technical glitches, which results is some moments where there is no audio. We apologise for this issue. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Daniel Wong In today's message we look at wher Jesus says He is The Bread Of Life. Bread is a staple food for most people around the world - it's good, and we need it for survival, but we will continue to hunger for it. However, when Jesus states that He is the Bread Of Life, he's not referring to the baked product of "bread". Instead He's stating that He is the only one who can satisfy the deepest longings of our soul. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Marios Kyriakou Today we start a new series where we look at the "I Am" statements that Jesus makes about himself. In this first message, Pastor Jonathan asks of us the question that hopefully we have an answer to - "Who is Jesus?" Over the years there have been many people who have attempted to answer this question, but usually in the wrong context. To some he's a great teacher, to others a radical. But the answer we need to resolve for ourselves is that even though Jesus may be all these other things that people say who he is, we need to come to the conclusion that he is God incarnate. 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.

Preacher: James Truong Reader: Judy Carr In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today James is preaching from Psalm 29. In this psalm, James speaks of how King David has carefully crafted this poetic psalm where he tells all of the creation, including the angels, that their focus is to give glory to God, and it is in this context that James reminds us that our purpose is to worship and bring glory to our God. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Anne Miller In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 67. Even though this is a short Psalm, there is a lot of depth here. We are called to praise God, and God blesses us. In turn, we then become a blessing to the entire world. A lot of the time, we do not fully recognise the blessings we have received and continue to receive from God, so we do not become the blessing to the world that we're meant to be. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: John Hargrave In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 139. There are some very well known verses in htis psalm - so well known that a number of them appear on Christian marketing items such as coffee mugs and tea towels. However, today Jonathan is looking at the lesser known verses in more depth and challenges us to come to know God more and more each day. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Joanna Justus In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 16. David, King Of Israel has everything at his disposal - people, palaces, riches, yet in this psalm he recognises that he has nothing without God who is his refuge. David speaks of the of the sorrows he has for people who have another god, and this is where Jonathan takes us today. We have many other "gods", or rather, idols, that take our attention away from God, yet we are often blind to these idols, particularly when our whole society and econmic system is built around these things. 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.

Preacher: Doug Carr Reader: Judy Carr In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Dougis preaching from Psalm 42. The Psalmist is talking of his depresssion and anxiety, and when he's chastened by his enemies, asking him "Where is your God?", he speaks to the truth that even under the hardest situations, God is there. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Melissa Truong In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 116. The Psalmist is praising God even though he is going through difficult times. Jonathan, speaking from the heart and from perosnal experience, tells us why he thinks that we don't cry out to God when we should. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Gehan Pereira In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 31. This Psalm shows us that lamenting properly is a good thing, particularly when we lament to God, and put our trust and hope into him. Lamenting is not something that western culture is good at, so there are many valuable lessons in this message today. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Graeme Miller In this the tenth year of covering the Psalms in the Summer break, today Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Psalm 98. This Psalm tells us to worship God, because of what he has done for us in the past, because what he is doing for us in the present and because what he will do in the future. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith We all bid to make connections with other people. The Christmas Story is about greatest bid for connection in the history of the world where the God of the Universe connects with his creation by sending his son Jesus, born on Christmas Day. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Nora Sulte Following on from the message on Christmas Eve, where the God of the Universe connects with his creation by sending his son Jesus, Pastor Jonathan relects on WHY God did this - and the simple scandolous answer is because He loves us. 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.

Preacher: John Sugars Reader: Daniel Wong John finishes our Advent series for 2022 where we've been looking at Mary's Magnifcat for the past 4 weeks. Today's world seems to be all about us being the centre of attention, but here, Mary focuses in on God, the hero of the story. Her song seems to be sung in the past tense because what God is going to do through his Son, he has already done in the past. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Danita O'Loughlin This week we look at the words Mary sang in her song of praise known as The Magnificat. She chooses to magnify God her saviour because she knows his faithfulness. She expresses her joy in something eternal. We tend to express our joy in temporary things - like holidays, places, experiences - but the joy does not last. Being joyful in God is eternal. 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.

Preacher: Helen Cetrangolo Reader: James Truong With being unmarried and pregnant. Mary would have been wondering what was going on, but she was able to lean into the scriptures, lean into confirming signs and lean into friends who believed her. When we're faced with questions on whether a moment in our life is from God or not, we too should do the same - lean into scripture, lean into confirming signs and lean into friends who we trust and who believe us. 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Anne Miller This Advent we are focusing on Mary's Magnificat. Today Pastor Jonathan gets us to look at these familiar verses with fresh eyes - looking at the things we've read many times but to see the unexpected detail that we usually miss. 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.

Preacher: Gordon Preece Reader: John Hargrave Today Gordon is preaching from Acts 17:16-34. It may seem a strange reading to relate to the issue of gambling, but in Australian society, gambling is an idol. Gordon pointed out that at one time there were over 300 billboards and signs around Melbourne pointing us towards Crown Casino. Like in Acts 17 where Paul was observing all of the false gods and idols in Athens, would he do the same in Melbourne, with our relationship to Crown? 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.

Preacher: Jonathan Smith Reader: Judy Carr Pastor Jonathan is preaching from Mark 10:17-27. He explains that one of the issues, if not the greatest, that the church is facing today is consumerisn. Consumerism is subtle - everybody is involved in consumerism, but it is counter-cultural to anyone following the Christian faith. It makes us wanting and desiring the next 'new' thing, causes us to covet what other people have, but ultimately, causes us to remove our focus from God and what he has done through 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.