The final chapters of the Book of Esther reveal the resolution of the story. After Haman’s downfall, Esther and Mordecai work together to save the Jewish people. Mordecai is promoted to a position of great authority, and the Jewish people celebrate their deliverance, marking the beginning of the festival of Purim. In Part 4, Stephanie Wilson reflec…

In Part 3, David Armstrong unpacks Esther’s courageous and strategic actions to save her people. After fasting, Esther risks her life by approaching King Xerxes and carefully revealing Haman’s plot against the Jews. Her wisdom and patience lead to a powerful reversal, with Haman’s plans backfiring and resulting in his downfall. Esther’s transformat…

John Herron picks up the story of Esther in chapters 3 & 4, where we find a rising threat against the Jewish people as Haman plots their destruction. Mordecai urges Esther to use her position as queen to intervene, and she faces a life-threatening decision with Mordecai’s words echoing in her mind “Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity …

David Armstrong begins our exploration of the Book of Esther, a captivating narrative from the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. We journey into the Persian Empire under King Xerxes and delve into themes of fear, identity, and resilience looking at how the hidden parts of ourselves can provide strength in times of limitation and hardship. We also ref…

What Makes Us: 02 Living the Story In this second part of the What Makes Us series, we explore what it means to live out the Jesus Story in our daily lives. David Armstrong reflects on the incarnation—God becoming flesh in Christ and dwelling among us—and how it serves as a model for us to embody God’s active presence. As followers of Jesus, we are…

What Makes Us: 01 Embracing the Story We explore the power of stories and how they shape our lives, from the narrative of everyday life to the deeper stories that give us meaning, we’re wired for storytelling. David Armstrong challenges us to reflect on the story we’re living in—is it one of grace and purpose, or have we unknowingly embraced a fict…

Stephanie Wilson speaks on ‘the antidote of enough’ that counters our cultures message that we should ‘be more, want more and have more’. In the Lords Prayer recorded in Matthew 6 — a prayer that Jesus taught his disciples — we find an invitation to a deep and daily trust in God’s provision and abundance.…

The Trinity is one of the great mysteries of the Christian faith. Jesus ultimate agenda was coming to humanity to reveal what God is actually like. We have come to understand God as three distinct persons—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—yet one God. We use metaphors and language to describe God, but our theology can never fully contain God. Various me…

Solitude 05 - Q&A David, Armstrong, John Herron & Scott Witherick discuss the series on solitude and share some of their learning along the way. This took place on Pentecost Sunday and includes Prayers & Liturgies to celebrate and mark this day and the end of the season of Eastertide. Part of the Practicing the Way Series. For info and resources on…

Solitude 04 - Encounter with Our God Solitude is the place of encounter and ultimately, we go into the quiet to encounter God. We go because we ache for God in the deepest place in our being. We go because there is nothing like God’s presence. We go to listen for his voice, to hear him speak over us our identity and calling. In this fourth and fina…

Solitude 03 - Encounter with Our Self Solitude can be deeply refreshing, but just as often, it can feel like painful emotional surgery. We can get away from people, but we can’t get away from our self. And often what we carry into solitude is our pain. In the third teaching Stephanie Wilson encourages us to follow the example of Jesus by finding a …

Solitude 02 - Encounter with Our Enemy In the second teaching John Herron looks at the goal of being alone with God in the silence: ultimately to hear God’s voice over all the other voices in our head, Jesus and his early followers fought battles in solitude. As we face resistance from three enemies of our soul — the world, the flesh, and the devil…

Solitude 01 - The Quiet Place Distraction is one of the greatest threats to spiritual health in the modern world. We all feel it — we’re bombarded by noise like never before. Jesus has an invitation for us: Step away from it all to be alone with him, for the sake of our souls and the sake of others. In this first teaching David Armstrong looks at h…

The resurrection is not a happy ending. It doesn't depend on you or need your permission. The resurrection sees Christ standing in the garden alive on that Easter Sunday morning — having walked through the brutality & death of Good Friday and the forsakenness & silence of Holy Saturday — and he stands present and alive speaking your name, and a wor…

David Armstrong teaches from Matthew 21 on the events of Palm Sunday. The arrival of Jesus and his disciples into Jerusalem for the Passover Festival is the moment that Jesus project goes public. Jesus entering the city on the donkey — the fulfilment of a 500 year old prophecy — is a form of guerrilla theatre that makes a mockery of the dominant fo…

Fasting 05 - Q&A David, Armstrong, John Herron & Stephanie Wilson discuss the series on fasting and share some of their learning along the way. Part of the Practicing the Way Series. For info and resources on this series go to redeemercentral.com/ptwRedeemer Central

Fasting 04 - To Stand with the Poor “Give to the hungry what you deny your own appetite.” —St. Gregory of Nyssa In the West, many of us struggle with the problem of food abundance — having too much food to eat. Our cupboards overflow with snacks; we have so much food in our fridges it goes bad before we have a chance to eat it; apps on our phones c…

Fasting 03 - To Amplify Our Prayers Fasting and prayer go together. Like two wings of a bird, together they take flight. You can pray without fasting, and you can fast without praying, but when you combine the two, there’s a noticeable amplification of our prayer before God. This comes as no surprise, since fasting is a kind of praying with our bod…

Fasting 02 - Grow in Holiness Fasting is one of the most essential and powerful of all the practices of Jesus and, arguably, the single most neglected one in the modern, Western church. The Fasting Practice will train you in this ancient discipline, integrating your whole body into life with God. In Part 2 David Armstrong shares how fasting has man…

Fasting 01 - Offering Ourselves to Jesus As powerful as the mind is, because we are holistic beings, we can’t simply think our way into spiritual maturity. Our discipleship to Jesus must take seriously our body, as it is “the temple of the Holy Spirit” — a home where we make room for God to dwell. Most of us are used to approaching our spiritual fo…

Prayer 05 - Q&A Prayer is simply the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. The practice of prayer is learning to set aside dedicated time to intentionally be with God, in order to become like him and partner with him in the world. In Prayer part 4 David Armstrong explores the fourth stage of prayer: being with God. There comes a…

Prayer 04 - Being With God Prayer is simply the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. The practice of prayer is learning to set aside dedicated time to intentionally be with God, in order to become like him and partner with him in the world. In Prayer part 4 David Armstrong explores the fourth stage of prayer: being with God. Th…

Prayer 03 - Listening to God Prayer is simply the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. The practice of prayer is learning to set aside dedicated time to intentionally be with God, in order to become like him and partner with him in the world. In Prayer part 3 John Herron helps us understand that prayer is not just when we talk …

Prayer 02 - Talking with God Prayer is simply the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. The practice of prayer is learning to set aside dedicated time to intentionally be with God, in order to become like him and partner with him in the world. In Prayer part 2 Stephanie Wilson helps us begin to learn how to talk with God. Prayin…

Prayer 01 - Talking to God Prayer is simply the medium through which we communicate and commune with God. The practice of prayer is learning to set aside dedicated time to intentionally be with God, in order to become like him and partner with him in the world. In Prayer part 1 David Armstrong explores the first stage of prayer: talking to God. Whe…

David Armstrong finishes our Advent series looking at this season as a divine invitation and divine interruption. Note: This recording begins with a prayer led by Ian Ryans for Israel-Palestine, amid all the conflict and violence taking place there.David Armstrong

Scott Witherick brings a reflection on the season for our Advent seriesScott Witherick

Glen Mitchell begins our Advent seriesGlen Mitchell

Sabbath 04 - Worship In Sabbath Part 4 we look at how sabbath isn’t just a day to stop, rest, and throw a feast in community — it’s a holy day set apart and dedicated to God himself. For many Western Christians, Sunday has become what Eugene Peterson called a “bastard Sabbath”–the illegitimate offspring of the Sabbath and a secular day off. Whether…

Sabbath 03 - Delight Sabbath is a day of rest by which we cultivate a spirit of restfulness in all of our life. In Sabbath part 3 John Herron looks at the third movement of Sabbath– delight. Jesus himself said plainly, “In this world, you will have trouble,” but he also said his desire for his disciples was “that my joy may be in you and that your …

Sabbath 02 - Rest Sabbath is a day of rest by which we cultivate a spirit of restfulness in all of our life. In Sabbath part 2 Stephanie Wilson explores the second movement of Sabbath–to rest. The idea of rest sounds wonderful, but in reality, rest is a radical, countercultural act of resistance to the powers and principalities of a world at war wi…

We begin a new series — Practicing the Way — exploring 9 ancient practices of the way of Jesus that promise to help root us in the faith and deepen our experience of God as we serve our world. When practiced regularly these keystone habits can powerfully guide our journey of spiritual growth and help us become more like Christ, transformed into the…

A morning with our friend Jonny Clark exploring the relationship between faith and peacemaking and his own journey into the work of mediation, public theology and peace-building. Jonny Clark is the Program Manger of Public Theology for The Corrymeela Community. He is a facilitator and mediator working in political and inter-faith contexts and has d…

Our friend and guest speaker Dr. Richard Laugharne explores the relationship between faith, spirituality and our mental health. Following a talk from Richard, he is interviewed by Stephanie Wilson before a time of Q&A with questions from those in attendance.If following this episode you have any questions or would like support in any way related to…

Stephanie Wilson teaches on what it means to be church saturated by grace.Part of the series ‘What Kind of Church’ that explores the values that give shape to our community.Stephanie Wilson

David Armstrong teaches on what it means to be a church community shaped and oriented firstly by the values of the Kingdom of God.Part of the series ‘What Kind of Church’ that explores the values that give shape to our community.Note: Unfortunately due to technical difficulties the sermon by David Armstrong on 24 September entitled WKOC Part 4 - A …

Stephanie Wilson teaches on what it means to be church as family. Part of the series ‘What Kind of Church’ that explores the values that give shape to our community.Stephanie Wilson

As followers of Jesus we invited to locate ourselves in a bigger story, the story of God. This is a story with ancient roots that is still unfolding, and we are invited to embody and live out. David Armstrong shares how the wisdom of this story tells us the road to the future actually runs through the past. These ancient paths lead us home to God’s…

David Armstrong teaches on what it means to be a Jesus-Centred church. Jesus is the lens through which we see and understand everything. When we ask the question “what is God like?” we are peering into a mystery. But Jesus has made the mystery knowable, the invisible, visible. (Col 1). We believe Jesus shows us what God is like. He tells his discip…

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