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RENEW
Welcome to the podcast of Renew. We are a church community in Perth Western Australia. Our hope is that these messages will help you live out the teachings of Jesus in daily life. For more about our church visit our website at www.renewperth.com.au
Episodes
RENEWAll Eyes On Jesus: Jesus is Everything
Mark's Gospel provides a unique portrait of Jesus, with a special insight into who Jesus was and what he came to accomplish. Mark writes to show that Jesus’…
RENEWAll Eyes On Jesus: The Simplicity of Grace
The Christian life is meant to be marked by simplicity. Grace is simple. Loving like Jesus is simple. All that is required is that we believe.
RENEWAll Eyes On Jesus: Talk About Him
Talking to people is easy. Talking to people about Jesus—not so much. At least this is the experience many Christians have when it comes to sharing their faith…
RENEWLetter to Renew
"Taking the gospel to the nations" is a Christian mandate to spread the gospel to all people groups and ethnicities. It's also known as the Great Commission…
RENEWLetter to Laodicea
The church at Laodicea had become apathetic in their love for Christ. Jesus called them to repent and live zealously for Him. The Lord Jesus issues the same…
RENEWLetter to Philadelphia
Jesus’s letter to Philadelphia was written to a struggling church. They were struggling with the persecution they faced, yet they remained faithful. Jesus…
RENEWLetter to Sardis
Sardis may have been the first church in history to be characterized as a place of “nominal Christianity.” Most of its members apparently belonged to Christ in…
RENEWLetter to Thyatira
The church at Thyatira was not a perfect church by any means. No church is. However, Christians can learn many important lessons from the mistakes made and…
RENEWLetter to Pergamum
In Pergamum, the false teaching was directly tied to idolatry and sexual immorality. The quickest way to bring spiritual shipwreck into the life of a believer…
RENEWLetter to Smyrna
Jesus’s letter to Smyrna was to a suffering church. They were being persecuted for bearing witness to Jesus Christ and they are commended for their…
RENEWLetter to Ephesus
John begins transcribing this first letter from Jesus to the Church of Ephesus, the Ephesians, his home congregation. In this letter, out of all seven letters…
RENEWLove Your Neighbour
Love your neighbour. That’s one of those phrases that is used so flippantly that when you hear it, it’s easy to tune out. It’s lost its meaning. And that’s a…
RENEWThe Road Renewed
‘Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true…
RENEWPerseverance
No matter the opposition or affliction whether past, present or future, we can look to Jesus who is righteous. He will preserve us, be present with us, and…
RENEWProvidence
God doesn’t promise to prevent you from walking into harm, He promises to preserve you when you encounter harm. That’s the promise of Psalm 121.
RENEWRepentance
The life of a Christian is built on long obedience in the same direction. Repentance is a realisation that what God wants from you and what you want from God…
RENEWWarfare Prayer
God wants us to pray during seasons of spiritual attack. It magnifies him as the one who comes to our aid. It honours him as the only one powerful enough to…
RENEWWeapons of Our Warfare (Pt. 2)
The fight back against demonic forces of evil is through actively using the spiritual armour given to us by God.
RENEWWeapons of Our Warfare (Pt. 1)
All who stand for good must wage a constant battle with the forces of evil. The demons still have power in the world. This is why Christians are to put on the…
RENEWThe Urgency of Spiritual Warfare
Spiritual warfare is about obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ and other scriptural truths, it’s about a prayerful, persevering life of righteousness…
RENEWThe Enemy is Closer Than You Think
There is no way to take the Bible seriously and not see that the demonic is an active part of life. It’s why we are called to participate in a specific way of…
RENEWThe Unseen Enemy
To rebel against order and fullness is to embrace chaos and emptiness. Demons are chaos monsters. When demons attack humans, their plan is to empty them of…
RENEWA Desert Road Encounter
What is needed, especially in our day, if we are to be changed and if we are to be instruments of change around us, is for the reality of the resurrection to…
RENEWWhy The Cherubim?
At the death of Christ, that curtain separating man from God was torn in two—ripped by God himself. The angelic centurions were called off duty. The flaming…
RENEWThe Angelic Host
Angels have inspired all sorts of imaginative stories and depictions, but what’s left when we separate fact from fiction? In order to know the truth, we have…
RENEWThe Three "Falls"
Adam and Eve in the garden and the curses handed down. The sinful corruption of humanity at the instigation of demonic powers, culminating in the flood in the…
RENEWThe Divine Council
The biblical authors believed that heaven and earth are parallel realities, each inhabited by creatures that have been delegated with God’s blessing to rule…
RENEWThe Spiritual World
The Bible asks us to believe a lot of strange things about the spiritual world. And if we say we believe the Bible, well, then we can't avoid these concepts.
RENEWMy Purpose
There are three big life questions that all people seek to answer in some way or another. 1. Where did I come from? 2. Why am I here? 3. Where am I going?…
RENEWDNA: Who We Are. What We Do. OUR GENEROSITY
Whether you agree with the tithe or not, a percentage level of giving is essential for holiness, vital for the ongoing work of the church, and it’s required…
RENEWDNA: Who We Are. What We Do. OUR SERVING
When you serve, it's not about you or how you can benefit. You are doing something primarily for the benefit and goodwill of another person or group of people…
RENEWDNA: Who We Are. What We Do. OUR FRIENDSHIP AND CARE
The whole point of church is to get into a community of people who I can love and enter into what might be called a shared life. Because growth happens within…
RENEWADVENT 2023: Christmas Eve
The reality of Christmas is that Jesus was a real person, flesh and blood, bones and hair. He was a real person, not a myth, or a fable, or a nice story.
RENEWDNA: Who We Are. What We Do. OUR WORSHIP.
We are called to acceptable worship, to a spiritual service which is acceptable to God. And in order to do that, we have to have a kind of worship that is not…
RENEWADVENT 2023: Jesus
There simply has been no transcendent vision of reality, no cosmic story to make sense of this earth other than Jesus.
RENEWADVENT 2023: Imagine
With God, nothing is impossible, God can do immeasurably more in your life, and the good news is He wants to. That’s why he came. That’s why he was born that’s…
RENEWAfterlife: Life After Life After Death
There is a sense that part of the whole point of being saved in the present is so that we can play a vital part in the eternal plan and purpose of God.
RENEWAfterlife: The Coming Judge
The Bible tells us that a time is coming, at the end of this age, when everyone is going to be judged. But in order to understand judgment, we have to…
RENEWAfterlife: Life After Death
A person is a psychosomatic being, so the soul without the body is not a whole person, nor is the body without the soul a whole person. But the soul is the…
RENEWSaved - Holy and Blameless Before Him
The experience of glorification will encompass our entire existence. We will mirror Jesus, be like him, our fallen sinful nature removed, no longer susceptible…
RENEWSaved - Understanding How God Changes Me
Salvation is more than just a not-guilty verdict. It is literally a process of God transforming us to be more like Him – a process where God makes us…
RENEWSaved - Made Right Before God
If you have ever wondered “how is it that I am saved? This is what the doctrine of justification explains. How it is that we are saved. It explains what makes…
RENEWSaved - Past, Present, Future
Although salvation is a definitive act, which for many of us was a past event, what we must remember is that it’s not just a mere one-time event. Salvation is…
RENEWFinding Faith
Parents are the most influential people in a child’s life and parents have been charged by God with the primary responsibility to disciple their children in…
RENEWWe All Need Hope
The benefits of hope should not be restricted to just our own joy and peace. We must overflow with hope to others!
RENEWFostering Health
A strong family unit provides a sense of belonging, support, and love, creating a foundation for a happy and fulfilling home.