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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
RENEWForging Character
Christian Parenting is about forging the character of your children for their journey of life. It’s the shaping and forming of Christlike character.
RENEWHope for Troubled Marriages
What do you do when you find yourself in a troubled marriage? Is it possible to recover hope for a relationship? No matter what has happened. No matter how…
RENEWThe Meaning of Marriage
God has appointed Christian marriage and the faithful enduring love of Christian marriages to be a pointer, to shout to an unbelieving world, to shout to an…
RENEWBuilding A Lasting Marriage
If the selection of an appropriate partner is an important factor in the establishment of a long-term successful marriage, then the wise choice would be to…
RENEWLetter to the Hebrews: Faith That Endures
There is only one way to endure the race marked out for you. And that is not to fix your focus on what’s happening around you, not to let the brokenness of…
RENEWLetter to the Hebrews: It's About Faith
Biblical faith is not just a matter of having faith. Biblical faith considers the object of your faith. Christians place their faith in God. Faith simply…
RENEWLetter to the Hebrews: Stay Connected
In the battle of life and the times when we doubt our faith the promises of God are a firm and secure hope to cling to. If you have decided at some point in…
RENEWLetter to the Hebrews: When God's Promises Seem To Fail.
Our hope and our confidence is in the fact that he is able. The author of hebrews calls our attention ultimately to Jesus. The writer says because Jesus is our…
RENEWLetter to the Hebrews: Never Give Up
Why do we believe God has spoken in the Bible? Because of how different the message is, how radically unique the belief system is, how uncommon its ethics are…
RENEWMaking Adjustments
The Lord uses adjustments to bring us back into alignment with Him and the plan He has for our individual lives. At times, these changes may make sense and…
RENEWShrinking Back ...?
Faith is often thought of as a thing we have—a belief in something or someone. But in the Scriptures, faith is more than a passive possession—it’s a firm…
RENEWNicodemus at Night
The idea of being “born again” (one of the most powerful and prevalent themes in the Christian faith) emerged from a conversation with a Pharisee. In John 3…
RENEWPrayer: Be Still and Know
Stillness is the quiet space where God migrates from the periphery back to the centre. True prayer comes out of a life that has God at the centre.
RENEWPrayer: On Earth As In Heaven
The motive behind all true intercessory prayer is love for the other. Prayers that start with love for someone else and end with inviting God's activity into…
RENEWPrayer: Pray As Only You Can
Start where you are. Talk to God about the little details of your life you think he doesn't care about. Talk to him about the ways he has let you down or…
RENEWPrayer: Prayer and Action
Although the Bible offers a great deal of guidance on how we can deepen our communication with the Creator, effective prayer has more to do with the one doing…
RENEWChristianity - The Exhilarating Vision
Christianity shows us an exhilarating vision that is rigorous, seemingly unrealistic, unbending, and otherworldly. The God of the Bible, whose glory and…
RENEWChristianity - Eternal Stakes
The message of the New Testament is that the consequences of your response to the gospel message are massive. Eternity hangs in the balance.
RENEWChristianity - Taking on the World
No matter how things are changing in the culture around us, we choose to live according to a different standard with confidence in the ultimate triumph of…
RENEWChristianity - The Truth
The ancient truths of Christianity expressed in the Bible and summed up in the creeds and expounded on by the earliest writings of Christianity provide a map…
RENEWChristianity - I Believe
The key to renewal is to return to the only truth that is reliable and sturdy. When so much of the world is in chaos and confusion we stand by what…
RENEWFacing the Ziklag Test
When we go through hardships, whether they be financial troubles, painful relationships, damaged health or questioning our self-worth, it's hard for us to…
RENEWRevival or Revolution
Revivals are “surprising works” of God meant to impact people with the love and grace of God to such an extent that they spark a Kingdom of God revolution. A…
RENEWEaster Sunday 2023 - The God Who Rolls Away Stones
Maybe there is a stone blocking your way or standing in your path. Maybe you need to be reminded that the glorious, good news of Easter is that Jesus will one…
RENEWGood Friday 2023 - Love Wins
There’s a whole dimension to reality that wields a direct and very powerful influence in our experience and yet is largely outside of our perception. It’s not…
RENEWThe Whole of Life
When we think about sacraments, we have to ask ourselves; What is this seen and unseen world that we live in? The world was created and given to us for…
RENEWThe Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit bears the title of Lord with God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. He is the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ. He is eternal…
RENEWHoly Orders
The transmission of what Jesus taught the Apostles to teach others to do, has been passed on like a baton through the church and through the centuries to all…
RENEWHealing & Anointing the Sick
Healing is a mark of the Christian church. Emotional healing, spiritual healing, physical healing, relational healing. Healing is part and parcel of the…
RENEWConfession
In our fallen and sinful world, an all-important aspect of our personhood is our need to be healed, to get up after we’ve fallen, our need to repent, to…
RENEWHoly Matrimony
Everything the Holy Spirit does bestows grace upon us. Sacraments, like the Church, are both visible and invisible. In every sacrament there is an outward…
RENEWHeart Building Habits: The Grace of Giving
Giving is not an obligation. Giving is not something God does to raise money; giving is something God does to raise people, because it's an invitation for us…
RENEWHeart Building Habits: Come Together
We come together to build a church where people are encouraged and equipped to pursue a relationship with God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We come together…
RENEWHeart Building Habits: Circles are better than Rows
If you’re with a group of people who are connected and doing life together in a positive way, praying together, asking the difficult questions, opening God’s…
RENEWHeart Building Habits: The Assembling of Ourselves
Our spiritual heart has a certain set of requirements necessary to keep it healthy and growing. One of those requirements is a corporate intake component…
RENEWA Message for a New Year
We can find ourselves in the middle of God's perfect will and in the middle of a storm at the same time. Trusting God does not keep storms away.
RENEWChristmas Eve 2022
If you had to choose the name of a single person who has had the biggest impact on the world's history since the beginning of recorded time, one life that has…
RENEWADVENT 2022: The One Who Welcomes
If you were to choose a single word, just one word to describe the feeling that people have when they truly experience the Kingdom of God in Jesus, what would…
RENEWADVENT 2022: A Different Kind of Messiah
It was necessary for the Messiah to suffer and die because only such a bloody death on the cross melts our pride and destroys our efforts at self-help and…
RENEWADVENT 2022: Jesus Promised Saviour
A look at Jesus through the eyes of the gospel writer Matthew. Matthew how Jesus fulfils all of God’s promises in the Old Testament.
RENEWThe Parable of the Prodigal Son - The Father
Here is the picture of salvation: God – running towards humanity with arms outstretched, not only to embrace us but to take the nails reserved for our…
RENEWThe Parable of the Prodigal Son - The Older Brother
Sometimes the truth is that under the surface, deep in the heart, there is not nearly as big a difference between the rebel and the rule keeper as the rule…
RENEWThe Parable of the Prodigal Son - The Younger Son
There is no distance you can go from God that there won’t be a joyous restoration in your return. You have a heavenly Father who loves you with a love like no…
RENEWReckless Grace
Biblically, you can say a lot of things about God, but one thing you cannot do is to domesticate him, make him safe. In the Bible, God often acts in ways that…
RENEWFinding Jesus
Get used to finding the presence of Jesus in all circumstances, and then you will be able to find what is in him for all circumstances. Looking to yourself to…
RENEWIn Christ - Uselessness
We must learn that it is not all up to us, and our worth is not found in our productivity, or our busy-ness, or our usefulness. When life becomes driven by…
RENEWIn Christ - Counter-Cultural
How we approach money really is a mark of the depth of our relationship with God. It is one of the best indicators, according to scripture, of the depth of our…
RENEWIn Christ - Making Time For God
It takes trust to stop working for a while. It takes trust to stop studying for a while, to close the office, to switch off the phone, to disconnect from the…
RENEWSoteria II
How much sin do you think would be wise for God to let into heaven? What would be the acceptable level of sin for God to allow into the realm of eternal life?…
RENEWThe End Will Come
Our world is beginning to feel increasingly chaotic. It’s like we’ve turned a corner and we’re going in a certain direction. It may reverse itself and we could…
RENEWJesus - Man, Myth, Legend or Something More?
Why should we have a heart for people who are far from God. What do we believe about Jesus to be so important that it would motivate us to tell others about…
RENEWThere is a Time and a Season
The season metaphor is a good way to look at life. What’s happening in the world around us, what’s God doing in this church, what’s God doing in my life. It…
RENEWImitate Jesus: Servanthood
Servanthood is an attitude exemplified by Jesus. The five words in the New Testament translated “ministry” generally refer to servanthood or service given in…
RENEWEkklesia - Why should I love the Church?
We are made partners of the Gospel when we come together and say: “Whatever gifts I have—even though it doesn’t look like much—I will bring this into the…