"power" Tagged Sermons
Great Forces of Evil
In Revelation 17 we see the two main thrusts of evil in the world and they are not like anything we might have imagined. Join Pastor Joe as he uncovers the nature of this evil and how Jesus, the Lion and the Lamb, can empower our wrestle against it.
The Church in Waiting
The disciples of Jesus had ridden a roller-coaster ride of emotions over the last few weeks. Their hopes had seemingly been crushed with the death of Jesus and then suddenly birthed back into life through His resurrection. Now they had spent 40 days hanging with this resurrected Jesus. Everything inside them would have been wanting to burst out and tell the world everything that had happened… and yet Jesus tells them to wait. But it is in this waiting we…
The Futility of Idols
Feeling weak, isolated and oppressed, the nation of Judah turned her eyes to the powerful nations around her and began to entertain the idea that maybe their gods and customs were more powerful than Yahweh. So God calls Jeremiah to outline for the people the peril of chasing after these idols and as he lays it out plain we will also be challenged to see what pursuing our own idols has the potential to do to us and how we…
Two Ways to Love
Whether it is love songs, love stories or the classic Disney Princess movies we are very familiar with what the world thinks of love. Unfortunately love in the world rarely works out the way that the songs and movies seem to suggest that it will. When John speaks of love he speaks of something far more satisfying and powerful than any image that Hollywood can conjure up… He speaks of a love that empowered by Jesus Christ through His gospel;…
Power for Change
Every year we get past Christmas and suddenly our attention turns to the New Year and everything that we hope it will bring for us. Just about all of us view the 1st of January as a new start… an opportunity to make good. Whether we call them “New Year’s resolutions” or not we all have ambitions for the year to come. But each year we know all too well the crushing feeling of failure. So where in this cycle…
I’ve got the power
With Brisbane being consumed by the G20 summit over the past week Pastor Joe takes a look at the concept of power, greatness and authority and how Jesus intends us to think about it in our lives.