Mark 4:35-5:20 1. Fear Today I want us to think a little about fear and the place that it has in our lives. I’m not raising this because of the current crisis that the world is facing with COVID-19 although …
Mark 4:1-34 Small and irrelevant? In the midst of everything that’s going on right now, I wonder if you’ve had the feeling that whatever God is doing in the world through Jesus, it seems kind of small and irrelevant. It …
Psalm 46 When our world turns upside down Lately it seems like our world keeps on being turned upside down. We’ve had the drought going on for years. We might not have felt it as deeply here in Sydney as …
Revelation 12 When C. S. Lewis wrote the Narnia stories he was seeking to provide a metanarrative, a big story of how the world works. He did this by using an imaginary world to convey big R, Real Reality to …
Mark 3:7-35. Australian Beatlemania In 1964 Beatlemania swept Australia. The nation was captivated by the one and only visit of the Beatles to Australia. The Fab Four had become an international sensation with hit after hit topping the charts in …
Mark 2:18-3:6 – Speaker – Mark Penn 1/3/2020 Introduction When we follow Jesus, do we understand who we are following? For if we know that Jesus is Lord, that through him all things were made. That he is Lord over all, …
Mark 1:40-2:17 Do you ask for help when you need it? In my ‘former life’ I was a medical field service engineer. I drove around Sydney and NSW fixing and serving medical imaging equipment for Philips Medical – especially …
Opportunities and Priorities One of the things I find difficult about being a pastor is figuring out what to do next out of the seemingly endless list of opportunities and responsibilities. There’s lots and lots of things I could do …
Mark 1:1-13 1. Getting ready There are times in life when we all must get ready or else find ourselves running the risk of being totally unprepared and caught out for what might be about to take place. Getting …
