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The Way of Jesus | Daily Apprenticeship by Red Door Church

The Way of Jesus | Confessions of an Exhausted Christian by Red Door Church

Seven Practices for Generous Living by Red Door Church

The Propaganda of Discontent by Red Door Church

God is a Generous Giver by Red Door Church

1 Samuel 8: The King You Want Vs. The King You Need by Red Door Church

The Heart of Thanksgiving | Psalms 136 by Red Door Church

Preacher: Duku Wolikare Series: Psalms of Summer 2020 Passage: Psalm 92 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons

"The story of the Bible is epic in scope! Bigger than most of us have come to terms with. And this Psalm is epic in scope as well. You have Israel praising God for his faithful love, but then you have all nations invited to join them in praise, and then even beyond that, you have creation itself - seas, rivers, mountains, and everything in them - praising God for his goodness and grace!" - Jonathan Smith -- "Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?" 
A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land.." - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Psalms of Summer 2020 Passage: Psalm 98 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons

"This Psalm shows us where to go, what to do, how to think, what to pray whenever we face any kind of trouble. Whether it's the devastation of bushfires, or suffering in relationships, financial hardships, ill-health, you name it. This Psalm is an example to us of how to respond in troubling times." - Jonathan Smith -- 1.
What He Sees:
Psalm 3:1-2 2.
What He Believes:
Psalm 3:3-6 3.
What He Prays:
Psalm 3:7-8 -- "I have been accustomed to call [the book of Psalms]... 'An Anatomy of all the Parts of the Soul;' for there is not an emotion of which any one can be conscious that is not here represented as in a mirror." - John Calvin -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Psalms of Summer 2020 Passage: Psalm 3 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons

Jesus has been dead and buried for three days. The disciples are distraught and hopeless. Into this malaise, the Son of Man comes eating and drinking once more. Christ is risen, and he’s ready for dinner! The fact that Jesus continues to enjoy God’s gift of food post-resurrection proves the eternal significance of meals. -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Meals With Jesus Passage: Luke 24.13-48 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons -- 1.
Hidden Christ 
Luke 24:13-21 2.
Written Christ
Luke 24:27-32; 44-49 3.
Risen Christ 
Luke 24:30-43 -- "The risen Christ eats. The Son of Man came eating and drinking (Luke 7:34). And still the Son of Man eats. The physicality of Jesus is not cancelled by the resurrection. His humanity doesn’t morph into some ethereal existence. In the heretical Gnostic Gospels, written centuries after the resurrection, the risen Christ is a ghostly figure. But in the true Gospels, he can be touched. He can eat. And he does so publicly. The resurrection of Jesus i

Our story is the story of redemption through the sacrifice of a Lamb. Beginning with the Exodus from Egypt (Ex.12), and fulfilled in Jesus, our Passover Lamb (1 Cor. 5:7), Red Door participates in the story of redemption every week as we share Communion and remember the Body and Blood of Jesus. -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Meals With Jesus Passage: Luke 22.7-20 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons -- All glory be to thee Almighty God, 
our heavenly Father,
who of thy tender mercy
didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ
to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption;
who made there, 
by his one oblation of himself once offered,
a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice,
oblation and satisfaction
for the sins of the whole world;
and did institute,
and in his holy gospel command us to continue,
a perpetual memory of that his precious death,
until his coming again. -- The story of the Red Door begins over 3000 years ago in the land of Egypt. The book of Exodus tells of the re

Under the Law, only the best kind of people are invited to eat together, but in the Kingdom, everyone is welcome. In fact, only the humble - those who know their great need for salvation - will accept God’s invitation to eat with him. -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Meals With Jesus Passage: Luke 14.1-24 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au -- Central to the political stability of the Empire was the ethics of reciprocity, a gift-and-obligation system that tied every person, from the emperor in Rome tot he child in the most distant province, into an intricate web of social relations... Expectations of reciprocity were naturally extended to the table. - Joel E. Green, “The Gospel of Luke (NICNT)” -- Most Jewish authorities [in Jesus’ day] said that no one who was blind, crippled, or lame could enter the temple... Documents from Qumran show that the Essenes sect interpreted Leviticus 21 to mean that the poor, the blind, the crippled, and the lame wouldn’t participate in the messianic ba

Who is this man? That’s the question on the lips of Herod as he grapples with the words and works of Jesus. In a desolate place, the humble and hungry find the answer. They experience Jesus as the fulfilment of the Prophets of the Old Covenant, and the promised Messiah of the New Creation. -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Meals With Jesus Passage: Luke 9.7-20 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au

When Jesus says "your sins are forgiven", that's the statement that gets him killed. It's blasphemy forgive sins, because only God can do that. Unless Jesus really is God... In that case, for the person who knows the depths and darkness of their sin, these words are the most beautiful - the sweetest words we can ever hear: "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has saved you. Go in peace.” -- Preacher: Jonathan Smith Series: Meals With Jesus Passage: Luke 7.36-50 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au -- This [sinful] woman treats Jesus with a shocking degree of intimacy… She lets down her hair to wipe tears from Jesus’ feet. In that culture, letting down your hair was something you did in the bedroom. ‘Letting her hair down in this setting would have been on a par with appearing topless in public’ (Joel E. Green, The Gospel of Luke). - Tim Chester, “A Meal With Jesus” -- Everything about this woman is wrong; she does not belong here and the actions she performs are inappropriate in any setti

"The Pharisees aren't upset with Jesus because he's eating and drinking at a party. If he really is the Messiah, inaugurating God's Kingdom, then they expect feasting and celebration. They don't have a problem with the party, they have a problem with the guests. Jesus is actively inviting the 'uninvited'. He's including just the kind of people who shouldn't be included." -- For Jesus ‘feast’ was not just a ‘metaphor’ for the kingdom. As Jesus announced the feast of the kingdom, He also brought it into reality through His own feasting. Unlike many theologians, He did not come [simply] preaching an ideology, promoting ideas, or teaching moral maxims. He came teaching about the feast of the kingdom, and He came feasting in the kingdom. - Peter Leithart, “Blessed Are The Hungry” -- It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the table fellowship for cultures of the Mediterranean basin in the first century... Mealtimes were far more than occasions for individuals to consume nourishment. Being welcomed

"The cross is laid on every Christian. 
The first Christ-suffering which every man 
must experience is the call to abandon the attachments of this world. 
It is that dying of the old man which is the result of his encounter with Christ.
As we embark upon discipleship we surrender ourselves to Christ 
in union with his death we give over our lives to death. Thus it begins; the cross is not the terrible end 
to an otherwise god-fearing and happy life, 
but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. 
When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- Preacher: Duku Wolikare Series: Stand Alone Passage: Mark 8.31–38 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au/sermons

Preacher: Jimmy Young Series: Renewal Passage: Acts 11:19-30 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au

"It is time to cease excusing our sins by calling them shortcomings or natural weakness or by attributing them to our temperament [personalities] or environment. It is time to cease justifying our carnal [sinful] ways and materialistic outlook by pointing to others who are the same.  We must face our sins honestly in the light of God’s word, view them as He does and deal with them as before Him. Until we do, it would be well that God should withhold the rain of revival" - Arthur Wallis. -- "The end of repentance and the ultimate aim of repentance is to realise that nothing else matters except my relationship to God. ‘Let nothing please nor pain me apart, O Lord from thee’." -- Preacher: Jimmy Young Series: Renewal Passage: Genesis 33 Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au

The key idea of our Secular Age: Human flourishing can be achieved without the presence of God. Progress can be made without presence. -- “What cancer has done was shine a light onto all the ways that I am content to progress without the presence of God. And you might think this is a sad way to end a sermon on revival but I do not see it that way. I desire revival.   But before revival occurs out there. Revival must occur in here. Before revival comes to our culture. Revival must come to my own heart. This year has been yet more  evidence of grace to me that even in pain and difficulty and sorrow he will not let me progress without his presence." -- Preacher: Jimmy Young Series: Renewal Subscribe: apple.co/2Jht9Cs More: www.reddoorchurch.com.au