Episodes
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The nations will stand before the throne (Revelation 7:9-17) - Alan Cai
Preached on 25 October 2026. Our new Mandarin minister, Alan Cai, preached on the Sunday where we marked the official merging of Hornsby Anglican Chinese Church with our Wahroonga Anglican Church family.
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Walk faithfully in life because there is hope beyond death (Genesis 5) - James Chen
Preached on 18 October 2026. What does this genealogy have to teach us? Quite a lot, in fact! Come explore what it means to be human in a post-Genesis 3 world.
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Deplore our sin and desire the true Judge (Genesis 4) - James Chen
Preached on 11 October 2026. As we return to the book of Genesis, God's word would have us see that our way of living as humans is filled with violence and vengeance.
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God's community serves all (1 Peter 5:1-7) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 4 October 2026. The last in our series on God's community. We are reminded of the motivations and the manner with which we are to serve all, because we have been served by our Lord.
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God's community reaches many (1 Peter 2:11-18, 3:15-16) - Matt Capel
Preached on 27 September 2026. One of the greatest privileges of being God's people is that we get to declare the praises of him who called us out of darkness and share the reason for the hope we have.
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God's community is built on Christ (1 Peter 2:4-10) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 20 September 2026. Returning to our series on life together as God's community, picking it up in the book of 1 Peter.
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In service of something greater (Ruth 4) - Dan Wu
Preached on 13 September 2026. The fourth of our annual Big Weekend In sermons.
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Kindness uncovered (Ruth 3) - Dan Wu
Preached on 12 September 2026. The third of our annual Big Weekend In sermons.
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The anatomy of grace (Ruth 2) - Dan Wu
Preached on 12 September 2026. The second of our annual Big Weekend In sermons.
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The God who takes away, gives (Ruth 1) - Dan Wu
Preached on 12 September 2026. The first of our annual Big Weekend In sermons.
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The Lord Jesus' mission (John 17:6-26) - James Chen
Preached on 6 September 2026. As Jesus reveals his heart to his Father and his disciples, we get an insight into his mission. And in doing so, we also see what he envisioned would be the way his mission was to continue after he left this world and returned to his Father in heaven.
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Jesus' hour of glory (John 17:1-5) - Peter Tong
Preached on 30 August 2026. We turn to listen in on Jesus' personal prayer to his heavenly Father. Over this week and next, we see the heart of our Lord and what he desires most for himself, his Father, and his people.
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You also must testify (John 15:18-16:33) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 23 August 2026. Jesus is serious and clear about what his disciples can expect from the world, and we must be serious and clear about it as well. Thankfully, God has also provided abundant help and support as we face it.
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You are my friends (John 15:1-17) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 16 August 2026. Oh, what a friend we have in Jesus! What does friendship with Jesus look like, and how are we to live as his friends?
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Who is the Holy Spirit? (John 14:15-31) - James Chen
Preached on 9 August 2026. Jesus assures his disciples that he will not leave them as orphans; he will send them another Advocate, the Holy Spirit.
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A place for you in the Father's house (John 14:1-14) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 2 August 2026. Jesus comforts his disciples with an incredible promise, assuring them that he is preparing a place for them.
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The love of the humble Lord (John 13:1-17) - Matt Capel
Preached on 26 July 2026. In John 13:1-17, Jesus washes his disciples' feet during the Last Supper. This shocking act of humility demonstrated his radical, selfless love. By taking the role of a lowly servant, Jesus taught his followers that true greatness in his kingdom is found in serving…
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How can I believe in an invisible God? (John 12:44-50) - James Chen
Preached on 19 July 2026. John 12:44-50 is the final public speech of Jesus in the Gospel of John, summarising the first half of John's gospel and setting us up to learn from the Upper Room account to come from chapter 13 to 17.
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God's community grows together (Ephesians 4:1-16) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 12 July 2026. The fourth in our series on life together as God's community.
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God's community welcomes others (Ephesians 3:1-4:3) - James Chen
Preached on 5 July 2026. The third in our series on life together as God's community.
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God's community is for his purpose (Ephesians 2:1-22) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 28 June 2026. The second in our series on life together as God's community.
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God's community is by his grace (Ephesians 1:1-16) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 21 June 2026. The first in our series on life together as God's community.
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Genesis 1:1-16 / Andrew Rees / 21st June 2026
A series on the miracle that is the church of the living God - God’s community that He is building throughout our world, and here in Wahroonga. My prayer is that as we look at God’s community, we’ll delight in what God is building here, and dedicate ourselves to serve wholeheartedly to see her...
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Why do we suffer? (Genesis 1-3) - James Chen
Preached on 14 June 2026. God made it, we broke it, God will fix it.
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Sin damages us and the world (Genesis 3:8-24) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 7 June 2026. Genesis 3:8-24 describes "the Fall" of humanity, detailing the immediate fallout of disobeying God. It explains the origin of sin's shame, the resulting curses on creation, humanity's separation from God, and the first scriptural glimmer of ultimate redemption.
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Sin, the Adversary, and the Fall (Genesis 3:1-8) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 31 May 2026. This pivotal moment outlines the universal pattern of sin: deception leading to disobedience, which results in shame, broken relationships, and attempts to hide from God. It sets the stage for the rest of the Bible, establishing humanity's desperate need for redemption…
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God's gift of marriage (Genesis 2:18-25) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 24 May 2026. Genesis 2:18-25 details the creation of woman and establishes the divine blueprint for marriage.
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You are made for glory (Genesis 2:4-17) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 17 May 2026. A close-up, intimate account of humanity’s creation, highlighting our purpose as caretakers, our need for relationship with God, and the reality of boundaries.
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God's rest and ours (Genesis 1:31-2:4) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 10 May 2026. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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You are made in God's image (Genesis 1:26-2:1) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 3 May 2026. The climax of creation, where God creates humanity—male and female—in His own image to represent Him and steward the earth.
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The Creator and the creation (Genesis 1:1-25) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 26 April 2026. The beginning of our sermon series 'Life in the Garden', learning from Genesis 1-3.
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We need one another (James 5:12-20) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 19 April 2026. The final sermon in our series on the book of James.
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Stand firm because the Lord is returning (James 5:1-11) - James Chen
Preached on 12 April 2026. James 5:1-11 warns against hoarding wealth and exploiting workers, and predicting imminent judgement on the unjust rich.
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Only God holds tomorrow (James 4:13-17) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 29 March 2026. A passage all about being humble with our plans about tomorrow.
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Beware friendship with the world (James 4:1-10) - Gavin Parsons
Preached on 22 March 2026. James calls believers to abandon the self-centered, pleasure-seeking, and divisive behaviours of the world, replacing them with a humble, submissive, and God-focused life.
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Beware friendship with the world (James 4:1-10) - Matt Capel
Preached on 22 March 2026. James calls believers to abandon the self-centered, pleasure-seeking, and divisive behaviours of the world, replacing them with a humble, submissive, and God-focused life.
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Heavenly wisdom (James 3:13-18) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 15 March 2026. James 3:13-18 contrasts true, godly wisdom with false, worldly wisdom, emphasizing that genuine wisdom is demonstrated through humble, peaceful conduct rather than intellectual pride. Godly wisdom is characterised by purity, peace, gentleness, and mercy, while earthly...
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You cannot tame the tongue (James 3:1-12) - James Chen
Preached on 1 March 2026. Rather, in James 3 the focus is on how faithful Christians speak about other human beings made in God’s own image, calling us to account for abusive language. However, to get to this argument, James begins with a meditation on human speech and on the potentially...
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Living faith works (James 2:14-26) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 22 February 2026. True, saving faith is inherently active and inevitably produces good works, while faith without action is dead, useless, and merely intellectual agreement.
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Mercy is better than favouritism (James 2:1-13) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 15 February 2026. Favouritism - if you fail to love God and other people, everything else falls apart.
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Be doers of the word (James 1:9-25) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 8 February 2026. True faith perseveres through trials, finds joy in spiritual status over earthly wealth, and matures by obeying God’s Word.
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God is committed to your good (James 1:1-18) - Andrew Rees
Preached on 1 February 2026. James says that for followers of Jesus, joy is not to be tucked away on a shelf like a fine wine, kept on special reserve and poured out only in those rare occasions when we believe all is as it should be.
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Matthew 24:36-25:13 / James Chen / 25th January 2026
The necessity of constant spiritual readiness for the return of Jesus, as the exact time is unknown.
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Matthew 22:1-14 / Gavin Parsons / 18th January 2026
Stories of the King - the Parable of the Wedding Banquet, where a king invites guests to his son's wedding feast, but they refuse and mistreat his servants, leading to judgment
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Matthew 20:1-16 / Steve Rockwell / 11th January 2026
Stories of the King - the Parable of the Labourers in the Vineyard, where Jesus teaches that the Kingdom of Heaven operates on God's generous grace, not human fairness.
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1 Corinthians 16:13-14 / Matt Capel / 28th December 2025
13 Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong. 14 Do everything in love.
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Revelation 22:6-21 / Nathan Smith / 21st December 2025
Come Lord Jesus, come.
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Revelation 21-22 / Gavin Parsons / 14th December 2025
The glorious future for believers: a new heaven and earth where God dwells with humanity, eliminating death, sorrow, and pain, centered around the magnificent, jeweled New Jerusalem, a perfect city descending from God, symbolizing His perfect presence and relationship with His people, the…
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1 Corinthians 15 / James Chen / 7th December 2025
Jesus's physical resurrection is the cornerstone of Christian faith, proving His victory over sin and death, and guaranteeing believers will also rise with immortal bodies, transforming our hope from a mere wish to a powerful, enduring reality, urging steadfastness in faith and service.
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1 Corinthians 14:26-40 / Andrew Rees / 30th November 2025
1 Corinthians 14:26-40 is about good order in the church - God's good order and not ours.
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