H3O Church Podcast
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This week, Todd explores how Ecclesiastes 7 argues that wisdom is learned in grief rather than in feasting, because endings reveal what we actually trusted, treasured, and built our identity on.
Whoever loves money never has enough. This week Todd explores what wisdom Ecclesiastes has on money and the effect it has on us.
One in three Australians now report feeling lonely some or all of the time, and Ecclesiastes saw the same ache thousands of years ago: people suffering with no comforter, and people accumulating with no one to share it with. This week, Todd traces the teacher's simple answer, community, into the ministry of Jesus, and then into our own life as a H3O church community.
Throughout our lives, seasons come and go, but there never really seems to a pattern to it. This week, Todd guides us through what the wisdom literature of Ecclesiastes has to say on this.
As humans we're designed to find meaning and purpose, but if that desire is misplaced, it can lead to a never ending cycle of pursuit. This week, Cam explores what Ecclesiastes 2 has to say about this and what it means for the Christian's everyday life.
The book of Ecclesiastes offers us rich wisdom on the meaning of life and Todd kicks off our series this week exploring Chapter 1
This week, Jess Duncan takes us through 'counting the cost' from Luke 14.
This week we're blessed to be joined by Matt Gelding who shared an incredibly helpful teaching on prophecy and praying for one another and how this can be a very normal thing in our everyday lives.
The easiest invitation we see people make to following Jesus in the Gospels is "come and see." This week, Todd explores how relevant this is for us these days as we wrap up our witness series.
Sharing the Gospel often starts with living a beautiful life, but at some point there also comes a time to share the good news with our words. This week, Mon explores what that looks like in a natural, loving but bold way.
As Christians share the good news in their everyday life, it is actually just joining in a conversation that The Holy Spirit is already having with someone. Todd this week shares how we can notice what The holy Spirit is already doing and how we can join in.
This week, Todd explains why H3O as a church is so invested in reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people. Todd explains how, in our context, H3O feels that this is an expression of the heart of the Gospel.
Throughout this series we are not just teaching on witness, but also interviewing people in our community about how they practice witness in their context and everyday life. Here is interview 1 with Cathy.
The good news of Jesus is often felt and experienced before it's explained. This week, Todd explores the way Jesus embodied this and how we as a community can do the same.
It's famously said that in the Gospel of Luke, Jesus is either at a meal, coming from a meal or going to a meal. This week, Todd look at what we can learn as followers of Jesus and how he practiced hospitality and how that relates to our wider witness.
Everyone who's heard about Jesus found about from someone else meaning that witnessing is a key part of our life of faith. This week, Cam explores what witnessing can look like in our modern context and what the motivation has to be to bear lasting fruit.
We live in a world that constantly tells us we need more, but Paul says contentment is something we can actually learn. Todd in this sermon, explores how comparison, control, consumption, and circumstances rob us of peace, and how Jesus strengthens us to be content in our actual real life as it is, not just when our circumstances improve.
What does it actually mean to belong to Jesus’ kingdom while living in today’s world? In this sermon, Andrew explores Paul’s call to reject worldly patterns, imitate faithful examples, and live with confidence in Christ’s promise to renew all things.
On Palm Sunday, the crowd welcomed Jesus as King, but they misunderstood the kind of kingdom He came to establish. In this message, Todd explores how Jesus redefines power through the cross, and invites us to surrender to a kingdom that looks nothing like the one we naturally want.
Mon explores Jesus’ confronting question in Mark 8 and exposes how easily we shape Him into a version that fits our desire for control, comfort, and success. This message invites us into the costly but deeply joyful way of Jesus. The path of surrender, self-giving love, and a life that is ultimately worth it.
We spend so much of our life trying to prove ourselves through success, approval, security, morality, or even religion, only to find that it never quite makes us feel settled. This week as we look at Philippians 3, Todd explores why climbing the ladder of worth is so exhausting, and why the surpassing worth of knowing Jesus offers us a deeper, steadier place to stand.
The passage today is a part B of last week where Paul told us what we should be doing. This week, Cam explores why we should be doing it and how we will have the strength to and what it means for us personally, but also as a community of believers on the Northern Beaches.
As we continue looking at Paul's letter to the church in Philippi, we see his instructions to imitate Christ's life in our own. This week, Todd explores what this mean for today.
Does our physical posture during worship matter? What's the heart behind sung worship? Does the Bible have anything to say about this? This week, special guest Matt Gelding from Soul Survivor looks at all these things.
What does it look like to live a life worthy of the Gospel? How can we do this without it being a guilt driven process? This week Todd explores all of this and more. Scripture: Philippians 1:27-30.
