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The annual Equip women’s and teens Conference is being Live Streamed here on Saturday, June 22, from 10am-3pm, and you are invited to benefit! Equip Women has been going for 25 years and 9000 women & teens now attend annually. [...]

Did you know that the word ‘Adam’ is used in multiple ways in Genesis and the Bible? And that how it’s used has different meanings? We usually only think of ‘Adam’ as only the proper noun of a person, especially [...]

Many of you want your conversations after church to go beyond ‘the weather and the footy’, and that’s good. Of course, it is natural people talk about the weather, and football (or whatever sport or hobby/interest you have). But how [...]

There are two basic ways for communication to go wrong: loudly or quietly. While most of us recognize the damage caused by shouting matches and harsh words, fewer realize the equally destructive effects of “the silent treatment” (i.e., the act [...]

We’ve just experienced the great ‘high’ that is Easter: from Jesus’ sacrificial foot washing at the Last Supper that foreshadows his greatest sacrifice on Good Friday, to his glorious and powerful resurrection on Sunday that makes the Great Commission necessary [...]

Matthew 21:14 records Jesus healing “the blind and the lame” at the temple. However, Mark, Luke and John don’t mention this in their Gospels. Why? Well, nobody mentions every single detail when writing history/a biography—or else history and biographies would [...]

When you are doing it tough, experiencing something glorious can help you get through your situation. So, when you see a beautiful sunset, or hear wonderful music, taste marvellous food, or touch something extraordinary etc. it can be like a [...]

Be Asking (Pray): Please pray for myself, your 3 Wardens (unpaid Elders) and 6 Councillors. Yes, we’ve been serving in these roles ’for a while’ but we just as much need God’s wisdom, enabling, humility, insight and perseverance today as [...]

In my Launch Sunday sermon I talked about ‘the S’s’: things happening this year at TGS. As a helpful reminder and spur to you, here they are again — Sermons & Studies: 1 John (just three more after today); Easter [...]

In 1 John 2:18, John says: “Dear children, this is the last hour”. I want to briefly elaborate about how this makes ‘now’ the best time to be alive — Remember, the New Testament (N.T.) talks about ‘two eras’: the [...]