God wants beauty for his church not the ugliness earthly or demonic wisdom produces when we quarrels and slander. James likens these quarrels to murder and adultery because we hate what we should love, we become faithless to God and … Read more
Category: Prayer
1 Thessalonians 5.12-28. Rejoice always, Pray continually (Advent 1)
What will grow the church in Melbourne today? There have been many ideas suggested on which we have spent a great deal of effort but our work seems only to have strengthened the headwinds. 1 Thessalonians reminds us there are … Read more
Psalm 27. Worship is longing
We have an ancient resource which can sustain us through lockdown, health struggles and fear. It is not therapy, thinking or the latest mindfulness apps but worship done well. David, in this Psalm teaches us how to enrich the worship … Read more
Lack of Reason. Keeping the Lord’s Prayer
In July this year the Reason party in the Victorian State parliament brought forward a motion to remove the Lord’s prayer from the opening of daily sessions of parliament. The proposal was to replace it with an acknowledgement of country … Read more
Psalm 83. Battle prayer
This Psalm teaches that part of our prayer for our enemies is to pray that God will bring back upon them what they have done or intend to do to others. There are two possible outcomes to this judgement. 1. … Read more
Philippians 4. The answer to our prayers
In this short series on prayer we are considering how Biblical personalities experienced answered prayer. In this final talk in the series we learn how we are to discern when prayer has been answered and what to pray for. [Audio]… Read more
2 Corinthians 11. The answer to Paul’s prayer
In this short series on prayer we consider how the Biblical personalities experienced answered prayer. In this talk we look at Paul’s prayer for his own healing in 2 Corinthians 11. [Audio]
Michael Flynn