How LIT Camp Equipped Me to Lead and Share My Faith
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

How LIT Camp Equipped Me to Lead and Share My Faith

Last week, Lucy and 19 other Year 10-12 students spent a week at LIT Camp alongside 450 teenagers, growing in faith, developing leadership skills, and forming friendships that will last. Hear how this experience equipped Lucy to confidently share God's word and step into leadership.

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Red: From Enemies to Friends
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Red: From Enemies to Friends

Romans 5 doesn't flatter us, it calls us powerless, ungodly enemies of God. But here's the beauty: we're more sinful than we dare believe, yet more loved in Jesus than we dare hope for, because He died for His enemies to make them friends.

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YELLOW — New Life and Eternal Hope
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

YELLOW — New Life and Eternal Hope

The final colour, yellow, represents light restored and future glory. When we trust in Jesus, God gives us his Holy Spirit to live in us — a sure promise of the life to come.

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Black: Rebellion, Sin, and Stumbling in Darkness
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Black: Rebellion, Sin, and Stumbling in Darkness

Genesis 3 doesn't start with violence or murder, it starts with doubt: "Did God really say?" The black bead represents how sin enters through suspicion, shatters three perfect relationships in oe, and leaves us stumbling in darkness.

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Red: Jesus and the Cross
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Red: Jesus and the Cross

The red colour brings us to the heart of the Christian message. Jesus is the promised serpent crusher who stepped into the darkness for us.

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White: Light, Relationship and Life with God
Stuart Crawshaw Stuart Crawshaw

White: Light, Relationship and Life with God

The white bead represents that God made us to be His friends—to walk in the light of His ways. You are created in God's image, formed from dirt yet dignified by God's breath, designed for relationship, and placed under His joyful, life-giving authority.

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Green: God Creates Good
Jai McMordie Jai McMordie

Green: God Creates Good

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."

Join with us as we begin our Colours of Life sermon series. We of course start at the beginning…

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Christmas and New Year at Ryde
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Christmas and New Year at Ryde

Christmas and New Year at Ryde: Our celebration doubled in size with enthusiastic visitors, and we're thrilled that two families have returned in recent weeks eager to explore faith and build new friendships.

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Is Joy To The World a Christmas Carol?
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Is Joy To The World a Christmas Carol?

Is "Joy to the World" actually a Christmas carol? Tim reveals that Isaac Watts never intended it as a seasonal song. It's about all three advents of Christ, and it deserves to be sung all year round.

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Colours of Life Sermon Series
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Colours of Life Sermon Series

As we begin a new year together, we do so with gratitude for God’s faithfulness and with a renewed sense of purpose.

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God, Why Would You Want a Relationship with Me?
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

God, Why Would You Want a Relationship with Me?

Why would the God of the universe, who made Moses glow, expelled Adam and Eve, and inspired reverent fear, want a personal relationship with simple little you? Or more importantly: Why don't you want a relationship with Him?

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Six-Seven, Memes and Movements
Joel McMaster Joel McMaster

Six-Seven, Memes and Movements

What does a meaningless meme about the numbers six and seven tell us about internet culture, Gen Z, and how Christians should respond? Joel, Ethan and Brayden break down why postmodernism has won the culture war, and why God is still making Christians through TikTok anyway.

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