

Reader: Danita O'Loughlin
Preacher: Jonathan Smith
Today we start our twelfth year of exploring the Psalms during the summer break. Pastor Jonathan is teaching from Psalm 30, a psalm where David looks at how great things are when he's walking with God, but also how bad things are when he turns from God.
The message from this psalm is that even though he was far from God at the time he wrote this, David turned back to God. The same applies to us. When things are going very good in our lives, it's then that we have a tendency to turn away from God, and then fall into sin,
but God, in his mercy, disciplines us to bring us back into right relationship with him.
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Reader: Gehan Pereria
Preacher: Jonathan Smith
Music: Josh Henessey
Today Pastor Jonathan is teaching from Psalm 146, a psalm which starts with the command Hallelujah! Literally, this word means "All of you, praise the Lord", and with the exclamation point, it's a command.
When we read this, we often take it one of two ways - with pride because we are praising God daily, or with dispair because we are not. Jonathan teaches us that we're looking at this wrong. In John's gospel (Jn 17:4), Jesus says that he's
completed everything God has asked him to do. This statement is BEFORE his crucifixion and resurrection, so what is Jesus referrring to here? He is referring to the way that he has lived his life in constant praise of God, and so, as being members of the body of Christ, we can worship and praise God freely. Jesus is the leader, and we are just a part of the choir, where the sound of all voices together in praise is beautiful.
Reader: Daniel Yong
Preacher: Josh Henessey
Music: Josh Henessey & Bek Hudson
Today Josh is teaching from Psalm 36. It seems that this psalm is telling us that evil people will be punished and those who follow God are blessed, however Josh asks us to look deep into this psalm.
Jesus told people that many who claim to follow him will be rejected because they are following a God of their own making and not truly following him.
This is the crux of this psalm - if we are only following God for the things he brings to us and not truly following him with our heart and soul, then we are one of the people Jesus says "I never knew you. Depart from me, you lawbreakers" (Matt 7:23).
However, if we are doing our best to make God the centre of our life then we can only marvel at the blessings of God in this psalm where his faithful love reaches to heaven (v5) and his righteousness is like the highest mountain (v6)
Reader: Judy Carr
Preacher: Jonathan Smith
Music: Red Door Worship Team
Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 46. This psalm opens with the verse "God is our refuge and strength, a helper who is always found in times of trouble".
At certain times in our lives it feels like God is not there, but he is. God also commads us in verse 10 to "Stop fighting, and know than I am God." Other translations
have this verse as reading "Be still, and know that I am God." Jonathan hints that what we are fighting is the busyness, hurry and overload in our lives. God commands us to stop fighting this busyness.
Reader: John Hargrave
Preacher: Jonathan Smith
Music: Bek, Josh & Susie
Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 4. David, the all powerful king, realises that he does not have the power to solve all problems. So many of our leaders today try to make us believe they can solve society's problems - economic, housing, employment, law and order. Instead, society is left more divided. David tells us that only God has the ability to solve all of our life issues, and Jonathan supports this argument as well. Putting our trust in anything other than God and his son is idolatry.
Reader: Levi Dacion
Preacher: Jonathan Smith
Music: Josh & Bek
Today Pastor Jonathan is looking at Psalm 39. Our society today does whatever it can to avoid talking about death. Jonathan even spoke about where in the past he has spoken about death in sermons, some people reomstrated with him.
The bible, however, is full of death, and this psalm is no different. If we look at death as inevitable and focus on living our lives to the fullest in Jesus and placing all our trust into God for our future, then death has no power over us, and that is very good news.
Preacher: Chad Loftis
Today guest preacher Chad Loftis is looking at Psalms 112 and 113. These two psalms look at the rightessnous we should live and the rightessnous of God. We may think that our rightessnous comes from us living a certain way, with high moralistic values, etc, but Chad tells us that our rightessnous comes from how we live in relationship with other people and how we treat them.
Reader: Joanna Justus
Preacher: Joshua Henessey
Psalm 100 is a short psalm of praise and thanksgiving, but like everything in the scriptures, it is full of depth. Josh tells us not only why we should do as the psalm says but also how we can do what the psalm says. He also shows us that Jesus not only preached what is said here, but he also lived it out.
We are called to do the same.