Open to the Spirit: Spiritual Gifts - Power // 1 Corinthians 12

This week’s sermon explores the Power Gifts—a category of spiritual gifts meant to tangibly demonstrate that God is real, active, and present. Rooted in 1 Corinthians 12, the message invites listeners to consider how we might be open to God’s “supernatural” work in our lives and church, despite modern skepticism. Apologies - the first minute of the recording was cut out. Recorded June 1, 2025.

Open to the Spirit: Spiritual Gifts - Love // 1 Corinthians 12:1-2, 4-12

As we continue exploring how to remain open to the Spirit, we turn our focus to one of the major themes of the Holy Spirit’s work in the Bible: spiritual gifts. This week, we’re looking specifically at the gifts that fall under the “love” category, with the hope of learning about them, celebrating them, and encouraging their use within our community.
Recorded on May 18, 2025.

Open to the Spirit: Goals and Guidelines of the Spirit's Work

This week, we wrap up the introduction to our Open to the Spirit series by exploring a crucial question: How can we tell when the Holy Spirit is at work—in us and in our church? The teaching unpacks four key markers of the Spirit’s activity: love, hope and faith, the building up of community, and a Spirit-led unity. These goals and guidelines help us stay grounded as we learn to live more open to God’s presence and power. Recorded May 11, 2025.

Ransomed from Fear // Mark 8:34-35; 10:41-45

As we continue our winter series in Mark’s gospel, we focus in on an application of Jesus’ suffering, death and resurrection as “the ransom for many”. In this teaching, we learn how Jesus ransoms us from the fear we experience in witness and invites us to a place of obedience and delight. Recorded January 26, 2025.

Note: we experienced a power outage 25 mins into the recording and unfortunately lost about 5 mins of teaching content. This section has been removed.