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For want of a nail For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost, And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.” ― Benjamin Franklin…

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him…

Micah 3:5-12 Priest & Levites All Priest were Levites, but not all Levites were called to be Priest Both Priest and Levites brought the peoples worship and sacrifices before God, Priest offered the sacrifice while Levites prepared the house of the Lord and assisted with the teaching of scripture Prophets…

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15 / Warning Against Idleness 6 Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us. 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us,…

Final Words My mother passed away about a year ago… I still have saved her final voice mail message. It would be the last words I would hear her speak. My grandfather passed away when I was just 7 years old yet I can still recall the last time I spent with him and the words of wisdom he spoke into my…

Introduction Road Trip—Doing LIFE with God (Real Life). The life lived is to be centered on relationship with God. Illustration: I Love Lucy (Trip to California) Too much stuff. Wrong stuff. Unable to enjoy the journey. Many believers are too busy and too distracted to allow the work of the Holy Spirit…

How do Christians engage the culture around them? Are we called to stand against it? To fit completely into it? Or to transform it? These three models of interaction have been advocated by various groups over the centuries, but which one is best, or is there some other approach which governs how we interact with the world? Join Graham, Stephen, and Malcolm, along with the people of Renew, to explore this important, but complex topic.

Paul’s Story—a young man who puts off starting a career in order to serve God by reaching people who never heard about Jesus. Question: You are willing to do whatever God wants you to do? Go anywhere God wants you to go? Be whatever God wants you to be? The most significant problem facing the church…

Scott’s Story: A businessman and church goer—who’s compassion for people led him to do a short-missions trip to Haiti. “Everyone—including the most impoverished deserve to hear the message of Jesus Christ.” What Scott and many others have discovered is how taking the message of Jesus seriously impacts…

Today's sermon discusses what not to love and Whom to love

John H. Walton John H. Walton is a Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and former professor of Old Testament at Moody Bible Institute for 20 years. He recieved a Masters in Old Testament Studies from Wheaton and a PhD in Hebrew and Cognitive Studies from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute…

1 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. 2 If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, 3 but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He…

Welcome... Introduction… New Series Something I’m excited about Not a book of the Bible but a topic deeply rooted in scripture Foundational for understanding life as a follower of Jesus Bold statement: Without a correct view of the church, a person will not have a correct view of what it means to follow…

The 12 steps of AA are fundamental life changing spiritual principles that we should try to understand We admitted we were powerless over alcohol, anger, jealousy, materialism, consumerism, food, pornography - that our lives had become unmanageable. Sometimes addiction will tell us things have become…

As we continue our study of the book of Amos, we recall that Amos was a man from the southern kingdom of Judah sent to the northern kingdom of Israel to prophesy against them. He wasn’t trained as a prophet. He was a country boy, a sheepherder and grower of sycamore figs. But God called him anyway to…

Our Scripture lesson this morning is taken from Luke 5:12-26 : While he was in one of the cities, there came a man full of leprosy. And when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and begged him, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will;…

Champions Week 2019 is starting with Vision Sunday for Branches Church.

The book of Acts moves fairly quickly from one place to the next and it is easy to get the impression that all the events happened in a very short period of time. But in reality this book covers a span of 32 years from the ascention of Jesus to Paul’s imprisonment in Rome in about AD 62. And his third…

What does it look like to see all of our day as worship to God? Every day is full of “liturgies” that count as worship.

How were we supposed to prepare for THIS? 2 weeks, has turned into 6 weeks, and now looks like it will turn into 3 to 4 months or more. Is there an end in site? How are we supposed to prepare for this? How were we supposed to know what to do, what to buy, what to prepare, when we only had 24 hours before…

Kids, what do you like about holidays? Did you know that Today and next week we’re doing something a little different, we’re taking a short break from our Psalms series to touch on two matters of Church History. This week we’re talking about remembering the dead, and next week we’re going to talk about…

Scene 1/ The Christian life can be a great burden if it is lived out of duty instead of the holiness . 1:13-16 People can get so concerned to “protect” holiness and purity that they develop a whole system of rules to live by. Until recently many conservative evangelical theological colleges had some…

Joy is a major theme in both the Old and New Testaments, so both Judaism and Christianity are faiths full of joy. But what exactly is joy? Where does it come from? What suppresses it? How does it work today, in my day-to-day life in 21st Century Australia? Join us as we tackle these questions.

As the new year comes to the people of Renew, what does it mean to us? Is the New Year just another year? Or do we look forward to God doing a new work in our hearts, and in the hearts of those around us? And why is the idea of "new" such a big part of Christianity, anyway? Are we just consumers in disguise, or is there some deeper reason? Let's dig a little and figure this out!