These are our Sunday sermons from Red Church in Melbourne, Australia. Visit https://redchurch.au to learn more.
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Ever sat in a room and felt the quiet dread of What am I doing here? Mark Sayers names that feeling, imposter syndrome and takes us to Romans 8, where creation itself waits on tiptoe for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's forgotten vice of "pusillanimity" (the sin of shrinking back from the good we're capable of). Mark unpacks how comparison, perfectionism,…
Week four of the Being Human series takes us into John 13, the astonishing moment Jesus, knowing full authority had been placed in his hands, gets up from the table and kneels to wash his disciples' feet. Mark Sayers moves past the familiar reading of this passage as a leadership lesson and into something far more personal: an image of the God of the universe coming close, getting low, and…
Continuing the Being Human series, Mark Sayers opens John 1 and unpacks one of the most revolutionary sentences ever written: "the Word became flesh." Mark exposes an ancient lie that has shaped everything from Plato's cave to The Matrix to today's transhumanist dreams: the belief that this world, our bodies, and our everyday lives are somehow inferior, and the goal is to escape upward into…
Continuing our series Being Human , Mark Sayers turns to Psalm 23 and takes us into what roboticists call the "uncanny valley". That unsettling space where something appears almost human but not quite, showing us how this concept isn't just about technology but points to something deeply spiritual. Scripture places humans between two peaks — created in the image of God with agency and creativity,…
Mark Sayers opens a brand new series by tackling one of the most urgent and contested questions of our time: what is a human? As AI, autonomous robots, and drones increasingly appear in our workplaces, schools, and streets, our culture is being forced to reach for an answer, and the church has something profoundly hopeful to say in this moment. Turning to Genesis 1:27, he reminds us that humans…
In this message, Andy opens Luke 10 and the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore something central to the church's heritage but easy to overlook — hospitality. Drawing on his years in the coffee industry, the extraordinary story of Gander, Newfoundland (nicknamed "Casserole City" after housing 6,000 stranded passengers post-9/11), and the early church's radical practice of philozenia —…
Our dear friend Rob Lim is back with us, challenging us to recognise that we live in a narrowing culture, one that shapes us into thinner, monomodal versions of ourselves. Drawing from Ecclesiastes, Rob unpacks three strongholds that keep us small: professionalisation, commoditisation, and convenience. But in the midst of this, God is doing a new thing. Rob points to signs of a wider awakening…
Andy opens Matthew 5:14-16 to remind us that we were made to stand out, not for the sake of it, but because a weary world is searching for hope. He unpacks three practical tools for shining Christ's light: abiding with Jesus, embracing story, and merging worlds through community. A timely reminder that it's not always our best argument that wins people; sometimes it's simply us, carrying the…
We are honoured to welcome back guest speaker Rob Reimer, who took us into Psalm 63 to explore one of the great rhythms of the Christian life: the theology of process and the theology of encounter. Drawing from David's raw, thirsty pursuit of God in the wilderness, Rob unpacks the three places we meet God on the journey: in the valleys when life breaks us, on the mountaintops when an ordinary day…
Daniel Murton opens Luke 10 to remind us that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few, and to ask whether we actually believe it. Sharing the story of an 18-year-old version of himself belting out "Send Me, I Will Go" in a beat-up Mitsubishi, Daniel unpacks both the why of being sent by Jesus, his call and the practical how : where are you being sent, who to, what with, and who with? To…
