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Some of the Insights, which we have discovered through our love relationship with God.
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Jeremiah #15: Giving and receiving Godly input

Simon Kostas

In the time of Jeremiah, as now, there were many people purporting to give Godly guidance and input, yet God expected His people to recognise and respond to His voice. As the…
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Communing with & Participating in God

Simon Kostas

The desire of our hearts and sole purpose of our lives is that God is glorified in and through us. But that can only happen when we are…

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1. Being Lovers of God: Responding to Him (Intro)

Simon Kostas

The account of Jesus’ final visit to the house of Martha, Lazarus and Mary in John 12 points to the different responses we can give to Jesus and…

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2. Martha: Loving God on Your Terms

Simon Kostas

Martha knew who Jesus was and believed in Him. She loved Jesus and He her. This was at least the third time Jesus had come to her house.…

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3. Lazarus: Loved But Not a Lover

Simon Kostas

Lazarus knew who Jesus was and loved Him. His life since being raised from the dead by Jesus was a living testimony of Jesus’ power and authority and…

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4. Mary: Be a Passionate Lover

Simon Kostas

Mary’s response was not practical, financially prudent nor the social norm… but it was a genuine authentic expression of her love and value of Jesus and who He…

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5. Judas: Responding to God for Your Purposes

Simon Kostas

Judas knew who Jesus was and loved Him, yet he didn’t just follow Jesus because of who He was, he used Jesus for his purposes. It is a…

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6. Summary: A Lover Who is a Friend and Serves

Simon Kostas

Make sure Jesus is the actual focus of your life and seek Him who is ever present in your life. Choose to love Him with all your heart,…

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Jeremiah #14: You Can Thrive Anywhere With God

Simon Kostas

God’s promise to His people is that He will always be with them, a truth you must embrace and live in. When you believe and seek God for…

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Jeremiah #13: God’s Truth: The Straight Path

Simon Kostas

Jesus said “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me”, yet how many of us live in…

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Jeremiah #12: Now and Not Yet

Simon Kostas

God is always speaking, guiding and correcting but are you really listening, allowing His words to transform you from the inside? Are you fulfilling every word God has…

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Jeremiah #11: Who Are You Listening To?

Simon Kostas

It is vital that we are constantly talking and listening to God and living in His context, not just our own. The danger for us as believers is…

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The Sin of Self-Focus

Paul Kiefte

When Jesus healed the paralysed man at the pool of Bethesda He resolved what the invalid believed was his biggest problem, his inability to walk. Later, when Jesus…

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Jeremiah #10: God’s Love is Constant

Simon Kostas

In chapters 22 -24 we again see how God is always seeking a personal love relationship with us. His love is unconditional, knowns no bounds, is constant and…

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Jeremiah #9: Opposition is Inevitable

Simon Kostas

When we live for God we will experience both external and internal opposition. Yet most of us do not expect it and try and avoid it. Here in…

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Jeremiah #8: Repentance: A Way of Life

Simon Kostas

Out of His love for us God calls us to Himself and is always doing all He can so that we can live in a personal love relationship…

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Christmas Service 2025 (Melbourne)

Joel Kiefte

The story of the Nativity - the miracle and mystery of Jesus’ birth - has many layers. In this year’s Christmas service, we focussed on the theme of…

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Spiritual Growth

Simon Kostas

In 2 Peter 1 we are shown how receiving God's gift of His Holy Spirit should radically change your life because in Him, the Holy Spirit, we have…

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Jeremiah #7: The Work of God’s Hands

Simon Kostas

From the moment we commit our lives to God our heart’s desire is that He should be our everything: our single focus, our joy, our rest and our…

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Walking With God

Simon Kostas

The Biblical expression “to walk with God” sounds simple and natural and really it is. But it is also total to consistently walk with God His way, at…

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Jeremiah #6: The Truth Will Set You Free

Simon Kostas

God is always drawing us closer to Himself and doing everything He can to make that possible. Part of living in His Presence is living in “the truth,…

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Jeremiah #5: God is Concerned With Your Inner-Life

Simon Kostas

Continuing in the book of Jeremiah we see again that God values relationship. In His love for us God always does all He can to enable us to…

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Jeremiah #4: God is Always True to Himself

Simon Kostas

As we look at the historical setting of Jeremiah's life we see how God invites us, His people, to be 'in the world but not of it' because…

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Jeremiah #3: God’s Promises, Yours to Live in & Fulfil

Simon Kostas

God's call is followed by His equipping promises which He gives us to believe and live in. In the first chapter of Jeremiah we see God doing just…

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Jeremiah #2: Living in God’s Context

Simon Kostas

In the second sermon in the series we see how in giving Jeremiah His context, God invited him - as He invites each of us - to live…

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Jeremiah #1: A Man Who Lived as a Man of God

Simon Kostas

The Biblical account of Jeremiah is a wonderful and challenging example of someone who was called by God and who, in and through his continual responses and obedience,…

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Is the Holy Spirit Free in Your Life?

Simon Kostas

It is only because of the redeeming and sanctifying work of Jesus Christ that it is possible for any of us to receive the gift of the Holy…

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Is God Really Your Shepherd?

Simon Kostas

The six well-known and often quoted verses of Psalm 23 describe in beautiful simplicity how each of us is meant to live with God at the centre of…

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The Importance of Godly Community

Simon Kostas

Jesus commands us to “love one another as He has loved us” for it is in Godly Community - with the Trinity, our families, our local church community,…

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Who is Really at the Centre of Your Life?

Simon Kostas

It is because Jesus Christ lived, died for our sins and was resurrected that each of us can have God as the focus and centre of our lives…

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Come, follow Me

Simon Kostas

In this simple invitation, Jesus asks us to leave the known and familiar to follow Him as He keeps leading us towards God. When, like the Disciples, we…

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Knowing Him, Knowing You

Simon Kostas

God exists in love relationship and He wants us to know Him for who He really is and for us to be known by Him for who we…

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Human Sympathy vs God’s Love

Emma Kostas

When we step out of our comfort zones God is free to reveal aspects of ourselves which are not a reflection of Him. In this way, God revealed…

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Living in God’s Presence

Simon Kostas

Everything God has done for us is so that we can live with Jesus in His Presence. Once you know God and have experienced His love, it is…

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Living for God’s Pleasure

Simon Kostas

Our ordinary lives can and should please God. That is what each of us was created for. It was the motivation for Jesus’ life and death and the…

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Live in Jesus’ Victory 

Simon Kostas

In His life, death and resurrection Jesus Christ defeated death and sin for all of us personally and individually. But are you living in the victory that He…

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Our Unity

Toby
Galloway

Many Christians would be familiar with the words Jesus spoke to his disciples, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:20 NIV).…

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The Cost Of Love Relationship

Simon Kostas

God makes it clear that it will cost everything to live in a true love relationship with Him and one another. He does not hide it in the…

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Love Relationship: The Essence Of God

Simon Kostas

God exists in love relationship in the three persons of the Trinity, who know and love one another in eternity. God invites us to share in love relationship…

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A Living Sacrifice

Simon Kostas

Jesus said the first and greatest Commandment is to love God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. While that is…

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Leave Yourself Behind

Simon Kostas

We are all invited by God to live in a personal, intimate, love relationship with Him, Who is love and loves us. But it will always be our…

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Responding to the Holy Spirit

Toby
Galloway

Responding to the Holy Spirit is a fundamental aspect of the mature Christian life. As lovers of Jesus, those responses are the steps which make-up our walk with…

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Possessing Your Promised Land

Simon Kostas

When you were baptised you gave your life to God and from that moment on your life, by your free will choice, was His. Since that time God…

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Living in God’s Kingdom

Simon Kostas

Jesus invites all believers to come and live in the Kingdom of God, that spiritual realm where God reigns. While we may know about it, talk about it,…

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Judgement and Discernment

Paul Kiefte

We shouldn’t be judgemental, but as God’s people we need to be discerning, in fact, God expects it of us. Judgement and discernment can look very similar in…

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The Miracle of God – Part 1

Simon Kostas

God longs to be one with His people and everything He has done from the creation of the world onwards is for that purpose. Though God is the…

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The Miracle of God – Part 2

Simon Kostas

God longs to be one with His people and everything He has done from the creation of the world onwards is for that purpose. Though God is the…

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The Importance of Relationship

Simon Kostas

God created us so that He could have a personal, intimate love relationship with each of us. God is ever present and wants to be known, but He…

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God is Always Seeking Everyone

Simon Kostas

Jesus said that "man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God". Our God is the living and ever-present…

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Live The Resurrected Life

Simon Kostas

Jesus said of Himself “I am the way and the truth and the life” and invites us to live in 'the Way' that He is. Through His relationship…

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Here for God’s Pleasure

Simon Kostas

In this sermon Simon reminds us that God desires to have an intimate personal love relationship with each of us. Though we all naturally see everything - including…

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The Beauty Of Repentance

Joel Egan

A few years ago out of the blue I felt the Holy Spirit convicting me about a time in my life, over 15 years earlier. At that time…

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The Importance of Willingness

Joel Kiefte

I have been aware of God and a desire to love Him for most of my adult life, often expressing to Him that all I want is a…

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Immeasurable Faith

Joel Egan

When I think about faith I often think about what Jesus said to His disciples when He said: "Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small…

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His Strength Perfected

Paul Kiefte

“My power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV)

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The God of Life

Simon Kostas

Like many people I have known God all of my life. Growing up this was, in large part, because of my parents’ choices – how they lived, the…

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Living for God is Easy

Toby
Galloway

During a recent church meeting I felt God impress upon me that He has made it so easy for us to live for Him.

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Living by Faith

Simon Kostas

God spoke to me in the middle of the night in January 2017 in a way I have not experienced God ‘talking’ before or since. It is difficult…

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Responding to God

Simon Kostas

God speaks to His people, expressing His heart and His perspective to them. God shares Himself out of His desire to have an intimate personal love relationship with…

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Assurance not Reassurance

Paul Kiefte

When I look back I know that I have received reassurance many times in my life and in most cases it has helped to combat my doubts and…

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