As we begin a new year, Ps Sue Irwin opens this series with a hopeful and practical message about living free from anxiety. Drawing from Paul’s letter to the Philippians, she reminds us that an anxious life is not fixed by willpower, positive thinking, or better planning, but by a deeper shift in what we believe about ourselves and about God.

Sue gently explores how anxiety is often rooted in identity and misplaced trust, and how peace begins when we learn to live from who we are in Christ rather than striving to become someone through outcomes and achievements. Through Scripture, stories, and clear teaching, she invites us to experience God’s love personally, not just understand it intellectually.

This message is a powerful starting point for the year ahead. It offers a fresh perspective on prayer, spiritual growth, and what it really means to be God’s children. If you are carrying worry, feeling overwhelmed, or longing for a steadier sense of peace, this episode sets a grounding and hope filled tone for 2026.

In this thoughtful and timely message, Ps Rachel Baker speaks into the space many of us find ourselves in at the end of the year. The in between. The moment after Christmas has passed but before the new year has begun. It is a season filled with reflection, expectation, uncertainty, and hope.

Rachel explores why we are so drawn to planning, goal setting, and resolutions, and gently challenges the idea that we are the authors of our own outcomes. Drawing on Scripture and the stories of people who lived in the waiting between promise and fulfillment, she reminds us that God is always at work in these in between seasons. Not rushing us forward, but shaping our hearts and inviting us to trust Him more deeply.

This message is an invitation to pause, to offer our plans to God, and to allow Him to guide what comes next. As the final podcast for 2025, it creates space to reflect, realign, and step into the new year with open hands and a heart ready to listen.

In this encouraging and practical message, Ps Sue Irwin helps us reflect on the year we’ve just lived and shows us how to finish it well, no matter what it has held. As we look back on the highs, the lows, and the moments in between, Sue reminds us that nothing is wasted in God’s hands. Every experience can become a pathway for His blessing when our hearts and minds are aligned with Him.

Using the story of King Jehoshaphat, she explores what it really means to trust God in the face of fear, uncertainty, and overwhelming circumstances. Rather than striving harder or trying to control outcomes, we are invited to realign our thinking, surrender our worries, and learn how worship, gratitude, and faith open the door for God to move.

This message is especially meaningful for anyone feeling weary, anxious about the future, or unsure how to step into the year ahead. It offers hope, perspective, and practical encouragement to trust God more deeply and allow Him to turn valleys into places of blessing.

In this thoughtful Christmas Eve message, Ps Sue Irwin invites us to see Christmas as more than a familiar story we know about, but as an encounter with someone we can truly know. While the nativity often looks peaceful and polished, Sue gently pulls back the curtain to reveal the deeper reality of what was happening when Jesus was born. Heaven was breaking into earth, and it was anything but simple or safe.

Through Scripture, story, and rich imagery, she explores the idea of incarnation and why God chose to come to us as a humble, vulnerable baby. This was not weakness but intention. God wanted to meet us without fear, to speak our language, and to draw close to every human heart. Christmas becomes a rescue story unfolding both visibly on earth and powerfully behind the scenes.

This message will encourage anyone longing for meaning, peace, or a deeper understanding of God’s presence. It is an invitation to move beyond knowing about Jesus and to experience Emmanuel, God with us.

In this deeply reflective message, Matt Darvas invites us to wrestle honestly with the tension between the peace promised at Christmas and the pain we see in the world around us. Set against the realities of global conflict, personal loss, and the recent Bondi tragedy, Matt explores what it means to hope for peace when life feels anything but peaceful.

Through Scripture, personal family history, and thoughtful reflection, he reminds us that Jesus did not enter a calm and orderly world. He entered a broken one. This is not a message that avoids hard questions. Instead, it gently guides listeners toward a deeper, truer peace that does not deny suffering but meets it with love, justice, and grace.

The message also features Ps Stu Brown singing O Holy Night, allowing space to pause, reflect, and let the words of this timeless carol speak to weary hearts.

If you are feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world or carrying quiet pain of your own, this episode offers space to breathe, reflect, and rediscover the peace that Jesus gives, not as the world gives, but as only He can.

In this powerful and honest message, Bev Murrill takes us beyond the polished nativity scenes and into the real world Mary and Joseph lived in. Christmas was not calm, safe, or predictable. It was lived under occupation, fear, uncertainty, and enormous personal cost. Bev invites us to see how God’s light entered the darkness of ordinary, difficult life, not to remove the struggle, but to meet people within it.

Through Mary’s courageous yes and Joseph’s quiet obedience, we are reminded that God’s favour does not mean comfort, approval, or ease. It often means surrender, misunderstanding, and perseverance. Yet it is through that costly faithfulness that God brings hope, justice, and redemption into the world.

This message will resonate with anyone who feels caught between promise and pain, faith and fear. It offers deep encouragement to trust God in the now and the not yet, and to believe that even in hardship, His purposes are still unfolding through ordinary people who say yes.

In this uplifting Christmas message, Stu Brown invites us to slow down and rediscover what the season is really about. With humour, honesty, and warmth, he challenges the busyness and consumerism that so easily take over December and reminds us that Christmas isn’t just a holiday, it’s the moment heaven came to earth.

Through stories, Scripture, and reflection, Stu explores Jesus’ question to His disciples, “Who do you say I am?” and reminds us that how we answer that changes everything.

Like Simeon and Anna at the temple, we’re called to recognize the true presence of Jesus and respond with praise, even in the middle of life’s messiness.

Whether your Christmas feels joyful or complicated, this message will help you centre your heart on what really matters: the hope, peace, and love that arrived when Christ was born.

In this powerful message, Bev Murrill explores how God uses the challenges, pain, and irritations of life to shape us into something beautiful. Drawing from Jesus’ parable of the pearl of great price, Bev reminds us that true transformation takes time and surrender. Like an oyster forming a pearl around a grain of sand, God covers our pain, pride, and fear with His grace until it shines with His glory.

She challenges us to let go of the “holy grails” we cling to. Our opinions, control, and need to be right and instead pursue the priceless treasure of becoming more like Christ. Real healing comes not from what we hold on to, but from what we release into God’s hands.

This message will inspire you to trust God’s process, find beauty in difficulty, and keep seeking the pearl of great price, Jesus Himself. No matter the cost.