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Love Actually - Missional Friendships

Join us at Brisbane Central as we continue with our current series, Love Actually. This week Pastor Neli explores missional friendship and God's design for love.  It’s important to be deeply connected, growing spiritually by leaving immaturity behind, and understanding that we are created for authentic connections with others. Consider how deep your friendship is with God and how your friendship with Him informs your friendships with others?

If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. - John 15:7-8 (ESV)

Love Actually - Love on Mission

This week, Pastor Neli highlights love as patience, kindness, and having enduring qualities. God has a design for relationships, including friendships and marriage. We can embrace God's lordship in all areas of life, because as we delight in God, He grants the desires of our hearts. 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.Love never ends… - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a (ESV)

The King's Wallet - How God Invests

This week, Pastor Neli reminds us where the true treasure lies. The riches of life is found not in earthly possessions but in eternal investments and the wealth of relationships. God's extravagant love and grace reshapes us to live generously, transforming giving from a command to a natural expression of a heart transformed by His grace, ultimately bringing a life of overflow. 

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. - Matthew 6:19-21 (ESV)

The King's Wallet - How God Gives

This week Pastor Dennis centres his message on generosity and the stewardship of finances. We must understand the nature of God and how He gives.  In doing so we can mirror the nature of Christ in our own approach to wealth. True abundance comes not from a self-serving pursuit of wealth, but from understanding and mirroring God's character as a bountiful giver.  We can trust that God will provide all sufficiency, enabling us to abound in good works and experience the joy of generosity that brings glory and thanksgiving to Him.

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. - 2 Corinthians 9:6-15 (ESV)

The King's Wallet - What God Owns

This week, Pastor Neli guides us to reflect on the true ownership of everything in our lives. All that we have belongs to God, and we are called to be faithful stewards. Remember the importance of honouring what belongs to God and be good stewards over your resources, relationships, and life. Trust that remaining faithful in these areas aligns you with God's greater purpose.

And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ - Matthew 25:20-21 (ESV)

Rhythms of Heaven - The Sounds of Pentecost

This week Pastor Neli helps us to reflect on the meaning of Pentecost. We are reminded of the transforming power of God's Spirit, the unity of believers, and the call to live in bold faith. The Holy Spirit is still present and active today. Let this word encourage you to live filled, led, and empowered by the Spirit.

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. - Acts 2:1-4 (ESV)

Rhythms of Heaven - Prayer and Solitude

This week Paster Neli focuses on Jesus’ rhythm of retreating to quiet places for prayer. There is power and importance of personal, private time with God. Be encouraged to reconnect with the Father in the stillness. Pause, step away from the noise, and be refreshed in His presence.

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.  But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. - Matthew 6:5-6 (ESV)

Rhythms of Heaven - The Thirst Trap

Pastor Neli shares a powerful where Jesus speaks about the kind of worship the Father desires, worship in spirit and in truth. True worship goes beyond location or tradition and flows from a genuine connection with God. Be encouraged to reflect on the nature of your own worship and to be reminded that God is seeking hearts that are fully open to Him.

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” - John 4:21-24 (ESV)

Firm Foundations - Mission

Pastor Neli reminds us of Jesus’ Great Commission from Matthew 28 and Mark 16 - to go, make disciples, baptise, and teach. We have a clear call to believe, follow, and share the good news.  Be encouraged to walk in faith, embrace your calling, and live out your purpose with confidence. Whether you're new to the journey or growing in your walk, remember that God is with you every step of the way, empowering you to love people and honour Him.

And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:18-20 (ESV)

Firm Foundations - Faith and Hope

This week Pastor Tina highlights the mystery of Christ revealed to His people, and the hope of glory found in Him. Faith has always been central to a life that pleases God. We can trust in God’s promises, even when we can’t yet see the outcome.  Be encouraged to anchor your hope in the unseen promises of God.

 

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.  For by it the people of old received their commendation.  By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. - Hebrews 11:1-3 (ESV)