Experiencing Nothing Tabor College 8.5.19 Phil 2:1-13 Introduction Since human beings were made for the most intense of spiritual experiences (Isa 43:6) it’s not surprising that religious structures, from soaring cathedrals with their huge organs and superb choirs able to … Continue reading
Made for Glory Isa 43:1-7; Ps 8; 2 Cor 3:7- 18; John 1:1-14 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/media/podcastmanager/MadeforGlory.mp3 Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWPmEaW7m4M Introduction As a depressed teenager, especially when on alcohol, I was driven almost to the point of insanity about why … Continue reading
Revival 5. The End of Revival Alive@5 28.4.19 Ps 110; Acts 2:1-41 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/939-the-end-of-revival Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVFMeL8rXJA Introduction My final talk in this series “The End of Revival” is about God’s ultimate purpose in sending revival. Teachers on revival are … Continue reading
The Very Happy Executioner Luke 23:26-49 Good Friday 2019 Audio https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/936-the-happy-executioner-lk-23 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABkdecEB7OU Introduction Is it OK for the AFL to put games on Good Friday, and for you to watch them on TV? Was my mum in tune with … Continue reading
The Persecuted and Forgotten Jesus ““Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” (Acts 9:4-5) “Remember those who are in prison, as though … Continue reading
Studies in Revival 3. The Fullness is Christ Alive@5 17.10.19 Eph 1:15-22; 3:14-4:13 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/930-revival-and-the-fullness-of-christ Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGmO09g_tSI “Man is a vessel destined to be filled with God and as he is filled so he expanded and as he is expanded so … Continue reading
Revival Studies 4. Beautifying the Bride Isa 60:1-14; Rev 21:1-14 “Beauty will save the world.” (Dostoyevsky) “God’s beauty embraces death as well as life, fear as well as joy, what we might call the ugly as well as what … Continue reading
The Ambitious Assistants St Mark’s 7.4.19 Luke 22:7-38 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/932-the-ambitious-assistants-lk-22-7-38 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZvcdTpkMA Introduction The centre point of today’s reading is the declaration of Jesus, “I am among you as the one who serves” (v.27). He serves us today as he … Continue reading
Revival Studies 2. The Spirit and Revival Heb 5:1-10; Rom 8:18-27 Alive@5 24.3.19 “I have one passion: it is Jesus, Jesus only.” (Zinzendorf) “Pentecost will become a reality only when we come to the point where we find the misery … Continue reading
Studies in Revival Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/925-revival-and-earnest-prayer Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENhEfhOxka8 “a movement of the Holy Spirit bringing about a revival of New Testament Christianity in the Church of Christ and its related community” (J Edwin Orr) “a renewal of God’s people to do God’s … Continue reading
Self-Examination Alive@5 10.3.19 1 Cor 11:23-32; 2 Cor 13:1-10 Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/15yvqlqjab6909r/REC_0012.aac?dl=0 Video: https://youtu.be/9dUD8s-yY-g Introduction When I was informed that the under 31’s writing for the Christian Today website unanimously declined to opt in for a yearly critique by senior writers … Continue reading
Rich Young Ruler St Mark’s 10.3. 17 Luke 18:18-30 Audio:https://www.dropbox.com/s/q0t94h5kw5qgv5h/2%20Wilson%20Street%20John%20morning%20sermon.m4a?dl=0 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53GtY8ok2XA Introduction Time and again in Luke we have seen that against all expectations, marginalised people, such as Gentiles, women, sinners and Samaritans, experienced the power of God. The … Continue reading
Finishing Well Audio:https://www.dropbox.com/s/fgvezv67ka74alz/john%20sermon%20evening%20alive%20%40%205%20mar%203%202.mp3?dl=0 Video: https://youtu.be/Q4KHuawZqnE 4. The Finish of Paul Introduction We started this series with the observation that in the Bible 1/3rd of leaders finish poorly, 1/3rd finish so-so and only a 1/3rd finish well. In an age when … Continue reading
The Thankful Foreigner Luke 17:11-19 Audio https://www.dropbox.com/s/yvjsdfkrc39gljp/morning%20sermon%20john.mp3?dl=0 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1zuy5g7rJk Introduction As we have gone through Luke’s stories about Jesus we have seen that its people on the margins who experience God’s overwhelming grace in Christ; there was the Gentile centurion … Continue reading
Firestorm After the 6.30 Perth Prayer meeting last week my David mentioned how the Lord was surprisingly connecting him to zealous people across the city. I felt moved to lay hands on him and pray that God’s purposes be fulfilled … Continue reading
Their Hour “the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live” (Eccl 9:3) ““this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”” (Luke 22:53). Introduction The current crisis confronting … Continue reading
Finishing Well John 7:37-39; Acts 1:1-11 3. Finishing in the Spirit Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/media/podcastmanager/3FinSpirit.mp3 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eI2WENF_Gc Introduction In the first week of our series on “Finishing Well” I concentrated on the power of “the love of the Father” to overcome … Continue reading
Finishing Well Alive@5 10.2.19 John 4:7-15 Hebrews 11:32-12:3 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/916-2-finishing-in-jesus Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tffuEjJKE 2. Finishing with Jesus Introduction When we began our “Finishing Well” series last week I concentrated on “the love of the Father” (1 John 2:15) as the only … Continue reading
The Soldier who Knew Enough St Mark’s 10.2.19 Luke 7:1-10 Audio https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/87-jesus-at-work-sermons-from-luke/915-the-soldier-who-knew-enough-lk-7-1-10 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk4FGEPPkvc Introduction Whatever the case today, in the Gospels encounters with Jesus drew out of people extraordinary responses. In last week’s story of the miraculous catch of … Continue reading
https://www.daleappleby.net/media/podcastmanager/DontLoveworld.mp3 https://www.stmarksbassendean.church/post/dont-love-the-world Finishing Well Alive@5 3.2.19 1 John 2:7-17; 2 Tim 4:1-11a 1. Don’t Love the World Introduction One of the gurus on biblical leadership, Bobby Clinton, reckons we have enough information to interpret the start to finish ministry of … Continue reading
Turning Barns into Baskets Introduction Over the years I have unashamedly taken building supplies, food, clothes, electronic goods etc, out of rubbish bins. So when the Lord started to speak about the baskets of left-overs from Jesus’ miraculous multiplication of … Continue reading
Australia’s Day to Fear An original version of this article was prepared for: https://christiantoday.com.au/ After I finished this article I read in the day’s news that 5% of our population under 17 are Indigenous, but 40% of suicides in that … Continue reading
Delighting in Lowliness Phil 2:1-13 (NKJV) Zion Fellowship 30.1.18 Introduction Christians are often short-sightedness (2 Pet 1:9) about problems in their own spirituality which they can easily see in secular society. I was reading a newspaper article recently about … Continue reading
The Word became Flesh John 1:1-18 NLCC 23.12.18 Introduction Whilst John 1:1-18 (often called the prologue) is a regular Christmas reading in traditional churches it seems far removed from the delightful nativity scenes that can still be found in the … Continue reading
M7 Confessing Great Things Alive@5 16.12.181 Tim 3:14-16; 6:11-16 Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/905-m7-confessing-great-things Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4WzBByglo&app=desktop “I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that, 15 if I delay, you may know how one ought … Continue reading
Beautified by the Word St Mark’s 9.12.16 Gen 1: 1-31 Ps 19:1-11 Heb 1:1-4 John 1:1-18 Introduction Audio: https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/904-watering-withering-plants Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=30&v=hN5sP_Xn90o Since I believe Dale’s claim in last Sunday’s message that much of the Church, including St Mark’s, is under … Continue reading
M6 The Glory of Angels Heb 1:1-14; Rev 19:6-16 Audio https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/902-m6-the-glory-of-angels Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn3F44vRkaI Introduction Whilst the activity of angels occupies a significant place in the teaching of scripture their role seems rarely understood. Churches either effectively ignore the … Continue reading
Drowning Background A few weeks ago, in our early morning Perth Prayer session several of us simultaneously sensed that the Lord was calling his people to go deeper in him. Even as it’s good to see a grid of prayer … Continue reading
Authority to Disciple (Power to Change, Fremantle Dec 2018) “Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus … Continue reading
More Than Conquerors St Mark’s 2/12/18 Romans 8:31-39 Introduction Audio https://www.daleappleby.net/index.php/mp3-sermons/51-recent-sermons/901-the-love-of-god-rom-8-31-39 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Mv0guVX_A Our society is dominated by a little game in which there are celebrity “winners” in sport, finances, entertainment etc. and “losers”, people like addicts, the homeless, … Continue reading