The sermon podcast of Opawa Baptist Church, a community of Jesus followers located in Christchurch, New Zealand.
What is happening for Opawa Baptist today? Is shame the new guilt where people are more worried about acceptance or rejection rather than right or wrong? How do we live as Christians in a society where tolerance rules supreme. What does this mean for Our Church? Listen to Rods Sermon to go deeper.
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Hear Rod outline the blueprint for a church community that helps enables us to be committed at the core yet open at the edges through listening, discerning, collective leadership and applied wisdom. In what areas can we improve to make us a more inclusive community?
Listen as Rod sets the scene for his new series. What does it look like to be Baptist? Where have we come from? Where are we going as a people church?
Listen to Rod as he talks about his Christian walk into relationship with God and what the cross and resurrection meant for him then and now and what it might mean for us today.
Image. Pete Majendie's "Easter Cross" using the OT books of Joshua, Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers overlaid with a cross using the Gospels. https://www.facebook.com/opawabaptist/
The Final utterance of Jesus on the cross. At this time of Easter and remembering what Jesus did, Rod talks of who Jesus is in the trinity relationship and what it means for us.
Be challenged by the concept of your Christian family. Who did Jesus entrust his mother too? What does it mean to have Christian brothers and sisters?
Listen as Rod explores the seven things that were finished for us with Jesus death. With his death came the chance for new beginnings.
Listen to Steph Robson as she explores the fully human nature of Jesus and what it means for us to live a Christ like life.
Listen as Rod goes deep into the darkest place of Jesus time on earth as he cries out to his father. What does it mean for us?
Listen as our resident artist Peter Majendie explains the meaning behind his cross installation for the reopening of our auditorum. What does it mean take up your cross? What baggage are you holding onto and leaving with Jesus?
