Northside Church - Sydney

Speaker: Graham Agnew – New Series: Five x 5 Week 1: Five Things to Say When Helping a Friend in Crisis… When a friend, loved one or colleague experiences a crisis (health, financial, relational…) we need to be aware our choice of words as we try to support them is very important. Some words help, but others hinder. With God’s guidance we can make the right choices. Reading: James 2:14-24 (GNT)

Speaker: Graham Agnew Cont. Series: Ditto Week 2: Depend as Jesus Depended The Holy Spirit is a topic of Christianity that often brings a lot of mystery. What is it? How does it work? Yet, when you look closely at the life of Jesus, you see that why and how He did what He did, relied solely on this mysterious person. If we are to live Ditto lives, then how do we learn to Depend as Jesus Depended? Reading: John 16:5-16 (GNT)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 4: Gaining Through Giving It’s paradoxical to be sure, but it’s also true: they key to a life of wholeness, contentment, fulfillment and inner peace, is a spirit of generosity, instilled and nurtured within us, through faith in Jesus. And it’s not just a matter of generosity with our money, but with all we have, are and hope to be. Reading: Ephesians 3: 14-21 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – New Series: Ditto Week 1: How Real is Your Jesus? What if for one day, Jesus wakes up in your house, walks in your shoes, assumes your calendar? Your boss is now His boss, your circumstances become His circumstances. What if for one day Jesus lives your life with His heart… what would you be like? In this new series, we uncover the great truth of Christianity, that Jesus’ heart can be our heart, and that for anyone who claims to live in Him must “Walk as Jesus Walked” (1 John 2:6) or do “Ditto” Reading: 1 John 2:3-6 (NIV)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 3: Greatness 101 In one of His best known statements, Jesus said: “Those who aspire to greatness must be the servant of all”. (Mark 9:35) Long before the business world discovered the terms “Servant Leadership”, Jesus was talking about it as the key to discovering our place within the Community of Faith. As someone as said: “Service is love in work clothes”. Reading: Mark 9: 33-37 (GNT)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: Finding You In Community Week 2: Doing Life Together Being a Christian has never been easy but these days, in a society that’s becoming increasingly secular, it’s even more difficult. Today, more than ever, we need the help, encouragement and guidance of fellow believers and one of the most ideal settings in which to build supportive and caring relationships like this is a Connection Group.

Speaker: Graham Agnew – Cont. Series: EXPATS Week 6: The Lions in Dan’s Den “The writing is on the wall…”. This common phrase was sourced in this very chapter of the book of Daniel, and meant that something bad was about to happen. What can we learn from a King who didn’t heed the warning signs? Reading: Daniel 6:1-28 (NIV)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – New Series: Finding You In Community Week 1: The Power of One Hour Spending time in corporate worship is one of the ways we discover our place in the Body of Christ. Regular attendance in worship is vital if we’re going to feel the support and encouragement of our fellow believers, if we’re going to experience that special movement of God’s Spirit that comes when His people combine to lift heart and voices in praise and thanksgiving. Reading: Colossians 3:12-17 (GNT)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – EXPATS Week 5: The Writing on the Wall “The writing is on the wall…”. This common phrase was sourced in this very chapter of the book of Daniel, and meant that something bad was about to happen. What can we learn from a King who didn’t heed the warning signs? Reading: Daniel 5:1-6; 17-31 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – Winner? | Blues? When daylight savings ends, nights get darker sooner, temperatures colder, community harder. Strangely enough, our spiritual life can often parallel the prevailing season. How do we remain resilient and steadfast in these colder months, and come out a winner over the “Winter Blues”? Reading: 1 John 2:3-6 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 4: Faith for the Furnace Live long enough and you’ll discover that the trials of life are an inevitability. What can we learn from Daniel, in developing a faith “for the furnace”… a faith that will hold true when the challenges of life heat up? Reading: Daniel 3:14-29 (NIV)

Guest Speaker//Troy Blair Troy and Edwina Blair are former Associate Pastors at Northside Community Church. Troy is now the Senior Minister of Campbelltown Church of Christ. Drawing on over fifteen years of ministry,Troy is bound to bring an inspirational message and we welcome him back to the Northside platform.

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 3: Kingdom Hope How do you remain steadfast when the environment around always seems too hostile? Daniel’s example is not one of just behaviour modification, but a focus on a deep seated Hope that we can still have today. Reading: Daniel 2:24-35; 44-45

Speaker: Graham Agnew – MOVE Your Prayer Life Forward Week 2: …From Formula to Formation We move our prayer life forward toward a more meaningful and satisfying level when we see t, not in terms of a formula to be followed, but as a mean of forming and shaping an intimate connection with our Heavenly Father. Reading: Luke 18:9-14 (GNT)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – MOVE – Your Prayer Life Forward Week 1: …From Monologue to Dialogue We move our prayer life forward toward a more meaningful and satisfying level when we view it as a two way conversation between us and God. Moving from monologue to dialogue is simply a matter of pausing long enough to hear and respond to the voice of God. Reading: 1 Samuel 3:1-10 (GNT)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 2: A New Model Should I or Shouldn’t I? People of faith ask themselves that question hundreds of times in any given week. To what extent should we either engage, or withdraw from the culture around us? Reading: Daniel 1:1-8 (NIV)

Speaker: Sam Haddon – EXPATS Week 1: Exiles & Foreigners The nation of Australia looks very different today than it did 100 years ago. The great richness and diversity of many different cultures, now brings us many blessings, and yet at the same time, the corresponding rise in religious diversity begs the question, is it fair to call ourselves a Christian nation? In this new series, we’ll explore what it means to live a life of Christian faith in a multi-faith world. Reading: Daniel 1:1-8 (NIV)

Speaker: Graham Agnew – He Week 4: He will return Sadly, teaching on Christ’s Return has become less prominent over the years, mainly as a reaction to the excessive, almost fanatical emphasis placed on it by certain religious groups. However, the New Testament & Jesus Himself make it very clear that the promise of His Return is a reality & one we do well to heed. Far from being a source of threat or fear, His return is meant to be a source of great hope & encouragement for us all. Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (GNT)

Guest Speaker// Mike Hardie: I am who I AM says I am Mike Hardie is a follower of Jesus, husband to Terasa, father of Seriyah and pastor and church planter of THRIVE in Sydney’s southern beaches. Mike speaks at churches, conferences & colleges on leadership, ministry and church planting. He loves music, coffee, books and sport. He will be speaking on Identity, which effects everything. If you think you’re a loser you will act like a loser. If you see yourself the way God sees you based on what He has done for you and who he has called us to be (Matthew 5:14) then this will effect how you behave in every way. Ephesians 2:10 illustrates that who God says we are precedes what he wants / has planned for us to do. Implications: If you believe you are a wise person (or God calls you to be a wise person) you act increasingly wise but if you see yourself as a fool you’ll go in making foolish mistakes.

Speaker: Sam Haddon – He Week 3: He is the One Jesus is unique among all the religious leaders of the world – not only because He rose again & lives today, but because He actually made the bold (some would say “outrageous”) claim that He is the only Son of God. In a world of tolerance & acceptance of all faiths & beliefs, that’s a difficult assertion to defend – but as Christians, this belief is at the core of our message.. Reading: John 14:1-7 (NIV)