Episodes

  • Showing Appreciation to People | Pastor Walker Schurz

    Showing Appreciation to People | Pastor Walker Schurz
    Sep 21 2025
    This sermon discusses the importance of gratitude and thankfulness, referencing biblical teachings. It highlights how unthankfulness can stem from entitlement and obligation, rather than genuine appreciation. Pastor Walker emphasizes the need to thank others and God for kindness and blessings, without pressuring or expecting reciprocation.

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    52 mins
  • Where are the Nine? | Pastor Walker Schurz

    Where are the Nine? | Pastor Walker Schurz
    Sep 14 2025
    This sermon emphasizes the importance of practicing thankfulness in daily life, both to God and to other people. It draws on biblical examples, like the healing of ten lepers where only one returned to give thanks, to illustrate the significance of gratitude and the negative consequences of unthankfulness, such as becoming self-absorbed or exhibiting foolishness. The speaker highlights that entitlement can hinder thankfulness, contrasting it with the concept of receiving something unearned as a gift. Ultimately, the message encourages believers to cultivate a grateful heart by acknowledging God's goodness and works, finding a cure for ingratitude.

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    39 mins
  • Case Closed | Pastor Maureen Shana

    Case Closed | Pastor Maureen Shana
    Sep 7 2025
    In this sermon, Pastor Maureen Shana emphasizes the critical importance of a personal and intimate relationship with God. She challenges the congregation to move beyond simply being "church members" to genuinely knowing Jesus for themselves, not just through hearsay or others' opinions. Drawing on biblical examples like Peter's confession and David's encounter with Goliath, Shana illustrates that true strength, purpose, and the ability to stand firm in faith come from this deep, personal knowledge of God, rather than relying on external validation or the actions of others. She urges listeners to study the Word continually, refuse to be spectators, and allow God's truth to define who they are, rather than worldly circumstances.

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    44 mins
  • Trusting Our Father | Pastor Walker

    Trusting Our Father | Pastor Walker
    Sep 2 2025
    The sermon centers on trusting God as our Heavenly Father, emphasizing His personal relationship and care for believers, as highlighted in Matthew 6 and 7. The speaker explains that Jesus teaches a new way of prayer, addressing God directly as "Our Father" and discouraging vain repetitions. The sermon further clarifies that God reveals His character progressively throughout scripture, culminating in Jesus Christ as the ultimate expression of the Father's nature. It also stresses that God provides for our daily needs, offers wisdom when asked, and disciplines us out of love to help us mature and share in His holiness.

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    42 mins
  • God's Expectations | Pastor Walker Schurz

    God's Expectations | Pastor Walker Schurz
    Aug 25 2025

    The message of 1 Kings centers on God's sovereignty and the conditional nature of His blessings, highlighting how obedience leads to blessing and disobedience results in judgment. The book traces Israel’s spiritual and political journey, showing how King Solomon’s early faithfulness brought peace and prosperity, but later idolatry and compromise, by both Solomon and successive kings, led to division and decline. Prophets like Elijah rise to call the nation back to God, emphasising covenant loyalty and repentance.

    This message connects to the New Testament standard of living in several ways. First, Jesus fulfils the role of the true and faithful king that Israel lacked. Unlike Solomon, Christ remains wholly obedient to the Father (Matthew 12:42). Second, just as 1 Kings calls for wholehearted devotion, the New Testament urges believers to live by the Spirit, in personal holiness, and with undivided loyalty to Christ (Romans 12:1–2). Lastly, the prophetic call to repentance in 1 Kings echoes in the New Testament, where Jesus and the apostles call people to turn from sin and follow Him (Mark 1:15).

    Thus, 1 Kings challenges both ancient and modern readers to prioritise faithfulness to God, an expectation carried forward and fulfilled through Christ in the New Testament, forming the foundation of Christian living.

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    45 mins
  • The Ripples of Dysfunctional Leadership | Pastor Moffat Chembe

    The Ripples of Dysfunctional Leadership | Pastor Moffat Chembe
    Aug 18 2025
    In this sermon we unpack how dysfunctional leadership leaves ripples across generations. From Rehoboam’s folly to Jeroboam’s idolatry, we see how pride and compromise replace God’s glory with cheap substitutes. This is a call to examine our lives and lead in a way that honors God and builds a righteous legacy.

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    47 mins
  • The Rise and Fall of Solomon | Pastor Walker Schurz

    The Rise and Fall of Solomon | Pastor Walker Schurz
    Aug 10 2025
    Solomon began his reign humbly, seeking God’s wisdom and initially walking in His ways, but early compromises—such as political marriages—set the stage for disobedience. Despite building the temple and achieving unmatched wealth and wisdom, Solomon ignored God’s clear commands in Deuteronomy for kings: not multiplying wives, wealth, or horses from Egypt. His foreign marriages ultimately turned his heart toward idolatry, leading to God’s judgment and the eventual division of the kingdom. Continual obedience to God’s Word guards leaders from pride, compromise, and downfall.

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    45 mins
  • The Fall of the Self-Exalted | Pastor Sammie Ndhlovu

    The Fall of the Self-Exalted | Pastor Sammie Ndhlovu
    Aug 3 2025

    The message of 1 Kings centers on God's sovereignty and the conditional nature of His blessings, highlighting how obedience leads to blessing and disobedience results in judgment. The book traces Israel’s spiritual and political journey, showing how King Solomon’s early faithfulness brought peace and prosperity, but later idolatry and compromise, by both Solomon and successive kings, led to division and decline. Prophets like Elijah rise to call the nation back to God, emphasising covenant loyalty and repentance.

    This message connects to the New Testament standard of living in several ways. First, Jesus fulfils the role of the true and faithful king that Israel lacked. Unlike Solomon, Christ remains wholly obedient to the Father (Matthew 12:42). Second, just as 1 Kings calls for wholehearted devotion, the New Testament urges believers to live by the Spirit, in personal holiness, and with undivided loyalty to Christ (Romans 12:1–2). Lastly, the prophetic call to repentance in 1 Kings echoes in the New Testament, where Jesus and the apostles call people to turn from sin and follow Him (Mark 1:15).

    Thus, 1 Kings challenges both ancient and modern readers to prioritise faithfulness to God, an expectation carried forward and fulfilled through Christ in the New Testament, forming the foundation of Christian living.

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    42 mins