Ever been to a party that went completely sideways? That's the Last Supper. Jesus washes feet, announces His betrayal, tells Peter he'll deny Him, and drops the bombshell He's leaving.

Then Judas asks: "Lord, why show yourself to us and not to the world?" Fair question. If Jesus is the Messiah, why not go big? Why not split the sky and silence the critics?

Jesus' response changes everything: "Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them."

This isn't distant future hope. This is now. Father, Son, and Spirit, making His home in you through the Holy Spirit. The Spirit teaches us, applies God's Word to our lives, and brings a peace the world cannot give. Not inner calm or positive thinking, peace that transcends understanding. Peace that steadies you in hospital rooms, holds you in grief, anchors you when you're fragile, quietens anxiety at 2am.

This peace doesn't change your circumstances. Jesus comes to you in your chaos and walks every step with you. You are never alone.

What have you tried to bring peace to your life? How have those things failed?

Series: Revealing Jesus (John 13-17)
Speaker: John
Scripture: John 14:22-31

"Do you think I'm ever going to see her again?"

Standing in a hospital hallway after his wife's death, a grieving husband asked Paul the question that haunts us all. After decades together, suddenly she's gone. Suddenly he's alone. Will they ever be together again?

In our latest message from the "Revealing Jesus" series, Paul tackles the anxiety we all feel about death: our own and those we love. Drawing from John 13:36-14:7, where Jesus speaks His final words to His friends the night before His crucifixion, we discover four promises that change everything about how we face death.

• Promise 1: Jesus will be our forerunner. He's gone ahead to prepare a place for us
• Promise 2: Jesus will lead us there. We won't have to navigate death alone
• Promise 3: Jesus is the destination. Heaven is about being with Him, not just a place
• Promise 4: Jesus is the only way. No one comes to the Father except through Him

From Peter's bravado ("I'll lay down my life for you!") to Thomas's confusion ("We don't know where you're going!"), the disciples struggle to understand. But Jesus makes it crystal clear: "I am the way and the truth and the life."

This message confronts our contemporary "all roads lead to heaven" culture with Jesus' exclusive claim. It challenges our view of heaven as just paradise without pain, reminding us that heaven is first about a person before it's about a place. And it asks where we're really placing our trust when life falls apart.

Series: Revealing Jesus (John 13-17)
Speaker: Paul
Passage: John 13:36-14:7

Never Abandoned: God With Us and In Us | John 14:8-21

Ever feel spiritually orphaned? Like you're walking through life alone, wondering where God actually is?

Tim Anderson tackles Philip's simple but profound request: "Lord, show us the Father." What Jesus says next changes everything about how we understand God's presence in our lives.

Drawing from his own experience from losing both parents, Tim unpacks how Jesus promises we will never be abandoned. From Moses longing to see God's glory to the fulfillment of Ezekiel and Jeremiah's prophecies, we see God's plan unfold, not a distant deity, but a deeply personal Father who sent His Spirit to live in us.

It's the promise that sustained martyrs like St. Florian facing the flames and Thomas Cranmer under persecution. It's the same promise that carries us through hospital rooms, dark nights on the beach, and seasons when we feel spiritually dry.

If you've ever questioned whether God is really there, or struggled to feel His presence in hard seasons: you're not alone. The Spirit lives in you. And because Jesus lives, you also live.

Series: Revealing Jesus (John 13-17)
Speaker: Tim Anderson
Scripture: John 14:8-21

We're kicking off our new series "Revealing Jesus" through John 13-17, and it starts with a scene that'll turn your understanding of power completely upside down.

Jesus, knowing He's about to be betrayed and killed, gets down on His knees and washes His disciples' feet. Including the feet of the guy who's about to sell Him out. That's not weakness, that's the kind of power that actually changes everything.

Stu unpacks four game-changing truths from John 13:

• How Jesus' love serves us before we can serve Him
• How His love saves us even in our darkest betrayals
• How the cross reveals God's glory in the most unexpected way
• How this radical love is meant to shape how we actually live together as the church

This isn't just about what happened 2,000 years ago. It's about how we respond when someone hurts us. How we love the people who frustrate us. How we stop trying to clean ourselves up and let Jesus do what only He can do.

Series: Revealing Jesus (John 13-17)
Speaker: Pastor Stu
Scripture: John 13:1-35

The final colour. The yellow bead. Heaven.

We begin with Soul Revival's vision week, where Stu outlines Soul Revival Church's vision for 2026: a church that proudly calls itself "boring" because all it's doing is putting into practice a textbook written 2,000 years ago about a bloke called Jesus. The vision: Jesus Changes Everything. And the mission? Share the truth and love of Jesus with everyone, everywhere.

Cicadas live underground for seven years, surviving in darkness, sucking sap from tree roots. Then one day they dig up, emerge into blinding light, crawl up a tree, shed their chrysalis, grow wings, and fly. And they wee. Out of pure joy.

That's what becoming a Christian is like. You don't have to keep stumbling in the dark of your own sin. Jesus is the light who shows the way back to God.

But here's Stu's challenge: don't go back in the hole. Sin is sweet for a season. It's enticing, but it doesn't last.

Stu gets honest about why people leave the church—better friendships outside than inside, taking church for granted, or the world being too attractive. The yellow bead is our hope of eternal life. Revelation 21 paints the picture: no more death, mourning, crying, or pain. God dwelling with His people forever. A new heaven and new earth where the glory of God is the light.

It's not about what we do but who we're with. Jesus. Because of Him, God adopts us as His children. We belong to a new family. Eternal life is secured forever by the Holy Spirit.

Stu closes with the simplest question: How are you with your friendship with Jesus? If you've been wondering whether you still want to hang out with Him, Jesus' response is, "I never left you. I'm always here. And I love you."

Scripture: Revelation 21

Speaker: Stu Crawshaw
Series: Colours of Life

Romans 5:6-11 doesn't start well. It calls us powerless, ungodly, sinners, enemies of God. We're spiritually bankrupt, down and out for the count. No amount of effort, morality, or religion can fix this problem.

But here's the beauty: we're more sinful and flawed than we dare believe, yet more loved and accepted in Jesus than we dare hope for.

Jesus doesn't die for His friends, He dies for His enemies. At just the right time, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. This wasn't God reacting. From day one, God planned to send His Son to die on the cross to take our sin so we'd be forgiven and made right.

Jai shows how everything in the Old Testament pointed to this moment, with hundreds of prophecies fulfilled. Jesus steps in as our substitute, absorbing the punishment we deserve. Our holy, just God can't shrug at sin. Justice demands payment. Sin creates a debt we can never pay. There's always a cost. Jesus took it on Himself.

The essence of sin is substituting ourselves for God. The essence of salvation is God substituting Himself for us. At the cross, justice and love meet in perfect harmony.

We've been justified by His blood, saved from God's wrath, reconciled. We're no longer enemies,we're children of the King. What do we do? Repent and believe. Receive what's been done for us.

Jai opens with a youth group game: 50 teenagers yelling instructions at five blindfolded kids trying to navigate an obstacle course. No one completed it. The chaos perfectly illustrates Genesis 3.

Before eating the fruit, Adam and Eve lived in the light, they could see life clearly. When they ate, they went from seeing clearly to stumbling in darkness.

The black bead represents rebellion against God, the Bible calls it sin. Genesis 3 doesn't start with violence or murder. It starts with doubt: "Did God really say?" This is how sin creeps in, with suspicion and questioning. The serpent reframes God's freedom as restriction.

Why didn't God want them to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil? Here's what we miss: it's not just about knowing right from wrong, it's about deciding what's right and wrong. Adam and Eve wanted to be rule makers, not rule followers. That's the heart of sin: declaring we want to make the rules for our lives instead of trusting God.

Three perfect relationships were shattered in one bite: with each other (they covered themselves in shame), with God (they hid instead of running to Him), and with creation (work became painful).

This isn't just Adam and Eve's story, it's ours. We're all rule makers. Using John Chapman's illustration about two soldiers: one with a single-shot rifle, one with a semi-automatic, Jai explains it's not about how many sins we commit. When captured, the enemy doesn't care who shot more bullets. We're all enemies to God.

But God doesn't leave us in darkness, he gives us hope. Genesis 3:15 promises a serpent crusher: King Jesus. Right at the beginning, hope is on the horizon. Jesus came as the light of the world.

If you're a Christian, take sin seriously and run to Jesus. If you haven't trusted Jesus yet, don't wait. Don't leave in darkness tonight.

"Welcome to 1994. Scripture, Kirrawee High School. I know none of us want to be here..."

Stu Crawshaw starts this message by recreating his 90s Scripture classes where he used Jesus Beads and a skateboard with coloured tape to share the gospel. The white bead represents that God made us to be His friends: to walk in the light of His ways. But what does that actually mean?

Stu unpacks three truths about humanity from Genesis 2. First, we were created by God in His image, intentionally formed from dirt yet dignified by God's breath. We're designed to know God personally, reflect His moral character, and represent His rule on earth as vicegerents.

Second, we were created for relationship. God declared "it's not good for the man to be alone." We're made in the image of a God who exists in relationship: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So God created Eve from Adam's rib. Adam's response is beautiful: "Bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh." Human flourishing is designed for community, not autonomy.

Third, we were created as moral and accountable creatures. God gave Adam and Eve freedom to eat from any tree except one. Why put the tree there? Because true relationship is gifted, not demanded. Their freedom was real but bounded, joyful obedience under God's life-giving authority.

Stu shares a story about getting kicked out of McDonald's for eating a KFC burger. The point? You can't eat KFC in Maccas, and you can't be truly human unless you obey God's commands. The same choice is before us: life or death, blessings or cursings. True humanity isn't found in self-rule but in joyful obedience to Jesus, where God's authority is life-giving rather than restrictive.