For whatever reason you need mercy, he will not turn you away, and you’ll get to join in with him and follow him on his way.

Jesus does more than go through the eye of a needle, he does the impossible by going through death on a cross, risen with an inheritance money can’t buy.

The rich man went away sad, because he went away from Jesus. Whereas all the sinners who come to Jesus, get their life back. In Christ is where God makes the impossible, possible, for you.

When you see Jesus, you see the embodiment of his teaching. When you see a healthy church, you see people where we are not a big deal, but Jesus is.

Gospel ministry is for us all, because of the ministry with the mighty, merciful Messiah.

Humility from inability helps our unbelief. That is the centerpiece of this text, and the story of our lives.

What has the transfiguration of Jesus, go to with my life now…?

On the 3^rd of February, 2013, 12 years ago, a church service started at 5pm in a funeral chapel with these words… “Welcome to Reforming Church, a new Presbyterian church in Bendigo.”

Since that day, many people have joined in to say “we are Reforming”.

Psalm Series, Summer 2025

Where is your ultimate joy? What do you worship?

It will be something.

Our world is weary…

Marriages under tension, broken relationships, adultery, cheating brothers, crimes against women, refugees, murder, idol worship, wicked leaders…and that’s just in the family tree of Jesus.

In Matthew 1 we see a thrill of hope that our world has waited ages for.

Of all the people in the universe, who is the one who prayed three times that the cup of God’s wrath, that the pain and sufferings should not be for him?

Of all the people in the universe, who understands, pleads in prayer and felt your experience of pain and suffering in this life?

Of all the people in the universe, it is Jesus who experienced our weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities.

And those things were external to Jesus, he didn’t deserve them, but he experienced them for you.

Friends, it’s time to go to Jesus…because only he is literally more than super.

Knowing Christ helped Paul’s heart when others compared him, and it liberates us from living for people’s approval, or dying inside from people’s devaluing of who’s we are.

The same God who gave you saving grace, is the same God who is able to give you what you need. God is able to give to you so that you have sufficiency to serve him by generous to others, in every good work. Do you believe that? Do you believe him?

We’re in the middle part of this whole section of this letter to the Corinthians where Paul writes, and God speaks in Scripture, to the gravity, the importance of The Hands of Generosity ~ the “how” of handling money by Christians and by the church and why it matters.

It’s not just a matter of the number of workers, but a matter of our ministry of prayer flowing out of that same compassion and cries out to God.

Giving without the power of grace, turns us into grudgers.

We might do a whole bunch of stuff as a church. But if someone was to see our daily, weekly and seasonally ministry - it would be all about making disciple-makers.

We can be allergic to beautiful things, even things like God's commandments to love.