All hail the king! | Matthew 27:27-44 | Dominic Steele | 2 March 2024

Who are you at Jesus’ trial? | Matthew 27:11-27 | Dominic Steele | 23 February 2024

It would be easy to read this account of the trial of Jesus before Pilate and see it as a detached moment in history. The challenge for us is to see that we are active participants. For each of us has rejected Jesus either actively (like the angry crowd) or passively by failing to do what’s right (like Pilate). But as Dominic Steele explains the real question is will we identify with Barabbas. The guilty man set free in the place of the innocent king Jesus.

What to do when I fail Jesus? | Matthew 26:69-27:11 | Dominic Steele | 16 February 2025

For Christians today, the question is not whether we will fail as disciples. But what we will do with our failures. Today we look at two different disciples of Jesus. Both of whom fail Jesus. But they have very different responses. One story ends in despair. The other is forgiven, accepted and restored to ministry.

What is your decision? | Matthew 26:57-67 | Dominic Steele | 9 February 2025

Today we return to the gospel of Matthew. We are spending the first term of 2025 focused on ‘The week that changed the world’ looking at the last days of Jesus’ life in the gospel of Matthew. Our focus today is the trial of Jesus. The greatest miscarriage of justice ever. We ask ourselves what is our assessment of Jesus? - not so much do we think he is guilty (of course not) but who do we/you/I think he is?

You can have hope no matter what | 2 Corinthians 4:16-5:15 | Dominic Steele | 2 February 2025

As the year starts up in earnest so do all the pressures of life. Some of us had little sleep, massive difficulties, kids with illnesses, high pressure jobs and financial stress. There’s pressures in marriage or in relationships or lack of relationships. Our take on life is NOT to be that ‘Sydney is our home and that is all there is’ and ‘this is what we live for.’ Rather – just as when I am camping I am aware that there is a better house back in Sydney and that in reality the tent and campground is not the total of life’s existence. So we are to see life now – with its frustrations and difficulties and stresses and pressures - as temporary – while we wait/long/yearn for the better life – a house in heaven at home with the Lord. Hope for that. Not the campground & tent of Sydney.

Can bad people go to heaven | Luke 18:9-14 | Dominic Steele | 26 January 2025

If we were asked, ‘Can bad people go to heaven?’ and we were thinking about people like Ivan Milat, Roger Rogerson or Jeffrey Epstein, many people would say no. But what about people who tell lies or steal from work or committed adultery or act selfishly? Jesus gives a surprising response. Join us today from Village Church and hear Dominic Steele explain Jesus’ amazing answer.