At St Michael’s, we want to see people growing as followers of Jesus and shining as lights in our city and beyond. God has given each of us gifts and opportunities to serve him. We want to use what God has given us to make the greatest impact for God’s kingdom. That’s why St Michael’s […]

Session 1 Peter Jensen – The Nature, function and transmission of Doctrine Session 2 Peter Jensen – How doctrine integrates teaching of the whole Bible Save the date for our next Equip Leaders Training morning, on Saturday 21 November from 9am-12pm.

What is Annual Thanksgiving Day? (ATD) Everything we have comes from God, and the Bible encourages us to use God’s good gifts to honour him. That’s why every year at St Michael’s we celebrate ATD to express our thankfulness for what God has done through Christ (2 Corinthians 8: 7 & 9, 13-15; 1 John […]

A wise minister I knew of placed a large number ‘9’ above his desk. Learning from him, I have post-it note with a ‘9’ on my office wall. ‘9’ is a reminder to give thanks. Jesus and the Ten Lepers It comes from an incident in Luke 17. Jesus is travelling between Samaria and Galilee —foreign […]

In July, Charlotte, Sam and Noah went to Fiji with Year 13 for a month of mission. Together, their purpose was to encourage and support the local church, and to partner with them in sharing Jesus with those they met. What is Year 13? Year 13 makes the most of the crucial first year out […]

God is never afraid of the hard questions. He welcomes us asking the big ones. Read through the Psalms and see how the Bible gives space for those that even sound accusing (eg: Psalm 13:1, ‘How long, O LORD? Will you forget me for ever? How long will you hide your face from me?’). Like the Psalmist, our community asks Big […]

A devotion on love: 1 John 4:7–21  What does true Christian love, true “agape”, look like?  1 John is one of the best places in Scripture to think about the love that propels us to love our neighbour. In this letter, John has already tested his people’s love twice — in 2:7–11, making sure it comes from the true light of […]

Hello to the good folk of Wollongong and Corrimal! If you could sit down and have a conversation with God, what would you ask him? It’s part of our human nature to wonder or question the way things are in our world, and why we exist. Perhaps you’d ask something along these lines… Whatever your […]