Nartarsha Wisewould–The message to the church of Smyrna is one of comfort and assurance. It is Jesus speaking to his beloved as she is pressed down and walking through the fire and telling her to hang in there because He is walking through the fire with her. He assured them that he knew their afflictions and their poverty, but also their spiritual richness. He warned them that they would face more suffering and persecution, but encouraged them to be faithful even to the point of death. He promised them the crown of life and the victory over the second death, which is eternal separation from God.
Peter McHugh–This week Pete starts our look at the seven letters addressed to the churches. The letter to Ephesus is a call to return to love and relinquish the need to be right, both in order to protect our lampstand in the unseen world of the spirit.
Sarah Hudson–This week Sarah starts off our new series.
More than a prophecy about the future, Revelation is a powerful reframe of the present. Written to a Church under pressure, it calls us to see beyond what’s visible—to shift our perspective from fear to faith, from confusion to clarity. At the centre of this unveiling are the letters to the seven churches: messages from Jesus that cut through cultural noise and spiritual compromise, realigning our vision with what truly matters.
Revelation lifts the veil on what’s really real. It reminds us that Jesus isn’t distant—He is present, powerful, and walking among His people. These letters challenge us to ask: Who is shaping our reality—the culture around us, or the Christ among us?
Dave McHugh — Today Dave shares from his heart around the big idea of building legacy and what it looks likes for us as a collective community to build legacy together. He shares to inspire us to be intentional about the legacy we are building and leaving for those coming after us.
Christy McHugh — In our last week of this series, Christy takes a look at the metaphor of the Jewish wedding. There are two stages of Jewish weddings - with a long waiting period in between. The parallels in this metaphor point to the work and the cost are the responsibility of the bridegroom.
Yet, we know in the paradoxes of the Kingdom of God, this does not mean we have no cost to pay. Nor do we have no work to do. There is a dear cost to pay and there are works to do. The tension becomes what order we live from. Do we live in response to his love or do we work to earn his love? As the bride of Christ, we can not get this order wrong. We have to know we are loved and only operate in response to his love.
Anna Joyce — What does it look like to be a Bride who hungers, a Bride who releases love and beauty, and a Bride who waits?
God wants to release something new, something beautiful and something powerful in the world. There’s something stirring in our hearts, a passion for the lost, a longing for beauty and a deepening hunger for more.
How do we partner with what God is doing? By keeping our lamps burning with hunger and passion for Him. By dwelling with Him in deep intimacy and surrender.
By being a people of love. Committed to releasing beauty into the world by the way we love God, love ourselves and love each other.
By being a people committed to waiting on the Lord for His direction and leading. A people of prayer who deeply believe in the supernatural as the real, true reality and not the one around us that we can see and touch.
Dave McHugh — In this week’s message, Dave calls us back to the foundational truth of our identity: we are God’s beloved. We are to recognise the reality that the beauty and radiance of the Bride of Christ is founded on the unshakable knowledge that we are unconditionally loved and chosen.
With our identity as His Beloved as our foundation, there are two postures we are called to embody in this season that enable us to walk in authority as His bride: humility and joy.
Pete McHugh - As followers of Jesus, we are called to war. Not war against people, but a spiritual war against the forces of darkness that attempt to come against the people of GOD establishing the Kingdom of GOD on the earth. Battles are meant to be expected, therefore fighting together as a community with the truth of the Word of GOD is important for us to understand.
Sarah Hudson — This message is a wake-up call to a Church that has inadvertently elevated platform over presence and performance over intimacy. Rooted in the imagery of God as the jealous Bridegroom, it reveals His holy, burning love—a divine jealousy that passionately pursues the hearts of His people.
This is not a message of shame, but a call to return to our first love. The Bridegroom is near, and He is seeking a people prepared for Him—not through performance, but through deep, surrendered devotion.
Nartarsha Wisewould — This week Nartarsha explores the church, as the bride of Christ, preparing herself for His return. We are to keep our lamps burning— staying full of the Holy Spirit, remaining faithful to Jesus, and ready to shine His light to the world so that others may hear the invitation to 'come'.
This message explores the story of Mary and Martha through the lens of Revelation 22:17—“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come.’” It invites us to see that God is forming a Church not through productivity but through proximity. In a world of distraction, busyness, and performance, Jesus calls His Bride back to the “one thing necessary”: intimacy with Him. Like Mary, we are invited to sit, listen, and receive. Like Martha, we are challenged to release anxiety and come back to presence. This is not just about a moment—it’s about becoming a people who embody a bridal love, responding to the Spirit’s call to communion.
GOD is inviting us into deeper levels of knowing Him. This requires us to see ourselves not
as a busy Church, but as a present bride. The Ekklesia or called out ones, are called by
name towards our Metaphorical Husband, Jesus. The ever-deepening waters of intimacy
are an invitation to know Him more - He calls us into the depths of knowing Him more. This
is a cry for intimacy - or ‘into-me-you-see’
- towards us, from Him, to know Him deeper, and
He to know us deeper too. This is reflected in Revelation 22:17 ’’The Spirit and the bride
say, “Come!”’.
What does it really mean to be the Church - not just attend one? This message explores the deep identity of the Church through the lens of Scripture's most intimate metaphor: The Bride. Drawing from both Old and New Testaments and culminating at Revelation’s vision of a restored creation, we are invited to rediscover the Church not as a building or event, but as the beloved of Christ - called out, longed for and destined for union. It’s a call to awaken our deepest desires and embrace God’s desire for us. This isn’t about doing more - it’s about being known, loved and transformed.
We are the handiwork of God, created in Christ to do good—Salvation is a gift of God and cannot be earned.
Christy McHugh– Christy finishes our Justice series looking at how conversations about justice can get murky and muddy at times, mainly because there are many different drivers and values that impact what it is we mean by the word justice. As ones who follow the ways of Jesus, where we are seeking his Kingdom, his rule and his reign - we want our picture of justice to be undergirded by what he says Justice is, not by what culture says justice should be.
Righteousness and Justice are inextricably linked. We can not understand one without the other. Righteousness is right relatedness, justice is the action taken to restore right relatedness. God is a relational God and there are 4 core relationships that were impacted by the fall, our relationship with God, self, others and creation. So justice is the action taken to restore these 4 relationships back into wholeness, into alignment, into right relatedness.
Maurice Benington — This week, we retell the stories of God's work amongst us to remember His goodness and to observe our continuation of the outworking of His goodness to those we currently walk with. The streams of living water that flow out of us who believe need to go somewhere.
Dave McHugh — As a part of our annual rhythm, we start our Justice series with Dave looking at the biblical view of Justice and Shalom. We also hear an update from our Urban team about the impact of @ThePantry and where our new Community Centre is up to.
Nartarsha Wisewould — The Day of Pentecost in Acts 2 marks the powerful moment when the Holy Spirit was poured out on all believers, rather than only coming upon a few select people at a specific time for a specific purpose, as He had previously done. In this great outpouring the Holy Spirit came upon all believers from that moment on.
To experience a deep and intimate communion with the Holy Spirit, we must hunger for His presence and surrender to Him. The evidence of the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives is His fruit & His power at work in and through us.
Sarah Hudson — This week Sarah explores the deep internal work God is doing to make space in our lives for His Presence to dwell with us — not through outward activity or performance, but through surrender, trust, and intimacy.
Christy McHugh — We desire a move of God. We want to respond to his invitation to know him deeper, to encounter him, to hear from him, to live in this place of constant communion with him. We are sensing a stirring to pursue with eyes to see and ears to hear, not only in the big and mighty ways he continues to move, but in the every day, seemingly ordinary moments.
Discernment is a gift, where with Holy Spirit’s help, we can test the voices we are listening to. We are invited to become so intimate with who Holy Spirit is, what his voice sounds like, what it smells like, feels like - that as soon as a counterfeit appears - we can discern it is not his voice. And the way we do this, is through constant communion with Holy Spirit, becoming a place of habitation.
