Sermon Podcasts at St Thomas' Moonee Ponds

What does it mean to be personally invited to the King's table? In this special Confirmation Sunday episode, we welcome Bishop Nigel as he opens up Matthew 22 to explore the Parable of the Wedding Banquet. Stripping away the noise of modern life, Bishop Nigel delivers a timeless message on the heart of the Gospel: God’s enduring desire for a relationship with us. He unpacks how God's invitation isn't just an ancient story, but a present-day call to connect, respond, and take ownership of our ...

What happens when we start treating God's gifts as if they belong to us? In this episode, we dive into Matthew 21:33-46 — Jesus' challenging parable of the vineyard, the landowner, and the tenants who forgot their place. It's a story about stewardship, ownership, and the subtle temptation to seize what was never ours to begin with. But this isn't just a warning. It's an invitation. We explore what baptism really means: not a ceremony that makes us owners of the field, but a commissioning that...

Your mission action plan promised fruit. Instead, you got a spreadsheet. Your vision statement promised transformation. Instead, you got a to-do list. Your church promised to be a vineyard. Instead, it started feeling like a factory. Here's the uncomfortable truth: The tension between what we expected and what we're experiencing might not be a problem to fix. It might be the very place where Jesus wants to meet us. In Matthew 21, Jesus confronts religious leaders who had the right words, the ...

What if grace isn't fair? What if it never was? In this episode, we sit with one of Jesus' most scandalous parables—the landowner who pays the eleventh-hour workers the same as those who labored all day. It's a story that offends our sense of fairness and upends our ideas about who belongs in the vineyard. But this parable isn't just about grace. It's about mission. Because once we've been welcomed, we've been sent. Once we've been fed at the Table, we're called into the field. We unpack how ...

🎙️ One wrong post. One stupid comment. One mistake. Is that all it takes to be written off forever? We live in a world that cancels. But Jesus tells a story about a King who absorbs a billion-dollar debt and then asks us to do the same for each other. Sounds impossible, right? That's the point. In this episode, we tackle the hardest question our culture is asking right now: How do we hold people accountable WITHOUT becoming judge, jury and executioner? We're talking about: ✅ The absurd m...