What Matters

Rev Dr Lew Born: The Charge

Rev Dr Lew Born is a legend.  Together with his wife Betty, Lew has served the Newlife community with distinction for 16 years.  As he 'retires' to Brisbane, Lew charges us to continue the mission of Jesus.  Listen in: Download 110813_Lew_Bourne_Robina

Simplify: How full is your tank?

A New Year presents the opportunity to turn a new page, write a new chapter or hit the reset button - to declutter our lives and focus on what's important.  Rather than stumbling through another year exhausted, God longs for us to work and serve from a place of rest.  This is the divine rhythm God has woven into the very fabric of creation.  Listen in to find out more: Sabbath Rest

Songs of Christmas: Lamenting and Celebrating

From his birth, Jesus provoked wildy varying responses, from muderrous rage of Herod to the joy-filled delight of Simeon.  Like Simeon, we can sing a song of salvation, not when we hold Jesusn in our arms, but as he holds us in his.  Listen in: Song of Salvation

Christmas Day

I LOVE the priveilege of preaching Christmas Day.  In this (short!) message I refelct on the angelic promise that in Jesus God's favour rests on us.  This favour tears down walls and rebuilds lives.  I would love you to listen: Christmas Day Message

Songs of Christmas: When God Speaks

God stunned a teenaged Mary when she spoke to her through the angel Gabriel. Mary dsicovered that when God speaks, God inteerupts, acts and saves. When God speaks, our souls sing. Stu Cameron explains it all: When God Speaks

Pathways: Red Lights You Should Never Run

There are critical crossroads moments in life where we have to make a decision whether we turn to the left or the right; whether to stop or go.  No more critical are decisions about what and how much we drink and who we sleep with.  Listen in for some practical and positive wisdom from scripture: Red Lights

Pathways: How to be Truly Rich

Australia is, by any measure, in one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Perhaps the richest. But there is wealth that is more than the sum of our superannuation account, share investments and property portfolio. The wisdom of Proverbs, and the life of John Wesley, have much to teach us about how we can be truly rich: How to be Truly Rich

Pathways: How to be a Sticky Friend

We have never been more connected, but equally never more lonely.  Friendship seem to be transitory, or even elusive - the soul-deep relationships that last for life.  In this message, Stu Cameron explores the wisdom of Proverbs on how we can be a friend that sticks. Listen in: Pathways: Sticky Friends

Pathways: How to be a Successful Failure

There is often a very small distance between success and failure in life.  At Crossroads moments in our life, how can we make wise, life-giving decisions more often than not? And what do we do when, inevitably, sometimes we get it wrong?  Listen in as Stu Cameron explores these questions and more: Successful Failure

Rev Prof Andrew Dutney: Love and the Law

It was our great privilege to host the President of the Uniting Church, Rev Prof Andrew Dutney, as our special guest preacher.  Andrew preached a timely and challenging message from Romans on love as the fulfillment of the law.  Listen in: Love and the Law

Pathways: Wise Decisions

Wisdom makes decisions today that are still good tomorrow (Lisa Terkheurst). When we come to crossroads, how do we choose the path that leads to life rather than death-dealing regret?  

In this first message of an eight week series, I offer a biblical decision making filter we can apply in the everyday decisions of everyday life. Listen in: Pathways: Wise Decisions