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Picking up where last week's message on intercession left off, Daniel looks honestly at the uncertainty pressing in on all of us AI, war, economic strain, a shaking world and asks a simple question: will the church shrink back, or step forward? Drawing from Hebrews 10 and the extraordinary true story of Brother Andrew, the young Dutchman who smuggled Bibles behind the Iron Curtain, Daniel makes the case that courage isn't a personality trait reserved for the bold it's hardwired into every believer's identity in Christ, and it's exactly what the enemy works hardest to steal. This message is an invitation to name your discouragement, take hold of faith and the Holy Spirit, and walk forward into whatever God has called you to. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

In this weighty, urgent message, Mark traces the extraordinary story of Rees Howells, a man called out of public ministry into hidden, relentless intercession that history would later credit with turning the tide at Dunkirk and helping defeat the Nazis. Mark names something many are quietly feeling: a rising sense of global instability, from war and AI to economic shocks, and a temptation toward fear or doom-scrolling numbness. Rooted in Jesus' words in John 14, "you may ask me for anything in my name", this is a call for the church to step out of comfort and complacency and into the ancient, world-shaping work of prayer. Will you be one who stands in the gap? To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Coming off a week of prayer that saw a cathedral papered in prayers for the nations and a neon "now praying" sign transforming a Hornsby shopfront, Trudi Sayers turns to a deeper question: what does it mean to pray the Word of God, knowing that Jesus himself is the Word? Drawing from John 1 and the extraordinary faith of 19th-century prayer warrior George Müller, Trudi explores how Scripture becomes our true language of prayer: a sword that cuts through lies, a bread that sustains us, and a living voice that speaks directly into our darkest moments. A powerful reminder that God's word isn't just information for the mind, but life for the heart. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

As Red Church joins the Global Week of 24-7 Prayer, Chris Cameron takes us into prayer rooms from Lebanon to Peru to Japan, gathering practical wisdom from believers around the world on what it actually looks like to sit with God. Chris unpacks common myths about prayer — it's not magic, not a formula, not a way to earn favor — before offering simple, tested frameworks like the Lord's Prayer, the Psalms, and the PRAY model (Pause, Reflect, Ask, Yield) to help us grow in a life of prayer. Whether you've never prayed before or have been at it for decades, this episode is an invitation to keep it simple, keep it real, and keep it up. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Kicking off our new series At the Name of Jesus and Red Church's part in the Global Week of Prayer, Trudi Sayers opens Philippians 2:9-11 to explore the name above every name. Trudi shares candidly about a recent hospital stay following a cancer recurrence, and how a young nurse was drawn to ask about Jesus simply from what she sensed in the room. A vulnerable, hope-filled call to become a praying people who carry his name to a world hungry for truth.

In the final week of the Being Human series, Mark Sayers uses the strange phenomenon of "rock fever" in Hawaii to explore why even paradise can't satisfy a homesick heart. Turning to Romans 8, Mark traces the ache underneath every human search for escape, rest, or transcendence back to a single truth: home is not home without the presence of God. From the incarnation to the wordless groans of the Spirit interceding within us, this is a meditation on how God doesn't call us out of our weakness and mundane, embodied lives; he meets us in them, and transforms us there. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Ever sat in a room and felt the quiet dread of What am I doing here? Mark Sayers names that feeling, imposter syndrome and takes us to Romans 8, where creation itself waits on tiptoe for the sons and daughters of God to be revealed. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas's forgotten vice of "pusillanimity" (the sin of shrinking back from the good we're capable of). Mark unpacks how comparison, perfectionism, and fear of risk quietly convince us to hang back rather than step forward. The alternative isn't arrogance; it's magnanimity: a big-souled, God-given confidence to fullyinhabit who we were made to be, for his glory rather than our own. A challenging, hopeful word for anyone who's ever wondered if they're too small for what they've been called to. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Week four of the Being Human series takes us into John 13, the astonishing moment Jesus, knowing full authority had been placed in his hands, gets up from the table and kneels to wash his disciples' feet. Mark Sayers moves past the familiar reading of this passage as a leadership lesson and into something far more personal: an image of the God of the universe coming close, getting low, and choosing love over power. If you've ever felt caught between the tension of a big calling and your own fragility this one is for you. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Continuing the Being Human series, Mark Sayers opens John 1 and unpacks one of the most revolutionary sentences ever written: "the Word became flesh." Mark exposes an ancient lie that has shaped everything from Plato's cave to The Matrix to today's transhumanist dreams: the belief that this world, our bodies, and our everyday lives are somehow inferior, and the goal is to escape upward into something better. But the gospel moves in the opposite direction. God doesn't call us to escape; He comes down. Jesus incarnates into ordinary human life, redeems the material world, and rises bodily from the grave. Mark reminds us that every moment holds the potential for holiness, the ordinary, the boring, the difficult, the beautiful, because our humanness is the very arena where God is at work. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Continuing our series Being Human, Mark Sayers turns to Psalm 23 and takes us into what roboticists call the "uncanny valley". That unsettling space where something appears almost human but not quite, showing us how this concept isn't just about technology but points to something deeply spiritual. Scripture places humans between two peaks — created in the image of God with agency and creativity, yet formed from the dust with mortality and fragility. When we forget this, we fall into one of two temptations: overreaching to be like God, or collapsing into resignation. But the scriptures point to a narrow path through the valley, marked by the biblical rhythm of complaint, petition, and praise, a language Jesus himself prayed on the cross. Mark reminds us that the Good Shepherd walks with us through the valley, and that being truly human means learning to walk it with Him. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

Mark Sayers opens a brand new series by tackling one of the most urgent and contested questions of our time: what is a human? As AI, autonomous robots, and drones increasingly appear in our workplaces, schools, and streets, our culture is being forced to reach for an answer, and the church has something profoundly hopeful to say in this moment. Turning to Genesis 1:27, he reminds us that humans are not just made in the image of God, but blessed by Him. He contrasts a culture caught in envy, achievement creep, and dopamine-chasing with a biblical vision of humans as gifted receivers rather than anxious graspers. It's a timely invitation to step off the treadmill and see the world again as God intended: a place of blessing meant to be received with gratitude. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

In this message, Andy opens Luke 10 and the parable of the Good Samaritan to explore something central to the church's heritage but easy to overlook — hospitality. Drawing on his years in the coffee industry, the extraordinary story of Gander, Newfoundland (nicknamed "Casserole City" after housing 6,000 stranded passengers post-9/11), and the early church's radical practice of philozenia — literally, love of strangers. Andy shows how agape love flowing through everyday hospitality has always been one of the church's most powerful witnesses. In a culture marked by isolation and loneliness, he calls us to keep embracing the kind of welcome that turns strangers into neighbours, and reminds us that when we open our lives, people meet the God who first welcomed us. To find out more about Red Church head to redchurch.au

Our dear friend Rob Lim is back with us, challenging us to recognise that we live in a narrowing culture, one that shapes us into thinner, monomodal versions of ourselves. Drawing from Ecclesiastes, Rob unpacks three strongholds that keep us small: professionalisation, commoditisation, and convenience. But in the midst of this, God is doing a new thing. Rob points to signs of a wider awakening breaking out across the world — prayer movements rising on Wall Street, theologians invited into AI firms, university campuses experiencing revival reminding us that we are living in a kairos moment. What might God do as we lean into this moment, not just to see revival, but an awakening that widens into every corner of society, family, and workplace in our time and in our day! To find out more head to redchurch.au

Andy opens Matthew 5:14-16 to remind us that we were made to stand out, not for the sake of it, but because a weary world is searching for hope. He unpacks three practical tools for shining Christ's light: abiding with Jesus, embracing story, and merging worlds through community. A timely reminder that it's not always our best argument that wins people; sometimes it's simply us, carrying the presence of Christ into our everyday conversations. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au

We are honoured to welcome back guest speaker Rob Reimer, who took us into Psalm 63 to explore one of the great rhythms of the Christian life: the theology of process and the theology of encounter. Drawing from David's raw, thirsty pursuit of God in the wilderness, Rob unpacks the three places we meet God on the journey: in the valleys when life breaks us, on the mountaintops when an ordinary day suddenly becomes extraordinary, and in the wilderness when we deliberately set aside space to be alone with Him. Rob calls us to posture ourselves for encounter through passionate pursuit, sacrifice, and remembering who God is. A timely reminder that we keep showing up because one day, God shows up, and everything changes. To find out more about Red Church, head to redchurch.au