Hukanui Bible Church

As New Zealand enters lockdown again we take a break from our series in Philippians, and Gavin Lynch looks at Psalm 118. Gavin shares what Church looks like for his family in lockdown before diving into Psalm 118, a Psalm of Praise. Gavin breaks the chapter down in chunks, and dicsusses the amazing promises declared in the praises throughout. This message was pre-recorded for the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 29th of August 2021.

This week is week two in the book of Philippians, and Peter Sun takes us through Philippians 1:12-26. Our message this week is opened with Isaac reading through our passage before Peter gives a brief overview of the book itself. Peter then goes on to explain why he changed the title of his message for today from "Paul's Imprisonment" to "Paul's Crucible Moments", explaining what a "crucible" is. Peter then looks at the crucible moments in Paul's life that lead up to the circumstances he talks about in our passage. Peter then looks over 3 points about the passage that we can learn from. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 15th of August 2021 during the 10:00 am service.

This month we are blessed to have Caleb Wilkinson Mackie speaking during our monthly Sunday evening service, this month discussing "Worship". Starting in Amos 5 from verse 21, Caleb discusses how we can't just be blasé about our worship. Caleb then looks at John 4 from verse 19, where Jesus discusses worship with the Samaritan woman. He looks at how this conversation paves the way for how we can worship from wherever, whenever, and what this actually means for us today. Caleb continues, discussing the "Biblical view of Worship" and looks at the three primary words that translate into our word "Worship". Caleb poses the question, "so how do we worship?" before looking at a couple of examples from David in Psalm 63 and Paul in Romans 12. Caleb wraps up with six "practical tips for worship" before closing with a section from Revelation 5. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church monthly evening service on Sunday the 1st of August 2021 during the 7:00 pm service.

As we near the end of our study in 2nd Samuel, Gavin Lynch takes us through the first 7 verses of 2nd Samuel 23. Gavin starts by reading our passage for today, before discussing the probability of these verses actually being the "last words of David". Gavin then breaks the verses down, firstly looking at "the Grace of God" in verse 1, then he looks at "the Righteous King and the Faithful God" in verses 2-5, and finally, he looks at "the Judgement of God" in verses 6-7. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 25th of July 2021 during the 10:00 am service.

Back into 2nd Samuel this week, Peter Cowie looks at chapters 20-21 with us. Peter dives in deep from the start with the question, "How do we be men and women after God's own heart when things get comfortable?" Peter looks back at the story so far, showing the context of the journey David has been on, starting in Chapter 11 through to our chapters for today. As Peter comes into chapter 20, he looks at how David contrasts with those in this chapter. David is passive while everyone is trying to be active, and every time that David is passive, it ends up in disaster. But chapter 21 turns this around. Peter looks at what happened when David became active again, and he lived out his duty and faith, doing what God asked him to do. Peter wraps up by talking about how we need to be active in our faith and live out what it means to be men and women after God's own heart when times are good. Recorded at the Hukanui Bible Church morning service on Sunday the 11th of July 2021 during the 10:00 am service.