All The Saints

All Saints Albion Park Anglican Church

A podcast by All Saints Albion Park Anglican Church. An Anglican Church in the Sydney Diocese.

  1. Sermon - Good Soil: Where real life rises - Mark 4:1-20

    31 May

    Sermon - Good Soil: Where real life rises - Mark 4:1-20

    Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises | Good Soil: Where Real Life Rises | Mark 4:1–20 reached by Robin Vonk | 31 May 2026, 6:00 pm Everyone is looking for the good life. But what if we've been looking in all the wrong places? In this message from our series Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises, Robin Vonk brings us to the parable that gives the whole series its name — one of Jesus' most famous and most searching stories. It is a parable that doesn't just describe different kinds of people out there. It holds up a mirror and asks: " What kind of soil are you? Jesus is teaching beside the sea, the crowd so large that He speaks from a boat. And the story He tells is deceptively simple: a farmer scatters seed, and it falls on four different kinds of ground. But when the disciples ask Him privately what it means, Jesus opens up a world of extraordinary depth. The seed, He explains, is the word of God — the message of the kingdom, the gospel itself. And the soil is the human heart. Here is the gospel at the heart of this parable: the sower is extravagantly generous. He does not carefully select only the most promising ground before scattering the seed. He throws it everywhere — on the path, on the rocks, among the thorns, and on the good soil alike. This is the grace-filled generosity of God, who sends His word — and ultimately His Son — into a world that is largely hard, shallow, and distracted. Jesus Himself is the seed that fell into the ground and died, so that a harvest beyond all imagining might rise. The gospel is not rationed to the deserving. It is scattered lavishly, freely, over all. But the parable also calls for honest self-examination. The question is not simply whether we have heard the gospel, but whether we have received it. This sermon is part of the series Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises, exploring the Gospel of Mark. Link to sermon outline: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g0nBbf9jZZEMl4hB7teY24MJOmdIiOAV/view

    31 min
  2. Sermon - Jesus: The man who calls us family - Mark 3:7-35

    23 May

    Sermon - Jesus: The man who calls us family - Mark 3:7-35

    Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises | Jesus: The Man Who Calls Us Family | Mark 3:7–35 Preached by Ian Morrison | 24 May 2026, 9:30 am In this message from our series Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises, Ian Morrison brings us to a passage in Mark's Gospel that builds to one of the most astonishing lines Jesus ever spoke. The opposition closes in from two very different directions — and the contrast between them is sharp enough to cut. First, His own family. They have come to take Him away, convinced He has lost His mind. They are close to Jesus by blood, and yet in this moment, they are missing Him entirely. Proximity is not the same as understanding. Familiarity is not the same as faith. Then the teachers of the law arrive from Jerusalem — the insiders of the religious world — and their verdict is damning: He is possessed by Beelzebul. He casts out demons by the prince of demons. Jesus dismantles their logic with calm precision. A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. But underneath the argument lies a sobering warning about what it means to place oneself in permanent, hardened opposition to the work of God's Spirit. This is not a passage about accidentally saying the wrong thing — it is a warning about a settled, deliberate rejection of the One who has come to save. "Here are my mother and my brothers. Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother." The family of Jesus is not born into — it is entered by faith and obedience. It is a family defined not by DNA but by grace. This is the gospel made personal. Jesus did not come merely to teach us or to fix our behaviour. He came to bring us home — to draw us into the very family of God. On the cross, He bore the full weight of our outsider status, our wandering, our rebellion — so that we who were once far off might be brought near. So that we might hear Him say, without qualification: you are mine. The implications stretch in every direction. If Jesus calls His followers family, then how we treat one another within that family matters profoundly. The church is not a club, not a crowd, not a loose gathering of like-minded individuals. It is a family — with all the depth, the commitment, the vulnerability, and the belonging that word carries. This sermon is part of the series Good Soil – Where Real Life Rises, exploring the Gospel of Mark. 🔗Sermon Outline: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13uAcTUrkP2iH6zo5_Xkf7iayKImKY3zN/view Editor's Note: I have noticed that this and the previous few sermon recordings are randomly skipping/jumping ahead. I don't know what this is, but I will aim to fix it in the coming recordings. Apologies for any inconvenience.

    32 min

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