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Adrian Kitson

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By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia. St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia. www.stpetri.org.au

MAR 18

Blindess

Send us Fan Mail 15 March 2026 What does it mean to truly see? This Sunday we explore how the Light of the world opens our eyes - not simply to the world around us, but to Jesus himself. In John 9, Jesus heals a man who has never seen the light of day. Neuroscience tell us that this was a multiple-layered miracle. Not only did his optical equipment begin to work; but his neurones must have been instantly re-wired so that he could interpret what he saw. What follows is more than a miracle story. It is a sign. It becomes a searching paradox about sight and blindness - about who truly sees and who does not. And who enables that paradox to be resolved. The man born blind gradually comes to see more clearly: first a man called Jesus, then a prophet, and finally the Son of Man worthy of worship. Meanwhile, those who are certain they can see become increasingly blind. Their confidence in their own vision prevents them from recognising the Light standing before them. But it is not about ‘them’ and ‘their’ blindness. It is about us and ours. Our confidence in our own abilities, sight, and understanding lead us to unbelief, not faith. By contrast Jesus does not judge by ‘what his ears hear or his eyes see’. He discerns things truly. He sees through to the heart. He knows what is needed, cutting through all the play-acting of our self-righteous posturing. This story is framed by two of Jesus’ great sayings: “I am the light of the world” and “I am the good shepherd.” In this encounter we see both truths lived out. Jesus brings light to us who lived in darkness, and like a shepherd he seeks us out. The healed may was rejected, ‘cast out’, from his own family and people, But the Good Shepherd finds him, to bring him home to the Father. So he did for him. So he does for us. Dr Noel Due

43 min
MAR 10

The Beauty Of The Cross: Part Two

Send us Fan Mail 08/03/2026 There are four songs about this ‘Servant’ in Isaiah. We are in one of them in Chapter 53. Today's verses are pure gold for the Christian. They are like a golden neon sign beaming out a message of hope when we are at our very worst and when we are trying to be at our very best. Luther named these verses as describing something central, something foundational to the whole bible and to our whole life. He called this ‘the wonderful exchange’ where the ‘Servant’ takes our sin and gives us his peace; where the Servant takes our disease and gives us his healing. Trouble is, we find it very hard to allow him to do this! To allow the Servant Jesus to take your sin you need to know you are dead in it. To allow him to take your disease, you need to know you are sick unto death and need him to give you his gifts. I am praying that you hear the truth about your disease and the gift of his healing; the truth of your idol making heart and the gift of his heart of love for you. Pastor Adrian

22 min
MAR 4

The Beauty Of The Cross

Send us Fan Mail 01/03/2026 We are hearing the Prophet Isaiah as we hear Jesus go to that cross this Lent. Issiah is often called the ‘Fifth Gospel’ since the gospel writers draw so deeply from his poetic, colourful words about the Servant, whom they knew to be Jesus of Nazareth. We are seeking some depth and colour and new insight into the Jesus we already know by hearing the Prophet who foresaw his world-changing work seven hundred years before Jesus appeared. Isaiah’s ‘Servant’ is God’s solution to the age-old problem of God loving his people and his people not able to love him back. God wants to keep his life-long covenant of love with his people alive, but his people have a long history of being incapable of responding with love and trust in his covenant promises of new life for all of life and beyond. God will send his Servant as his new king of a whole new kingdom, a whole new creation. But he will be different. The character of his kingship will be suffering. He will be named the Suffering Servant. His suffering and rejection will be a sacrifice for all those who have rejected him. This ‘Servant will be the king most people don’t want. He will look as weak as a gum sapling growing in the hot summer sun. But that little shoot is tough. It pops up in unexpected places and outlast the toughest conditions. Ponder the Servant in all his seeming weakness. His weakness is our life and hope. Pastor Adrian Kitson

20 min
FEB 25

Diagnostic

Send us Fan Mail 22/02/2026 We welcome Pastor Mark Schultz from LCANZ International Mission today. Pastor Mark and I worked together in the fair city of Auckland, New Zealand, some 25 years ago and have been friends ever since. He spent two decades forging a different way for Lutherans to be church in mission in the vast city of Sydney, serving at Lifeway Lutheran Church in Epping and other sites. Pastor Mark will be preaching God’s Word for us and sharing where we are headed. Diagnostic tools are found on computers and used by mechanics, health professionals, teachers, coaches, and employers. Their purpose is to determine a fault, exclude an illness, gain insight, highlight vulnerabilities, identify causes, aid in self-understanding, monitor situations, restore to original condition, promote well-being, and improve life. They are gifts for our journey. In our discipleship walk, there is a diagnostic tool we all have at hand that identifies emptiness, exposes vulnerabilities, highlights faults, and gives insight into those deep places of the soul that need restoration so we can experience the new thing God is doing. More than simply providing diagnostics, it also shows us the solution that propels us forward to fulfil God’s plan, purpose, and mission in the world. We hope you can join us in God’s workshop and discover the blessing of this diagnostic discipleship tool. We look forward to sharing with you and the people of St Petri. Pastor Mark Schultz

37 min
FEB 17

Vision New

Send us Fan Mail It is Transfiguration Day again. It marks the beginning of the Lenten season now close. There is much in Matthew’s telling of the extraordinary events experienced by some rather overwhelmed disciples. One thing I notice this time around that it is a day of vision. Peter, James and John are privy to a moment of expanded magnificent vision of how things really are when God pull back the curtain on our very limited view of our lives – even just for one stunning moment. The vison given is about who we are and what we are here for. The vision is for Christians of all time as it was for just those three and even for Jesus himself. He and they would need this vision of past, present and future love and life in God. They are about to go down that hill to a dark Jerusalem. They will need every memory of this fear and wonder and joy they got to experience before all the intense, hard experienced coming their way. Vision does that for you. It tells you are God’s loved man or woman. It shows you that you are never alone. But in fact, part of a large global timeless family and it points you to task. And the only way to receive this vision of light and new light for any darkness is via listening – listening to the Son; the crucified, risen and ruling Son. I pray you can listen to him today and regain that vision for who you are and what you are here for as you live this journey of light no matter how dark things get. Pastor Adrian

23 min
FEB 10

A Bigger Life

Send us Fan Mail 08/02/2026 Big questions come along in life. Things happen, things change, transitions come and with them, questions. Questions like: • What kind of person do you want me to be, God? • What kind of things do you want me to do, God? • What does God want my heart and life and directions to be centred on or shaped by the most? • How do I know that what I am living is God-pleasing, and right and true? God’s people were asking these kind of questions after they finally begun to recover their nation, their city, their temple and the whole way of life after the return from Exile. They seemed to want to factor the Lord into their new life and thought they were doing all the right things he required as they attended to all the expectations of temple worship. Problem was, they were only scratching the surface of things. They were outwardly observing religious things while daily doing damage by doing unjust things. They wanted a bigger life and yet, they did not seem to be able to see what the Lord means by a big life and how he provides that life. We pray you receive God’s word today as both a challenge but also for the purpose of enabling you to live his big life where he has placed you. Pastor Adrian

21 min
FEB 2

Take The Baby!

Send us Fan Mail 2026-02-01 As Epiphany season draws to a close, we hear of the first happening post-birth even in Jesus’ young life – the day he was presented to the priests at the Jerusalem temple, in accordance with the requirements of God’s Law in the Old Testament. The day is often named ‘The presentation of Jesus’, for obvious reasons. But there is more than a simple ‘presentation’ going on. It is actually quite a big moment that says a lot about who Jesus is and what he will bring to the world. The old man Simeon’s words are key. We know these words in song – ‘The Song of Simeon’ which has been sung by millions in liturgy and prayer for millennia. Simeon takes this baby in his arms and speaks with prophetic voice and a deep peace. 29 ‘… Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.’ (Luke 2: 29-32) Praying that Simeon’s song is your song today – a song of deep peace in this boy for your living, your struggle, your challenges, and even your dying. Take the baby today! Pastor Adrian

23 min
JAN 27

2026-Jan-25

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By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia. St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia. www.stpetri.org.au

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Adrian Kitson
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2020 - 2026
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