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In August of each year, we celebrate being in the Baptist whānau of Aotearoa New Zealand by running CareySunday.
This year, CareySunday will be held on Sunday 11 August. The message is being delivered by Michael Rhodes and is entitled “The Household of God”. We are still preparing the video of this message, but as it was one of our Carey Chapel messages this year, you can listen to it on our CareyOpen podcast.
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Michael Rhodes: 1 Timothy 3:1-16
Lecturer – Old Testament
Please note that Closed Captions have been enabled for this message, or you can download the transcript below.
Supporting Resources
We hope that these resources alongside the Carey Sunday message can be used by your leaders and small groups.
We have prepared some discussion questions for you to use alongide the message.
Charles Hewlett, the National Leader of the Baptist Union of New Zealand, has written a short prayer for use on Carey Sunday. Would you, or one of your team, be willing to include this in your worship that day?
Promotional Resources
We have created some digital elements for you to use in your church communications.*This will open the video in Vimeo. Select the Download button found under the video player to access this video offline.
A banner that can be used for church newsletters.
An image that can be used in powerpoint as a notice slide during your service.
Previous Carey Sunday Messages
Where do we find strength when we are weary? Isaiah 40:25-31 lifts our eyes to the breath-taking grandeur, the holiness and incomparability, of our wise and mighty God. It calls us to put our trust in God’s plans and purposes rather than our own. When we look to God in trusting expectation, we find both that God does new and unexpected things, and that we are energised and summoned forward by radical hope.
Carey Sunday 2023: What does it meant to be prophetic?
Michael Rhodes
Lecturer in Old Testament
What does it mean for God’s people to be prophetic? Jeremiah 4:11-28 invites us to pursue prophetic ministry by hearing, speaking, seeing, and feeling out of hearts closely attuned to God’s own heart. Doing so will invite God’s people to turn towards the Living Lord, both for our own good and for the good of our neighbours.
Carey Sunday 2023: Word and Spirit
John Tucker
Principal
The Swiss theologian, Emil Brunner, once compared hope to oxygen. Take it away, he said, and we suffocate. Hope is the air we breathe. Ezekiel 37:1-14 is a message of hope for people who have lost hope. In this extraordinary prophetic vision, we see that God can breathe new life in us and through us as we acknowledge our dependence on both the word of God and the Spirit of God.
Have you ever found yourself wondering, “What’s the point of the people of God?” Dr Michael Rhodes invites you to join him in listening to how Scripture, from Abraham to Matthew, Isaiah to Acts, calls the church to embrace God’s purposes for his people.