Bible talks from Gateway Anglican Parish, based in Williams and surrounding towns, Western Australia. Each episode opens the Bible, points to Jesus Christ, and helps ordinary people trust and follow him in everyday life.
New sermons are added as they are recorded from our Sunday services.
3 (final) Living Generously - Giving our Posessions: Basil
What does it mean to be rich toward God?
Basil of Caesarea lived among wealth, famine and desperate poverty—and took Jesus’ warning about bigger barns with uncomfortable seriousness. His challenge was simple: perhaps the abundance in our hands has been entrusted to us for somebody else.
But generosity isn’t always simple. How do we keep an open hand without helping in ways that actually harm?
In this final talk in Living Generously, we explore Jesus’ parable of the rich fool, Basil’s radical generosity, and the tension between open-handed giving and wise love.
Open hands. Wise love.
Go deeper: Read Basil's actual 368 AD sermon 'I Will Tear Down My Barns', during the great famine.
20 Sept 2026
2 Living Generously - Giving Courageous Mercy: Cyprian
What does Christian mercy look like when it costs us something? Can Jesus really change a person’s heart — opening our lives, homes and possessions to people in need? And what about people who oppose us, misunderstand us, or can give us nothing in return?
On our Kids’ Church Sunday, the kids help tell the story of Cyprian of Carthage: a wealthy pagan whose conversion to Christ transformed how he used his possessions, cared for the sick during a devastating plague, showed mercy to Christians who had failed under persecution, and ultimately gave his own life rather than deny Christ.
Through Isaiah 58, Psalm 41, 1 John 3 and Luke 6, we see where that courageous mercy begins: “We know what love is because Jesus gave his life for us.”
Please excuse some recording problems in the last part of the sermon — the BOYA microphone recorded the voice unusually quietly.
Go deeper: Stephen Nichols, Cyprian of Carthage: Crisis in the 3rd Century (https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/demonstrating-the-love-of-christ-135) — read a brief introduction to Cyprian, persecution, repentance and leadership in the early church.
13 Sept 2026
1 Living Generously - Giving our Lives: Perpetua
In AD 203, a young Christian mother named Perpetua faced a stark choice: make a small public sacrifice to the Roman gods and go home to her family—or remain faithful to Jesus and face death.
Her remarkable prison account, The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, gives us one of the earliest Christian martyr stories and a vivid picture of Jesus’ confronting words: “Whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.”
Big idea: Because Christ is worth everything, Christians can hold even life itself with open hands.
Bible readings: Genesis 3:14–15; Matthew 10:34–39; Revelation 2:10.
Go deeper: Kevin DeYoung / Clearly Reformed — “Perpetua and Felicitas and the Martyrs of the Church (https://clearlyreformed.org/lecture/perpetua-and-felicitas-and-the-martyrs-of-the-church/)- a 1-hour church-history lecture. Very good, very clear, very accessible.
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