Welcome to our weekly sermons at Holy Trinity, Port Melbourne, where faith is the journey of a thousands steps. We love to bring the scriptures to life with modern psychology, sociology, historical context and real-life stories that will make you laugh (and cry). Holy Trinity is an Anglican congregation based at Bay Street, Port Melbourne.
To be or not to be, that is the question. Do you like Hamlet's soliloquys or a good, melancholic poem? This Spring we are delving into the Hebrew writing called Ecclesiastes, which dramatises the meaninglessness of life. By taking the position of a man who has experienced everything good this life can offer, the writer concludes that there is nothing we can gain in this life that death will not ultimately steal from us. He is a king of achieved the highest wisdom and success in all fields, tasted every pleasure the world could offer and slept with hundreds of partners, only to conclude that "everything is vanity." Ecclesiastes 2.1-11 exposes three vanities that we lean into in our attempt to immortalise our significance: romantic relationships, fun lifestyles or significance in our work. We stepped into the solution: die to this life ahead of schedule, and start living for eternity now.
Podcast by Heather Cetrangolo, 11 October 2026
20 Sept 2026
When It's Not Fair
We all experience the emotions of jealousy and envy, when we feel the grass is greener for someone else in a way that's 'not fair'. When was the first time you felt that feeling of, "It's not fair"? What recent experiences have you had of feeling as though you worked harder or performed better than someone else and it wasn't acknowledged? Or what recent experience have you had of feeling that your life has been unfairly harder than another's? Jesus speaks to this feeling in the parable of the workers in the vineyard (Matthew 20.1-16), as he draws out the emotion and gives us a chance to see it through his eyes. Today we brought our harder work or the feeling of living in harsher conditions than others to Jesus. We invited him to help us see these experiences through heaven's eyes.
Podcast by Heather Cetrangolo, 20 September 2026
13 Sept 2026
Honest Forgiveness
Forgiveness is a word Christians regularly use and sometimes weaponise, but how do we actually do it? What does it mean? And what does it NOT mean to be merciful, or to let go of holding others' wrongdoings against them. This week Campbell Brice shared a word with us from Matthew 18.21-35, where Jesus answers Peter's question, "How many times do I have to forgive the same person?" We considered what forgiveness is and is not. It is not tolerance, ignoring consequences or the same as reconciliation. Forgiveness is a genuine, regular practice that seeks the other's good and delights in God's mercy.
Podcast by Campbell Brice, 13 September 2026
Inside a recent episode
Do Not Harden Your Heart
Published 2 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In chapter 13, we see a wonderful statement about the central importance of love. Paul writes in chapter 8, knowledge puffs up, but love pulls up. Then in chapter 13, he writes, love his patient, love his kind, love rejoices with the truth. Then we found these seven words, knowledge will come to an end, for we know only in part. Knowledge will come to an end for we know only in part. That's a very saddening reminder as I've got all of it, and helped it a week and now. I remember as a young fellow on our farm, my father flew in 24 bombers out of Australia during the Second World War, and so he learned to navigate by the stars. […]
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