Warm local sermons for courageous discipleship.
New Community Ringwood is a sermon feed from a Melbourne church community, built around Scripture, pastoral stories, and reflective invitations to faith. Recent episodes move through courage, Easter hope, forgiveness, worship, prayer, and the costly call to follow Jesus.
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New Community Ringwood is a podcast record of Sunday teaching from a small church community in Ringwood, Melbourne. It keeps the feeling of people gathered in a room. The format is usually a sermon-style monologue, with rotating speakers reading Scripture, telling a personal story, and pressing toward a practical response. Recent episodes are shaped strongly by the church’s Courageous theme. Luke’s Gospel gives much of the structure. The teaching returns to Jesus as king, not as an abstract doctrine but as a living claim on attention, habits, courage, worship, and control. Easter episodes hold together resurrection hope and the need for peace in a world that can feel unstable. Other episodes linger over the rich young ruler, the Good Samaritan, Mary and Martha, Psalm 95, forgiveness, prayer, and the availability of God’s kingdom in ordinary life. The tone is warm. It can also become grave when talking about violence, sin, responsibility, and the ways people miss the way of peace. The speakers often use local, domestic images: family dinners, hospital rooms, water skiing, snowboarding, walking in the Grampians, church gatherings, and moments of public courage. Those stories are not decorative. They give the teaching a lived-in quality, making biblical scenes feel close to present-day choices. The show is especially interested in response: asking for prayer, releasing control, returning to worship, receiving forgiveness, touching the cross, or sitting at Jesus’ feet. It is not a polished interview show. Its value is in the immediacy of a church community thinking aloud before God, with all the repetition, warmth, humor, and earnest challenge that brings. For listeners looking for sermon audio that feels personal rather than institutional, it offers steady Christian reflection from inside a local congregation’s rhythm of worship.
Made for: For Christians and spiritually curious listeners who want accessible church teaching rooted in Scripture, ordinary life, and practical response. It especially suits those drawn to warm pastoral challenge rather than formal theological lectures.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its room-level intimacy: biblical teaching arrives through local stories, spoken repetition, prayerful response, and the visible rhythm of a gathered church. It feels less like a produced religious program and more like sitting inside a community’s ongoing discipleship conversation.
Everyday people experiencing God. A small church in Ringwood, Melbourne who seek to follow Christ and be an affirming and supportive presence in their local community.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
New Community Ringwood turns biblical passages into direct questions about prayer, control, service, and the daily practice of following Jesus.
New Community Ringwood records preaching as an act of shared church life. Troy Arnott, Andrew Hill, and Yvonne Lindner move from biblical passages into questions about prayer, wealth, control, attention, peace, and leadership.
Martha gets a raw deal; your overbooked soul gets a seat at Jesus' feet.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A steady Easter sermon about resurrection, peace, and the courage to put Jesus at the center.
This Easter sermon keeps one claim in view: Jesus is alive, and that changes everything. It moves from the empty tomb to the women’s shock and then to the frightened disciples hearing, "Peace be with you." The hospital memory and the surrounding chaos give that peace a plain,…
A measured sermon that links Easter anticipation to Jesus' peaceful entry into Jerusalem.
An Easter sermon that starts with anticipation and ends with the quiet shock of Jesus entering Jerusalem on a colt. It treats him as a king of peace, not the kind people usually ask for, and lets the city's fear and refusal sit alongside the later violence of revolt.
A sermon on the rich young ruler that frames wealth as a deeper question of who controls a life.
The rich young ruler becomes a searching study of control here. The sermon opens with a family-dinner question about whom the household would invite, then turns to the young, wealthy man asked to give everything away and follow Jesus.
A grounded reading of Luke 10 that turns Martha's frustration into a call to keep returning to Jesus.
The episode frames Jesus' meeting with Martha and Mary as a challenge to the instinct that makes Martha look like the obvious hero. By admitting that Martha can seem to get a raw deal, the speaker gives the teaching a candid starting point, then turns the scene toward…
A pastoral sermon on Luke, prayer, and making the kingdom's availability tangible in church life.
New Community's Courageous series follows Luke's story of Jesus toward a lived question: what would it mean for the availability of God's kingdom to shape ordinary life?
A football surprise leads into Jesus' foot washing and a grounded account of leadership as service, surrender, and shared responsibility.
A candid football surprise opens into a thoughtful reading of leadership through Jesus washing the disciples' feet. The speaker moves from Hawthorne's turnaround to John 13, using the shock of reversal to frame a different kind of authority: power held with an open hand and…
A Christmas sermon turns John's language of light into a warm invitation to come home through Jesus.
Christmas is framed as both a season of busy preparation and a claim about visibility: in Jesus, God comes close enough to be seen. The review follows the movement from work, travel, meals, and holiday planning into John's language of light, life, grace, truth, and homecoming.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Andrew, a church leader, opens by sharing his surprise at his football team Hawthorne's performance.
Troy Arnott delivers a Christmas sermon exploring why the birth of Jesus matters.
This episode explores how to create a god-shaped diary as a foundation for living a spiritually intentional life in 2026, focusing on planning, Bible reading, and prayer.
This episode explores the concept of worship through the lens of Psalm 95, using a personal snowboarding analogy to illustrate three postures God invites believers into when coming before Him.
This episode provides church announcements including a facility upgrade requiring a temporary relocation, a baby celebration for Bella and Brandon, and an invitation to join an Alpha course exploring Jesus.
This episode explores the biblical concept of wisdom from James chapter 3, distinguishing it from knowledge and emphasizing its practical application in daily life.
A speaker shares three quick parenting tips: hug children while they're young, make bedtime story time, and be a loyal learner as a dad, illustrated with a personal story about dropping his toddler.
Troy Arnott of New Community Ringwood preaches on 1 Chronicles 29:10-19 on Father's Day, treating David's prayer as a model for building a legacy 'from the inside out.' He draws on David's sparing of Saul's robe hem in the cave and his Psalm 51 confession after Nathan's rebuke.
Yvonne Lindner reframes David’s encounter with Goliath around the repeated challenge, “Who do you think you are?” David recalls facing a lion and a bear while caring for his father’s sheep, and credits God with rescuing him.
This Easter sermon centers on Easter morning and the surprise of an empty tomb.
The message begins with a warm Easter welcome.
The host opens with a family dinner question.
Andrew Hill introduces a sermon series on courage, asking listeners to reflect on examples of bravery like a hero in the Bondi terror attack, surf lifesavers, and surfers rescuing a friend from a shark.
A speaker shares a personal story from high school about damaging a teacher's coat in a dare, reflecting on the need for forgiveness through faith years later.
The speaker opens Luke 10:38-42.
Troy Arnott frames New Community's "Courageous" theme around Luke 9, Jesus' kingdom message, and a church-wide push to follow "the radical call of the King." He connects Jesus sending the twelve with "power and authority" to the command to travel with "no stuff, no bag, no bread, no money and no extra shirt." He also argues that prayer should become as normal as "breathing oxygen," because Sunday prayer only works if people practice it in the room.