Current Sermon Series - Darling Street Anglican Church

Mark continues the series on how we can redirect the energy behind the 7 Deadly Sins into community building qualities.

Continuing his teaching on building healthy community, Mark Leach shows how we can transform the energy behind pride and gluttony into life giving, community building dynamics.

In this talk we explore how the energy behind each of the 7 deadly sins can be transformed towards building healthy community.

This talk will help you understand the benefits and the practicalities of building a life-giving, healthy community. 

In this episode we look at what we are to learn from little children about entry into the kingdom of Heaven. For the technically minded this is an integration of attachment theory and theology...

On Pentecost Sunday Mark Leach explores the role of the church in the bible, and the role of the Holy Spirit in the church today.

In this final talk on the serious "Building Generous Hearts" Mark Leach goes through the final 4 principles of generosity. Trigger warning - this will provoke lots and lots of deep discussions and soul searching!

In this talk Mark Leach continues to develop on the theme of building generous hearts, and looks at 4 more principles of biblical generosity

This starts a series of talks on how we build lives of generosity. It includes 10 minutes of a finance update on our church (if you aren't part of Darling St Church you can skip this section!).

In this talk Mark Leach takes us on a journey exploring the role of women and mothers through the story of Deborah in Judges 4 and 5. A Mothers' Day sermon like nothing you've ever heard!

In this episode Mark Leach explains the New Testament teaching on 'energy'. After looking at the reasons why we don't find the term 'energy' commonly used in our English bibles, Mark explains the history of the translation of the original Greek word, before grounding all of this in Colossians 1:28-29 and exploring the practical implications of this energy paradigm.

In this talk Mark Leach helps us think about our longing and need for life beyond death as he poses the question, is death a comma or a full stop? If Jesus is who he said he was, then death is a comma, because resurrection awaits us, as it did Jesus.

Preached on Good Friday, in this talk Mark Leach helps us understand the central importance of sacrifice and submission in the journey to a great and meaningful life. This comes into clearest focus in the death of Jesus. 

What does it mean to live a great life? Will following Jesus help me get such a life? In this talk Mark Leach looks at the life of the Apostle Paul, as he writes in 2 Corinthians 6.

What should we do with our lives? In this section of 2 Corinthians (chapter 5:11 to 6:2), we find God's plan for our lives.  TLDR Become God's co-worker as an ambassador of Christ. New heart. New vision. New mission.

Brian Tran helps us understand the implications of 2 Corinthian 4 for our daily lives

We all seek glory. The question is how do we achieve this? In this talk, Mark Leach shows us, from 2 Corinthians 3, that only God has the power to make us glorious from the inside out.

In this talk Mark Leach helps us think through what God wants us to do with our lives. The teaching is based on 2 Corinthians 2:12-3:6

In this talk Mark Leach explores the complexity and challenges of healing and restoring relationships that have been damaged by one persons evil, or betrayal, or sin. It is based on 2 Corinthian 2:5-11

In this talk Mark Leach will share the 7 steps the Apostle Paul used in 2 Corinthians 1:12-2:4 to start to deal with the conflict with the church in Corinth.