Belair Baptist Church Podcast

🗓️ 27 September 2026. 🎙️ Nic Cassar with Luke Reed, Stacey Varady-Szabo and Lise Burgess. What does parenting look like across different stages of family life? Nic hosts a practical conversation about routines, boundaries and making room for rest. The panel also discusses how children learn faith by watching the adults around them, why apologising matters, and how one family has approached phones...

🗓️ 27 September 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed. There is no perfect parent or perfect child. Looking at God’s compassion and discipline, Luke offers a picture of parenting that makes room for both grace and correction. He encourages parents to model the way of Jesus, while reminding the whole church that raising the next generation is something we do together. Resources mentioned in this message: 🔗...

🗓️ 20 September 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. When the Pharisees question Jesus about divorce, he answers by first painting a vision of marriage. Rounding out our Relate series, Nic unpacks five biblical themes: marriage is all in rather than half in, a covenant rather than a contract, self giving rather than self actualising, complementary rather than competitive, and about sanctification rather...

🎙️ Originally recorded on 14 August 2024. 🎙️ Nic Cassar with Nathan Bennett. In this re-released episode, Nic sits down with Nathan for an honest conversation about divorce. They work through Jesus' words in Matthew 19, showing how the Pharisees' "any and every reason" question reflects a flippant view of divorce common in that culture, and how Jesus responds by first raising the value of marriage...

🗓️13 September 2026. 🎙️Speaker: Dianne Marshall Conflict touches all of us, in families, workplaces, churches and often most painfully within our own hearts. Di Marshall, part of Belair's global mission team with SIM, and a trained peacemaker and mediator, offers four pictures to work with: the storm of conflict itself, the wind of hidden opportunity, the currents of desire running beneath the sur...

🗓️ 6 September 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nick Varady-Szabo.  We have all been hurt, and we have all hurt someone else, which makes forgiveness one of the costliest things we ever wrestle with. Nick works through three threads running across Scripture: God is first and foremost a forgiving God, repentance and honest confession go hand in hand with forgiveness, and we forgive others in light of how much we...

🗓️ 30 August 2026.🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. ⚠️ Please note: this episode discusses sex openly and includes some graphic language and mature themes. Listener discretion advised. Sex is one of the most powerful and most complicated parts of being human, and the church has not always known how to talk about it well. Continuing our Relate series, Nic works through five biblical themes: that sex is God g...

🗓️ 3 September 2024. 🎙️ Nic Cassar, Claire Landers, and Sarah McCutcheon. In this re-released episode, we continue our Relate series. Nic & Claire sat down with Sarah McCutcheon, author of a book on singleness, for an honest and warm conversation about what it really means to be single in the church. Drawing on real, anonymous comments from our own community, they name the isolation, pressure,...

🗓️ 23 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs. We are more connected than ever, yet so many people report having plenty of acquaintances and no real friends. Kicking off our Relate series, Sam turns to Scripture to show that we are hardwired by a relational God for deep, genuine friendship, and that a couple of true friends can shape who we become and the whole trajectory of our lives. Drawing on the c...

🗓️ 16 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. Sixty years ago a handful of families stepped out in faith, took a loan, and started a church, and today we live off the fruit of their vision. On this anniversary Sunday, Nic invites us to practise the ancient discipline of remembering, not simply recalling the past but letting it fuel fresh faith and action. Drawing on Peter's confession in Matthew 16 a...

🗓️ 9 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed. After shipwreck, storms and years of hardship, Paul finally reaches Rome, and the apostle Luke sums it all up in one understated line: "and so we came to Rome." This closing chapter of Acts is a portrait of a faithful God who keeps His promises, working not only through the miraculous but through the ordinary, the difficult and the unexpected. Even under ho...

🗓️ 2 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs. On his way back to Jerusalem, Paul calls the Ephesian elders together for a final conversation, knowing he will never see them again. What follows is part farewell and part handover, as he reflects on three years of ministry among them and urges them to carry the work forward. Sam draws out six marks of faithful leadership from Paul's words: being a doer of...

🗓️ 26 July 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. When Paul spends two years in Ephesus, the gospel takes such deep root that it begins to reshape the whole city, and not everyone is pleased. A silversmith named Demetrius, watching his idol-making trade decline, stirs up a furious mob chanting to the goddess Artemis until the city is in uproar. Nic unpacks this dramatic scene to show how the good news of Je...

🗓️ 19 July 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. In Athens, Paul steps into a city full of idols, big ideas, and endless debate, and finds a way to speak about the living God that genuinely connects. Rather than tearing people down or watering down the truth, he affirms what he can, gently corrects what is distorted, and confronts what stands opposed to the gospel. Nic uses Paul's approach as a picture of...

🗓️ 12 July 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Ryan Zweygartt The early church was never conflict free, and Acts 15 proves it. As the gospel spreads to the Gentiles, a sharp dispute breaks out over circumcision and the law of Moses. Rather than avoiding the tension, the apostles and elders gather in Jerusalem and land on a shared conviction: salvation comes through the grace of Jesus, not religious performance. Ryan...

🗓️ 5 July 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs. The church at Antioch marks a hinge moment in the story of Acts. Ordinary believers, scattered after Stephen's death, carry the message of Jesus across cultural lines and unknowingly plant the church that will launch the gospel into the wider world. Sam draws out three marks of a healthy church from Antioch, which are new life, intentional formation, and send...

🗓️ 28 June 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. Few moments in Acts are as dramatic as Saul's encounter on the road to Damascus. In Acts 9:1-31, a man set on destroying the church is suddenly confronted by Jesus and everything changes. Blinded, humbled, and redirected, Saul is drawn into a completely new story. One shaped not by his own ambition but by God's grace. Alongside him, an ordinary disciple nam...

🗓️ 21 June 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. As pressure rises and the church is scattered, the mission doesn't slow down, it spreads. In Acts 8:4-24, Philip brings the gospel into Samaria, crossing cultural and spiritual boundaries as people encounter Jesus in new ways. What begins as disruption becomes momentum, with healing, freedom, and joy breaking out in an unexpected place. At the same time, th...

AWAKE // God's Spirit Awakening People, Communities and Cities (Acts 3:1–4:31). 🗓️ 7 June 2026. 🎙️ Peter Schultz. At the temple gate called Beautiful, Peter and John stop for a lame beggar they had likely walked past many times before. But Peter is no longer the aimless disciple who went back to fishing after the resurrection. He stops, sees, and speaks with bold clarity: "Silver or gold I do not...

🗓️ 31 May 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. What does a Spirit-awakened church actually look like? In Acts 2:42–47 and 4:32–37, we're given a compelling picture of the early church marked by shared life, deep devotion, radical generosity, and genuine joy. This isn't an abstract ideal or a one-off moment in history, but a real community formed and sustained by the Spirit of God. As Nic unpacks these pa...

🗓️ 24 May 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. On the day of Pentecost, everything changes. In Acts 2:1-41, the Holy Spirit comes in power, filling ordinary people with boldness and enabling them to proclaim the wonders of God across language and culture. What looks chaotic at first is actually deeply intentional: God's presence breaking through, fulfilling ancient promises, and opening the door for all...

🗓️ 17 May 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nick Varady-Szabo. Before the church moves outward, it must awaken. In Acts 1:1-11, the risen Jesus commissions his followers and promises the Holy Spirit, shifting their focus from building their own kingdom to participating in God’s. The story of Acts begins with a call to wait, receive power, and step into a mission far bigger than themselves. This message is for any...

The Gospel of Luke – Walking With a Living God in Disappointment (Luke 24:13–35) 🗓️ 10 May 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar Two followers leave Jerusalem with their hopes shattered, walking away from everything they believed about Jesus. A stranger joins them on the road, opens the scriptures, and then disappears the moment their eyes are finally opened. In Luke 24:13–35, the risen Jesus shows up not i...

The Gospel of Luke // Following Jesus in Fragile Times. 🗓️ 03 May 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed. Two men walk into the temple to pray. One lists his achievements; the other can barely lift his eyes. In Luke 18:9–17, Jesus delivers a shocking verdict: it's the broken one who goes home right with God, and it's the children with nothing to offer who show us what the kingdom actually looks like.  This m...

The Gospel of Luke // Following Jesus in Fragile Times. 🗓️ 26 April 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs. Following Jesus was never meant to be a solo journey. In this message from Luke 17:1–10, Sam Delfs unpacks what life in the community of Jesus actually looks like, and it's more honest, more demanding, and more beautiful than most of us expect. From dealing seriously with sin, to extending radical forg...