Anchor Church City

Sex, money, power, wine, laughter and entertainment... it's all vanity according to the man to tried it all! 

"Smoke, nothing but smoke. There's nothing to anything -- it's all smoke. What's there to show for a lifetime of work, lifetime of working your finders to the bone?" This is the ancient question that opens up the perplexing book of Ecclesiastes. Even though this book is around 2500 years old, it speaks to modern fears of meaninglessness, modern hopes of leading a decent life, and the deepest of al...

The dangerous idea of the resurrection is earth shatteringly relevant. The resurrection of Jesus not only secures our future but bring peace to our present!

Good Friday is the solution to the problem of forgiveness without justice.

On Palm Sunday we remember Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey. But what's so significant about his choice of animal? James Wong unpacks Luke 19:28-38 and helps us see how Jesus' entry communicated his mission: to bring sinners peace with God.

In a 24/7, always-on, relentlessly busy culture, perhaps sabbath rest acts as out biggest act of resistance and defiance against the cultures formation of us!

Jesus lived a life that demonstrated generous justice to the least of these. In time where there is so much injustice around the world and in our own backyard, how are we to respond? In Luke 10:25-37, Jesus shows us a model of how we're to demonstrate the love of God in how we demonstrate the gospel through generous justice. 

Jesus got proximate with the people he came to save. The incarnation is a model for mission and ministry. We identify with people without losing our identity.

Jesus lived in attentive obedience to the Father. What motivated Jesus to a life of attentive obedience was his unique, intimate, personal, and loving relationship with the Father. We too have been invited into this special relationship with the Father through the Son. Only then we can partner with him in living the life he has called unto live, a life of attentive obedience for the sake of his gl...

Prayer isn't a shopping trolley of requests that we ram into the gates of heaven. Prayer forms us! More than just 'asking', prayer is about communion with our Father, partnering with Him in what He's doing in the world, while He shapes us into the image of Jesus.

The only way to flourish in your faith and endure hardships is to meditate deeply on God's word! Scripture meditation is our 2nd practice in the way of Jesus.

All of Jesus' life and ministry was lived by the power of the Holy Spirit. As His apprentices, it is impossible to be formed into Jesus' image with the work of the Holy Spirit.

Vision Sunday Part 2 is a reminder of the foundational purpose we have as a church - to make emotionally healthy, missional apprentices of Jesus. 

Our vision for 2022 is to be a church that moves forward on its knees. We long to see a church that is deeply prayerful and dependent on God.

We're excited to announce that we are commissioning another church plant to join the Anchor Family of Churches! Led by James & Callin Dawson, we believe God has called to us to send out another launch team to plant a new church in the Northern Beaches of Sydney. Arnaldo, pastor of Anchor South West will be asking this question: Why do we plant churches? And the reality is that there are a mill...

How do you respond when life brings storms of hardship and difficulty your way? Join us as James Wong shares a faith-inspiring message based on Jesus calming the storm in Mark 4.

Today we kick off 2022 by looking at the goal of the Christian life; to be more like Jesus. James Ayre unpacks from Hebrews 12:1-3 what it looks like to stumble towards Christ-likeness as we seek to 'press in' and 'throw off'.

2021 has been a tough year. We’re tired of all the uncertainty caused by Covid, lockdowns and isolation. Jesus brings hope to a weary world that goes beyond circumstances.

Unless we recognise our desperate need for Jesus we won’t embrace him as Saviour. Listen as we see the necessity for Jesus to enter into the chaos of this world to bring his peace and restoration.

Today we look at one of the most counter-cultural financial principles in the Bible—stewardship. Whatever we have is not ours, it belongs to God. He has entrusted his resources into our hands to bring his blessing to the world. We look at the radical example of John Wesley who exemplified Christian stewardship, and lived by the three rules: Gain all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can.

Jesus has a compelling ability to make strangers into family and others into us. He did this primarily through eating meals around a table. Few practices are more important for this cultural moment than hospitality. 

Fighting greed and finding contentment involves, not a change in circumstance but finding our deepest satisfaction in the presence of God and his promises to be faithful to us.

The early church were radically generous, liquidating their assets to care for those in need!

How do we experience God's love when we can't see, hear or touch him? Preaching from 1 John 4:7-12, Chloe Stewart shares how one way we experience God's love is through the church. We can give and receive God's love as we give and receive love from one another.

We have a creative and generous Father who longs to bless his children with good things. From his abundance in creation to his generosity in salvation, God overflows with generosity.