Anchor South West

The "Golden Calf" ... even if you don't consider yourself religious, you may have heard of it. It's one of the most iconic scenes in the Old Testament and Pastor Arnaldo from Anchor South West will be unpacking this scene today. It's a story of betrayal, heartbreak, idolatry and the long-suffering patience of a God who won't quit on his people; you don't want to miss it. We pray it's a blessing to...

In Exodus 24, we witness a covenant ceremony where Israel "ties the knot" with Yahweh—a relationship established by grace, enjoyed in obedience—expressing her commitment to live in God's ways of love.

Our late-modern age is indelibly shaped by the Ten Words given to a group of freshly-emancipated slaves 3,000 years ago. We know them as the Ten Commandments, but they are so much more. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo shows us how the Ten Words are an act of grace that leads to mission.  We pray you're blessed by this message!

God.is. Love. Throughout the Scriptures God is said to be full of abundant loyal love. But what does love look like in public? A world where injustice seems to be taking the day? Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo unpacks the reality that God is a God of justice and calls his people to a life of justice. We pray you're blessed. 

We’re called to embrace the limitations of our humanity as gifts of Gods grace.

The Israelites gain their freedom! Rather, they're gifted their freedom as Yahweh leads them through the Red Sea and there is a celebration like no other. But what happens when praise becomes bitterness? And trust becomes doubt? What happens when you enter the wilderness of your life? Is God still good? Is he still with us?  Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo unpacks our next instalment in our serie...

Many of us may be finding it hard to praise God in this current moment of history. Coronavirus, global conflict, loss of loved ones and much more. By studying the Song of Moses, which the Israelites sang to God after crossing the Red Sea, James Wong reminds us of the reasons we have to praise God and encourages us to find our praise again in this season.  

Sometimes God's way just doesn't seem to make sense. In Exodus 14 we explore 3 puzzling commands from God that all work our for Israel's deliverance and God's glory. 

Our faith is an embodied faith. As Israel reenacted the passover, so we reenact and experience God's grace, remembering Jesus in the Lord's Supper.

When life is hard, it can be hard to trust God. But in every hardship, there is an invitation to experience God’s formation. God uses suffering to develop our resilience and deepen our trust in him as we re-centre on his character.

God calls each and every one of us to partner with him in the renewal of all things. St. Augustine said: “Without God, we can’t … but without us, He won’t.” This liberating truth draws us into the mission of God. This week we’re exploring Moses’ five objections to partnering with God to bring renewal and freedom to his enslaved brothers and sisters in Egypt. Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo explores Ex...

Join us this week as we kick off our new 14-week series through the book of Exodus.  This week we're exploring the reality that the God of the Exodus is a God who is never far from his suffering people. While we may think God is absent, he is working to rescue. We look forward to having you join us on this journey.

We are in between major series on the way to 14 weeks in Exodus but this week we're going back to something shared on August 2, 2020 -- our first in-person pre-launch meeting. It's called "Who is Anchor South West?"  Listen in to get a glimpse of the things that are central to our heart, realities we want to wrestle with and be shaped by as we continue to journey together.

Paul's letter to the Ephesians ends with a call to warfare (Eph. 6:10-24). But Paul reminds us that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the Powers & Principalities who seek to deform any benign, and even good, thing into a defining and ultimate reality; thereby dividing, dehumanising, and disordering our humanity.  We hope you're encouraged!

This week Pastor Arnaldo will be walking us through Ephesians 6:1-9. As Paul unpacks a new household code, he will use the form but subvert it to serve the purposes of the kingdom of God. Rather than call on husbands, fathers, and masters to use their position of social power for themselves, they are commanded to a mutual love that seeks to serve rather than be served.

Anchor City pastor Matt Sparks leads us through Ephesians 5:21-30, where we explore the concept of a Spirit-filled marriage being one of mutual submission and wholly giving of yourself to the other, as a picture of the grand narrative of Jesus and his bride (the church).  We pray you are blessed by this resource and hope to see you at South West soon!

As we approach the finish line in the letter of Ephesians, Pastor Arnaldo walks us through Ephesians 5:1-14 as we explore the cruciform life that we are called to live in light of the gospel. We pray you are blessed by this resource and hope to see you at South West soon!

Fashion is a trillion dollar business annually - it matters. It matters more than we think and what we wears can actually change us. The fashion industry understands the dynamic that what we do, really ends up doing something to us!  This week our lead pastor, Arnaldo, will walk us through Ephesians 4:17-32 where Paul will call the Ephesians to put off the old humanity and put on the new. We...

Last week Arnaldo closed off the first half of the book of Ephesians! This week we make the turn to Ephesians 4:1-16 as Paul begins to outline what it means to live in response to the apocalypse of the Messiah. If we ever hope to grow up into everything the Lord has for us, we need to maintain the unity gifted to us in the gospel. We pray you're encouraged!

We live in a hyper-individualised world. This is no surprise; but the way in which this posture in the world has affected the church has been nothing short of disastrous.  This week's message is about Paul's prayer for power to comprehend the love of Christ toward his people. But this needs to be understood in its communal context. Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through Ephesians 3:14-2...

Since the gospel has as much to say to our horizontal relationships as it does to our vertical relationship with the Trinity, Paul explores how because the wall of hostility was brought down in the body of Jesus, different ethnicities stand on equal footing in relation to the promises of God. And now the things that the fallen powers and principalities would use to separate us are used to display...

The cross of Christ does not just deal with the vertical but the horizontal. It obliterates, not just the alienation between us and God, but the alienation between us and us. The cross of Christ creates a new reality in which we are invited to participate, a new humanity, a new 'us'. Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo explores the ways the cross overcomes the deep hostility of both the ancient an...

This week we're taking a deep dive into Ephesians 2:1-10 as we explore what it means to live apocalyptically as the people of God. We'll look at how Paul guided the Ephesian church to not only understanding what they were saved from, but understanding what they were saved for; primarily to be God's masterpiece for the sake of the world.

Paul prays an apocalyptic prayer that God's people will know him and live according to that knowledge. Listen in as Seti walks us through this explosive passage.

We kick off a 12 week series in the book of Ephesians today! Today, Pastor Arnaldo will give us an overview of Paul's letter to the Ephesians churches as well as look at Ephesians 1:1-14 and how our salvation does not terminate on us but sends us out into the world.  We pray you are blessed by this teaching.