Anchor South West

If you want to understand your life and the world, Genesis 3 is absolutely essential. Our Lead Pastor Arnaldo will explore the way Adam & Eve's fall under the Power of Sin has affected and infected our bodies, our gender, and our spirituality. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out via our social media pages. We pray you've found this teaching helpful and hope...

We come to the end of our series "Rise & Fall of Kings: 1 & 2 Samuel" as Pastor Arnaldo tackles David's return to the throne. Following his fall in the wake of the murder of Uriah, drama and dysfunction follows David for the rest of his life. We'll realise that the whole story points toward the necessity of the true and better King. We pray this teaching was a blessing to...

David & Bathsheba. One of the greatest stories of failure in all of human history. It has gripped our hearts and captured our imaginations through the centuries. This week Pastor Arnaldo will tackle the story of the man after God's own heart, who ends up going after his own. Sin, Repentance, Forgiveness - we'll unpack these major themes this week. We pray this teaching was a blessing t...

Join us as we continue the wild journey through 1 & 2 Samuel. This week Pastor Arnaldo will walk us through one of the most important passages in the Old Testament (2 Samuel 7) where God promises David that he will build David an everlasting dynasty. We pray this teaching was a blessing and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

This week Lead Pastor Matt Sparks of Anchor City joins us to continue our series through 1 & 2 Samuel. David is tested in the wilderness and while Saul's life hangs in the balance, David chooses the way of integrity. The wilderness, we learn, is the place where God forms us into beautiful souls. We pray this teaching has been helpful and hope to see you at the Gathering soon.

We love a good underdog story. The little guy taking down the big bully. This week Pastor Arnaldo is going to walk us through one of the most famous stories in all of Scripture; that of David and Goliath. While this story is an invitation to believe that God can use us, there is a deeper layer to the story. We pray this teaching has been a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

As we continue in our series "The Rise & Fall of Kings," pastor Arnaldo will help us navigate 1 Samuel 15 - the story that culminates in the fall of Israel's first king, Saul. A tragic story of half-hearted obedience will lead to the removal of Saul as king as we'll learn that this text is an invitation to explore our own relationship with obedience as followers of Jesus. We...

Join us as we continue our series through 1 & 2 Samuel. Pastor Arnaldo will guide us through 1 Samuel 8 and show us how the non-coercive God will redeem even the things that break his heart. We'll be confronted with the reality that we, like Israel, are prone to go our own way even when it will hurt us. We pray this teaching is helpful and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Join us as we continue the journey through 1 & 2 Samuel. This week our Pastor Arnaldo will helps us see how God's presence is not an enchantment spell we cast to get God to accomplish our purposes; rather God is free to accomplish his purposes in his way and in his timing. We pray this teaching is an encouragement to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

1 & 2 Samuel have been called the greatest single piece of literature ever written. In this exciting series, Arnaldo kicks us off with an overview of the book and a dive into Hannah's Song in 1 Samuel 2:1-11. Join us as we learn about the themes in Hannah's Song that weave throughout the entire books of 1 & 2 Samuel. We pray you're blessed by this teaching and hope to see you a...

Following Jesus doesn’t fit neatly into our lives, but it reorients how we view our lifestyle, aspirations and purpose. Join us this week as we look at 2 Corinthian 5:14-21 and pastor James unpacks what it means to be ambassadors of grace and how our new identity changes everything. We pray this teaching has been helpful and hope to see you at our Gathering soon

This week our Guest Speak Seti reminds us of the importance of palm Sunday. We pray this teaching is an encouragement to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

What is an abundant life? What does it look like and how is it shaped? This week Pastor Arnaldo will continue our YHWH series as we explore Jesus' claim that he is the vine and we are the branches. In the end, we are called to abide in Jesus for the sake of our own joy and for the sake of our mission to the world. We pray this teaching has been a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Sund...

Jesus makes some outrageous claims. "I am the Light of the world" "I am the Bread of life" "I am the Resurrection and the Life" And this week we are exploring another one of Jesus' "I AM" statements in the gospel of John where Jesus will claim himself to be the only way to the Father. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo shares how Jesus' claim to exclusivity i...

Death is the great equaliser. No one escapes the grim reaper. Our western context has not done a good job helping us to die well. Even the mention of death is met with awkward silences. But death is inevitable. And death, for the disciple of Jesus, is not the end.  Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo helps us navigate Jesus' statement: "I am the Resurrection and the Life"  We pray this t...

We're all looking for someone to follow. While there are many guides in our culture, there is One that will never leave us, never fail us, and always guide us into the rich and abundant life in the Kingdom. Join us as Seti opens up John 10:11-18 and shared how Jesus is the Good Shepherd. We hope this teaching as been helpful and hope-filled for you and pray to see you at one of our Gatherings soon...

This week pastor Arnaldo shares a message with us on the freedom we have in Jesus. We can have confidence that Jesus is the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

Lots of things claim to guide us to our destinations. Whether you use Google Maps or Apple ... or whatever else, we're accustomed to seeking help is getting us where we need to go; we're all looking for a guide.  This week, guest preacher Gavin Mork from CCC Aust will open up John 8:12-20 and help us to see Jesus is the Light of the world who illuminates all truth. He is a good guide. He is o...

C.S. Lewis once famously wrote that the existence of a desire signals the potential for that desire to be satisfied. If there is an itch, there must be such a thing as a scratch. The problem begins when we try to satisfy the right desires with the wrong things. Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo kicks off our new series journeying through Jesus' seven "I Am" statements in the Gospel of John.&nbsp...

This week pastor Arnaldo shares with us a message of the joy and awe we have in Jesus and the Church. 

In our culture, blessedness is located in *having* things, while in the kingdom of God being blessed is found in giving of our time, talents, and treasure.  This week our Pastor Arnaldo will lead us through John 13 where Jesus kneels down and washes the feet of his disciples and even of the man who will betray him just a few hours after the last supper in the upper room.  We pray you've...

The world needs deep people. People who remain alive to the love of God and who are deeply self-aware. That's why at Anchor South West we pursue emotional health because we believe that we cannot become spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo guides us through Psalm 139. David serves as a model for emotionally healthy spirituality as he remains open and a...

What do you feel when you think about prayer? For many of us the idea of prayer conjures up feelings of guilt and shame. But Scripture tells another story.  Prayer is an invitation to lift heart and mind to God and the place where we are formed most intimately into the image of Jesus.  Join us as Pastor Arnaldo takes us to Luke 18 and helps us find prayer again.  Thank you for joini...

How do we know whether we are "succeeding" or failing as a church? What will we look  to measure our success? When the Corinthian church was tempted to look at its own spirituality, its own justice, its own power, Paul reminded them that if we have all things, know all things, have faith to do all things, but have not love, we are nothing. That means that at Anchor South West we don't look at...

What is the church? Is it a group of people who look and think alike? In many places that seems to be the case. But Pastor Arnaldo will delve into the true nature and purpose of the church as we explore our roots and distinctives as a church.  The Church is the embodied space where God displays what he can do in, with, and through a community of broken, loved, and repentant people. We hope th...