Belair Baptist Church Podcast

🗓️ 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...

The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 15) 🗓️ 19 April 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar 📖 Jesus & the Lost Things A lost sheep. A lost coin. A lost son. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories that together paint one of the most breathtaking pictures of God in the entire Bible. In this message, Nic unpacks what it means to be lost, what it looks like when God comes searching, an...

The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 13:18–30). 🗓️ 12 April 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed. What if God’s kingdom is already at work, but not in the way we expect? In this week’s message, we explore Jesus’ pictures of the mustard seed, the yeast, and the narrow door in Luke 13:18–30. What seems small and easy to overlook carries surprising power to grow, spread, and transform. ...

Easter Sunday – Luke 24:1–12 🗓️ 05 April 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs What if the resurrection is not just a comforting idea, but the event that changes everything? In this Easter message from Luke 24:1–12, Sam Delfs explores the empty tomb, the first witnesses to the risen Jesus, and the question that still confronts us today: why do you look for the living among the dead? With honesty and convicti...

Looking Ahead 2026 (Part 2) - Luke 9:21-25 / Matt 11:28-30 🗓️ 29 March 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar What does real spiritual growth look like in a fragile, distracted world? In this second Looking Ahead message, Nic reflects on Jesus’ call to discipleship and rest, and asks how we actually grow as followers of Christ. Drawing on Luke 9 and Matthew 11, Nic explores the tension between surrender and...

Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 19:1–11) 🗓️ 22 March 2026 - Looking Ahead Sunday 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar What do Zacchaeus, a church vision Sunday, and Jesus’ call to faithful stewardship have in common? In this week’s message, Nic Cassar reflects on Luke 19 and the surprising grace of Jesus, who sees Zacchaeus and brings salvation into his home.  From that story, Lead Pastor Nic Cassar, ope...

The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 10:25–37) 🗓️ 15 March 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nick Varady-Szabo What if the question isn’t “Who is my neighbour?” but “How can I be one?” In this week’s message, we explore Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan and how it confronts our instincts to justify ourselves, draw boundaries, and keep love at a safe distance. With the help of Mister Roger...

Following Jesus in Fragile Times – Luke 9:1–7 and 10:1–8 🗓️ 08 March 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar What does it look like to join God’s mission without pressure, hype, or hidden agendas? In Luke 9 and 10, Jesus sends the twelve and then the seventy-two to travel light, rely on hospitality, proclaim peace, and pray for healing as they announce the kingdom of God. This message is for anyone who feels...

The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 7:36–50). 🗓️ 01 March 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. What happens when a “bad woman” walks into a religious man’s dinner party, breaks all the social rules, and pours out her grief at Jesus’ feet? In Luke 7:36–50, Jesus turns the whole room upside down, exposing self-righteousness and offering forgiveness that no one saw coming. This messa...

Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 7:1-10) 🗓️ 22 February 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar In this week’s message, Nic Cassar explores Luke 7:1-10, where a Roman centurion approaches Jesus on behalf of a dying servant. An unlikely figure of faith, the centurion recognises Jesus’ authority without demanding proof, performance, or proximity - trusting that a single word is enough. This passage invite...

🗓️ 15 February 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Phil Skinner In this message reflects on Luke 5:1-11, where Jesus steps into an ordinary workday, meets tired fishermen with empty nets, and quietly changes the direction of their lives. Rather than beginning with certainty or confidence, this story unfolds in the middle of exhaustion, disappointment, and fragile faith. Phil explores how Jesus meets people where the...

🗓️ 08 February 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed This week, Luke Reed unpacks Luke 3 and the striking arrival of John the Baptist — God’s “think different” prophet who prepares the way for Jesus. In a world marked by political tension, corruption, and longing for change, John steps onto the scene as a voice crying out in the wilderness, calling people to repentance, integrity, and readiness for the comin...

🗓️ 01 February 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar. This week we launch our new series in the Gospel of Luke: Following Jesus in Fragile Times. Nic introduces Luke’s carefully investigated, historically grounded account of Jesus — written so that we may know the certainty of what we’ve been taught. In a cultural moment filled with confusion, noise, and competing versions of Jesus, Luke invites us back to...

🗓️ 18 January 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Andrew Sutherland This week, Andrew Sutherland explores Psalm 19, a beautiful three‑part meditation on God’s revelation through creation, Scripture, and personal transformation. David’s ancient song reminds us that the heavens continually proclaim God’s glory, that God’s Word restores and renews us in ways nothing else can, and that true wisdom begins when we learn t...

Summer Psalms – Justice in the Psalms (Aboriginal Sunday) 🗓️ 25 January 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Sally Smith As part of Aboriginal Sunday, Sally Smith explores the strong biblical theme of justice in the Psalms — a justice that goes far beyond punishment and reaches toward restoring dignity, equity, hope, and flourishing for all people. Drawing on passages like Psalm 101 and the broader teaching of the he...

🗓️ 11 January 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs This week, Sam Delfs (our new Church Planting Resident) unpacks Psalm 90, the only psalm attributed to Moses. In a prayer shaped by wilderness, funerals, struggle and divine faithfulness, Moses teaches us what it means to number our days — to live wisely, urgently, intentionally, and with eternity in view. Sam invites us to consider where we find our true h...