Como Baptist Church

13th July 2025 - Shelby O'Reilly - Jonah 2Shelby considers how God sent the big fish to swallow Jonah not as punishment, but as rescue. She continues exploring how God sustained Jonah (and can sustain us) in the most difficult times.

6th July 2025 - Ben O'Reilly - Jonah 1 Ben explored the role of Jonah's storm perhaps not being a punishment, but instead part of a redirection, or a call for attention, or an alarm to motivate Jonah into action. God doesn’t abandon us or forget us when we ignore him or walk away from him. He graciously calls us back to him.

Lloyd shares about the work of OM and preaches from Ephesians 3: From Fear to Faith

Ed Devine is from Baptist World Aid. He shares in our Faith Promise series about Investing In People Like Jesus

Darrell Thatcher is our next Faith Promise speaker from Wycliffe Bible Translators. Darrell shares some updates about Wycliffe's work, particularly the work of the Stricklands.

Our first Faith Promise guest speaker is Darren Reynolds from Every Daughter Matters

Ben leads us in a practical exercise of choosing to hear God's voice and respond to it. Like sheep follow their shepherd.

Mim Hosking (BCWA Ministry Support Pastor for Young Generations) is our Guest Speaker today.

Phil continues our series finding God Sustaining us in John

Ben looks at Jesus' teaching on the Vine and the Branches, talks about his old lemon tree, and sees our need to stay connected, and describes what it means to be pruned.

Phil finds several truths to sustain us in Jesus' parable of the Good Shepherd.

Ben celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and draws some implications for us today.

Ben encourages us to reflect and sit with the weight and significance of the events of Good Friday.

Theo examined Jesus’ final prayer in John 17. He saw how Jesus prayed that we would be saved by his grace, protected by his spirit, and united by his love.

Ben looks at Jesus' claim to be the Light of the World, and sees how Jesus is a light to guide us and that we can follow, and he is also a light that shines in the dark areas of our lives.

Shelby encouraged us on Sunday to think about the three things a plant needs to grow: water, light, and the right environment. And we did a self check in, asking ourselves the question, just in the next few days, 1) how are we watering ourselves with Jesus, 2) what areas of our life need to be brought back into God's light, and 3) are we putting ourselves in the right environment so that our f...

Ben looks at two places in John where Jesus offers "living water" (John 4:10 and 7:37), and encourages us to consider what source we are drinking from.

Khalil shared with us about Jesus’ claim to be the Bread of Life, and how Jesus is our spiritual sustenance, like bread is to our bodies.

Ben took our Sustained theme to our new series in the book of John, looking at John setting up his premise in the opening prologue that Jesus is God, the creator, and the source of life.

Ben wrapped up our Ruach series with a practical tool called Prayerful Listening to help us discern God's will and where he is moving. We then participated in a boat building activity to remind us of our need to set our sails, surrender to God's will, and go with him.

Ben spoke about our need for Renewal by the Holy Spirit. That we need to surrender to the ongoing and lifelong transforming work of the Holy Spirit in our lives, known as Sanctification.

Phil continues our Breathe mini series with the word Revive. Ezekiel 37 contains a vision of dry bones being brought to life by God. Phil talks about how the Holy Spirit can revive our dry, tired, weary bones.

Shelby started our mini series of Breathe with the word “Ruach”. God’s breath of life. Learning to metaphorically open the sails of our ships to catch the wind of God’s breath. And surrender to where God is leading. Following and being part of where God is at work.

In light of Australia Day, Phil spoke about the first colonial chaplain Richard Johnson, and how the Australia Day call to reflect, respect, and celebrate encourages us to see how God has lead us to make courageous decisions and sustained us through difficult circumstances.

Ben launched our 2025 theme, Sustained. God holds all things, and he is able to sustain us throughout our life. So that we are able to finish well, not just limp across the line. We will be looking at scripture with the lens of “how does this show us God sustaining us?”