GBC | Sermons

What do we do with our own flaws and failings? What is God really like? How do we grow in our relationship with Him? This week, in the final message from our series Songs of the People, Brett Robinson invites us to explore Psalm 106, and discover the power of bringing our failings before a merciful God. The invitation of Psalm 106 is not into condemnation, but into life. When we confess our failin...

Creation invites us to discover that the World was made by God. God's laws help us to understand more about God. We can invite God to help us discover more about ourselves. And extraordinarily, we can actually know God Himself, through the person of Jesus. Perhaps you need to visit a physical or metaphorical dark sky national park this week, and make space to discover that God is nearer than you t...

This week, as part of our series “Songs of the People” we are looking at Psalm 25. This acrostic psalm of lament challenges us to consider what we truly need from the Lord. When we face trouble in all its forms - and we will - we are encouraged to lift up our need to the Lord and to request rescue from him. Psalm 25, however, also encourages us to ask for guidance to know how to walk in the way of...

This week we continue our series, Songs of the People, in which we are exploring the invitation, encouragement, and challenge of the psalms. The psalms we will be looking at are determined by the lectionary; the three year cycle of readings that many churches around the world follow. This week, our youth coordinator Matt Willis dives into Psalm 145 and the question of what makes God so great.  God...

This week we continue our series, Songs of the People, in which we will explore the invitation, encouragement, and challenge of the psalms. The psalms we will be looking at are determined by the lectionary; the three year cycle of readings that many churches around the world follow. Mark Coleman shares some reflections on Psalm 114. This psalm considers the exodus, that definitive act of salvation...

This week we begin a new series entitled, Songs of the People in which we are going to explore the invitation, encouragement, and challenge of the psalms. The psalms we will be looking at are determined by the lectionary; the three year cycle of readings that many churches around the world follow. Our first psalm is 149, a hymn with a few surprises along the way, but that encourages us as the comm...

Welcome to this special podcast from Gymea Baptist Church, in Sydney Australia. We celebrate together the life of Joan Eley, who passed away peacefully on the 30th of August, 2020 in Venezuela. Joan was the first missionary sent out from Gymea Baptist Church in 1966 & spent over 50 years in service in Venezuela. This is an interview with Joan at GBC 18 October 2008 with Paul Summers.

This week we conclude our series entitled “The Church Reimagined” and I return to a foundational text for us: John 20:19-23 where Jesus sends his followers, then and now, to continue the work he had begun. I don’t know how you’re feeling about the changes and uncertainty that are swirling around us, but I hope that you take comfort in the enduring plans and purposes of God and, more importantly, t...

In this week’s message we turn again to the issue of discipleship and the importance of translating our faith in Jesus into every aspect of lives.  Paul had translated his faith into every area of his life and his faith in Jesus had become the message of his life. You and I are invited to do the same, allowing Jesus to fill every part of our lives so that the message of our lives point to him. Is...

When we are clear what matters we can count the right sorts of things, allow what really matters to shape our ministry, and celebrate what really matters. While counting has its place, and ministry is important, celebration - such an important part of these parable - unites us like almost nothing else. Even in these extraordinary times, we know that Jesus is changing lives and that this is worth c...

As we continue to consider what it means for us to be a community of faith, We want to continue on from where we left off last week when we considered what means to be a community of communities. If we are going to find connection, belonging, and our place in God’s mission in the household of God (to use Paul’s imagery) who is going to lead these smaller communities? The success of the church’s mi...

This week we continue our new series entitled “The Church Reimagined” in which I want to explore where I believe God is inviting us to reflect on what it means to be the community of faith. In this message I reflect on Paul’s use of “the household of God” to describe the community of faith and its implications for us. Imagine if every follower of Jesus found their place in God’s mission. If every...

This week we continue our new series entitled “The Church Reimagined” in which I want to explore where I believe God is inviting us to reflect on what it means to be the community of faith. In particular, what and who is at the centre of a discipling community. The fact that Jesus - his life, death, resurrection and mission - should be at the centre of any community of faith that takes discipleshi...

This week we begin a new series entitled “The Church Reimagined” in which we want to explore where we believe God is inviting us to reflect on what it means to be the community of faith. In a world thrown into uncertainty by COVID-19 we know that God’s plans and purposes are certain. Our faithful response is important. Acts 8 provides us with an ideal church scattered where the leadership and resp...

This week we conclude our series in Hebrews and Mark Coleman, our associate pastor, summarises some of the primary invitations of the book with an eye to chapter 13. For all its Old Testament references and profound theological statements the message of Hebrews is pretty simple: remain anchored to Jesus and encourage one another to do the same so that you may persevere. Come on! Is there someone y...

In our passage today, Hebrews 12:4-13, the author continues to reframe the experiences of his hearers; changing how they perceive their struggles and hardships. Opposition and difficulty is not evidence of going in the wrong direction, but is the sphere where God teaches his children to be holy. Our holiness is more than a private, internal experience but a public, external commitment to follow Je...

Today we come to the soaring reflection on faith as the author of Hebrews continues to encourage his readers, and by the Holy Spirit us, to endure and to fix our eyes on Jesus. So who is in your Legends Row? Take some time this week to thank God for them and maybe to thank them in person. And who can you be encouraging and cheering on to fix their eyes on Jesus?

As we continue our exploration of Hebrews we have come to the end of main block of teaching. But before the author turns to his soaring reflection on faith in action he summarises his teaching to this point and urges his readers, together, to live by faith. Let us consider how we might spur one another, not to shrink back from participation in God’s purposes, but to endure. And let us keep meeting...

This week we continue our exploration of Hebrews and the perfect forgiveness that Jesus has won for us and the tremendous implications this has for us. This is the culmination of the author’s central idea: that it is impossible to drift away from such a wonderful patron. Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. An...

This week is an extended interview between Senior Pastor Marc Rader and Karina Kreminski Co-Director of Neighbourhood Matters a ministry dedicated to helping Christains be salt and light in their community and to learn to love their neighbours. 

Our sermon series is focused on the Book of Hebrews and in this week’s message the author continues to explore the greatness of Jesus’ ministry as high priest by focusing on the greater promise that Jesus mediates and the purpose of that promise in the people of God. Jesus has what it takes to bring about the purpose of God by fulfilling the promise of writing the law of God on our hearts. We can...

Today we continue our series in the letter to the Hebrews entitled Anchored and Roxane Lawler, our Children’s Coordinator tackles the tricky character of Melchizedek. This mysterious Old Testament character has already made an appearance in chapter 5, but it is here that the author really explores Melchizedek as a pointer to Jesus.   Rox addresses this text by answering eight questions raised by t...

Join Matt Willis (Youth and Young Adults Coordinator), Mark Coleman (Associate Pastor) and Jodene Watling (Associate Pastor) as they Read The Bible Together and discuss Hebrews 3:7-13.