GBC | Sermons

We believe that God speaks to us through the Bible. However, we often have a hard time deeply engaging with it. In this week’s message we explore some of the steps we can take to deepen our engagement with God’s word. For more on Reading The Bible Together head to -  http://bit.ly/TBT-Card  and  http://bit.ly/THEBIBLETOGETHER-INFOSHEET  

Truly listening to others changes what we know about them, how we feel about them, and how we act. Nicolie Coleman explores how this applies in our relationship with God.

Listening to God in prayer is as simple as P.R.A.Y. This week Mark Coleman explores why we listen to God and provides a helpful framework to begin to do so.

We are people who want to listen for God’s invitation & seek to participate with him in what he’s doing in the world. Listening to God requires relationship with God so we can RECOGNISE his voice, REPRESENT him accurately, RESPOND to him from a place of grace and REMAIN closely connected with him.

This week we start a new sermon series entitled “Hearing the Invitation of God” exploring the habits of the heart that we can nurture to better hear from God. In this first message we return to a familiar text and reflect again on the reason why hearing from God is so important for us as individuals and a community of faith.

This week we look at one of the most iconic and dramatic acts of God’s salvation in the pages of Scripture and consider how difficult – even in the face of such a dramatic rescue – faith can be.

In this message, we reflect on the promise and purpose of salvation that is reflected in the story of the Exodus and in our own encounter with Jesus.

This week we explore the significance of the Passover meal as a symbol of deliverance and consecration and its implications for followers of Jesus who reinterpreted this meal as an explanation of his own death and its meaning for us.

This week we look at the plagues of Egypt but from a slightly different perspective; that of a character in the story. This first-person narrative is a creative, engaging way to consider a sometimes familiar story.

This Sunday we are going to take a theological detour in the book of Exodus to explore the Lord’s hardening of Pharaoh’s heart. This action of God seems to tilt the playing field unfairly against Pharaoh. Is there a way to understand this that preserves God’s integrity and Pharaoh’s freedom? Spoiler alert: I think there is!

We have all experienced the feeling of having claims made upon our time, energy, and resources. Many of the claims made of us are part of normal, everyday life. Some, however, are more insidious and enslave us. How do we respond, as the people of God, to the claims of the powers and principalities in our world?

The resurrection of Jesus represents the central hope of Christian faith. One of the most simple, but critical, components of this hope is that it is not just for us but includes a commission to more. This Easter we ask, as a result of what Jesus has done, “What is your next faithful step?"

In this special Good Friday message Mark Coleman draws our attention to the significance to the fact that not one of Jesus’ bones was broken as the fulfilment of Exodus 12:46.

God’s capacity to transform that which appears only to lead to death and humiliation into life and glory provides a foundation for trusting obedience. We see this in Jesus’ deliberate decision to set his face towards his own death which was his hour of glorification at the same time. As we prepare our hearts for Easter Roxane Lawler leads us in a reflection on God’s capacity to bring life and our...

The cross invites us to continual reflection on God’s salvation in Christ. As we continue to prepare our hearts for Easter, Matt Willis encourages us to humbly return again to the meaning of the cross as he explores Jesus’ interactions with Nicodemus in John 3 and the meaning of Jesus being lifted up like the snake in the wilderness (Numbers 21:4-9).

As we prepare for Easter we turn to the Gospel of John to consider again the significance of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. In this message we explore the title “Lamb of God” and what it tells us about Jesus and what it invites us to do in response.

As we prepare for Easter we turn to the Gospel of John to consider again the significance of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. In this message, we are reminded that in Jesus we encounter God directly and are challenged to return to the Gospel again.

How do we respond to the invitation of God to join Him in His work? Too often, exactly like Moses does at the burning bush – with a long list of why we couldn’t possibly be the right choice. In this week’s sermon Marc looks at God’s response to Moses’ excuses (and ours).

In this week’s sermon, Marc considers the importance of timing when it comes to participating with God in his mission to change the world.

In this week’s sermon we look for the hidden activity of God in the birth of Moses and consider the implications of God’s sometimes hidden activity in our own lives.

This week, the first of a new series in Exodus, Marc explores the importance of telling the stories of faith to maintain our trust in the big promises of God in the face of delay, brokenness, famine, and hardship.

Special guest Brandon Chaplin (Senior Pastor at Blackwood Hills Baptist in Adelaide) encourages us to place our trust in God and not get hung up on the future as he looks at Jesus’s words about worry in Matthew 6:25-34.

Special guest Brandon Chaplin (Senior Pastor at Blackwood Hills Baptist in Adelaide) reminds us of the most important decision we can make from Matthew 7:7-14.

Looking back at our own journey of faith we can often see God’s fingerprints on our lives long before we placed our faith in him. In this sermon, Marc looks at the story of Naaman (2 Kings 5) as an example of just this truth and challenges us to commit to pray for those in our lives who are journeying towards faith and to be alert for where God might be inviting us to join in.

Marc outlines five areas where we can look for God’s activity in our individual lives and in our world including answered prayers, “coincidences”, experiences of God, invitations to join in his wider work, and changes in our lives or in the lives of others.