Victoria Point Baptist Church

Nothing about you comes as a surprise to him. You are an open book. He knows every weakness, every flaw, every attitude, every fear, every insecurity. And still he has decided to adopt you into his family. Out of all the people in the world, in his grace he has chosen you. This really is incredible and so reassuring. No wonder Paul (the author of Romans) says that we are no longer slaves to fear (...

The grace of God is incredible, isn’t it? God loved you so profoundly that despite your deeply entrenched rebellion which was killing you and spoiling everything, he brought you to spiritual life through Jesus and gave you a significant place in his coming rule. He saved you. And you didn’t have to do anything good or right or godly. This new life in Jesus has come as a surprising and wonderful gi...

The Gospel message is a wonderful reality check that enables us to overcome pride and arrogance, it helps us to be eternally grateful. The Good News controls our lives and our thinking, and in so doing, we just want to pour out our love for God. He has forgiven us and saved us and all this as a gift of grace, as a result of faith and faith alone. All this, given without any obligation, an amazing...

It’s a simple message known to everyone. Love your enemies. What does that look like for you and me ? It isn’t easy following the example of Jesus but it’s a huge blessing when we get it right. However, Jesus encourages to go the extra mile to really enjoy life to the full.

Rest - The journey is too much for you

We can learn a number of great principles from Jesus be tempted in the wilderness. One key thing for us to learn is that even though Jesus was exactly where God wanted Him, it was also a place of great testing. We will encounter difficulty and pain even when we are in the centre of God’s will. But God is our provision. Jesus is with us at all times.

Before this encounter with God, Mary was an unknown, just like you and me. But her life changed forever when God broke into her circumstances and she became a significant player in God’s plan and purposes. However, when we talk about God’s plan and his purposes, you and I can rightfully say it’s “Mary and me” For in the same way God called Mary out of a seemingly ordinary existence to be a player...

The Shepherds Respond to Good News.

Genesis 32: 22-30

Committed to Surrender – Jeremiah 10:23-25 Time on the potter’s wheel is often the means of changing who we are, rather than what we do It’s about me saying yes to God. Not My way of thinkin,but God’s way. Not my purposes, but God’s. Not My way of doing things, but God’s. Not my values, but God’s. Saying Yes to God is not always about activity, its availability. It’s not just our actions but time...

Committed to God’s Wisdom – 1 Cor 2: 6-16 God’s wisdom and earthly wisdom are at different ends of the scale. Although we see ourselves as wise, although we think we are able to capture knowledge and make good decisions, in reality, it is beyond us. If we live our life based on human wisdom alone our life investment will come to nothing. The gospel doesn’t make any sense according to human wisdom....

The focus of our love will have first option to our time, energy and thinking. There is a limit to what we can do, but the question we have to consider is this, which voice has priority in my life? Whose purpose am I’m committed to ? I believe God understands our battle. I believe He is patient. I believe He is a realist ! He knows the struggle we have in keeping our priorities in place. But his o...

This is an incredible truth. God chose you. It was always his intention to make it personal. Now it’s easy for us to make it general, God saved us or God saves those that call on his name. But today I want us to leave here with one clear thought. Our relationship with God is meant to be real and personal. God chose you. God chose to forgive your sin. God chose to adopt you into his family. God cho...

The church in Ephesus sounds pretty decent to me. They had been through some rough times but they had worked hard, stayed true to Jesus, dealt well with sin in their midst, and persevered despite the challenges. What a solid church. Good theology, committed, faithful, robust, stable. Like us, they were difficult to fault in any major way. There were no obvious “wicked ways” from which to turn. Yet...

Seek God’s Face – Ps 24:1-10 The Bible says that David was both angry with and afraid of God, and he cried, “How can I ever bring the Ark of God to me?” (1 Chron. 13:12). So he left the Ark close by and returned to Jerusalem. Because of what happened, David was too afraid to bring the Ark into Jerusalem. He did not feel worthy or able to live close to God. God was too frightening, too dangerous, t...

We need to join Jesus in praying for unity. A divided church will never see revival. It cannot be a clear witness to the world. It cannot reflect the love and grace of the gospel. It cannot show the reality and beauty of Jesus. It will be stuck with its judgements and disagreements and arguments and splits. It will be clear evidence to the lost that the church is no different from the world. With...

Harvest Worker – Matt 9:35-38 Jesus called on his disciples to pray for God to send out more harvest workers. The opportunities to serve and reap were great, but there were not enough workers to meet the need. This must be our prayer as well. It involves praying for more Christians to share their faith and serve their communities (both here and overseas). It also means praying for God to raise up...

Humble Submission – James 4: 4-10 When we read a challenge like this, we can justify and protect ourselves. We can conclude that we are better than these people James is calling out. Maybe our friendship with the world is not as entrenched as theirs. Maybe we are closer to God than they were. Or we can humble ourselves. We can admit our friendship with the world. We can confess our adulterous ways...

Desperate for God – 2 Chronicles 7:11-16 As God’s people humble themselves, pray like crazy, desperately seek God, and desert their disobedience, God promises to see and hear and forgive and pour out his blessing. So that is the way we prepare for revival. Why didn’t Israel use this pathway to God’s blessing more frequently? Why did they suffer so much? Because they were not desperate enough. They...

Acts 2 : 42-47

We have to make another mind shift. The Christian lifestyle is not built on rules & regulations. It’s not about being busy. The Christian experience is about relationships. People are more important than programs, people are more important than rules. People are more important to God than any of these things. It is not only believing, it is also about belonging. A church is measured by the lov...

If we truly want to be God’s people and God’s church, we have to move away from what is often commonly accepted & popular to that which is really the way God intended it to be. Today we will try to come to terms with another shift in our thinking. For it is not so much being members of God’s church or members of His family, but it is being ministers. We worship God with our lives and as member...

Compassion is the key. If we are to break free of past traditions within the church and present Christ to people in a relevant way, it will depend entirely how we think of those that don’t have a relationship with God. Unless we care more for people than tradition, we’ll never support change. If Jesus looked out into a large crowd of people, he wouldn’t be thinking of why they don’t go to church o...

A Renewed Heart Brings a Renewed Lifestyle: Acts 2:42-47 It may appear that the early Christians lived in idyllic Christian communities. New Testament letters addressed the many tensions and problems that existed. But this description of lifestyle in the early Jerusalem church does give us some clues as to how our lifestyle might change as God moves in revival. First, there will be a greater passi...

A Renewed Heart Brings a Renewed Lifestyle : Acts 2:42-47 It may appear that the early Christians lived in idyllic Christian communities. New Testament letters addressed the many tensions and problems that existed. But this description of lifestyle in the early Jerusalem church does give us some clues as to how our lifestyle might change as God moves in revival. First, there will be a greater pass...