South West Baptist Church Sermons

How does God delight in us and how do we delight in the Sabbath? Why has God given the Sabbath to us? Alan Jamieson takes us through the importance of the Sabbath for our rest, re-creation and renewal.

Can we rest? Can we stop and enjoy God's holy rest? Or are we too afraid of what we might find within us if we were to stop and rest? Warren Read examines the difficulties and anxieties that can stop us from resting in God's peace.

Cat McFedries examines how "the Sabbath as resistance" is a key element in our call to 1) resist the pressures of society, 2) resist the pressure to exclude others, and 3) stand up against economic injustice.

Jo Robertson looks at the incredibly radical nature of God's call to Sabbath observance, and how living the Sabbath truly must be a deeply counter-cultural act.

Steve Withington begins our series on the Sabbath by asking the fundamental question of what is the Sabbath and why is it important? Are our lives too busy and too fast to even properly have the Sabbath God intended? what can we do to change this state of affairs?

Lloyd Martin asks who were the adults who had the biggest impact on us when we were growing up and why, and challenges us to make a similar impact on the young people around us by simply offering ordinary kindness to them.

Lloyd Martin asks who were the adults who had the biggest impact on us when we were growing up and why, and challenges us to make a similar impact on the young people around us by simply offering ordinary kindness to them.

Paul chastises the Galatians for trying to turn the gospel into "Jesus + extras", and warns them against the dangers of living by the flesh rather than by the Spirit. Warren Read examines how we can live by the Spirit and see the fruit of the Spirit in our lives.

Alan Jamieson concludes our Freedom series with a look at what it means to be pardoned by God, and how we can abuse our freedom or not even accept it if we so choose.

Henk Smit looks at why Paul upbraids the Galatians for forgetting how they have been set free from the law and from 'religion'.

Our Freedom series continues with David Graham showing us how we have been freed through our adoption into God's family, made heirs and children of God, not slaves as we once were.

Alan Jamieson begins our Galatians series on freedom by looking at the way we can be set free from the past only by the grace of a God who is not afraid to get deeply involved in our struggles.

Alan Jamieson looks (briefly) at what does it mean to be justified by faith in Christ.

Alan Jamieson looks back over church history to 3 moments when something new and radical occurred and the church was faced with the choice of supporting or dismissing these new radical moves of God. He then looks at what many see as a new such move today.

World Vision NZ CEO Chris Clarke shares what it means for love to be incarnational, what it means for us to both weep and rejoice with our neighbours.

World Vision NZ CEO Chris Clarke shares what it means for love to be incarnational, and asks us what we might have 'hidden in the cupboard' that we could bring out to offer others.

Alan Jamieson looks at the beginning of the Lord's prayer, and asks what does it mean to call God Father and to pray for his kingdom to come?

Alan Jamieson prays "your kingdom come" and investigates what that would look like in our city and our nation and why it is so urgent that God's kingdom does come.

Jo Robertson shares her story, placing particular emphasis on prayer and what she has learnt from the bible and from others about prayer.

Alan Jamieson takes us through the day of Pentecost, the giving of the Holy Spirit to the church, and the implications for us today.