Anchor South West

We live in a "pornified" society where as Christians we feel pressure from the culture but also internally from our own moral failures.

Sexual immorality is nothing new to the body of Christ; the very first churches struggled to move from their old realities into their new life in Christ. Join us today as our Pastor Arnaldo tackles one of the more difficult subjects: sexual sin and the church as we continue our teaching series through First Corinthians.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of Gatherings soon.

We are encouraged to use all sorts of metrics and tool to evaluate "how we're going." This puts us in a position to be constantly evaluating and judging ourselves and others. But Paul will say that he doesn't care what others think and doesn't even value his own assessment of himself as full or final.

Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo unpacked 1 Corinthians 4:1-21 and teaches us what the beautiful art of self-forgetfulness is and how it can help us become more like Jesus.

We pray this teaching was helpful for you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings.

What does it mean to be spiritual?

Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo takes us through 1 Corinthians 2:6-3:23 and asks the question: what does it mean to be spiritual? Spirituality is less about our action and more about our location. We pray this teaching has been helpful and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings.

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo kicks off a brand new series through Paul's first letter to the Corinthians. In a world that looks to power and wisdom for their identity, Paul will encourage us today to look to Jesus who becomes our power and wisdom through the most unlikely ways.

We pray this teaching is helpful and encouraging and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Listen to 'The Rich Fool' message in our series The Storytelling God, as our guest speaker Mitch Everingham takes us through Luke 12:13-34.

Listen to the message in our series called "Formed", as Pastor James takes us through "Witness" in Acts 1:6-8

Listen to the message in our series called “Formed”, as our guest speaker Gavin takes us through “Service” in “Ephesians 4:7-16”.

Jesus' resurrection birthed a new world. A world where death does not have the last word; a world where despair turns to hope; a world where lack turns into abundance; a world where death finally gives way to life. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through a reflection on the reality and consequence of the resurrection of the Son of God.

We pray this teaching is a blessing and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

Palm Sunday is a reminder that Jesus came in humility and with grace. His kingdom is not a kingdom paid for by the blood of others, but by his own. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through the triumphant arrival of King Jesus in Mark 11:1-11.

We pray you have been blessed by our teaching ministry and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Generosity is about more than money; it's a posture of the heart. Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo walks through a scene from the early church as we explore the source, the fuel, and the goal of our generosity from Acts 2:38-47.

We pray this teaching is a blessing to you.

Today, non-stop work has become a virtue. Busy is compulsory. Pausing is a missed opportunity. Now more than ever, we need to take up the practice of Sabbath and hear the invitation of Jesus to come to him and receive rest for our souls.

Join us as our newest church planting resident Mitch Everingham opens up the word for us.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you.

Listen to the sixth message in our series called FORMED, as our lead pastor Arnaldo takes us through Solitude and Community in Mark 1:32-39.

Listen to the fifth message in our series called FORMED, as our lead pastor Arnaldo takes us through forgiveness in Matthew 18:21-35.

Listen to the fourth message in our series called FORMED, as our lead pastor Arnaldo takes us through Psalm 119.

Fasting is the most neglected practice in the western church today. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo helps us explore this vital practice as we seek to partner with God to see Christ formed in us.

We pray this teaching has been a blessing and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

Listen to the second message in our new series called FORMED, as we explore the importance and goodness of prayer.

Anchor South West turns 3!!

And there's no better way to celebrate than to launch a new series called FORMED. We'll take 10 weeks exploring various aspects of what it means to be formed in the ways of Christ.

Pastor Arnaldo launches the series by helping us see how formation requires our participation with God's gracious initiative. We pray this teaching has been helpful and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

As humans, we love beautiful things! Whether it’s a a beautiful landscape, or a renaissance painting, or a piece of fine jewellery... But have you ever thought of the Gospel as beautiful?

Pastor James Ayre unpacks Matthew 13:44-46 to show us the beauty of the Gospel and how it’s worth giving up everything for.

Join us as lead pastor Arnaldo walks us through the parable "Prodigal Sons" in Luke 15:11-32.

Join us as lead pastor Arnaldo takes us through the parable of The Sower.

Merry Christmas! Join us as Pastor Arnaldo explores the beauty and depth of the incarnation. God with us!

We pray you have a blessed Merry Christmas, and we hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo helps us understand and enter into the backdrop of the Christmas story. In order for us to understand the beauty and depth of the incarnation of Jesus we must first understand who we are, how we've fallen, and how Jesus intends to restore us.

We pray you have a blessed Merry Christmas, and we hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

The mission of God's church is to have a heart for the lost. We have been called to participate in the privilege of being part of God's rescue mission for sinners. Listen in as Seti Latu helps us understand that God's desire is that we share the good, greatest, and glorious news of Jesus with others.

We pray this teaching is a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Celebration Sunday! We are hard-wired to give thanks. In our secular age, in the absence of God, we find our culture often directing their thanksgiving to themselves, each other, or the universe. But we are made to send our thanksgiving to God for his loyal love; this is what we're made for!

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo walks through Psalm 136 and prepares our hearts and mind to live a life of thanksgiving.

We pray this teaching was helpful and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

This week we finish our journey through the book of 1 Peter. Pastor James opens up 1 Peter 5:1-11 to show us what a counter-culture leader looks like and what it means to be a people that live counter-culture lives as we follow Jesus in a post-Christian world.

As a human we will suffer; but as Christians we have a choice to not allow our suffering to turn us bitter. Listen in as guest preacher Gavin Mork walks us through 1 Peter 4:12-19. We may suffer, but our suffering is yet another context to glorify God.

We pray this teaching is helpful and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

What does it mean to live out of the victory of Christ? Last week's passage talks about Jesus ascending above angels, authorities, and principalities and therefore encouraging us to walk through suffering for his sake.

What does that look like in the world and in the church?

Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through 1 Peter 4:1-11.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Peter calls Christians to always be prepared to give an account for the hope that is within us. While this has spawned many an apologetics ministry - Peter's call is far more defensive than offensive. His main concern is that we live such good lives amongst people of other or no religions that they would be compelled to ask us about the hope we have within us.

Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo dives into 1 Peter 3:8-22 and calls us to always be ready.

We pray this was a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

Peter, in his letter to the church, calls followers of Jesus to live lives of gospel beauty, but what does this look like?

This week, Pastor James opens up 1 Peter 2:11-3:7 to show that lives of gospel beauty are lives living out bold submission.

One of the most profound shifts you can make in your Scripture reading is moving from reading every "You" in the Bible as singular to reading it as collective. It's often the case that Scripture is addressing a whole group of people at once and this can dramatically change the way we understand Scripture.

This week, our Pastor Arnaldo will take us through one of the most explosive verses in all of Scripture: 1 Peter 2:9 - we've been saved to be sent.

We pray this teaching was helpful to you and hope to see you at the Gathering soon.

"Be holy, as I am Holy" sounds daunting. Is it even possible? What is holiness and how can we pursue it for the sake of the world?

This week Pastor Arnaldo will walk us through what holiness is, why it's vitally important, and how we get it.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

08/10/23

The story of faith is one full of complexity. This week, Pastor Arnaldo will walk us through Asaph's journey with God in Psalm 73. Asaph moves from being safely orientated with God and faith into the liminal space of disorientation where his theology and experience don't seem to match up. As he continues to stay tethered to God and community he finds himself with a much truer and deeper faith on the other side of his deconstruction. We pray this teaching was helpful and hope to see you at one of our Sunday gatherings soon.

Join us this week as we hear from guest speaker Gavin Mork as he shares with us where true happiness can be found.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

What's love got to do with freedom, with justice? Apparently, everything!

Cornel West said that we must remember that justice is what love looks like in public.

The good news of Jesus propels us to give of our time, talent, and treasure to those that may find themselves in a less fortunate state. The gospel is not an enemy to justice but the place where justice and mercy meet. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo highlights our relationship with IJM this Freedom Sunday as we discover that the God of Justice seeks to form a people of justice for the good of the world and for his namesake.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

You hear the statistic that about 50% of marriages end in divorce everywhere; while the actual number in Australia rests at about 40% of first marriages, the state of marriage in our world and in the church is in trouble.

This week, our Lead Pastor Arnaldo will take a look at the topic of marriage - what it is, what it's for, and how to pursue and maintain a life-long union. He's take us on a journey to help us realise that if we want to pursue, build, and maintain healthy marriages we need to be aware of:

- The Goodness of Marriage

- The Danger of Marriage

- The Struggle of Marriage

We hope and pray that this teaching was helpful for you and hope to see you at one of our Sunday Gatherings.

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo looks to 1 Corinthians to help us explore the realities of singleness. For many of us the topic can bring up disappointment, or even shame. We pray that as we look at God's design for singleness you will be encouraged and equipped to live out of the love of God in Christ.

We pray this teaching is a blessing to you and hope to see you at the Gathering soon.

How many times have you heard this? It's not necessarily a bad thing, and can actually be a really good and healthy thing to do. But growing up also comes with some dangers. In our growing up, we can be tempted to believe the lie that we must earn everything we get. But the Kingdom of God doesn't work this way.

This week we hit pause on our Relationship Series 2023 to explore the paradox of the kingdom; i.e., that in order to receive the kingdom of God, we must first become like little children. Join us as Pastor Arnaldo guides us through Mark 10:13-16.

We pray this teaching was a blessing and hope to see you at our Gathering at 10am Sundays in Panania.

What does it mean to be a true friend?

In this first instalment of our 'Relationship' series, Pastor James shares what the Bible says about friendship. Through the wisdom of Proverbs and the example of Jesus, we see what a true friend is and how Jesus' life, death, resurrection and future return shapes what it means to be a true friend to those around us.

What is the book of Job really about?

While suffering usually takes centre stage when we think about the book of Job - suffering sets the scene for the real question the book is seeking to answer: Do we worship God because he blesses us or do we love God for God's sake?

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo closes out our series through the book of Job. We pray this teaching is a blessing and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

In our pain and suffering, we've often cried out: "Why me?!" In some of our most honest moments we've doubted the goodness and wisdom of God.

"Why would God allow ... that to happen...?" And more often than not, unless we understand the reason by pain comes into our lives, we can't see how it could ever serve a purpose.

We protest and ask God to give an account for his ways.

This week, Job will be granted that wish - he will be granted an audience. While Job had a litany of questions ready to ask God, it was God that put Job back on his heels and helped him to realise the most important lesson: God is God - Job is not.

We pray this teaching has been a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.

We don't really have the choice of whether or not we will suffer in this life; it's going to happen.

We do, however, choose how we walk through the furnace of affliction. What do we need to know, be, and do if we're going to walk with God through suffering? How can we make it to the other side?

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo walks through Job's defence and how we're called to walk through our own valley.

We pray this teaching was a blessing and hope to see you at our Sunday Gathering soon.

At one point or another we've either given or received platitudes or cliches in the midst of suffering. This serves no one well.

This week we'll encounter Job's friends vigorously defending the retribution principle - the idea that what you put in is what you get out as a strict measure of running the world. Job will end up calling them "miserable comforters". So join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through the arguments of Job's friends and how we can become generous comforters to those in the furnace of affliction.

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo starts a new series on the book of Job.Job is one of the most fascinating pieces of literature. Ancient, it speaks to the modern dilemma of suffering. We'll learn that ultimately, suffering is a deep mystery that the book of Job doesn't so much answer; but a guide to faithfully wrestling with the inevitable suffering that we'll all experience.

We hope you've enjoyed this teaching and look forward to having you at one of our Gatherings.

God's mission is unstoppable and unhurried.

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo delves into a topic that sits close to the heart of who we are as a church. We believe that one day the knowledge of the glory of God will cover the face of the earth and God calls us to partner with him to bring about the renewal of all things. We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering on Sunday.

If you want to understand your life and the world, Genesis 3 is absolutely essential. Our Lead Pastor Arnaldo will explore the way Adam & Eve's fall under the Power of Sin has affected and infected our bodies, our gender, and our spirituality. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to reach out via our social media pages.

We pray you've found this teaching helpful and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

We come to the end of our series "Rise & Fall of Kings: 1 & 2 Samuel" as Pastor Arnaldo tackles David's return to the throne. Following his fall in the wake of the murder of Uriah, drama and dysfunction follows David for the rest of his life. We'll realise that the whole story points toward the necessity of the true and better King.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at the Gathering soon.

David & Bathsheba. One of the greatest stories of failure in all of human history. It has gripped our hearts and captured our imaginations through the centuries. This week Pastor Arnaldo will tackle the story of the man after God's own heart, who ends up going after his own. Sin, Repentance, Forgiveness - we'll unpack these major themes this week.

We pray this teaching was a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

Join us as we continue the wild journey through 1 & 2 Samuel. This week Pastor Arnaldo will walk us through one of the most important passages in the Old Testament (2 Samuel 7) where God promises David that he will build David an everlasting dynasty.

We pray this teaching was a blessing and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.

This week Lead Pastor Matt Sparks of Anchor City joins us to continue our series through 1 & 2 Samuel. David is tested in the wilderness and while Saul's life hangs in the balance, David chooses the way of integrity. The wilderness, we learn, is the place where God forms us into beautiful souls.

We pray this teaching has been helpful and hope to see you at the Gathering soon.

We love a good underdog story. The little guy taking down the big bully.

This week Pastor Arnaldo is going to walk us through one of the most famous stories in all of Scripture; that of David and Goliath. While this story is an invitation to believe that God can use us, there is a deeper layer to the story.

We pray this teaching has been a blessing to you and hope to see you at our Gathering soon.