Canterbury Baptist Sermons

Jesus is alive! This is the great miracle we celebrate on Easter Sunday. Jesus is Alive! And the world will never be the same again. In today’s sermon, we reflect on what it means that we live in a world where Jesus has been raised into a new and eternal life. We celebrate how this has turned our world around: instead of living in a world where death (in all its forms) has the la

We start a new series about Jesus: who He is and why He is the Saviour of the world. But, to begin, we start back in eternity with the topic: Jesus is God our Creator. We consider what it means that God is a Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — and so God is eternally in relationship. And we wonder at the God who created the world and created us all as an act of love and fr

How do we pray when our life falls apart? We all have seasons where our life becomes a ruin: our hopes and dreams crumble, our health gives way, relationships fall apart. Our life that was once so orderly and felt so secure has now become disheveled, uncertain, ruinous. Where is God in this season of life? Psalm 74 takes us into this experience and points us to where God connects w

Rev. Natalie Dixon-Monu from Boroondara Community Outreach (BCO) joins us today. Using the story of the four men who carried their paralysed friend to Jesus, even having to dig a hole through the roof to get him to Jesus, Natalie leads us to consider how we can be such a friend to those who have needs around us. She particularly draws our attention to the needs in our own community

Many of us have an equation in our mind: the more God is “good” to me, the better my life will be! God’s goodness = my well-being. Psalm 73 takes us to the sick-bed of a faithful, God honouring, man as he wrestles with why he is sick while unfaithful, even evil, people are enjoying health and success. How is this right? How is this just? If you've ever wondered why God d

2024 will be Canterbury Baptist’s last year in our current premises. 2025–26 will be a building program that will require us to vacate our building. Our conviction, though, is that this is God calling us out into our community. We anticipate new opportunities to be the light and life of Jesus through this time of change and disruption. This “Vision 2024” presentation outlin

Psalm 72 describes what a perfect king brings to the people. What would it be like to live under the leadership of someone who lived out these values? And who is the perfect ruler this Psalm is pointing us to? Join the Canterbury Baptist Congregation as we reflect together on the vision of this Psalm, on how Jesus is the perfect king, and what that means when we live the values of

Psalm 71 is the song of an older person, grey-haired and feeling their vulnerability and growing weakness. How do we face seasons of life when our life is diminished and no amount of prayer and effort can give us back what we have lost? What does faith in God look like in these seasons? The Psalmist takes us into this pain while showing how God meets us in this place.To contact Rev

Jesus finishes his teaching in Matthew 6 with the powerful and challenges instruction, "Do not worry." How quickly and easily worry about our physical needs can squeeze down our faith and trust in how God is calling us to live. We think God's call can be a 'zero-sum' equation—the more we give to God, the less our own needs will be met. Jesus, instead, rem

Jesus warns us that nobody can live a life that serves two masters. But we try to please God and live for our desires and ambitions at the same time. One of those masters will have our true devotion, and the other we will end up despising as we feel they keep getting in our way. Who is your true master? Who or what are you truly trying to please?To contact Rev. Stephen Field, email