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Anchor Church City
Weekly preaching audio from Anchor City. Find Home. Weekly Gatherings: 10am Factory Theatre, Marrickville 2204. Lead Pastor: Matt Sparks
Episodes
Anchor Church CityA Conflict of Desires
Paul in Romans 7 shows what our relationship as believers should be with the law. We’re not to live under the law, we are not to throw it away, but because of…
Anchor Church CityWhen Death Becomes Life: Resurrection Sunday
The resurrection unleashes a harvest of life! This resurrection Sunday we explore the life changing difference the resurrection makes.
Anchor Church CityWhen Death Becomes Life: Good Friday
In the death of the Son of God, death dies and life reigns.
Anchor Church CityGrace > Sin
Free grace does not mean cheap grace. Paul reminds us that our new life and our new master empower us to leave our life of sin.
Anchor Church CityUnshakable Hope
In a world that feels increasingly hopeless, Romans 5 drowns us with hope.
Anchor Church CityA Gift Not a Wage
God’s gift of grace to us in Jesus is unlike anything else. We naturally have a propensity to work, to strive for, and to celebrate the milestones we reach…
Anchor Church CityThe Fairness of God
The good news is not that God responds to what we do, but that we respond to what God does! Matt Sparks explores 3 key words as he dissects the anatomy of the…
Anchor Church CityThe Inclusivity of Depravity
All of humanity, the rebel and the religious, stand under the just wrath of a loving God
Anchor Church CityThe Exchange
Romans gives us an honest and confronting diagnosis of the human condition
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Guest Preacher James Stinson
On Mission when in Romans: Correcting some assumptions to help us share Jesus with others
Anchor Church CityEager & Unashamed
In this cultural moment of increasing secularism, how can we have missional swagger?
Anchor Church CityThe Purest Gospel
Romans is a letter that has changed the world and our hope is that it would change our hearts and city as we journey through it.
Anchor Church CityThis Cultural Moment: Conversation with John Mark Comer
To follow Jesus, or as John Mark prefers to say, “apprentice under Jesus,” is, by definition, to follow His way of life. How do we guide people into this…
Anchor Church CityFashion
Outside of countercultural christian dogginess, what does the biblical worldview have to say about fashion and social justice.
Anchor Church CityTechnology
How is social media and smartphones impacting our lives? What is it doing to our relationships and self worth? Listen as we explore the christian worldview on…
Anchor Church CityFood
How do we follow Jesus in a food-obsessed world? Who can you invite to the Table this year? Listen as we explore the spiritual depth of something as everyday…
Anchor Church CityAdvent: Enlarged in the Waiting
More important than what God can do for you to end your waiting is what God is doing in you while you’re waiting.
Anchor Church CityLimping with a Blessing
It's better to limp with God's blessing than to strut without it
Anchor Church CitySpots & Speckles
God can draw straight lines with crooked sticks. Reminder that God uses our crooked lives to fulfil his good purposes.
Anchor Church CityNeither Left nor Right
Tim Costello, CEO of Micah Australia and Chief Advocate of World Vision Australia, speaks to us about what it looks like for the church to be salt and light in…
Anchor Church CityTwo Weddings
God’s commitment to fulfill his promises will not be derailed by human sinfulness
Anchor Church CityJacob’s Ladder
We can’t climb up to heaven to reach God. Heaven needs to come down to us!
Anchor Church CityA Blessing Stolen
We don’t always follow God’s plan, even when it’s clear. Follow the story of sneaky Isaac, scheming Rebecca, snatching Jacob and savage Esau.
Anchor Church CityTwins
The story of God has never been about the merit of the one chosen, but the grace of the one who chooses.
Anchor Church CityMarriage
Seti Latu takes us back to God's foundations for marriage in Genesis 2, outlining 5 keys to a healthy marriage.
Anchor Church CitySingleness
In our sex-saturated culture, the idea of being single and celibate is unthinkable. In this talk, Matt Sparks helps us consider the Bible's teaching on…
Anchor Church CityThe Seed
How do we make disciples? By prayerfully sowing the seed of the gospel into people's lives.
Anchor Church CityThe Sower
Who makes disciples? If you are a disciple of Jesus, you are a disciple-maker. There are no spectators in the church. God wants to use you!
Anchor Church CityThe Way: Living
How do I follow Jesus? Being a disciple isn't simply about believing the right things, but living like Jesus.
Anchor Church CityThe Way: Loving
How do I follow Jesus? At the heart of being a disciple of Jesus is the heart—we need inner renewal to love like Jesus.
Anchor Church CityThe Way: Learning
How do I follow Jesus? A disciple of Jesus is someone that is learning to love and live like Jesus. This transformative learning begins with our heads, sinks…
Anchor Church CityThe Call
What does Jesus require of me? Awakened to new life by the gospel, Jesus calls his disciples to follow him and fish for people.
Anchor Church CityThe Mission
What did Jesus come to do? As Jesus brings the kingdom of God, he heals everything sin has broken.
Anchor Church CityThe Master
Who is Jesus? This is the most fundamental question for discipleship. As the Son of God, Jesus Christ has a unique authority to which we must yield.
Anchor Church CityVision Update 2018
As we prepare to launch a second service to #MakeRoom for more people to encounter Jesus, we looked at the faith-in-action of the paralytic's four friends in…
Anchor Church CityDevote Yourselves to Doing Good
As people who have been saved by God's mercy, we are to be devoted to doing good.
Anchor Church CityTeach Sound Doctrine for Life
Paul instructs Titus to teach sound doctrine for life, so that our lives might make the gospel attractive to a watching world.
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The Greatest in the Kingdom
Baby Dedication Sunday. Children are the greatest in the kingdom of God. Jesus elevates the status of children, welcoming them as members of the kingdom of…
Anchor Church CityEldership
As he outlines qualification for elders, Paul emphasises the critical importance of belief matching up with behaviour.
Anchor Church City4th Birthday
As we celebrate Anchor's 4th Birthday, Matt Sparks reminded us of the joy of partnership.
Anchor Church CityGenuine Faith
As Jesus concludes his Manifesto, he confronts us with the necessity of choice. There are only two ways to live: one leads to life, one to destruction. You…
Anchor Church CityJudging
Jesus shows us how to relate to our brothers and sisters in the kingdom, to outsiders, to God, and—in the end—to everyone.
Anchor Church CityWorry
Guest preacher Rev Stuart Coulton challenged us to whole-hearted devotion to God. Serving any master apart from God leads to anxiety. Instead of being…
Anchor Church CityMoney
Jesus is calling for a radical shift in your relationship with 'your' money—you are not what you have, rather radical generosity is the path to human…
Anchor Church CityHypocrisy
Hypocrisy is a performance of the counterfeit life, doing good things from a bad heart. But God's people don't need to perform for the acceptance of others…
Anchor Church CityPrayer
In his teaching about prayer, Jesus does not give us a new technique for approaching God, but a new relationship to enjoy with God.
Anchor Church CityEnemies
In his final case study of what it looks like for his disciples to be salt and light, Jesus teaches us to respond to enemies with non-retaliation and love.
Anchor Church CityIntegrity
The Bible's message about sex and marriage cuts against the grain of our culture. But Jesus's call to radical purity, faithfulness and integrity have never…
Anchor Church CityAnger
Jesus's teaching on anger reveals that there is more than one way to murder, and the urgent importance of being reconciled to others.
