Belair Baptist Church Podcast
Weekly teaching and sermons from Belair Baptist Church, Adamstown NSW Australia. For more info visit www.belairbaptist.org.au
Episodes
🗓️ 9 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed.
After shipwreck, storms and years of hardship, Paul finally reaches Rome, and the apostle Luke sums it all up in one understated line: "and so we came to Rome." This closing chapter of Acts is a portrait of a faithful God who keeps His promises, working not only through the miraculous but through the ordinary, the difficult and the unexpected. Even under house arrest and chained to a guard...
🗓️ 2 August 2026. 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs.
On his way back to Jerusalem, Paul calls the Ephesian elders together for a final conversation, knowing he will never see them again. What follows is part farewell and part handover, as he reflects on three years of ministry among them and urges them to carry the work forward. Sam draws out six marks of faithful leadership from Paul's words: being a doer of the word rather than just a tal...
🗓️ 26 July 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
When Paul spends two years in Ephesus, the gospel takes such deep root that it begins to reshape the whole city, and not everyone is pleased. A silversmith named Demetrius, watching his idol-making trade decline, stirs up a furious mob chanting to the goddess Artemis until the city is in uproar. Nic unpacks this dramatic scene to show how the good news of Jesus genuinely changes cities, eve...
🗓️ 19 July 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
In Athens, Paul steps into a city full of idols, big ideas, and endless debate, and finds a way to speak about the living God that genuinely connects. Rather than tearing people down or watering down the truth, he affirms what he can, gently corrects what is distorted, and confronts what stands opposed to the gospel. Nic uses Paul's approach as a picture of how ...
🗓️ 12 July 2026
🎙️ Speaker: Ryan Zweygartt
The early church was never conflict free, and Acts 15 proves it. As the gospel spreads to the Gentiles, a sharp dispute breaks out over circumcision and the law of Moses. Rather than avoiding the tension, the apostles and elders gather in Jerusalem and land on a shared conviction: salvation comes through the grace of Jesus, not religious performance. Ryan uses this account to explore how...
🗓️ 5 July 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs.
The church at Antioch marks a hinge moment in the story of Acts. Ordinary believers, scattered after Stephen's death, carry the message of Jesus across cultural lines and unknowingly plant the church that will launch the gospel into the wider world. Sam draws out three marks of a healthy church from Antioch, which are new life, intentional formation, and sending. He also challenges the quie...
🗓️ 28 June 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
Few moments in Acts are as dramatic as Saul's encounter on the road to Damascus. In Acts 9:1-31, a man set on destroying the church is suddenly confronted by Jesus and everything changes. Blinded, humbled, and redirected, Saul is drawn into a completely new story. One shaped not by his own ambition but by God's grace. Alongside him, an ordinary disciple named Ananias steps forward in obedi...
🗓️ 21 June 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
As pressure rises and the church is scattered, the mission doesn't slow down, it spreads. In Acts 8:4-24, Philip brings the gospel into Samaria, crossing cultural and spiritual boundaries as people encounter Jesus in new ways. What begins as disruption becomes momentum, with healing, freedom, and joy breaking out in an unexpected place. At the same time, the story of Simon the sorcerer exp...
AWAKE // God's Spirit Awakening People, Communities and Cities (Acts 3:1–4:31).
🗓️ 7 June 2026. 🎙️ Peter Schultz.
At the temple gate called Beautiful, Peter and John stop for a lame beggar they had likely walked past many times before. But Peter is no longer the aimless disciple who went back to fishing after the resurrection. He stops, sees, and speaks with bold clarity: "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I...
🗓️ 31 May 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
What does a Spirit-awakened church actually look like? In Acts 2:42–47 and 4:32–37, we're given a compelling picture of the early church marked by shared life, deep devotion, radical generosity, and genuine joy. This isn't an abstract ideal or a one-off moment in history, but a real community formed and sustained by the Spirit of God. As Nic unpacks these passages, he traces ho...
🗓️ 24 May 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar.
On the day of Pentecost, everything changes. In Acts 2:1-41, the Holy Spirit comes in power, filling ordinary people with boldness and enabling them to proclaim the wonders of God across language and culture. What looks chaotic at first is actually deeply intentional: God's presence breaking through, fulfilling ancient promises, and opening the door for all people to be drawn into His stor...
🗓️ 17 May 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Nick Varady-Szabo.
Before the church moves outward, it must awaken. In Acts 1:1-11, the risen Jesus commissions his followers and promises the Holy Spirit, shifting their focus from building their own kingdom to participating in God’s. The story of Acts begins with a call to wait, receive power, and step into a mission far bigger than themselves.
This message is for anyone who feels stuck, distra...
The Gospel of Luke – Walking With a Living God in Disappointment (Luke 24:13–35)
🗓️ 10 May 2026
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar
Two followers leave Jerusalem with their hopes shattered, walking away from everything they believed about Jesus. A stranger joins them on the road, opens the scriptures, and then disappears the moment their eyes are finally opened. In Luke 24:13–35, the risen Jesus shows up not in a blaze of gl...
🗓️ 03 May 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed.
Two men walk into the temple to pray. One lists his achievements; the other can barely lift his eyes. In Luke 18:9–17, Jesus delivers a shocking verdict: it's the broken one who goes home right with God, and it's the children with nothing to offer who show us what the kingdom actually looks like.
This message is for anyone ...
🗓️ 26 April 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs.
Following Jesus was never meant to be a solo journey. In this message from Luke 17:1–10, Sam Delfs unpacks what life in the community of Jesus actually looks like, and it's more honest, more demanding, and more beautiful than most of us expect.
From dealing seriously with sin, to extending radical forgiveness, to praying with g...
The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 15)
🗓️ 19 April 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar 📖 Jesus & the Lost Things
A lost sheep. A lost coin. A lost son. In Luke 15, Jesus tells three stories that together paint one of the most breathtaking pictures of God in the entire Bible. In this message, Nic unpacks what it means to be lost, what it looks like when God comes searching, and why the father's response...
The Gospel of Luke – Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 13:18–30).
🗓️ 12 April 2026.
🎙️ Speaker: Luke Reed.
What if God’s kingdom is already at work, but not in the way we expect? In this week’s message, we explore Jesus’ pictures of the mustard seed, the yeast, and the narrow door in Luke 13:18–30. What seems small and easy to overlook carries surprising power to grow, spread, and transfor...
Easter Sunday – Luke 24:1–12 🗓️ 05 April 2026 🎙️ Speaker: Sam Delfs
What if the resurrection is not just a comforting idea, but the event that changes everything? In this Easter message from Luke 24:1–12, Sam Delfs explores the empty tomb, the first witnesses to the risen Jesus, and the question that still confronts us today: why do you look for the living among the dead?
With honesty and conviction, Sam points ...
Looking Ahead 2026 (Part 2) - Luke 9:21-25 / Matt 11:28-30
🗓️ 29 March 2026
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar
What does real spiritual growth look like in a fragile, distracted world? In this second Looking Ahead message, Nic reflects on Jesus’ call to discipleship and rest, and asks how we actually grow as followers of Christ.
Drawing on Luke 9 and Matthew 11, Nic explores the tension between surrender and rest, personal faith and s...
Following Jesus in Fragile Times (Luke 19:1–11)
🗓️ 22 March 2026 - Looking Ahead Sunday
🎙️ Speaker: Nic Cassar
What do Zacchaeus, a church vision Sunday, and Jesus’ call to faithful stewardship have in common? In this week’s message, Nic Cassar reflects on Luke 19 and the surprising grace of Jesus, who sees Zacchaeus and brings salvation into his home.
From that story, Lead Pastor Nic Cassar, opens up a w...
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