Anchor South West

What does it mean to be the people of God? What has to be true of the church for the church to be true?

This week we're continuing our series through John 13-17 "The Upper Room". 

Our pastor Arnaldo will walk us through John 13:31-38 what it means to have love as the defining characteristic of being the church. We pray this teaching is a blessing to you and hope to see you at one of our gatherings soon!

We're launching a brand new series through the Gospel of John 13-17 over the next couple of months called "The Upper Room," where we're going to have the opportunity to get up close and personal with Jesus during his last hours on earth. 

This week, Arnaldo will look at the reality that true greatness comes through humility and service, rather than domination and being served. 

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

The mission of God, his desire to renew and reconcile all things to himself through Jesus Christ, is both unhurried and unstoppable. We can therefore get to work in a non-anxious way not seeking to coerce or manipulate the outcomes. We can plant, build, and water with the understanding that God will bring growth in his timing and in his way. Join us as pastor Arnaldo looks at what we can learn from the early church as we partner with God in his global mission. 

We pray you were challenged and enjoyed this sermon and hope to see you at one of our gatherings soon. 

Axioms are assumed truths; they are rarely questioned and often believed by most people within a culture or subculture. 

One of today's axioms is self-autonomy. 

We believe it is an inalienable right to belong to ourselves and none other; and any type of external authority, especially on our physical bodies, is seen as the utmost betrayal of basic human rights. 

The question we need to ask is: does this belief ultimately lead to human flourishing? Or is there another way to think about our humanity? 

This week, Pastor Arnaldo will help us discover where our true freedom and flourishing come from and it's not from the modern idea of "I am my own" rather, we'll learn that our truest and fullest freedom comes from realising we are not our own but belong to God. This is good news.

We pray teaching was helpful and we hope to see you at one of our public gatherings soon. 

What is the church?

Who are we going to be as a church?

Join us this week as we dive back into our DNA, the nuts & bolts, who we are and who we are seeking to become. We believe God is always at work and raising up new life from old places and we want to be a part of what he is already doing. 

Our call is to do whatever it takes to bring the wayward home. Will you join us?

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

We began this journey through the book of Ecclesiastes "Full of Weariness" but we are ending it "Full of Hope." 

Join us as Pastor Arnaldo closes off our series VANITAS as we look at the conclusion of the matter and see how Jesus is the only and ultimate answer to the existential cry in our souls.

We pray you're blessed by this teaching and hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon. 

Qohelet, or "The Preacher" has been going on about how finding our identity and purpose in things like sex, money, possessions, and work are a dead end. And for many Christians, that doesn't come as a surprise. 

But this week, Ecclesiastes will also say that religion is equally worthless in helping us achieve "enoughness" - and so things that have been traditionally considered "bad" won't get us there and being "good" won't get us there either. Is there another way?

Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo helps us to navigate the vanity of religion. 

We hope to see you at one of our Sunday Gatherings soon. 

We can conquer the known world like Alexander the Great, sell records like Kanye, own real estate like Trump, be crazy successful like Oprah and yet be left with an itch that nothing can scratch. An eternal itch can only be remedied by an eternal scratch. 

Join us as we continue to explore the book of Ecclesiastes as we look at the vanity of searching. 

We hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon. 

"Grow up!" Something we've said, something we've heard said to us. 

In many ways, that's great advice; we do need to grow up, take care of ourselves and others, and take on new responsibilities. 

But in the kingdom of God, growing up looks different. We grow up as we grow down; the more childlike we are as we relate to Jesus, the more effective we actually become. This is the Paradox of the Kingdom.

Listen in as we take a break from "Vanitas" and Arnaldo opens up Mark 10:13-16 to teach us what it means that "the Kingdom belongs to such as these."

We hope to see you at our Gatherings on Sundays. 

"Whatever makes you happy" has become gospel in our culture. We believe that it is our absolute 'right' to pursue happiness, and at just about any cost. We're often discipled to pursue happiness through pleasure and possessions but does it deliver on its' promises? 

The desire, the belief, that we can discover or create a meaningful life through pleasure and possessions is one that each and every single of us has believed or is believing today to one degree or another; but is there another way?

Thanks for tuning in as Arnaldo helps us navigate Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 as Qohelet tries his hand at pursuing a meaningful life through wine, architecture, gardening, riches, and sex. Let's see where he lands. 

We hope to see you at one of our Gatherings soon.