25th March 2026 Generous Worship from Johnny Today we are halfway through 'Holy Week' - the week leading up to the Easter weekend. We read in John 12:1-11 that Jesus shared dinner that Wednesday night with Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Lazarus was the man Jesus raised from the dead, and perhaps partly in response to this, his sister Mary stooped down in the middle of the party and anointed Jesus' feet with expensive perfume, wiping his feet with her hair. Judas is appalled, sayin

Easter Bible Study

25th March 2026 What a Great Sunday! How encouraging was last Sunday!?! Introducing Sarah as our soon to begin Admin staff team member, "meeting" Doug and Michelle in service, lots of visitors across the day, lunch together, youth leaders prepping BAMCAMP, six baptisms and a courtyard dinner to round the day off... we love how God is at work among us, continuing to build a movement of His Church here at NVBC!! A huge thank you to Mink and Joel (and family!) for helping to cat

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18th March 2026 A Place at the Table from Travis One of the powerful images in the Christian life is the image of a table. Around a table we share meals and stories; we listen, we laugh, and we remember that we have a place of belonging with one another. I can recall many powerful memories of celebrations, shared sorrows, deep encouragements and growing connection that have taken place around a table with friends. Even just today I shared a table with some pastor friends, an

11th March 2026 As We Keep Growing It has been a wonderful and encouraging start to the year together as a church, don't you think!?! We currently have over 110 people working through our SHAPE short course, had 16 present for our first Welcome Lunch of 2026 last Sunday, and have been experiencing a steady stream of those searching for faith or a new church week to week. The upshot of all this is that we have certainly been experiencing fuller than normal AM services on Sunda

4th March 2026 Come Lord Jesus Once again our newsfeeds are filled with evidence of the brokenness of our world as increased geopolitical conflict spills over yet again. In 2026, this is all captured on video and streamed to our devices, along with all the political masquerading and social media opinions that accompany it. Over two thousand years ago the disciples of Jesus asked outright for insight on the future 'end of the age'. Jesus famously responded, "You will hear of w

25th Feb 2026 S.H.A.P.E.d to Serve All Called. All Gifted. All Needed. When we think about serving in the church, it can be easy to picture a sign-up sheet, a schedule, or a gap that needs to be filled on a roster. And while these will always be part of church life, the Scripture paint a much fuller and more beautiful picture of what serving is. Serving isn’t just about plugging roster holes — it’s about living out who God has uniquely created each of us to be. In 1 Corinthia

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18th Feb 2026 Lent Starts Today! For the past two Sundays we have been exploring passages from 'the upper room' chapters in John's Gospel. These powerful chapters record the last evening Jesus spends with his disciples before his arrest and crucifixion. By reflecting on them we have, in some ways, already been engaging with the lead up towards Easter. These final hours of Jesus with His disciples prepare them for what is to come and invite us to live in light of the Cross afr

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11th Feb 2026 Washing Feet What motivates you? What moves you to act? So much of our culture today revolves around the motivation, 'What's in it for me?' People say things like, "You should only do those things that bring you joy." "Do the things that are life-giving… and if there are things that are hard or boring or unpleasant, do them with a view to the pay-off, that those things will be worthwhile in the end." There is a kind of wisdom to this way of thinking - but at its

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4th Feb 2026 Recap: Vision Sunday A big thank you to all who made it to our Vision Sunday Services on the weekend, and to all who joined online or caught up since! More importantly, thank you for being the kind of church who wants to be part of a movement, as we join together on mission with the God who is on mission. If you weren't able to make it on Sunday and haven't had the chance to yet, the message portion of Sunday's Service has been uploaded separately for your conv

Welcome to Connect Group for 2026!

28th Jan 2026 Let's Go! We are about to tick over to the month of February, also known as the official start of the church calendar year. Most people are back from holidays, students are heading back to school or uni, and the normal weekly rhythms of home life are taken up for a new year. On the church front, our regular church ministry programs resume for a new year with fresh vision, plans and added new leaders. And we launch passionately towards the things of God together

21st Jan 2026 Eternity from Johnny For about three decades, Arthur Stace wrote the word Eternity on the pavements of Sydney. He had first been captured by the word in a sermon at his church, Burton Street Tabernacle, a Baptist church in Darlinghurst. The sermon was by an evangelical preacher, John Ridley, who said, “Eternity! Eternity! I wish I could sound, or shout, that word to everyone in the streets of Sydney. Eternity!” Arthur thought to himself, 'perhaps I could write i

14th Jan 2026 Pursue Prayers for a New Year from Travis I love nerding out on statistics to do with church life and health (especially ours!). One of the stats that stood out from last year's NCLS report, is that 9 in 10 people who filled in our survey last year said that they experienced personal spiritual growth and transformation over the past 12 months. 90%!! And when asked about what our church should prioritise in the coming 12 months, the top priority by a substantial

7th Jan 2026 New Year, Renewed Rhythms from Travis It is a new year, HAPPY NEW YEAR to each of you! It is also the time where many rethink their rhythms and habits that they desire to build into their life in the coming year. Looking back on my own life, I know that some Januarys have involved bold declarations of gloriously ambitious "new year's resolutions"... that then turn out to be embarrassingly short-lived. Oops! In other years though, I can look back on deliberate shi

31st Dec 2025 2025: A Year of Pursuing Jesus Together As 2025 makes way for 2026, we want to give an enormous PRAISE GOD and share a heartfelt THANK YOU for an incredible year together!! At the beginning of 2025, we set the theme of 'Pursue' over the year as a church from Philippians 3:12-14. Our heart and hope was to see a year of pursuing Jesus - both individually and collectively - and taking hold of all that he has for us. It flowed from the faith-fuelled conviction t