Baxter – Hobart Baptist Church

Comfort | 9 January to 6 February, 2022

God’s Promises for the Discouraged, Weary and Fainthearted After 39 chapters of narrative, the Book of Isaiah takes a dramatic shift and becomes a book of poetry. Up to this point the focus has been the future exile of the northern kingdom of Israel before it is conquered and its people taken into captivity. But […]

Christmas In Summer 2021

Sermon Series: 12th December to 26th December, 2021 Christmas at HBC The weeks leading up to Christmas are known and observed by most Christians as advent. During advent, we join with our culture in eager expectation for Christmas Day. We look forward to exchanging presents, time with family, and the coming of Jesus, our Messiah […]

Conversations with Jesus

Sermon Series: 3rd October to 5th December, 2021 Jesus met thousands of people. He connected with some of them by a touch, a look or listening quietly. Of the hundreds of conversations over the three years of his ministry, we have about 40 recorded in the gospels. Some conversations are long, some little more than […]

The Genius of Genesis

The Great Invitation Sermon Series 22nd August to 26th September Unlocking the treasures of Genesis 1-3 and how they can change your life Although controversy and disagreement surround the book of Genesis it is, no doubt, a work of inspired brilliance and a profound literary masterpiece. In recent centuries, Christians have busied themselves arguing how […]

A Time to Weep, June 7 2020

God’s Gift of Lament The entire service, approx 40 minutes, is available on YouTube, below. Sermon Title: Jesus Don’t You Care? In this series we are exploring “Lament” as God’s gift to us and actively engaging in lament for our world, our community, our families and ourselves. Our aim is to learn together how to […]

Catching the Vision, 23 Feb 2020

Sermon Title: A City Church – for the City 2020 marks a pivotal moment in the life of Hobart Baptist Church. The upgrade of the buildings will be completed, we will be raising funds for the upgrade of the Tab, it will be our second year of engagement with Dark MoFo, and we prepare to […]

Tell Him He’s Dreaming, 5 Jan 2020

A Plan to Save the Planet Today’s Preacher: Stephen Baxter “Tell him he’s dreaming” from the Aussie classic, The Castle, has become part of the Australian vernacular. The Sermon on the Mount comes with such high expectations and ambitions one could say the same to Jesus. Yet, throughout history thousands have been inspired by this […]

In the Beginning, God … November 17 2019

The Fall The Bible starts with a simple declarative sentence, “In the beginning, God…”. What follows in our scriptures is how God’s story engages and entwines with our own human story, a story of creation and love and imagination and joy and heartbreak and restoration. This story between God and humanity is one that continues […]

In the Beginning, God … November 10 2019

Adam and Eve The Bible starts with a simple declarative sentence, “In the beginning, God…”. What follows in our scriptures is how God’s story engages and entwines with our own human story, a story of creation and love and imagination and joy and heartbreak and restoration. This story between God and humanity is one that […]

In the Beginning, God … November 3 2019

Male and Female created in God’s image The Bible starts with a simple declarative sentence, “In the beginning, God…”. What follows in our scriptures is how God’s story engages and entwines with our own human story, a story of creation and love and imagination and joy and heartbreak and restoration. This story between God and […]