Stephen Baxter – Hobart Baptist Church

Growing People: Learning to Live Like Jesus

HBC’s new sermon series for 2023 is Growing People: Learning to Live Like Jesus in Hobart.

The Lord’s Prayer

On Sunday 26th February, Stephen Baxter encouraged those at the 10am service with some special thoughts about Jesus teaching the disciples to pray. It was an inspiring message. You can watch it here > DAVID KNOX, took the sermon to heart, incredibly impacted by what he heard. Within a week he had written his own […]

The Great Road Trip

5 February to 2 April 2023 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. Luke 9:51 Ten chapters of Luke’s gospel document the events of Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem. These chapters are filled with momentous events and revolutionary teaching as Jesus and his followers make […]

Great Expectations

4 December 2022 to 29 January 2023 Luke the Physician was likely an outsider and a second-generation follower of Jesus. It appears from his writings he was deeply interested in people, and how the story of Jesus was relevant to everyone. Regardless of ethnicity, gender, socio-economic or class status, Luke’s gospel is a collection of […]

Welcome: Come As You Are

30 October to 27 November 2022 Every year, for a number of years, we’ve had a series reflecting on Hobart Baptist Church and our values, mission and vision. Normally this is at the beginning of the year as we arrive back from the summer break. However, while the timing might seem obvious, it tends to […]

Called: What on earth am I here for?

2 – 23 October 2022 What on earth are you here for? When Jesus calls us to follow him, he calls us to a particular lifestyle. There are many different voices that speak into our lives and the task for us is to discern the voice of God rather than the voice of society, our […]

Living Hope, until 18th September

Living Hope sermon series Changing Your Life for the Better Jesus-followers are called to a Living Hope – hope that is alive and a hope that is lived. This is a profound challenge, living when we live in a world that seems to be full of doom and gloom on a daily basis. What’s more, […]

Christmas in Winter 2022

19th June to 3rd July, 2022 For us here in Hobart, celebrating Christmas mid-winter feels somewhat strange and out of place. Although it is principally a winter festival, the first Europeans to settle in the Southern hemisphere kept the date, rather than the season. We’ve become so used to outdoor Christmas barbeques, that singing carols […]

Hope in the Darkness, 1 May -12 Jun ’22

“It’s a fact … Night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to God” – Psalm 139:12 TMB It’s a profound reality: wherever light shines shadows are created. In fact, we only fully appreciate light through its contrasting opposite, darkness. Pure light is blinding, and shadows help us see more clearly. This is […]

To See Like Jesus, 16 February-17 April 2022

Jesus’ vision for his church When Jesus taught about the kingdom of God, he invited us to into a new way of seeing. Our vision series this year focuses on the life of Jesus exploring how we might see and live like Jesus did. “My kingdom is not of this world,” Jesus said to Pilate. […]