Sunnyhill Poole Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In this message, Dom looks at how God is the ultimate Waymaker. Exploring the resurrection of Lazarus we see how even death isn’t a dead end to Jesus. He can make a way where there seems to be no way. In fact, a way has been made which overshadows every way that needs to be made: the cross has said it all.
This week Richard ends if our series on Prayer by encouraging us to build in a regular and deliberate pattern of prayer in our life.
In this message, Olly Goldenberg passionately challenges us to pray in a way that takes seriously our identity in Christ and the authority that we now carry in Him. Using the example of Blind Bartimaeus, Olly urges us to forget what is behind and to keep on praying boldly and consistently until we see the Kingdom of God come on earth as in heaven.
In this sermon, Pastor Phil attempts to persuade us to recover the practice of fasting in our pursuit of spiritual growth. He explains that by abstaining from food for a period of time we are taking control of the flesh in order to allow the Spirit to take control of us.
As we launch into 52 days of prayer and fasting, Pastor Phil reminds us that prayer is not given for us to pursue the presence of God, but rather to receive it. He explains that God invites us to come to him weak and helpless, trusting that as we call out to Him he always delights to meet our needs.
In this final part of our Dream Builders series, Dom looks at the various cost implications of having and pursuing a dream. When we pursue a God given dream - not only does the dream become reality, the dream builds us into a better, more blessed people.
Continuing our Dream Builders series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird takes us through chapter 3 of Nehemiah. Listing all the people and groups of people involved in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. The challenge for us is to be people who get stuck in, working side by side with the others in our church to fulfil the vision God has given us. We will flourish when we are planted in the church - moving towards the core rather than remaining on the fringe.
Continuing the Dream Builders series, Pastor Dom teaches about the power of prayer. Just like Nehemiah, we should make it our first response and not our last resort.
In this first message of our new Dream Builders series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird looks at the importance of dreams and visions in our daily lives. Our future, and the future of The Church depends on us being able to imagine a different and better destiny.
In today’s sermon Richard encourages us to “Just Calm Down” as we go into the new year.
In this message, Pastor Phil invites us to join the wise men on their journey to Bethlehem, and reminds us that the purpose of Christmas is not just celebration, but adoration.
In this topical message, pastor Dom talks about the upcoming elections and how we as Christians are to respond to them. By looking at the well known Christmas passage found in Isaiah 9 we see what type of leader Jesus is and how we can make Him president today.
When human beings lose connection to a sense of a hopeful and secure future it leaves us vulnerable to mental and emotional dysfunction. In this message, Pastor Phil addresses this issue by explaining that in spite of the pain and heartache that life often throws up we are never without hope, because the promise of Christ is that ‘the best is yet to come’.
In this message Pastor Dom talks about the importance of finding your tribe. Research is showing us the connection between loneliness and depression and anxiety. In a society which is more committed to the deconstruction of community than ever we must understand that we were made by community (God) and we were made for community (God and People). By looking at an episode from the life of David, Dom looks at three areas where we need community connection to help us overcome the feeling of loneliness and thus resist the grip of depression and anxiety.
Sunnyhill's One Weekend was an opportunity for all Sunnyhill Campuses to meet together and receive vision and direction for the next stage of our journey. We met at Lytchett Minster School across the weekend of 16th - 17th November and our guest speaker was Sam Monk from Equippers Church, Auckland, NZ.
Sunnyhill's One Weekend was an opportunity for all Sunnyhill Campuses to meet together and receive vision and direction for the next stage of our journey. We met at Lytchett Minster School across the weekend of 16th - 17th November and our guest speaker was Sam Monk from Equippers Church, Auckland, NZ.
Sunnyhill's One Weekend was an opportunity for all Sunnyhill Campuses to meet together and receive vision and direction for the next stage of our journey. We met at Lytchett Minster School across the weekend of 16th - 17th November and our guest speaker was Sam Monk from Equippers Church, Auckland, NZ.
In part one of this series Pastor Dom explores the area of purpose and how it relates to our mental well being. Science and research affirms what the Bible says to be true - that we need to live for a purpose bigger than ourselves. However, our purpose and meaning has never been so under threat. In this message, Dom explores the threats to our sense of purpose and how we can overcome them.
In this final message from the invitation series Pastor Dom talks about how invitation was at the heart of Jesus’ life and ministry. Jesus crossed social ‘norms’ and broke with ‘acceptable’ protocol to invite the one who was far away. The harvest is ripe and in John 4 Jesus demonstrates how the harvest is always there sometimes in the most unexpected places if we open our eyes to it.
In this message Pastor Dom talks about how reframing our faith to embrace the potential of ‘perhaps’ in our mission can liberate us from feeling the unnecessary weighty responsibility of the outcome. We can never determine the outcome, but we can always determine our response to the challenge. This talk will challenge you to be more daring in your faith as Dom proposes that maybe the opposite of faith isn’t doubt as we often think but maybe it’s certainty.
In this message we hear Harrison’s testimony. A young guy in Sunnyhill who recently got saved and baptised. He came to Christ out of New Age practices and Spiritualism. He shares about the grip of darkness and the power of God. After the testimony, Pastor Dom speaks into the whole area of the struggle between the kingdom of darkness and the Kingdom of God. The struggle is real but none the less as the church we called to fight. Fight for people or more aptly we should fight to invite.
Our guest speaker today is Ruth Swift, Lead Pastor of Church@1330, Melbourne, Australia
Today we had the privellage of having Richard Guy from Velocity Church at our Poole Campus. Listen to him helping us to ensure that our "buts" don't get in the way of what God is calling us to.
In this message, Pastor Dom speaks into the whole area of praise and why it’s so essential to the life of the local church and the life of a believer. Raising a Hallelujah goes way beyond responding to a feeling, it is a decision that you make in both the good times and the bad because not only is God worthy of it regardless but because praise often precedes victory. In this message, Dom explores the Hebrew understanding of praise and how it postures us for a life of blessing, breakthrough and impact.
In this message Pastor Dom speaks into the area of maturing in your faith. Too many believers remain as spiritual infants when God’s desire for them is to grow up into being spiritual giants. Maturity is less to do with how ‘serious’ or ‘sensible’ you are and it’s more to do with how secure you are. Knowing who you are in Christ is essential to you advancing in your Christian faith. This message offers 4 insights that will help you grow up and move from where you are.
In this message, Sunnyhill's Lead Pastor, Dom Bird talks about beginnings looking at the account of Zerubbabel and the re-building of the temple.
We often hear the old adage: "all good things must come to an end". Whilst in some cases that is true, there are some things that don't. There is in fact another way of looking at this: "all good things must come to a beginning". Every great thing we see whether it be a marriage, a career, a church or anything else, at some point has a point of conception and we must learn to see beginnings the way God does.
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We are entering a game changing season and God invites us to be game changers. God is doing a new thing. We can’t take yesterday’s mindset into today’s challenges. We can’t use yesterday’s strategies to reach today’s people. ‘We may like the bridge over where the river used to flow but the river has moved and there is a new flow.’
In this message, Pastor Sam explains the 4 things you need to do if you want to change the game.
In this final message in our Movie Month series, Next Gen Pastor, Sophie Parker unpacks the classic movie "The Lion King". Taking various clips and themes from the film, she asks us...'How do you know when it's time to step up?' and 'What do you do to make that step?'
Continuing our Movie Month series, Next Gen Pastor Jake Parker unwraps the film "Catch me if you can" and asks the question - 'What do you do when you find yourself on the run?'
Continuing our Movie Month series, Ferndown Campus Pastor Adam Bird uses the film 'Les Miserables' to encourage us to Choose a New Direction.
This week Richard uses clips from the 'greatest film ever made' - Lord of the Rings. He helps us see that we were never created to live life alone.
In this final message in our 'Encounter' series, Jake Parker talks about opening the door to real & leaving the fake behind.
In this message, Pastor Phil continues to examine Isaiah’ vision of God. He explains how in the face of the Holy God all of us are more sinful than we ever thought, yet more loved than we ever dreamt.
In one of the most intense and dramatic visions recorded in scripture, Isaiah discovered some things about God that left him shaken to the core. In this sermon Pastor Phil opens up Isaiah chapter 6 to explore the nature and character of God, and shows how a genuine encounter with Christ will never leave anybody unchanged.
This week Richard helps us think through the 3 priorities that should govern our lives and asks if we are filling our lives with what is most important.
Jacob struggled for years with an identity complex; a battle that was powerfully captured in his wrestling match with God in Genesis 32. In this message, Pastor Phil reflects on how we too often struggle with identity issues, and how victory in these battles can only come through a face-to-face encounter with God.
Dom's final message before he and Loo go away on Sabbatical for 10 weeks. Also includes a Q&A session regarding Dom's sabbatical.
In this Pentecost Sunday message Pastor Dom talks about how the growth gene is built into the Church and how it’s activated and empowered by the Holy Spirit. There are things we can learn from the early church that could posture us for a future of growth and power.
So often we see life as a journey between point A and Point B, the place we’re leaving and the place we’re heading. Our ideal is to move from A to B as fast as possible but God’s ideal isn’t always the same. In this message Pastor Dom speaks about living in the in-between, the place between A and B and how God uses process which some times looks like difficulty and hardship for our growth and maturity. Nothing is wasted.
Our destiny is unlocked when we get 2 yes’s- The yes from God and the yes from the doorkeeper to our destiny. But between these 2 yes’s there are an abundance of no’s. Richard helps us to think about how we get our 2 yes’s and urges us to keep enduring through the no’s.
In this message, we are reminded of God's deep desire to bless his people. Pastor Phil helps us explore how we can enjoy the fullness of God's blessing, and how we can use it to transform the world around us.
In this day and age more and more people are suffering with worry and anxiety - research shows this. Either life is getting more stress inducing or as people we’re getting worse at handling it. Even the church is filled with people who worry first and pray second. The problem is that worry stops us living the blessed life. In this message Pastor Dom shows us how Jesus, Paul and Peter teach us that worry is a choice and how we are to cultivate a worry free life. ‘You are too blessed to be stressed!’
We often think happiness is something that you have or something that you don't have and that its not something that you proactively work to achieve. In the second message of the series 'The Blessed Life' Pastor Loo Bird unpacks how we can build a life of happiness based on principles found in Psalm 1.
In the Bible the word 'Blessed' is used to speak of many things. It speaks of happiness, it speaks of divine favour, prosperity and success. Living the Blessed Life is available to all - it's part of our inheritance as children of Abraham. In this opening message of our new series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird explores the promises of blessing found in Deuteronomy 28 and how we can apply them to our own lives.
In this Easter Sunday message Pastor Dom talks about how much God loves us and to what lengths He will go to bring us back to Him. Even the grave wasn’t considered too far and because Jesus conquered death we can now know true life.
In the message Pastor Dom talks about how faith has to be outworked through activity. We don’t work to get saved we work because we are saved. In our work and efforts what limits are we willing to go to to help people encounter Jesus. ‘Whatever it takes’ is a mentality that faith demands of us.
If you are happy with the house, you’ll have a heart for the house. In this message Richard Garton talks about God’s desire for us to be happy and helps us see some of the choices we can make to become happier.
In this message, Pastor Dom talks about overcoming the victim mentality. In John 5 Jesus challenged someone who considered themselves a victim by asking them ‘do you want to be made well?’ The first step to overcoming our victim mindset is having the desire to be made well. We can’t stay where we are, we need to leave the comfort of our dysfunction in order to get up and walk in all that God has for us. This is what it means to apply faith - to believe that we have already received the breakthrough we’re looking for. We are not conquered, we are more than conquerors! We are not victims, we are victors! We are not overcome, we are overcomers!
Continuing our 'Type A Faith' series, Pastor Dom Bird helps us build an atmosphere of faith. Looking at the healing of Jairus's daughter, Dom encourages us to 1. Stop singing our 'woe is me' songs. 2. Put our unbelief outside the door. 3. Be around people who stand with us in faith.
In this second message of our 'Type A Faith' series, Discipleship Pastor Phil Coleman encourages us to have an attitude of faith. Calling out in others and in ourselves the good that we can see in faith rather than simply describing or addressing current failings.
In this message (Pastor) Dom kicks off our ‘Type A Faith’ series by speaking about the importance of developing the accent of faith in our lives. Christians should have an accent that is different to the world, an accent that is faith filled, hope centred and life giving. Our words carry a creative power and as we speak we create a pathway for our minds and lives to follow. It’s time to stop speaking death and start speaking life over ourselves and each other.
This week Richard concludes our ‘Smashing It’ series at our Poole Campus by helping us see that success in our finance is about a shift in behaviour and lifestyle along with the need to say that we have had enough of living in debt.
In this message, Lead Pastor Dom Bird talks about breaking the ‘poverty mindset’ that so easily keeps us living by fear rather than faith, that keeps us championing greed rather than generosity. God wants to pour blessing into our lives so that we can pour blessing into the lives of others but if he can’t get it through us, he won’t bring it to us. Dom gives us two principles that empower us to walk with a ‘blessed mindset.’
Pastor Bruce Monk, Pastor of Equippers Church, New Zealand brings Sunnyhill a great word from Ephesians 4. Looking at how we can be equipped, restored and mended - for works of service.
Pastor Wayne Swift (National Leader of ACTS Global Australia) is our guest speaker this morning.
We all have rules over our lives that need breaking. What rules? Rules that we or other people have put there that compromise our thinking and limit our potential. It’s time to start breaking the rules that hold us back.
Continuing our New Years series - 'Smashing it'. Looking at equipping ourselves with the tools we need for a better life. In this fifth message of the series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird give us more great principles that will help us thrive in our workplace.
Continuing our New Years series - 'Smashing it'. Looking at equipping ourselves with the tools we need for a better life. In this fourth message of the series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird give us great principles that will help us thrive in our workplace.
Continuing our New Years series - 'Smashing it'. Looking at equipping ourselves with the tools we need for a better life. In this third message of the series, Lead Pastor Dom Bird give us great principles that will help us thrive in our family relationships.
At the start of this new year, we are in a great series - 'Smashing it'. Looking at equipping ourselves with the tools we need for a better life. In this second message of the series, Pastors Dom & Loo Bird give us great principles that will help us thrive in our marriages.
At the start of this new year, we begin a new series - 'Smashing it'. Looking at equipping ourselves with the tools we need for a better life. In this first message of the series, Pastor Dom Bird gives us helpful principles to apply in all our relationships and encourages us to address (rather than 'dress') our insecurities.
Looking at the story of Mary and Martha, Discipleship Pastor Phil Coleman (with Operations Pastor Richard Garton) encourages us to focus this year on the one important thing in our walk as Christians - spending time with Jesus.
In this, the first message of our Christmas season, Pastor Dom Bird unpacks chapter 9 from Isaiah - a prophecy that begins with the great word - 'Nevertheless...' Although this was written 700 years before Jesus was born, this was a message saturated with hope. '...for unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given...'
In this message, continuing our series looking at our 'Next Generational' value, Sunnyhill's Next Gen Pastor, Jake Parker looks at the character of Hannah in the book of Samuel. She poured out her heart to God, she was persistent in her prayers and she brought about kingdom change. The Spirit of Greatness was outworked through her into the next generation.
In this great message, Pastor Dom Bird, expands on one of Sunnyhill's Values - 'Next Generational'. After looking last week at the importance we give to our kids and youth ministry, this week Dom encourages all ages to be a generation that embraces and champions 'the next' - the next and new thing that God is calling each of us towards.
In this continuation of our Values series, Pastor Dom Bird highlights our 'Next Generational' value. One of our greatest callings as a church is to bring on the next generation to be more, achieve more and build higher and greater than we can.
In this message, visiting speaker, Pastor Ruth Swift encourages us to wear the full armour of God and to live our lives like we're fighting a battle that's already been won!
Proactive Prayer. Continuing our 'Prayer' series, Richard Garton looks at Pauls' letter to the Corinthians (chapter 9). We are encouraged to view ourselves as 'winners' and not 'losers'.
Teaching Pastor Phil Coleman continues our series on prayer by looking at how God is provoked to action by great faith. Scripture: Matt 15:21-28
Lead Pastor Dom Bird continues our series on prayer with a inspiring message - 'Purposeful Prayer'. Focusing on two key Spiritual weapons - 'with divine power to demolish strongholds' - prayer and fasting.