Last year, during the COVID-19 lock-down, we began our 2020 series on Lament. It was profound timing. As the world reeled from the pandemic, we brought a prayer of lament for the world in all its brokenness, sinfulness, suffering and pain.
This year we return to this wonderful biblical form of prayer, a gift of God for difficult, sad and painful moments.
Easter is all about hope as God does the impossible and brings Jesus back to life.
9:30am Good Friday | 10am Easter Sunday
Yes, Sanctaury Sunday has come around for 2021.
Please come along to the 10am service to celebrate our Sanctuaries. It will be great to see you there.
And if you have national dress, make sure you wear it!
Finally, the upgrade of the buildings will be completed and our plans to be a church "in the city for the city" in new and fresh ways are about to be realised. Hobart Baptist has a long, a proud engagement with, and ministry into, the city of Hobart. We are about to step over a threshold into a new phase in the life of the church.
In the Gospels both the authority and identity of Jesus are revealed in a series of statements that begin with “I am” (Greek: ego eimi). We see this clearly in the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus teaches “You have heard … but I say to you”. Here Jesus speaks as God would speak.
For Jews who knew their Bibles and heard Jesus, the meaning would have been clear. Jesus was saying, “hearing me you are hearing God speak”. In this series we will look at the “I am” statement where they appear most frequently; in John’s Gospel. There are seven in total.
