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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.…
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Guest Speaker - Tim Jack
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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.
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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.…
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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.
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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.
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Dream Builders Week 4 - The cost of a dream (Dom Bird)
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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.
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Dream Builders - Week 3 - What's Next? (Dom Bird)
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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…
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Dream Builders Week 2 - Praying for a Change (Dom Bird)
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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.
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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.
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In today’s sermon Richard encourages us to “Just Calm Down” as we go into the new year.
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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.
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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.
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Finding your Mind - Finding your hope (Phil Coleman)
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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 t…
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One Weekend Conference - Session 4 (Dom Bird) Finding your Tribe
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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). B…
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One Weekend Conference - Session 3 (Sam Monk)
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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.…
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One Weekend Conference - Session 2 (Sam Monk)
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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.…
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One Weekend Conference - Session 1 (Sam Monk)
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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.…
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Finding your Mind - part 1 - Purpose (Dom Bird)
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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 sens…
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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 unexpect…
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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 …
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The Struggle is Real - Testimony Sunday (Dom Bird)
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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…
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Our guest speaker today is Ruth Swift, Lead Pastor of Church@1330, Melbourne, Australia
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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.
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Raise a Hallelujah (Learning the power of praise) - Dom Bird
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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 ofte…
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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…
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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 m…
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Guest Speaker - Pastor Sam Monk - 'The Game Changer'
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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, …
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Movie Month - The Lion King (Sophie Parker)
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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?'
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Movie Month - Catch me if you can (Jake Parker)
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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?'
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Continuing our Movie Month series, Ferndown Campus Pastor Adam Bird uses the film 'Les Miserables' to encourage us to Choose a New Direction.
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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.
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In this final message in our 'Encounter' series, Jake Parker talks about opening the door to real & leaving the fake behind.
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Encounter - Mercy and Beauty (Richard Garton)
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In today’s message, Richard asks whether we will yield our heart or play a part...
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Encounter - Have you seen him? Part 2 (Phil Coleman)
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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.
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Encounter - Have you seen him? (Phil Coleman)
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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.…
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Encounter - Path of least resistance (Richard Garton)
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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.
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Encounter: Face to face with God (Phil Coleman)
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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.…
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If this was my last ever message, this is what I would say. (Dom Bird)
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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.
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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.
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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 li…
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The Blessed Life - The Yes Life (Richard Garton)
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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.
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The Blessed Life - Blessed to bless (Phil Coleman)
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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.
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The Blessed Life - Too Blessed (Dom Bird)
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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 Do…
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The Blessed life - Where's your head at? (Loo Bird)
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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.…
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The Blessed life - Game Changer (Dom Bird)
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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 Deu…
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Easter 2019 - Totally Prodigal (Dom Bird)
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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.
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Type A Faith - The Activity of Faith - Whatever it takes (Dom Bird)
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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.
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Type A Faith - The Application of Faith (Richard Garton)
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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.
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Type A Faith - The Application of Faith (Dom Bird)
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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…
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