Calvary Chapel Newcastle

Jesus Is Better

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Tony Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 13:1-6, in a message titled, you guess it, Jesus Is Better! As the book draws to a close, we’ll see how faith in Christ moves from belief to everyday life—shaping how we love, live, and trust. Hebrews 13:1-6 calls us to let brotherly love continue, show hospitality, honour marriage, live free from greed, and rest in the promise that “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear.”

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Powers That Be

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Jon Coe delivered a topical message from Luke 20:20-26, titled “Powers That Be”. What does a trinket worth “a full days wage” have to do with the Gospel? Is there a separation between “sacred” and “secular” for the Believer in Christ? And what happens when people look at someone holy and righteous and consider ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’? Come, have a listen and find out!

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Standing Firm in a Shaking World

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Deane continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 12:12-29, in a message titled Standing Firm in a Shaking World. If you're feeling weary, if things feel shaky, come and hear why God shakes not to destroy, but to strip away what won't last so that you can stand on what will. This is an enormously encouraging passage of Scripture!

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God's Discipline

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Tony Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 12:3-11, in a message titled God's Discipline. Discipline can sometimes feel painful, uncomfortable, even shameful, but when it comes from God, it is always rooted in His love.

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Run with your Eyes Open

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dan Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 12:1-2, in a message titled Run with your Eyes Open - looking to who? Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith.

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Live a Life Worthy of the Gospel

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Jon Coe continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:32-40, in a message titled Live a Life Worthy of the Gospel, knowing that in God's timing all believers will be perfected together.

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The End Times

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, we have a guest speaker Vince Wall sharing an important and timely overview of the End Times!

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Faith that Conquers

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Tony Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:23-31, in a message titled Faith that Conquers. We see this in the life of Moses, Joshua and the Israelites, and the faith of Rahab.

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The Binding of Isaac

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Deane continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:17-22, in a message titled The Binding of Isaac. Through this harrowing story, we see what real, reasoned, resilient faith looks like when God’s command seems to kill God’s promise. This is not a story about blind obedience or divine cruelty—it’s a story about costly trust, tested love, and the God who provides.

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Faith on the Move

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Derkenne continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:8-16, in a message titled Faith on the Move. Here we learn from the story of Abraham and Sarah what faith in God's promises looks like!

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What Characterises Your Faith?

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dan Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:4-7, in a message titled What Characterises Your Faith? When you look back over your life, how have you lived as though God’s promises are already true?

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Faith At Low Tide

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Deane continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 11:1-3, in a message titled Faith At Low Tide. In a culture of uncertainty and spiritual drift, this passage calls us to live today as if God's future promises area already real—trusting in the unseen, resting in the substance of Christ, and moving forward with conviction.

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Faith That Endures

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Tony Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 10:32-39, unpacking Faith That Endures—especially in times of suffering and persecution.

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Three Moves for the Last Days

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Deane continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 10:1-18, unpacking Three Moves for the Last Days—drawing near in worship, holding fast in hope, and stirring one another in love. In a world full of drift and noise, this passage calls us to live with prophetic clarity, anchored in Christ and rooted in community.

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Guideposts to Grace

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dave Deane continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 10:1-18, exploring how the divinity of Jesus is essential for the atoning work of the cross—and the only answer strong enough to clear a guilty conscience.

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A New Way to be Human

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Anders Ridley-Smith continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 9:15-28, exploring how the good news of Jesus brings about a new way to be human!

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From Cage Fighter to Christ Follower!

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, we have a guest speakerDoug Black joining us to share his testimony - from being a cage fighter to Christ follower! 

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Why the blood of Christ Does what Vinegar Cannot

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Dan Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 9:11-14, exploring how Jesus brought a better cleansing tan the Old Covenant ever could - a deep, lasting purification of our conscience so we can truly serve God.

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The Tabernacle

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Tony Verlaan continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 9:1-10, providing an overview of the Tabernacle in the wilderness wandering of ancient Israel, and how it poitns us to the supremacy of Jesus.

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The New Covenant

This week at Calvary Chapel Newcastle, Mick Ireson continues our series JESUS IS BETTER with a message from Hebrews 8, exploring the significance of the New Covenant.

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