Sermons
Sunday, 20th April, 2025
Gareth leads our All-age Easter Sunday celebration. Part of the service has been recorded for a flavour of our time together:
Sunday, 13th April, 2025
Jez Taylor from Victoria Baptist Church, Eastbourne joins us today and brings a message for Palm Sunday from Matthew 21 v 1-11 focusing on Jesus, the King that gives, the King that knows and the King that rescues.
Please bear with the recording as we experienced some intermittent interference this morning.
Sunday, 6th April, 2025
Maeve Whitchurch joins us again this Sunday and brings a different perspective on the parable of the Good Samaritan. It really set us all thinking!
Sunday, 30th March, 2025
We welcome back Erik Cornelisse who brings an engaging message for Mothering Sunday as we focus on two mothers – Jochebed and Mary.
Erik’s message has had to be recorded in two parts :
Sunday, 23rd March, 2025
David Wise is our visiting speaker this morning. David continues our series on the parables of Jesus and brings a challenging message on the parable of the shrewd manager from Luke 16 v 1-13.
Sunday, 16th March, 2025 – Unfortunately due to some technical issues, we were unable to record Bryan Pickard’s message. Our sincere apologies!
Sunday, 9th March, 2025
We welcome back Graham Jefferson to DBC this morning. Graham brings a word concerning encouragement – what it is, why it is necessary and how we can encourage one another. There is a pdf sheet below that you can print off and complete while listening to Graham’s message if so desired!
Encouragement worksheet – Graham Jefferson 09.03.25
Sunday, 2nd March, 2025
Sue Cunningham is our speaker this morning and brings a message from Psalm 104 v 10-24. We can learn a lot from the birds!
Sunday, 23rd February, 2025
We welcome Paul Kerley from SEBA (South East Baptist Association) to our service today. Paul continues our series on the parables of Jesus and has chosen The Lost Son from Luke 15 with the emphasis on the fact that God’s love has no limits!
Sunday, 16th February, 2025
Gareth leads our informal open communion time this morning and we welcome two people into membership. The following is a short audio clip based around 1 Peter 5 v 7-10 and Ephesians 6 v 10-18.
Sunday, 9th February, 2025
We welcome back our former pastor, Malcolm Haines who brings a message from Matthew 13 v 1-23 based on the parable of the sower – a parable that is so relevant for today.
Sunday, 2nd February, 2025
Phil Cook from Lancing Tabernacle is our speaker today. Phil brings a message from Isaiah 53 v 1-7 and we think about the times when Jesus was silent.
Sunday, 26th January, 2025
We welcome our friends, Roger and Patricia Case and Tom and Rosemary Batts from Seaford Baptist Church to our service this morning. Roger speaks from Psalm 133 and his message is entitled, ‘When we dwell in unity.’
Sunday, 19th January, 2025
Maeve Whitchurch is our speaker this morning and commences our new series on the Parables of Jesus. Maeve brings an important message from the Parable of the workers in the vineyard from Matthew 20 v 1-16 entitled, “An upside down Kingdom.”
Sunday, 12th January, 2025
We welcome our Moderator, Brian Pickard as he begins a series on “Pastors”- a very relevant subject as we are of course looking for a new Pastor to take us forward. In the first short audio clip, Brian gets us to think about what we would be looking for in a new Pastor. The second clip, Brian teaches us from Ephesians 4 focusing on verses 11-13.
Sunday, 5th January, 2025
Gareth leads our first service of the new year and focuses on Loving one another from John 13 v 31-38.
Christmas Day – Family Celebration
We enjoyed our Christmas Day celebration and Gareth brings a brief message from Matthew 6 v 28>>
Sunday, 22nd December, 2024 – All-age nativity service
Gareth leads our all-age service and his short message has us thinking about leaving a safe place.
Sunday, 15th December, 2024 – Carol and Christingle Service
Rose Barden, one of our Deacons leads our service this morning. For a flavour of our time together please click on the links below:
Sunday, 8th December, 2024
Sadly, the recording of today’s message by Richard Brunton from Living Hope Ministries suffered a file corruption.
Sunday, 1st December, 2024
On the first Sunday in Advent, Sue Cunningham brings a message from Matthew 1 v 18-25 entitled, “With God, all things are possible.”
Sunday, 24th November, 2024
Gareth Woolcott is our speaker this morning and takes his message from James 2 v 14-26 encouraging us to live out our faith by shining brightly.
Sunday, 17th November, 2024
Gareth leads our informal open communion time and we welcome three people into membership. The following is a short audio clip based around 1 John 5 v 1-5:
Sunday, 10th November, 2024 – Remembrance Sunday
Our Moderator, Bryan Pickard returns again and his message from 1 John 4 v 7-19 is in 2 parts:
Sunday, 3rd November, 2024
We were back in the school this week and welcomed our Moderator, Bryan Pickard who continued our series from 1 John 3 v 21 – 4 v 6.
Sunday, 27th October, 2024
We decamped to the Scout Hut today for our service and welcomed Roger and Patricia Case along with Tom and Rosemary Batts who led our worship. Roger continues our series from 1 John with a message, ‘love one another’ (1 John 3 v 11-24).
Sunday, 20th October, 2024
We welcomed back Phil Cook who brings a message from Romans 4 v 1-8.
Sunday, 13th October, 2024
Sue Cunningham is our speaker this morning and Sue focuses on 1 John 3 v 1 and asks us to revel in this verse and ponder just how great is the Father’s love.
I’m sad to say that although the recording started very well, loud and clear, after a minute there is intense interference to the end which renders the recording unfit to publish. My sincere apologies.
Sunday, 6th October, 2024 – Harvest
We celebrate harvest today and our gifts will be delivered to the Woodingdean Food Hub to support local people.
Chris Roche from Union Church, Heathfield is our speaker and we continue our series from 1 John. This week we will be looking at 1 John 2 v 18-27 and Chris’s message is entitled, “Misdirection.”
Sunday, 29th September, 2024 – All-age Family Service
Gareth Woolcott leads our Family Service. We look at the story of David and Goliath from 1 Samuel 16 and 17. The first audio clip gives you a flavour of our family time where the children act out the story of David defeating Goliath. The second clip is a short message based on the the story.
Sunday, 22nd September, 2024 – Baptism Service
Our Moderator, Bryan Pickard leads the service this morning. Three members of our congregation, Sylvia, Ruth and Bob were baptised – to hear their stories of how they came to faith, head to our NEWS page. Bryan brings a Word from 1 John 1 v 5 – 2 v 11.
Sunday, 15th September, 2024
Maeve Whitchurch is our speaker this morning and begins our studies in 1 John focusing on verses 1-4.
Sunday, 8th September, 2024
We welcome back John and Erica James from Beulah Baptist Church. John concludes our studies from Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians focusing on Ephesians 6 v 10-21.
Sunday, 1st September, 2024
Jez Taylor from Victoria Road, Baptist Church, Eastbourne is our speaker today and Jez continues our studies in Ephesians by focusing on Chapter 6 v 1-9.
Sunday, 25th August, 2024
We welcomed back David Wise from Shoreham Baptist Church. David’s message is from Ephesians 5 v 21-33 and his message his entitled, “submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Sunday, 18th August, 2024
Gareth conducted an Open Communion Service this morning focusing on Ephesians 4 v 1-6, before many of us went down to Rottingdean Beach to witness the baptism of Pete Millis. The audio clip below contains a short message from Gareth based on the above passage, plus a brief explanation about believers baptism including Pete’s testimony.
Sunday, 11th August, 2024
We welcome Steve Wood (formerly of Living Word Community Church, Hailsham) and his wife Yvonne to our service this morning. Steve brings a challenging word for the church and for individuals entitled “Jesus beyond the boundaries” from Matthew 15 v 21-28.
Please bear with the recording for 90 seconds at the beginning of the message as the battery slipped out of the microphone!
Sunday, 4th August, 2024
Sue Cunningham continues our series on Ephesians. This week, Sue speaks from Ephesians 5 v 1-23 and her message is entitled – “Being church”.
Sunday, 28th July, 2024
We welcome back our dear friend, Roger Case from Seaford Baptist Church who speaks from Ephesians 4 v 17-32.
Join in the grace with us!
Sunday, 21st July, 2024 – Family Fun Day
Gareth leads our Family Service today focusing on the Olympics, For a flavour of our time together, click on the audio link for a short excerpt:
Gareth also showed a video from the Bible Project which you might like to look at – please follow this link:
Gospel of the Kingdom Biblical Theme (bibleproject.com)
Sunday, 14th July, 2024
We welcome for the first time, David Wise from Shoreham Baptist Church. David continues our series from Ephesians focusing this week on Ephesians 4 v 1-16.
Sunday, 7th July, 2024
If you would like to listen to a recording of today’s message, please contact me on the link below and I will be able to supply a CD.
Sunday, 30th June, 2024
We welcome back our friend, Pastor Daniel Gitau from Nakuru in Kenya. Daniel brings an update on the work we have been supporting for many years and preaches about God’s Grace.
Sunday, 23rd June, 2024 – Beach Service – no recording
Sunday, 16th June, 2024 – Father’s Day
Sue Cunningham is our speaker this morning and continues ours series on Ephesians. This week, Ephesians 3 v 1-13 – It’s all about Grace!
If you would like to join us in communion, here is an audio file for you to do so:
Sunday, 9th June, 2024
We welcome back Lloyd Cummings, Head of Mission at Brighton & Hove City Mission who updates us on the work alongside a word from Matthew 28 v 16-20 – the Great Commission.
Sunday, 2nd June, 2024
Erik Cornellise from Victoria Baptist Church, Eastbourne is our speaker today. Erik brings a powerful testimony and preaches from Ephesians 2 v 11-22.
Sunday, 26th May, 2024
We welcome back Vicky Martin who is the pastor at Union Church, Heathfield. Vicky continues our series on Ephesians. This week our focus is from Ephesians 2 v 1-10.
Sunday, 19th May, 2024
Margaret Bradford leads our Pentecost Communion Service and brings a short testimony and leaves us with a question to think about!
Sunday, 12th May, 2024
Graham Jefferson is our speaker this morning and brings an Ascension Sunday message with the question, ‘what is Jesus doing now’? The reading is from Acts 1 v 6-11.
Sunday, 5th May, 2024
Our Moderator, Bryan Pickard joins us this morning and continues our series from Ephesians. Bryan’s message is in two parts and focuses on Ephesians 1 v 14-5-22.
Sunday, 28th April, 2024
We welcome Roger Case from Seaford Baptist Church. Roger commences our new series on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. This week , Roger sets the scene and then brings us a word of encouragement. The reading is from Ephesians 1 v 1-14.
Word of encouragement – Roger Case:
Sunday, 21st April, 2024
Chris Roche, a former Youth Worker at DBC is our speaker this morning and brings a message from 2 Timothy 4 v 6-18 – “Keep pressing on!”
Sunday, 14th April, 2024
Barry Lorimor accompanied by his wife, Christine from King’s Church, Burgess Hill, is our visiting speaker this morning. Barry concludes our series on the Letters to the Churches in Revelation by bringing a word which is so relevant to the church today – Laodicea – Revelation 3 v 14-22.
Sunday, 7th April, 2024
Sue Cunningham continues our series on the Letters to the Churches in Revelation. This week it is Philadelphia – Revelation 3 v 7-13 and the call to be open to opportunities to share the Good News!
Sunday, 31st March, 2024 – Easter Sunday.
Gareth leads our Easter Sunday Family Service. A short excerpt follows:
Friday, 29th March, 2024 – Good Friday.
Gareth leads our Good Friday Communion Service focusing on Matthew 26 v 36-46.
Sunday, 24th March, 2024 – Palm Sunday.
We welcome back our former pastor, Malcolm Haines to bring us the next instalment in our series on the letters to the churches in Revelation. This week Sardis – the reading is from Revelation 3 v 1-6.
Sunday, 17th March, 2024
Gareth leads our Open Communion Service. For a flavour of our time together there is a six minute audio clip below. Gareth’s reading is from John 13 v 1-17.
Sunday, 10th March, 2024
We welcome a new visitor to DBC this morning – Francis Bates. Francis continues our series on the Letters to the Churches – this week, Thyatira – Dealing with heresy in the church. The reading is from Revelation 2 v 18-29.
Sunday, 3rd March, 2024
We welcome back Maeve Whitchurch to DBC. Maeve teaches us from Revelation 2 v 12-17 – the church at Pergamum and the call to not compromise our faith.
Sunday, 25th February, 2024
We welcome Jez Taylor a first time visitor to DBC from Victoria Baptist Church in Eastbourne to our service this morning. Jez continues our mini series on the seven churches in Revelation. This week, Smyrna from Revelation 2 v 8-11.
Sunday, 18th February, 2024
We welcome back Graham Horsnell, a former pastor of our church who begins our series on the 7 churches in the book of Revelation. This week we begin with the letter to the church in Ephesus from Revelation 2 v 1-7.
Sunday, 11th February, 2024
Bryan Pickard, our new Moderator, leads the service this morning. The message is in two parts and Bryan’s texts are Hebrews 10 v 11-14 and 1 Thessalonians 5 v 23-24.
Sunday, 4th February, 2024
Gareth leads our All-age service this morning where we look at the body and think about how special we are. The second clip includes some congregation participation which I hope you will be able to hear and join in!
Sunday, 28th January, 2024
We welcome back our friend Roger Case from Seaford Baptist Church to our service this morning. Roger brings a selection of verses from Psalm 119 verses 1-16, 57-64 and 97-112 and his message is entitled, ‘Coming home!’
Sunday, 21st January, 2024
Chris Roche, the former minister of Horam Chapel is our speaker today. Chris preaches from Exodus 20 v 1-21 (The Ten Commandments) with the initial thought of waiting for the Father and following His instructions!
Sunday, 14th January, 2024
We welcomed back Graham Dawson from Holland Road Baptist Church to our service. Graham’s text was 2 Corinthians 1 v 20 and we were challenged to use the promises of God more in our prayers in 2024.
Sunday, 7th January, 2024
Gareth leads our service today and speaks from Haggai 2 v 1-19. At the start of this new year we are encouraged to love one another other, serve others, pray and live out our faith.
Sunday, 24th December, 2023 – Christmas Eve Nativity Service
Margaret Bradford leads our Christmas Nativity Service. Below are 3 short excerpts to get a flavour of our family time together. It was wonderful to have so many visitors with us.
Sunday, 17th December, 2023
Rose Barden, one of our Deacons, leads our Carol Service. Below are the 4 short messages during the service:
Sunday, 10th December, 2023
We welcome our friends Richard & Elaine Brunton from Living Hope Ministries to our service this morning. Richard brings a message from Isaiah 7 v 14 – “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: the virgin will give conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.”
Sunday, 3rd December, 2023
Our visiting speaker this morning is Tim Carter, the Minister of Brighton Road, Baptist Church in Horsham. Tim brings the same things that Paul bought the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 1 v 1-9, namely, grace and peace. Prepare to be challenged!
Sunday, 26th November, 2023
Our friends from Seaford Baptist Church, Tom and Rosemary Batts led our worship today and they were joined by Roger Case who brought an important message entitled, “In the world but not of it” with the challenge to separate ourselves from the world.
Sunday, 19th November, 2023
All-age Service led by our Moderator, Jac Parson from Newhaven Baptist Church. Our readings are from Matthew 5 v 13-16 and Matthew 28 v 16-20 and Jac’s messages are about being salt and light. There are 3 short excerpts below which I hope you can follow well:
Sunday, 12th November, 2023 (Remembrance Sunday).
We welcomed back Bryan Pickard who brought a message from Hebrews 11 entitled “Heroes past and present.”
Sunday, 5th November, 2023.
We welcomed John James from Beulah Baptist Church to our service on Sunday, 5th November. Here is the recording of the message. Thank you for your patience.
Sunday, 29th October, 2023
David Lockwood from Beulah Baptist Church brings a message from Isaiah 6 v 1-8 – “Here am I, send me!”
Sunday, 22nd October, 2023
We welcome Maeve Whitchurch to DBC this morning who speaks from 1 Samuel 16 v 1-13. Prepare to be challenged!
Sunday, 15th October, 2023 – Harvest All-age Service
Gareth Woolcott led our Harvest Thanksgiving Service this morning when we thought about God’s goodness to us. We also thought about sowing seed in good, fertile ground. Below are two short clips from Gareth’s message. Enjoy!
Sunday, 8th October, 2023
We welcome Phil Cook to our service this morning. Phil brings a message entitled, “Obedience to the Lord can sometimes lead us into a storm!” Phil reflects on Matthew 14 v 22-36.
Sunday, 1st October, 2023
Bryan Pickard our scheduled speaker for today was sadly unable to be with us due to illness. We are so grateful to Gareth Woolcott for stepping in and bringing a very practical message about going and making disciples.
Sunday, 24th September, 2023
Roger Case from Seaford Baptist Church is our speaker this morning. Roger’s message is entitled, “Which Jesus are we martyrs of and witnesses to?”
Sunday, 17th September, 2023.
We welcome the Rev Stuart Davison to our morning service. “Who may come to worship and how do we come to worship?” Stuart refers to Psalm 24 and 2 Samuel 6.
Sunday, 10th September, 2023 – All-age Service and Fun Day
Erik Cornelisse from Victoria Baptist Church, Eastbourne, invites us to a party. And what a party it was too!
Join in with us by clicking on the 3 short messages below which were recorded between the fun activities.
Sunday, 3rd September, 2023
Gareth Woolcott leads an All-age service. We had fun building an ark!
A sort excerpt from the service:
Sunday, 27th August, 2023
Margaret Bradford is our speaker today and her message is ‘Love one another.’ The passage to follow is Acts 10 – Peter and Cornelius.
Sunday, 20th August, 2023 – Open Communion Service
A short excerpt from our service led by Gareth Woolcott – 1 Thessalonians 5 v 14 – 24.
Sunday, 13th August, 2023
Gareth Woolcott is our speaker. His message is “Let your light shine!” To help you follow along, Gareth will be reading 1 Samuel 15 v 1-23 and Matthew 5 v 13-16.
Sunday, 6th August, 2023
We welcomed Lynda Hulcoop to our service this morning. Lynda’s message is entitled, ‘The Divine Weaver’ and Isaiah 55 v 6-13 is the passage of focus.
Sunday, 30th July, 2023
Roger Case from Seaford Baptist Church is our speaker this morning. Roger’s message is entitled “Death and the eternity that follows”. We were encouraged to read Revelation 21.
Sunday, 23rd July, 2023.
We welcomed John Prideaux to our service this morning. John’s message was entitled, “The gospel according to Daniel!” and the passage was Daniel 9 v 1-19.
Sunday, 16th July, 2023
Chris Roche was our speaker this morning and spoke from Mark 5 v 1-18 – The demon-possessed man.
Sunday, 9th July, 2023
We welcome Bryan Pickard to our service this morning. Brian’s message is in two parts. Part 1 – Hebrews 12 v 1-3 was recorded: Bryan’s message includes a prophetic word for DBC.
Part 2 – Joshua 3 v 1-8 – Pioneering and crossing over. Main points are as follows.
When God speaks it generates faith and faith comes through hearing. When God says you can go on then you can!
A warning – don’t get stuck in the past!
DBC was once a pioneering church. We need to move on and pioneer again. Let’s take possession of the land – trailblaze – break new ground and move into our inheritance.
We will not have been this way before so Bryan gave us encouragement to not be afraid, to be strong and courageous and to expect God to do something new but above all to be obedient. The walls of Jericho coming down in the way that they did was a new way of doing things. God is in control. We need to let go of past securities. Some things are for a season and are transient. Some things may have to go! Our leaders will have to step into the waters first but the best is yet to come.
Let’s be prepared. Let’s not be afraid. Let’s step out upon the waters!
You call me out upon the waters,
The great unknown where feet may fail.
And there I find You in the mystery,
In oceans deep my faith will stand.
And I will call upon Your name,
And keep my eyes above the waves,
When oceans rise,
My soul will rest in Your embrace,
For I am Yours and You are mine.
Houston, Crocker & Ligthelm
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