Episodes
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You are invited
In this barrier-breaking encounter, we see Jesus’s heart for the lost and for those forgotten and excluded (which today are the poor). Life-giving water is not only spoken about but demonstrated as the Holy Spirit brings revelation and salvation. We see the wonderful dependency on God which we…
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Romans 15: Think BIG not beige
Let the Mount Everest of God’s BIG plan fill your vision, your life, your future. Does God’s BIG plan shape our plans and futures? Who are each of us helping to discover a relationship with Jesus? Is it time to ask God where he wants each of us to live to be part of his BIG plan and his…
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Living under grace: being a covenant community
What does it look like to follow Jesus when Christians genuinely disagree? In Romans 14, Paul challenges both brittle moral certainty and flimsy tolerance, calling us instead to a radically welcoming community shaped by grace, conviction and love. Our freedom in Christ isn’t simply freedom from...
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Be a Light To Your Community
Paul's letter to early Christians in Rome has a lot to teach us about how we engage with our communities. How can we move away from individualism, to becoming a light where we live? Passage: Romans 13 Series: Romans Speaker: Claire Wong Date: 09/27/26
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The Descent of Devotion: Living out our Worship
This passage explores what our ‘true and proper worship’ looks like: Worshipful Relationships and Worshipful Service. God has made us all with valuable gifts - let’s use them to worship him! Passage: Romans 12: 3 - 21 Series: Romans Speaker: Sam Neal Date: 09/20/26
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The Descent of Devotion - Church-going faith or life-changing faith?
Keeping God's mercy in view, shapes how we live and inspires a response. Our logical response to His ultimate sacrifice is to give our whole selves to Him. Passage: Romans 12: 1-2 Speaker: Andy Barclay-Watt Series: Romans Date: 09/14/26
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Romans 10:1-21 Cloud of Mystery Part 2
Romans 10:1–21 may initially seem like a theological maze, but beneath the complexity is a wonderfully simple Gospel. In this sermon, we explore five simple truths: our problem is sin, our solution is Christ, our Gospel is to believe and call on Jesus, our calling is to make Christ known, and a...
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The Cloud of Mystery Part 1
These are some complicated chapters - but Paul’s message is clear: the more we look at God’s sovereignty, plans and purposes, the more we should rejoice in His mercy and grace. Passage: Romans 9, Romans 11 Series: Romans Speaker: Abby Date: 08/30/26
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God's kingdom, power and glory
This is the last in the series about the Lord's prayer, where we look at God's kingdom, power and glory. We look at what it is to live out God's kingdom on earth and the opportunity to be part of this and pray with others in our communities and the worldwide church. We explore what it means to...
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Deliver us from evil
“Lead us not into temptation” is a prayer acknowledging our weakness and asking God to guide our steps with wisdom and discernment. “Deliver us from evil” asks God to protect us from deception, fear, temptation, pride, bitterness, division, and every strategy of the enemy. It is also a prayer for...
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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
In this sermon, we take a fresh look at one of the shortest and most familiar lines in the Lord’s Prayer: “Give us this day our daily bread.” We explore what Jesus teaches us about the generosity of our heavenly Father, trusting Him one day at a time, and praying not only for ourselves but as…
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Freedom found in forgiveness
There is abounding freedom found in forgiveness that can be life-changing. Choosing to say sorry or to forgive is not always easy - it can be a journey. But it is a requirement; the Bible says to be forgiven, we ourselves must forgive others. This underscores the fourth line of the Lord’s Prayer....
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Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done
As we explore "your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven" we develop a deep longing for the kingdom of God, we choose to make Jesus our king and we are propelled in to active prayer to see heaven break through here on this earth. In this world, city and in us. Passage:...
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A calling, not just a comfort
This message explores how the Lord’s Prayer begins not with our needs, but with who God is - our Father, both intimate and holy. Calling Him “Father” isn’t just a comfort; it’s a calling to live in a way that reflects His character and makes His name known. Passage: Matthew 6:9 Series: The Lord's...
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Living Lives of Faith in Community
Through James we have been exploring what a ‘living faith’ looks like. In this last talk of the series we unpack what a living faith looks like in community, through all the highs and lows of life. And this is through a dependence on God, but not only that, it’s also through a dependence on each...
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Staking the Heart Patiently in the Lord
We live in a world of uncertainty, suffering and injustice in which our adversary, the devil, seeks to undermine our faith in God. Coupled with our own frailties and impatience in a fast-paced world, we are often tempted to waver and lose heart. Just as stakes support weak plants against threats…
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James 5:1-6 - Polluted!
In James 5:1-6, we see one of the harshest warnings in the whole of the New Testament as James warns the early church against a love of money. James exposes three ways wealth can corrupt us: polluted treasures (trusting in temporary riches), polluted relationships (exploiting others for financial...
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Training to the Trellis
Certain plants must be trained to a trellis to direct their growth. This passage teaches us to be "trained" to three trellises in our Christian walk: a gracious heart, a trusting heart, and a humble heart. Passage: James 4:11-17 Series: James Speaker: Sam Neal Date: 06/21/2026
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Sunlight
How does James help us to be “all in Christians”? Passage: James 4:1-10 Series: James Speaker: Bekah Atkins Date: 06/07/26
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Soil Improver: Wisdom that enriches your life
James tells us that there are two types of wisdom: one will enrich your life while the other breeds chaos and lies. How can we tell them apart and what can we do to weave godly wisdom into our everyday lives? Passage: James 3:13-18, Proverbs 2:6-11 Series: James Speakers: Claire Wong Date: 05/31/26
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Taming the Tongue
In this sermon we consider how the tongue is hugely powerful, is plumbed into our hearts, and by God's grace, and with the transformative help of the Holy Spirit, can be tamed! Passage: James 3:1-12 Series: James Speaker: Adrian Hide Date: 05/24/26
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Unfurling Leaves
James begins with a mistake people were making and still make – thinking that just believing in God is the same as real living faith. Real living faith changes lives. This real living faith is meant to grow by looking up and doing, looking around and doing and looking in and doing. Passage: James...
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In a Pot Together
James encourages us not to show favouritism. We should not show judgement to people based on outward appearance, material wealth or any other factor, rather mercy triumphs over judgement. Jesus modelled an alternative to favouritism: love. Passage: James 2:1-13 Series: James Speaker: Abby Date:...
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Strong Shoots: Practical Growth in the Light of Scripture
Practical challenge and encouragement on how we engage with scripture in day to day life: the importance of approaching scripture properly and then doing it. Passage: James 1:18-27 Series: Growing - the letter of James Speaker: Jim Sykes Date: 04/26/26
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James 1:12-18 - Temptation
We look at what James has to say about temptation under 4 headings: the opportunity, origins, nature and defeat of temptation. Passage: James 1: 12-18 Series: Growing - James Speaker: Rick Thomas Date: 04/19/26
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Roots that Don’t Rock
Introduction to the book of James and our new series on “Growing”. Followed by looking at James 1:1-8 and how putting down secure “roots” with faith in God can help us grow through trials and difficulties. Passage: James 1:1 - 8 Speaker: Becky Webb Series: Growing - James Date: 04/12/26
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Remember who you are: a new community, creation and world
At the end of the Upper Room discourse, Jesus prays a beautiful prayer for himself, his disciples and future believers. This prayer brings together the big themes of John's gospel: mission, unity, glory and love. It's a model of selfless leadership and secure identity in the face of whatever life...
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A new way to hope
In this penultimate chapter of the Upper Room discourse, Jesus offers the disciples a way to live life transformed by hope, despite the suffering they face. He offers an invitation into a new love, new hope and new life. And what He promised to the disciples, He promises to us too. Passage: John...
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Upper Room Introduction
Bekah introduces us to our new series, the Upper Room Discourse Series: The Upper Room Discourse Speaker: Bekah Atkins Date: 02/22/26
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Growing through Abiding
Jesus lovingly invites us to abide in Him, thus making our Lord and Saviour our dwelling place. This is a gentle yet radical call to step out of the world system and enter a living, intimate union with Him. As we abide in Him, we draw from His divine Life and are grafted into His incorruptible...
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A new way to know God
On the night before his death, Jesus promises his disciples, and us, the Holy Spirit - the advocate. Through the Holy Spirit we have new nearness with God, new permanence of His presence, new intimacy, and experience His transformative power. Because God makes His home in us we can surrender...
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Jesus has done it all!
Jesus died for us. Jesus lives for us. Jesus is praying for us. Passage: Romans 8: 31-39 Series: Romans Speaker: Gsry Gibbs Date: 2/15/26
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The Summit of Hope: Life through the Spirit
Having taken the first half of his letter to the Romans to outline the good news of the gospel and to show how God‘s solution for our need has nothing to do with us, but everything to do with Christ, Paul now outlines God‘s provision for living in the good of this life that Christ has won for us…
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The Ridge of Freedom
How to enjoy God's grace, and avoid falling into sin. Passage: Romans 6 Series: Romans Speaker: Steve Thomas Date: 1/25/26
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The Place of Peace
Our lives have moved from being trapped “in Adam”, defined by sin and rebellion, to being “in Christ”. Being “in Christ” gives us the privileges of having Peace with God and of having access to God. Passage: Romans 5 Series: Romans Speaker: Becky Webb Date: 1/11/26
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2026 - All About Jesus
It all begins with Jesus. It will all end with Jesus. It has always and will always be all about Jesus. Passage: John 1: 1-18 Speaker: Rich Colbrook Date: 1/4/26
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Crux of Salvation P2 (what are we saved for?!)
Abraham - archetype of salvation by faith. What are we saved for? We are saved to Belong and to Be Sent Passage: Romans 4 and Ephesians 4 Series: Romans Speaker: Rich (on behalf of Bekah) Date: 12/14/25
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The Crux of Salvation (Part 1)
In Romans 3–4, Paul moves us from humanity’s universal guilt to humanity’s rescue, showing that we are justified by faith alone, in Christ alone, through grace alone, according to Scripture alone for God’s Glory alone. In God’s courtroom, we see the great exchange as Jesus takes our sentence and...
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Step Up, Step Out!
In this message Jonathan encourages us to step up in prayer for our unsaved friends, and to step out in faith to share the Gospel and expect miracles. It’s a practical, faith building message! Passage: Matthew 9:35-Matt 10:1, Col 4:2-3, Eph 6:18, Acts 4:29-31, Mark 16:15-20, Matthew 10:7-8, John...
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The Unavoidable Valley of Sin
By ourselves, we all stand guilty before a holy God, but our help and rescue comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Paul demonstrates in his letter to the church in Rome that there is no ‘us vs them’; instead, we are one church, saved by one and the same rescue. Passage: Romans…
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The Valley of Sin
Paul addresses the Gentiles in Rome about their behaviour. By understanding what life was like in Ancient Rome, we can see how these verses prompt us to examine our own lives to make sure we're putting God first and paying attention when he speaks. Passage: Romans 1:18-32 Series: Romans Speaker:...
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Confidence in the Gospel
Looking at Romans 1 prompts us to ask some big questions. How confident are we in the power of the Gospel today? How can we become more confident? And why should we be confident in the Gospel? Passage: Romans 1:8-17 Series: Romans Speaker: Sam Neal Date: 10/26/25
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Confidence
As the church in Rome listened to the opening lines of Paul’s letter they would have been drawn into deeper relationship with the one it was talking about. They would have heard that the whole of the Old Testament points to him. They would have listened to a radical declaration that there is a…
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What's so Great about the Gospel
An introduction to the coming series, Romans 1-8, for community groups and Sundays. Passage; many verses from Romans Series; Romans Speaker; Rick Thomas Date; 10/12/25
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Romans - An Overview
Many christians have favourite verses from Romans, but rarely know how those verses fit together, or what Paul was trying to say through the whole letter. In this Whistlestop overview of Romans, Mike charts a path for us to help us know what Paul was saying and why. Passage; Romans! Series…
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Last Word
Last words are powerful. Sadly, David's last words were a mix of the good (as he reflected on the dependability of God), the bad (as he revealed festering grudges) and the ugly (as he ordered mafia-like killings). David's light dims but the disappointents we may feel in his failings are…
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Our God of Love, Mercy & Grace
Through this complicated passage at the end of 2 Samuel summarising the end of David’s reign as King we can learn a simple truth. That we can know a God of love, mercy and Grace. And that knowing Him is to know ourselves, totally loved, wrapped in mercy and covered by grace? Do you know Him?...
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No More Walls
A short introduction to our Prayer Sunday. The curtain in the Temple separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies was about 21 meters (69 feet) high. It was a massive, heavy veil woven with complex patterns. It said, "No entry", because sin had separated. The moment Jesus died, heaven tore...
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David's Deliverance: our Father's Faithfulness
In Psalm 18, David declared his love for God, his strength and deliverer from all his enemies consistent with how God delivers the righteous from all their afflictions - Psalm 34:19-20. David did not only confront strong enemies like Saul and his own son Absalom, but he confronted a more stronger...
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Repentance; The Joy-Filled Life
Do we often see repentance as a heavy burden, when in fact it can be a pathway into God's joy? In Psalm 51, David models heartfelt repentance following Nathan's rebuke in 2 Samuel 12. We look at 3 key lessons from David's example and how we can apply them in our own lives today. Passage; Psalm 51...
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