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Counterslip Church
by Counterslip Church
We're a group of people in South Bristol (UK) seeking to live as disciples of Jesus: Together being with Him, learning from Him, and becoming like Him.
Episodes
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Revelation 14 - Jesus is our hope
This week Matt shared from Revelation 14. Here John's vision moves on from the chapters about the dragon and the beasts (the representation of evil) and moves in a direction to give believers hope, showing us that in the end evil doesn't prosper but instead the lamb (Jesus) is victorious and…
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Revelation 13 - Jesus is Worthy of Our Allegiance
This week we had the joy of having Maki (Pastor from Cairns Road Baptist Church) share with us on Revelation 13. Maki unpacked how the enemy (pictured as a dragon in Revelation) works in our world through systems, power and deceit (pictured as two beasts) to take people's allegiance from Jesus…
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Revelation 12 - Jesus is how we overcome
This week we read Revelation 12. It's a weird chapter full of crazy imagery, but in a really amazing way it retells the story of Jesus' birth, death and resurrection as one cosmic event that shook heaven and earth and remove the enemy from his power and position in heaven. With this back drop the...
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Revelation 11 - Jesus empowers His church
This week Nathan shared with us from Revelation 11, a complex chapter but one that brings real hope and purpose. Revelation 11 uses a number of different images to speak about Jesus' Church in this age. Here we discover that Jesus empowers His church with His Spirit and His word to stand through...
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Revelation 10 - Jesus is the gospel worth sharing
Today we read Revelation 10 and Matt shared how here we see Jesus show up in the middle of the 7 trumpets, where there has been darkness, destruction and decreation, and change the narrative of the story. Revelation 10 shows us that Jesus is the hope for the world and the good news worth sharing.
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Revelation 8-9 - Jesus is full of mercy
Today Matt shared with us from Revelation 8 & 9. From these two challenging chapters we saw that Jesus is a God who is full of mercy, not wanting any one to perish but all to turn to Him as the one who can save us from evil and sin.
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Revelation 8:1-5 - Jesus is the God who answers prayer
Today Matt spoke from Revelation 8:1-5. Here we saw that the revelation of the completed work of the lamb should lead us to worship and to partnership in prayer. Revelation reveals that our prayers have power, appearing before the very throne of God where Heaven longs to partner with the things…
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Revelation 7 - Jesus is the Lamb who leads us home
Today Lara shared with us from Revelation 7 looking at how Jesus is presented as the lamb who, by his sacrifice, makes us His and brings us home, restoring us to God where we can stand as His, living in His presence and renewed creation.
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Revelation 6 - Jesus is sovereign
Revelation 6 presents us with a world that is dark and broken. But we also see here how Jesus is sovereign over all. Today James shared with us from this chapter, looking at how Jesus is still on the throne through all that this world presents here and now, and asked how we should live in this…
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Revelation 5 - Jesus is the slain lamb for all
This week we read Revelation 5 where we saw that Jesus, as the slain lamb, is the one who has authority to judge evil finally and bring hope and life to people from every tribe, nation and language. Thinking on this Matt asked us how we live in the here and now as followers of the way of this Jesus.
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Revelation 4 - Jesus is mighty and merciful
This week we read Revelation 4 and saw how our God is the judge of all who will in His power deal with darkness, evil, sin and death. But He is also the God whose mercy encompasses His judgement, and He is incredibly gracious making a way for all to find freedom from our own sin by making us His...
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Revelation 3 - Jesus is...
This week we read Revelation 3, the final 3 letters to the churches of Sardis, Philadelphia and Laodicea. These letters are from Jesus to His church, and so this week we looked at some of what these three letters reveal to us about Jesus as the book of Revelation should first and foremost be a...
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Revelation 2 - Jesus Is Calling You Back
This week, Mike continues our journey through Revelation by looking at Jesus' letters to the churches in Revelation 2. While these letters contain strong warnings, they ultimately reveal the heart of a loving Saviour who calls His Church back to Himself. He warns against compromise and invites us...
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Revelation 1 - Jesus is...
Many of us think of Jesus as a 1st century middle-eastern carpenter come rabbi. But this bible tells us that Jesus hasn't stayed like that. He has become so much more. Revelation is a vision at the end of the Bible that draws back the curtain on Heaven and shows us who Jesus is now. Seeing Jesus…
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Matthew 28 - Jesus and the Birth of New Life
Today, Emmanuel concludes the Gospel of Matthew by teaching Matthew 28 as not merely the book’s ending but the inauguration of new life through Jesus’ resurrection.
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Matthew 27 - Jesus Triumphs Over Death!
Today we focused on the crucifixion of Jesus, His death and all-sufficient sacrifice, all that He went through for us. We saw how the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world was foretold throughout the Old Testament, all perfectly fulfilled in Jesus. We responded by focusing on the Holy...
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Matthew 26 - The Heart of Jesus
Today, Ann-See reflects on Matthew 26 through the theme of the heart, contrasting the woman who breaks her alabaster jar to pour out what is most precious with Judas who sells what is priceless. She highlights Jesus’ heart laid bare in grief and obedience, choosing the Father’s will and pouring…
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Matthew 25 - Jesus invites us to know Him
Today we talked about the three stories that Jesus shares in Matthew 25. We found that in each story the focus and heart of Jesus was to have a people who are ready, who are faithful and who are loving because they know Him as the Bridegroom, the master and the king.
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Matthew 24 - Jesus speaks truth
Today Matt shared with us from Matthew 24. A strange passage that people often draw many conclusions from, which can lead people to look for clues, dates and conspiracy theories. But today Matt showed us how Jesus answers two questions from the disciples, one about the temple, and one about the…
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Matthew 23 - Jesus brings a deeper reality
Today Matt spoke to us from Matthew 23 where we see Jesus challenge the teaching and worldview of the Pharisees. Matt shared that the Pharisees had their eyes fixed on the here and now, not on the ultimate hope of God to restore all of creation. This challenges us, do we live for the surface…
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Matthew 22 - Jesus brings challenge
Today Lara shared with us from Matthew 22, where Jesus challenged the world view of the Pharisees and the Sadducees. We found from this that Jesus still brings a challenge, but now to us and our world view. Jesus does this because He longs for us to leave behind the broken world views we…
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Matthew 21 - Jesus restores the temple
Today Nathan shared with us from Matthew 21. Showing us that as Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem, He also wants to cleanse us as the New Testament temple of the Holy Spirit so that we can encounter and know the full life of God.
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Matthew 20 - Jesus invites you
Today we read the parable of the landowner, a story in which Jesus describes what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. Matt shared with us about how Heaven isn't simply somewhere we go when we die, but is the rule and reign of God breaking into the present through Jesus. It is a reality into which we…
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Matthew 19 - Jesus reveals the heart of the Father
Today, from Matthew 19, Glenys shared that only with Him and in Him is the impossible possible - a restored relationship with God even after we meddled with His plan. Jesus came to show us that the overlooked and downtrodden are loved and accepted by the Father. All we need to do is daily…
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Matthew 18 - Jesus came to save
Today we talked about the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 18. There we saw Jesus teach seriously about the reality of hell and the hope of Heaven. Jesus was serious about our sin and its outcome which is hell, because His heart has always been to save us from that for Heaven.
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Matthew 17 - Transfiguration for Jesus, Transformation for Us
In this message on Matthew 17, James emphasises that the Christian life involves ongoing transformation through being with Jesus, learning from Jesus, and becoming like Jesus, and concludes with an invitation to salvation, prayer, and daily communion with God.
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Matthew 16 - Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God
Jenni shares a teaching on Matthew 16, emphasising Christian identity, relationship with Jesus over rule-keeping, and discernment of truth.
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Matthew 15 - Jesus is always willing and always enough
Today we read Matthew 15 and Matt shared with us how through the accounts and imagery in this chapter we discover that Jesus is the one who invites us to find Him and invites us into holiness through Him, not by works and rituals but by receiving from Him.
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Baptisms (Bev & Sam)
Today was an amazing day for us as a church, as well as celebrating the resurrection of Jesus, and hearing from Matthew 14 (which you can find here on the podcast) we also had the joy of hearing testimonies from Bev and Sam as they were baptised.
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Matthew 14 - Jesus is God our Saviour
Today we read the account of Jesus walking on the water in Matthew 14, and Matt pointed out to us that this story is more than just an account of Jesus amazing power but actually the story that the whole bible tells again and again. The story of a God who has come down to stand with us in our…
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Matthew 13 - Jesus is the source of the kingdom
Today Lara shared with us from Matthew 13, looking at how people responded to Jesus and then using His parables to challenge our response to Him also. Through this passage we discovered that Jesus came as an outsider, for the outsiders, to leave no one as an outsider anymore. The invitation is...
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Matthew 12 - Jesus is the Lord of the Sabbath
This week Mike shared with us from Matthew 12 where Jesus, after being confronted for not keeping the pharisees rules about Sabbath, says that He is the Lord of the Sabbath. Mike took us back to the Old Testament, to Genesis and Exodus, to discover more about what the Sabbath was supposed to be...
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Matthew 11 - Jesus knows us better
Today Matt shared with us from Matthew 11 which tells us part of the story of John the Baptist and who Jesus says he is. We saw from John's story that many things can affect the way we see and understand ourselves, but also that Jesus is never swayed by those things and His word over us is eternal.
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Matthew 10 - Jesus' kingdom comes in power
This week we read through Matthew 10 where we discovered that Jesus invites and empowers His followers to share the good news of the Kingdom in both word and power. Matt shared with us his hope and prayer that we would be a church of followers of Jesus like this.
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Matthew 9 - Jesus changes everything
This week Matt shared with us from Matthew 9. There we saw a number of people who encountered Jesus, whom everything changed for because of that encounter, and a number of people who were so close to encountering Him but missed all that He had for them. In Jesus God wants to meet with us and…
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Matthew 8 - Jesus is the Son of God
Today Ann-See walked us through the accounts of Jesus miracles and interactions with people in Matthew 8. There we saw Jesus revealed as the Son of God, the one who has power and authority over every realm and all the powers of darkness. In light of this Ann-See invited us again to see Jesus as…
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Matthew 7 - Jesus cares about His church
This week we read through the final part of Jesus teaching famously called "The sermon on the mount". In this final part we discovered that Jesus, having invited us to walk in and experience kingdom goodness, cares about how that is lived out in our lives because He cares about His church. And so...
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Matthew 6 - Jesus is inviting intimacy
Having read Matthew 5 last week where we saw that we could never live up to the righteous standard of the law of God, this week we see Jesus pivot in His sermon on the mount and show us that there is one, the Father, in whom the blessing of that kingdom is found and here in Matthew 6 Jesus is...
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Matthew 5 - Jesus is the one we need
Today we looked at Jesus' famous teaching on the mount, from Matthew 5, and we discovered that this passage isn't so much a standard we are to strive for but instead Jesus showing us that we could never live up to the law of God. Through this what we found was that we all need Jesus, the only one...
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Matthew 4 - Jesus is our high priest
This week Nathan shared with us from Matthew 4 looking at how Jesus has identified with us in our sin and then carried it off and defeated the enemy in all the ways we often fail, making a way for us also to overcome the temptations and trials of the enemy in our lives through Jesus.
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Matthew 3 - Jesus is the way to life
This week we looked at Matthew 3 and saw that the baptism of Jesus was way more than a guy simply being baptised but a dramatic retelling of the story of new creation, and an invitation for all of us to start again in Jesus.
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Matthew 2 - Jesus is worthy of our worship
This week Matt shared with us from Matthew 2 where we discover some amazing truths about Jesus and that He is worthy of our worship. But Matthew 2 also forces us to ask how we will respond to Him, will we be a monarch (like Herod) and want the throne for ourselves, or will be Magi, those who will...
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Matthew 1 - The promised anointed one
This week we launched our new 2026 series "Jesus is..." looking at who Jesus is revealed as to us through the books of Matthew and Revelation. This week Matt walked us through the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1, looking at how Matthew reveals to us, through this list of names, that Jesus is the...
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Revelation: Part two - The end of the beasts
As we wrap up two years reading through the bible Matt shared from the final chapters of the scriptures (Revelation 12-22). Here we saw how the story all folds together and comes to its triumphant end. All the way through the bible there is a character called the serpent, or the dragon, (the…
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Revelation: Part one - First love
This week James did the first of two weeks that we have in Revelation, talking from the opening chapters and focussing on this being a message from Jesus to His church. Here we find Jesus calling out some things in the church that weren't great, but as James helpfully pointed out to us most of...
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Jude - Know your bible
This week Dennis shared with us from Jude. Jude is a short but complex book that draws on passages from the Old Testament, and other extra biblical literature (cultural writings of the day from outside the bible). Dennis showed us how Jude (the brother of Jesus) used these other writings to speak...
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Baptisms
This Sunday we baptised Samuel, Israel, Fern, Evie, Revelation & Agnes. What a joy it was to see and hear them confess their faith in Jesus and their declarations of who Jesus has been and is to them. You can see the full video on our Youtube channel.
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Hebrews 4 - His promise still stands
This week Emmanuel shared with us from Hebrews 4, explaining that Jesus as the one greater than the angels, prophets and priests has a greater promise that still remains for us today. And to enter this promise we simply need to have faith in Him, the one who has done all to achieve it for us.
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Titus - The Gospel Shapes Everything
Today Matt shared with us from Paul's letter to Titus, where he encourages Titus to teach the church in Crete how the amazing news about Jesus (the gospel) should shape everything in our lives, and how it is the gospel itself that is the power to live this new life.
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Timothy and Paul - Standing Together
Today Jenni shared with us from Paul's letter to Timothy, looking at the relationship the two had and how Paul encouraged Timothy in his role as a leader and as a follower of Jesus. Jenni encouraged us to be those who get along side each other, living up close and personal with each other so that...
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We're a group of people in South Bristol (UK) seeking to live as disciples of Jesus: Together being with Him, learning from Him, and becoming like Him.
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