St Matts Weekly Message

Mike kicks off our new sermon series looking at the Book of James.

On Vision Sunday Sophie Chatten and Mike Knight reflect on St Matts' call to 'love God, love others and go and make disciples' especially as we approach the church's tenth birthday.

Sophie brings our series on The God Story to an close looking at the ongoing story of the Church from the book of Acts to today.

Steve brings us back into our series, The God Story, looking the beginnings of the church and the giving of the Holy Spirit in the Book of Acts.

Our Kids & Youth Pastor Amy Wheeler shares a short message on Palm Sunday about the kind of king that Jesus is.

In the next instalment of our series on The God Story, Sophie unpacks Jesus' death and resurrection.

Sophie continues our series on The God Story looking at Jesus as 'The King'.

Steve Morgan continues our series on The God Story bringing us into the New Testament and introducing Jesus as 'God with us.'

As part of our series on the God Story two members of the St Matts congregation bring shorter messages from the prophets.

Unfortunately there were some technical issues with the recording at . We apologise for this and we do hope you are able to enjoy the rest of the talk.--In this talk Sophie rounds off the Old Testament in our series, The God Story, by giving an overview of the 18 books of the prophets.

James Harding continues our sermon series on the God Story. By exploring the rise and fall of Israel he teaches us how Jesus is our true judge, priest, king and prophet.

Liz Grier continues our series on The God Story jumping into Exodus 34 and drawing out themes of God's mercy, compassion, love and justice .

Sally Pearson continues our series on The God Story diving into the book of Exodus picking up on themes of identity and freedom in the story of Moses.

Jeff Stephenson continues our series on The God Story, 'encountering the unfailing love of God through the unfolding narrative of scripture', focussing in on the story of Abraham in Genesis.

Sophie brings us the second instalment of The God Story series looking at The Fall in Genesis 3 picking up on themes of sin and shame, and God's enduring goodness through it all.

Sophie begins our new sermon series on The God Story, 'Discovering the unfailing love of God through the unfolding narrative of Scripture'. In this message we look at the beginning of the Bible focussing on four passages from Genesis 1 &2.

Amy (Kids & Youth Pastor) shares a message of wonder from the Isaiah 7 and the Christmas story at our Family Carols service.

At our Evening Carols service, Mike invites us to contemplate on and enter into the wonder of Christ's coming at Christmas.

James draws our series on the Book of Revelation to a close, bringing a message of hope from chapters 21 and 22.

Sophie Chatten continues our series on the Book of Revelation bringing encouragement and challenge from the letter's beautiful and comforting passages.

James Harding continues our series on the Book of Revelation bringing encouragement from the letter's difficult and challenging passages.

James begins our new series on the Book of Revelation with an introduction focussing on Revelation 1:1-3, showing how these verses are a lens through which we can read the rest of the letter.James Harding has a PhD in the Book of Revelation and is the Director of St Mellitus College, South West, a theological college based in Plymouth.

In the final message in our JOY sermon series Steve encourages us to step out and engage those we meet with the message of Jesus.

On Giving Sunday, Adam and Sophie encourage us that giving is an act of trust, rooted in joy and an expression of worship.

Sally reminds us of the importance and joy of serving both inside and outside of the church!

Mike reminds us of the importance of and joy of community in the church - we are made to be together! We've also launched our small groups term and you can hear about some of the groups we are running at the end of this podcast.

Check out this weeks podcast where Sophie speaks about a surprise encounter with Jesus that leads to so much joy. All on the day we celebrated our 9th birthday at St Matts and invited loads of people to come try church!

This week we had a guest speaker- Jonny from the Bible society! Take a listen

Our summer series looks at questions Jesus asked. This week Sophie looks at the story of Peter's restoration with Jesus around a fire at the beach.

Our summer series looks at questions Jesus asked. This week Jeff looks at Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane when his disciples fall asleep.

Our Summer series looks at key questions Jesus asked. This week Sophie looks at the story of Jesus calming the storm.

Our Summer series focusses on Questions Jesus asked. This week Graham looks at the story of the woman caught in adultery.

Sophie continues with Ephesians  5:21–6:9

Mike carries on our series through Ephesians looking at how Paul's theory plays out in action as we live as children of the light.

Our guest speaker Gerard continues our series on Ephesians looking at Unity and Maturity. Check it out...

Teressa is carrying on our Ephesians series this week looking at  Ephesians 3:1–21

Sophie carries on our Ephesians series after a short pentecost break. This week we're looking at  Ephesians 2:11–22

Jeff continues our Ephesians series speaking on Ephesians 2:1–10

Steve Morgan continues our Ephesians series speaking on Ephesians 1:15-23

Sophie tackles the topic of fasting, one we don't often talk about in church, but clearly a core discipline in the scriptures. Have a listen and then see how you might have a go at building this into your prayer rhythm.

Jeff continues our prayer series looking at how we come to God to ask him for things- to move in our world. We need a red hot core of pray at the centre of all we do!

Sophie caries on our series on prayer looking at the starting point for prayer- adoration!

Sophie kicks off our new series on Prayer!

Sophie concludes our series on relationship and sexuality.

Sophie continues with part 3 of our wholehearted discipleship series looking at the areas of sex, sexuality and relationships.

Sophie continues our new series looking at sex, sexuality and relationship.

Sophie begins our new 4 part series looking at how we can follow Jesus in the complicated area of sexuality.

Steve Morgan opens up Isaiah 11 as we look at the ever widening picture of the Kingdom of God!

James Harding (Principle of St Mellitus theological college) introduces the amazing Christmas message of Isaiah!

Tim from compassion shares on Isaiah 58 and the idea of justice and explores our connection as a church with Compassion - we have a God who is concerned for the poor- how might we join in with that in our own lives.