Church on the Heath

The Church on the Heath Podcasts are taking a break over the summer.You can keep up with the Summer Church services, following the theme 'Questions Jesus Asked' , via our Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/@churchontheheathWe’ll be back in September with the new term and a new sermon series.Thanks for listening.

Series: The Church of Tomorrow        Speaker: Judith RiordanReading: Luke 11:1–9, Philippians 4:4–69.15am, July 20th, 2025

Series: The Church of Tomorrow        Speaker: David AlstonReading: Romans 1:1-17​15am, July 13th, 2025Season 13, Episode 5

Series: The Church of Tomorrow        Speaker: Emma PhillipsReading: Galatians 5:13–26 / 1 Corinthians 12:4–11​15am, July 6th, 2025Season 13, Episode 4

Series: The Church of Tomorrow        Speaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Eph 4:14–16 / Acts 16:11–15

Series: The Church of Tomorrow        Speaker: Emma PhillipsReading: Matthew 28:16–20 / Colossians 1:24–29​15am, June 22nd, 2025

Series: The Church of Tomorrow Preacher: Rev. Patrick. ButlerReadings: Ephesians 1:18–23; Revelation 2:1–7Details: Rev. Patrick Butler introduces our new series, The Church of Tomorrow. There is a recommended book that accompanies this series“Church of Tomorrow: Being a Christ Centred People in a Changing World”. It can be found in a variety of formats through this linkhttps://amzn.eu/d/5O0bFpe. (Other sellers are available)9.15am, 15 June 2025

Speaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Acts 2:1–6, 14–2110am, June 25th, 2025The song referenced in the talk is “I’ll find my Father in a Bible” by Jonas Conner

Series: Daniel- Speaking Truth to Power     Speaker: Katie Robert’sReading: Daniel 59:15 am 1 June 2026Season 12. Episode 6

Series: Daniel – Faithful Living in Turbulent Times        Speaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Daniel 6:1–28​15am, May 25th, 2025Season 12, Episode 5

Series: Daniel – Faithful Living in Turbulent TimesReading: Daniel 4:1–37Speaker: David Ball

Series: Daniel – Faithful Living in Turbulent Times        Speaker: Heather ClementsReading: Daniel 3:1–30We reach the famous story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refusing to bow to a golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, and being thrown into a blazing furnace.9.15am, May 11th, 2025

Series: Daniel – Faithful Living in Turbulent Times        Speaker: Emma PhillipsReading: Daniel 2:1–489.15am, May 4th, 2025Season 12, Episode 2

Series: Daniel – Faithful living in turbulent timesBible reading: Daniel 1:1–21Speaker: Rev Patrick ButlerRev Patrick Butler introduces our new series “Faithful living in turbulent times” which is based in the first 6 chapters of the book of Daniel.We apologise for the variability in sound quality and volume levels, we had an issue with microphones this week.

Baptism ServiceSpeaker: Judith RiordanReading: John 20:1–1810am, April 20th, 2025

Lent Series: The BeatitudesSpeaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Matthew 5:9–109.15am, April 13th, 2025

Series: The BeatitudesBible verses: Matt 5:7-8Speaker: Jason Riordan

Lent Series: The BeatitudesSpeaker: Emma PhillipsReading: Matthew 5:5–69.15am, March 30th, 2025

Speaker: Revd Andy TwilleyReading: Matthew 5:3–4, 6:25–34In a change to the published schedule, Andy Twilley speaks on Matthew 6. We should have been joined by Rev Paul Kerley, but, due to illness, Andy kindly came instead. Both Andy and Paul are from the South Eastern Baptist Association.9.15am, March 23rd, 2025

Lent Series: The BeatitudesScripture: Matthew 5:3-10Rev. Patrick Butler introduces the new Lent teaching series on the Beatitudes(Apologies for the slight echo on the recording this week)“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”‭‭Matthew‬ ‭5‬:‭3‬-‭10‬ ‭NIVUK‬‬

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: Guest preacher Bishop Arnold speaks from Psalm 23 and on the topic of witness

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: John 13:12–17; Ephesians 4:11–139.15am, March 2nd, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: David AlstonReading: Matthew 6:19–249.15am, February 23rd, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Hebrews 10:19–25, Acts 2:41–4710am, February 16th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: Heather ClementsReading: Psalm 119:9–16, 2 Timothy 3:14–1710am, February 9th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of LifeSpeaker: Rev Patrick ButlerReading: Matthew 6:16–18, Acts 12:25–13:3 9.15am, February 2nd, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Yener Reading: Matthew 5:5–8, Philippians 4:4–7 9.15am, January 26th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Katie Roberts Reading: Mark 6:30–32, Psalm 62:1–2, 5–7 9.15am, January 19th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Emma Phillips Reading: Matthew 11:25–30, Genesis 2:1–3 9.15am, January 12th, 2025

Series: More Like Jesus – Establishing a Rule of Life Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: Galations 5:13–18, Psalm 119:1–16 9.15am, January 5th, 2025

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Emma Phillips Reading: James 5:1–11 9.15am, November 24th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: James 3:1–12 9.15am, November 17th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Rev Patrick Butler Reading: James 4:1–12 10am, November 10th, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Katie Roberts Reading: James 2:1–12 Christian Aid video, referenced in talk: https://youtu.be/MjPt4gEV7A0 9.15am, November 3rd, 2024

Series: Five Life Lessons from James Speaker: Jason Riordan Reading: James 1:1–12 9.15am, October 27th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Readings: Acts 2:1–8; 1 Corinthians 14:1–5, 13–15 9.15am, October 20th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Sue Rinaldi (Fleet Baptist Church) Readings: Matthew 17:24–27, Acts 5:12–16 9.15am, October 13th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Howard Satterthwaite (from Open Doors) Reading: 1 Peter 4:7–11 Learn more about Open Doors’ work with persecuted Christians around the world here: https://www.opendoorsuk.org 10am, October 6th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Reading: Matthew 6:1–4, 2 Corinthians 9:6–11 If you’d like to respond to this week’s talk by supporting Church on the Heath financially, further details can be found here: https://www.churchontheheath.org.uk/give 9.15am, September 29th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Yener Reading: Ephesians 2:6–10, Hebrews 11:1–6 9.15am, September 22nd, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Speaker: Patrick Butler Reading: John 4:13-18, 25-30 Link to The Chosen: The Woman at the Well, as recommended in the talk. 9.15am, September 15th, 2024

Series: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Reading: 1 Corinthians 12: 1-11 Speaker: Patrick Butler Note: apologies for the glitchy livestream audio this week; we're working to resolve this for future podcasts 9.15am, September 8th, 2024

Series: Romans In the penultimate instalment of our series on the letter to the Romans, Patrick considers what Paul has to say about the relationship between church and state, and how we conduct ourselves so as to live well with each other. Reading: Romans 13:1–7, 14:1–19 9.15am, July 21st, 2024

Series: Romans Emma Phillips continues the Romans series, looking at a chapter that starts with the well-known exhortation to “…offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God”. Book recommendation: Water from a Deep Well, by Gerald Sitter Note: there were some glitches with this week’s livestream that have also affected parts of the podcast audio – the latter half of the reading, and a couple of sections of the talk. However, the majority is fine and the affected regions should still be intelligible. Reading: Romans 12 9.15am, July 14th, 2024

Series: Romans Patrick explores our role in partnering with God. Reading: Romans 10:8–15 9.15am, July 7th, 2024

Series: Romans We’ve reached the summit of our mountain-like representation of the book of Romans – the beacon of hope on the mountain-top. Dane Baker explores this for us in his last talk at Church on the Heath before he and Blanche move on to new pastures church-wise.  Reading: Romans 8:14–19, 31–32, 38–39 9.15am, June 30th, 2024

Series: Romans We’re now traversing the ‘ridge of freedom’ in our journey through Romans. The following image of Striding Edge on Helvellyn (Lake District), which Patrick references, may be helpful: https://www.mountain-journeys.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1442260_orig.jpg Reading: Romans 6:1–7; 11–14 9.15am, June 23rd, 2024

Series: Romans Having explored themes of the Gospel, then Sin, at the start of Romans, the next section focuses on Salvation. Patrick kindly re-recorded this talk due to technical issues with Sunday’s livestream. A couple of images to accompany the talk… First the mountain-based ‘map’ of Romans from the Bible Society that provides a structure for this series: https://www.biblesociety.org.uk/content/events/2023_romans_tour/journey.jpg Second, the Choluteca Bridge (aka 'the bridge to nowhere’) that's used for an illustration towards the end of the talk. The following Google image search should bring up some relevant results: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=choluteca+bridge Reading: Romans 3:19–24; 4:19–25 9.15am, June 9th, 2024

Series: Romans Patrick Butler introduces this new series looking at the book of Romans from the New Testament. He introduces the sender of this letter and its recipients before starting to unpack its message. Click the following link to watch the testimony from an Iranian Christian, named Mojtaba, that's introduced at the end of the talk. This video has been produced by the Bible Society: https://player.vimeo.com/video/812173845 Reading: Romans 1:1–7, 14–17 9.15am, May 26th, 2024

Series: Finding Jesus in the Old Testament This week, Katie Roberts completes our current series with the famous story of David and Goliath. She finds both similarities, and differences, between David and Jesus. Through David’s story, Katie presents thought-provoking ideas, including using who we are for God, not wearing someone else’s armour(!), and how much God loves the underdog. An inspirational listen. Reading: 1 Samuel 17:45–50 9.15am, May 12th, 2024