As Christians we are called not to be lone operators but form communities of people, what we now call “church”. Chris concludes our Catching the Wave series by speaking on our contribution to the church and how we can pray for revival in our nation and around the world.
Karen leads the rest of the service with music from Pete and Lynne.
A recording of a live Zoom Communion service held on 17th January 2021. Chris and Lynne lead us through Communion together, whilst we also pray for our NHS workers and Chris begins to expand a little more on our Year Text.
Chris continues our summer study on What is Church?, this time he looks at the church as God’s temple.
Anthony leads us through the rest of the service with musical contributions from Pete, Nick and Susan.
A recording of a live communion service from the morning of 19 July 2020.
Chris looks at a passage from Ephesians and leads us through Communion together. Lynne leads the rest of the service with contributions from Howard, Anne and the two Sarahs.
This All Age service was led by James Webb and Chris Johnson. It was an interactive service so we didn’t have a sermon but we do have the passages and some questions for you to reflect on with a brief summary of the key points. How can you tell if someone else is angry? When…
In the final part of the Life in the Spirt series, Andrew Webb looks at Paul’s description of spiritual warfare in Ephesians 6 and explains who this battle is being fought between and what God has given us to defend ourselves against attack.
The Apostle Paul extends the implications of being the dwelling place of God corporately to the whole of life. He shows practical examples of how mutual submission works out in real life situations. This is what it looks like when we live in step with the Spirit.
Holiness, love and forgiveness are characteristics of the people the Spirit gathers. These are not arbitary religious practices but reflect the relationship within the Trinity and from God towards each of us. We are called to imitate God in expressing these atributes. In this passage Paul highlights the role of sung worship in helping us to speak the truth to each other and express our love for God. The environment of mutual submission which grows in regularly worshipping together is the next step in building a dwelling place for God.
In the light of God’s amazing plan to build a dwelling place amongst His people, the Apostle Paul exhorts us to live a life worthy of our calling. Chris unpacks what that looks like in practice. How do we go about using the gifts we have been given by Christ to build a dwelling place for God? How do we avoid grieving the Holy Spirt?
Being strengthened by the Spirit so: Christ my dwell in our hearts through faith and we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Sounds great to me! Let’s pray for that!