Amblecote Community Church

Overseas Mission talk/interview morning from our Sunday service, Sunday 20th March 2022.  This Sunday we are having a special service on overseas mission, with the biggest focus on two charities that we support; Route 61 and Greg Plunkett’s work in Kenya. We are looking forward to a different Sunday together exploring overseas mission and hearing personal stories from some of our church famil...

1 Peter 4:12-19, Suffering for Christ from our Sunday Service, Sunday 13th March 2022.  We looked together at suffering as a Christian; rejoicing in suffering with our union with Christ, the importance of self examination and trusting God while continuing to serve him.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 6. This podcast is the sixth part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering and helps to build a picture of suffering and justice. You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our websit...

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 5. This podcast is the fifth part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering and helps to build a picture of suffering and resurrection. You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our w...

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 4. This podcast is the fourth part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering and helps to build a picture of suffering and death. You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website...

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 3. This podcast is the third part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering.  You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website .

Biblical Reflections On War given by Tim Murray at our Sunday Service on Responding to World Conflict, Sunday 6th March 2022.  As Christians we are called to be light in a world filled with darkness, but how do we respond to war and conflict? As we gathered on Sunday we reminded ourselves that God is powerfully at work even in the most desperate of situations. We are filled with hope when we...

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 2. This podcast is the second part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering. You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material here . For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website .

Whole Church Teaching: A Theology of Suffering podcast 1.  This podcast is the first part of our Whole Church Teaching series on a Theology of Suffering. In this podcast Tim Murray addresses the question of why we are looking at a theology of suffering in the first place.  You can find all of our current and previous ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here For more information about...

1 Peter 5 message from our Sunday service, Sunday 27th February 2022.  Will you allow yourself today to trust God with your future? You may notice that last week Dave Hadley spoke on 1 Peter 3 and this week Adrian Lowe spoke on 1 Peter 5. We had originally planned for Adrian to speak on 1 Peter 4 this week, but the Holy Spirit moved him strongly to speak on 1 Peter 5 instead which was a reall...

1 Peter 3:8-22 message from our Sunday service, Sunday 20th February 2022.  How do we respond to evil? What about revenge? Listen to Dave's message on this part of 1 Peter here.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

In this podcast Adrian and Tim Murray discuss how several public intellectuals are returning to a Christian worldview, and how this should give us courage in our Christian faith as our culture wrestles with its self-created meaning crisis. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 2:18 - 3:7, Slaves and Masters / Husbands and Wives from our Sunday service, 13th February 2022.  Tim asks how do we live when we experience unjust treatment that we have no means of changing? And he explores the belief that we are called to live for God not only when things are just and easy, but when they are unfair and difficult too.  For more information about who we are, wha...

Extravagant Love from our Sunday service, 6th February 2022.  Our theme, Extravagant Love, spoken on by a guest speaker, Jenny Baines, from an organisation called OPEN . OPEN is part of CARE and works to help churches support those who have faced or are facing baby loss through abortion, miscarriage or still birth.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can g...

1 Peter 2:4-17, Christian freedom from our Sunday service, 30th January 2022. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Be Holy from our Sunday service, 16th January 2022.  Join us as Tim Barton asks, What actually is holiness?, What does Holiness look like? and How are we to live holy lives? For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:3-9, The outcome of your faith from our Sunday service, 9th January 2022. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:1-2, Our identity as Christians from our Sunday service, 2nd January 2022.  Join us for the start of a new series, A Living Hope, looking at the Biblical book of 1 Peter. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

The Christian virtue of Hope from our Sunday service, 12th December 2021.  The New Testament regularly exhorts us to hope. This can be seen as an action, but is equally a virtue. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13 – the three great Christian virtues are faith, hope and love. However we so often see hope as something outside of our control – we may find we are hopeful, or we may lose hope – in...

The third in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Podcast three explores how Jesus surprised the Jews, how the Messiah was unexpected. And Dave answers the question of how did Jesus over deliver on peoples' hopes in the Messiah.  You can find all of our ‘Whole Church Teaching’...

How do we support and help those who are grieving? In this podcast Bruce Murray shares his insights from many years supporting those who are grieving. Please don’t struggle alone. If you are walking through grief and feel there isn’t anyone you can reach out to please get in touch, email Tim Barton on timb@amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk For more information about who we are, what we believe and h...

In this podcast we seek to understand more about what grief is and how we grieve in a healthy way. Our conversation takes place with Bruce Murray, a former pastor who has worked in coaching, mental health mentoring and spiritual direction. Please don’t struggle alone. If you are walking through grief and feel there isn’t anyone you can reach out to please get in touch, email Tim Barton on timb@amb...

The second in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Part two will look at how Jesus was both king and priest, and how priests and sacrifices work. You can find all of our ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you ca...

Mary’s Yes to God (Luke 1:26-38) by Tim Barton, from our Sunday service 5th December 2021.  Mary could have said no; she was afraid, she was confused, she could have felt unimportant and unqualified. But she still said yes (Luke 1:38). The first of two stand alone Christmas messages.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our we...

The first in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Part one will introduce the concept. You can find all of our 'Whole Church Teaching' material here   For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website