St Saviour's Church | Sunday Teaching

Removing the stones | Religion 16.02.2025 30:24 ↓

This week Beth tackles the stone of religion. Jonah shows us that one of the hardest stones to overcome is our desire to try and control God through our works. Beth leads us to consider what the heart of our relationship with God is meant to look like through the lense of John 15, looking at how we should focus on: 1. Making our home in Jesus 2. Being formed by Jesus The invitation of this message...

Removing the stones | Self-Sufficency 09.02.2025 32:35 ↓

Tom continues our series as we look at the stone of self-sufficiency, and how our insistence on relying solely on our own strength and wisdom can form a stone that blocks our relationship with God. Like the King of Nineveh, who symbolically shed his throne, robes, and pride, we too must humble ourselves and admit our insufficiency. Only when we let go of our self-sufficiency can God’s mercy flow i...

Removing the stones | Insecurity 02.02.2025 41:51 ↓

This week John explores the stone of insecurity and the ways it blocks our relationships to God and others. The book of Jonah asks some core questions to address which directly address this issue: Who is God? Who am I? And Who is My Neighbour? John shares with us the invitation to surrender to God's grace and receive the security that can only be found in his faithfulness.

Removing the stones | Fear 19.01.2025 45:31 ↓

This week John explores the first stone we regularly encounter in the well of our devotion to Jesus - the stone of fear. John unpacks how fear arises in the prophet Jonah's life as he runs from the presence of God and that the invitation for us, is to repeatedly come back into God's presence to have our fear washed away by intimacy with our Father in heaven.

Removing the stones | Visions 12.01.2025 48:29 ↓

Over the last few months we have explored what a Deep Well of Devotion to Jesus looks like. This week John launches our new preaching series asking the questions: What are the stones in our wells which stop us and others accessing more of God? And also, how are these stones removed? John begins by sharing the vision for St Saviour’s Church and the opportunity this presents to each one of us to rec...

Water from a Deep Well | The Word 24.11.2024 35:50 ↓

This week Beth concludes our Water in a Deep Well series by exploring what we can learn from the Reformers radical passion for the Word of God. We discuss the transforming power of feasting on the word through both hearing and reading, and reflect on Jesus's invitation for us to come and feast not on the things of the world, but on what truly satisfies us.

Water from a Deep Well | Union 10.11.2024 35:43 ↓

This week Tom walks us through the Spirituality of the Mystics and their emphasis on Union with Christ. We are taken through a three step mystic journey of purgation, illumination and union, and Tom highlights the pivotal role that Jesus plays in making this journey possible.

Water from a Deep Well | Struggle 03.11.2024 38:47 ↓

This week Mark from Trinity Church Nottingham joined us and unpacked the theme of Struggle in Christian spirituality. Journeying through the lives of the Desert Fathers & Mothers, Mark highlights the invitation they give us to use the spiritual disciplines, not as an end in themselves, but as a way to be set on fire with love for Jesus.

Water from a Deep Well | Windows 27.10.2024 41:35 ↓

This week John explores how the sacraments of Holy Communion and Baptism offer us a widow into the spiritual life.