NCF Sunday Talks

We know God a little, but He has the power to turn things upside down, doing unexpected things as we pray. God wants to continue to reveal Himself to us, but often we're stuck in a place from several years ago. Don't stagnate in your relationship with God.  Allow God to reveal His names and character to you. There is much more to Christ than I know. Move me on in You God! Do you show com...

In our final Talk in this Series we are reminded that Ezekiel talks a lot about judgement, but God gives glimmers of hope through him too. Our sins are odious and ultimately deadly, but God is gracious and restores and reconciles us to Himself. We had no power whatsoever to do this ourselves. It is easy when we start to follow God to rely mostly on ourselves, but we need God much more in our lives...

God's love is phenomenal. Justice and mercy are in balance with Him. We are encouraged to get to know God better and to postively fear Him.

We are reminded again of the context of what Ezekiel spoke about and then we are encouraged to remember that: 1/ We are individually responsible before God; 2/ Bad things happen - but we will never know how much God protcts us; 3/ God is the ultimate ruler and hope will prevail.

God spoke very critically of Judah's Leaders in Chapter 34.

Ezekiel was shown a River that flowed from God's Temple. He was led through the water and it gradually got deeper, starting ankle deep and ending up so that it could only be swum in. We are reminded in this Talk that God calls us if we are thirsty for more of Him to get close to Him, look to Him and focus on Him. As we do that we discover that He is much much bigger than we think. He is uncha...

God called Ezekiel as a Watchman for Judah and the surrounding countries. He had to lean forward and take action in order to fulfill this role. In this Talk we are encouraged to tidy our own lives up and to take an active role in God's Kingdom ourselves. We are reminded that we need to regularly spend time with God and that to thirst for more of God is a really good thing. From 32:43 we hear...

Ezekiel was a priest and prophet from Judah that went with the first group of exiles to Babylon in around 597BC. He was a street-preacher and an attention-seeker for God. The people of Judah were drab because of their sin, whereas Ezekiel was vibrant and showed a cascade of God's colours to other people. He waited on God and listened for His voice. Where are the Christian attention-seekers to...

God is great, wonderful and awesome. He loves us and treats us brilliantly! The first 10:27 is of Davit briefly talking about her imminent Discipleship Training School with YWAM in America and then many people praying for her.

We have all done things in our lives that barr us from having a relationship with God. In His mercy, Jesus came and sorted out the problem of sin. Shepherds were invited to personally worship Jesus and they were changed. Some months later the magi came and worshipped Him too after travelling for many miles.  In the 21st century we too have an Invitation from God to come close to Him, to worship an...

Mary and Joseph had never gone that way before, yet they were ready for what God asked them to do. It was momentous and required self-sacrifice, but they were ready for what God asked them to do! Are we ambitious for how God might work through us in 2020? Are we ready? What is our heart like? He has begun a good work in us, so let's be ready for that work to continue and develop in the coming...

We start this Episode with a short monologue from Colonel Frank HW Miller, where we are encouraged to take off the unimportant Christmas wrappings. Then we are reminded that God loves us all and that people are changed for the better when they personally meet God. Many surprising things have happened in our lives and through the centuries, but the most surprsing thing of all is that God would come...

Using a person born in Nuneaton in 1910 (Mary Whitehouse) we are reminded that we, the Church, are to change society and not to leave it to politicians. We should stand up for God and not fear speaking out. As we pray, Lord let Your Kingdom come, let us be ready to adapt our lives to what He wants. Is 2020 a year of opportunity for Christians?  Is it a new beginning? Are we ready to pray, to preac...

Mary and Joseph were willing to get out of their comfort zones when called by God. Are you?

With the General Election  occuring this month we are encouraged to think about how the Bible promotes three areas of justice: distributive, public justice, and personal morality.  As we prepare to vote we should consider what our responsibilites are.

Let's respond to His desires for us, listening to Him all the time.

We are not Roman soldiers, but as followers of Jesus we are part of the Army of the living God. Our enemy tries to deceive us.  As we saturate ourselves in the Bible (the Word of God), so we are helped to continue to stand no matter what we face. Many people have given wonderful responses after reading God's Word over many centuries. Let us decide to do the same.

We need to know Jesus as a Saviour not simply on a one off occasion, but as a continuous relationship. Jesus invites us to a daily, moment-by-moment loving relationship with Him. Sin will make us all ineffective for God, but yoking ourselves to God will give us tremendous joy in our lives. We need to be proactive and vigilant in the way we live our lives for God. He continues to lavish His love on...

God is powerful. He can do anything! Psalm 1 reminds us that we are blessed as we delight in God and His Word. Where are we trusting? Who are we trusting? Without faith it is impossible to please God.

Let's live well in obedience to God's Word. Let's wear the whole armour - God has made it for us.

God has made the Armour we wear, so that we can all wear it every day. As we wrap God's truth about Himself, ourselves and each other around us then we are changed. God hasn't given His final word on us, NCF nor the nations yet. What we might have done or thought in the past doesn't stop us being used by God today and in the future. Ask God what He feels about you.

Just as many of us wear different sorts of 'armour' in our normal everyday lives and not just for big events like climbing a mountain or swimming fairly deep, so we need to wear God's armour of light on a daily basis. Basing the Talk on Romans 13:8-14 and Ephesians 6:10-20 we are reminded that life may not be fair, but by wearing God's Armour we are given protection spiritually...

Are you actively and positively abandoned to God? Have you decided to yoke yourself to Jesus and closely follow Him? We look at several examples from the Bible where people wanted to put God at the centre of their lives - both on a national and individual  level. Whilst it's good to frequently visit God, we are encouraged that it is much better to abide in Him and to let Him grow in renown in...

In this recording we hear quite a few parts of our Family Service. We start with the Memory Verse (1 Peter 2:9), then hear about what often happens in the Sunday School. We have a reading from John 21:15-23 and then we are reminded that God has a plan for each of us whatever our age, sex or abilities. We are all chosen and special. A craft time is explained and then we conclude with a time of pray...

Praying means action. We're called to give our best time and greatest energy to it. We are encouraged in this Talk to  know more about God's Treasures for us, to grow in them and to share them with others too. God wants us to create space in our hearts for Him and for others. At the end there are six areas for prayer that are shared.