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In this week's episode, Will explored how we, Worship with Everything, our whole bodies and emotions. Passage: 2 Samuel 6 : 14-21 To find out more visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

Welcome to another week in Lent, during which we are exploring the theme, Worship. In this Sunday's sermon, our vicar Will reflects on the passage in Acts, illuminating how it can help us to see how we can worship God in the midst of pain. Passage: Acts 16:16-31 To find out more visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

In this week's episode we are blessed to hear from both Will, our vicar and Elise, our Worship Pastor about how Worship is an act of giving praise to God. Passage: Matthew 6:9-13 & Psalm 100 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/  

Beginning our Lent series on Worship, Will discusses what Worship is, and why we do it. He reminds us that wroship is not just an activity but a way of living that places God above everything in our lives.  Passage: Matthew 4:1-11 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/  

Following our Alpha series, this week's episode covers the question, Who is the Holy Spirit? Passage: Hebrews 11:1-16 & 39-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/ 

It's the fifth week in our Alpha series, and we are exploring the questions, Why and How do we pray, by looking at the passage in Matthew with Jesus' model of prayer in the Lord's prayer.  Passage: Matthew 6:5-15 To find out more visit www.stnics.org.uk

In this week's episode, Will discusses the passage detailing some of the people filled with such faith in the Bible and what it means for us answering the question,  How can I have faith?. Passage: Hebrews 11:1-16 & 39-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/ 

Continuing the Alpha series, this week Peter unpacks the question, Why did Jesus die? By looking at the passage in Romans, he explores ideas of suffering and God's love and grace, and how Jesus' death brings us so much. Passage: Romans 5:1-11 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/  

In our second week in the Alpha series, we are exploring the question, Who is Jesus? In this episode, Helen, an ordinand at nearby Cranmer Hall, guides us to reflect on what this question means for us, and how this week's passage can help us in that. Passage: John 10: 17-30 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/ 

This week we kicked off our whole church Alpha series, journeying through some big questions about our faith. This episode Will explores the first question, Is there more to life than this, through the passage, to see how the Bible and Jesus answered this question.  Passage: John 10: 7-15 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

In our final service before Christmas, Peter Johnson continues our series, Come and See, by thinking about what Advent is really about and what it means for us. Passage: John 1: 32-42 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

In David Day's final sermon, he explores the passage in which John the Baptist is questioned about his status and position which he relates to the coming of Christ. David Day's draws from John's reaction the importance of understanding our ability to be a voice that God can work through to help those opening their hearts to God's presence and the knowledge that Jesus is here am...

In the second sermon in our Advent series, Come and See, Helen, an ordinand at Cramner Hall, shares some thoughts about this passage in John and the illustration of the ajar door in our series logo. She talks about how Advent can be a special moment for us to come and see the spelndor of our very real God. Passages: John 1: 14-18 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

Welcome to Advent! This week's episode commences our Advent services, where Steve shares some thoughts about these two passages from John about the light of God. Steve explores this concept and reminds us that His light is unwavering, reliable, and that God's work is always happening around us.   Passages: John 1:1-13 & 45-46 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

In preparation for Advent we celebrated Christ the King this Sunday, with a shorter sermon and more time to respond.  This episode Jamie explores Christ the King, introducing some thoughts and questions about his kingship and his Kingdom, from the passages and the whole Bible.  Passages: Dan 7: 9-10; 13&14 John 18:33-40 To find out more, visit: https://www.stnics.org.uk/

In this week's episode we hear from Hannah, our Youth Missioner, as she explores our third value as a church in our current series, Our Commitments, that we will be a church that empowers leaders and teams that we will send out. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & 13: 1-3 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk  

This episode closes the series, Our Commitments, where we have been exploring what our core values are as a church, as we look to the next ten years and how those values will shape the church that we are to be.  This week Will reflects on this process and the importance of the reality of God being center of our church as we move forward. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & 13: 1-3 To find out more visit...

In the third sermon in our series, Our Commitments, Will discusses our third commitment, which is to seek the welfare of the city, connecting to how the those addressed in the passage in Jeremiah, were called to bring value to their city, while still remaining true to who they were and remaining to their own values.  Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & Jeremiah 29: 4-7 To find out more visit: www.stnics...

We continue in our current series exploring what our values are that will shape the vision for the next ten years. In this episode Will unpacks the first value, forming disciples as a church, what that looks like, how we will do it and why it is important. Passage: Acts 11: 19-26 & Mark 1: 16-20 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk 

This episode begins our new series, Our Commitments, as we look to the future of St Nics as we reflect together on what God is calling us to be as a church in the next decade and what core commitments will shape that. In this sermon Will introduces this idea by looking at answering the question of formation of the church's character. Passage: John 20: 19-21 | Acts 11: 19-26 To find out more v...

In this episode Allie Willcox draws to a close our current sermon series, Who We Are, that has been exploring the theme of remembering in order to move forward. This sermon focused on how we can chose how we remember our history, which in turn influences our present self and identity.   Passage: Deuteronomy 26:1-12 To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk 

In this episode, Maeve continues the series on Who We Are, by exploring the power of remembering and how it can help bridge divides within communities by understanding our past and what has come before. Remembrance is not just about looking back; it’s about learning how to move forward together.  To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk

In this episode of our ongoing series, 'Who We Are,' Will continues to reflect on the theme of remembrance, exploring how it can serve as an antidote to the constant desire for newness in our society today. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk

In this sermon, David Day speaks about the freedom we can receive when we engage with generosity with people we meet, as part of the series on Who We Are.  To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk

Will begins the sermon series, Who We Are, by exploring how remembering can help us to understand ourselves as a church. To find out more visit: www.stnics.org.uk