Amblecote Community Church

On Sunday 14th September we continued our new series, Empowered, and looked at how the coming of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 was the fulfilment of promises. Understanding Jesus and the New Testament only makes sense in the light of the Old Testament. Similarly for us today, our experience of the church now is definitively marked by the day of Pentecost. For more information about who we are, what we...

On Sunday 7th September, Tim Barton started our new series 'Empowered' on The Acts of the Apostles. What is the book of Acts about? It documents the Acts of the Apostles (the early church) and it's a sequel. A sequel needs the heart and meaning of the original and also to expand it into something bigger and something new. Acts is the sequel to the gospel of Luke and it starts with some...

On Sunday 17th August Ben Willmott read Job 28 and spoke about the beautiful world God made, how we have been created as unique with a purpose, and he finished on the value of wisdom. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Isn’t the Bible inconclusive? What the Bible does or doesn’t say about sex, marriage and sexuality is contested. Some Christians would disagree with the “Christian worldview” that we’ve presented in Unravelling. In particular, there are disagreements about the way we should read the Bible, including the handful of passages that do seem to mention gay sex. In this video, we have a discussion with I...

Isn’t Christianity Oppressive? If sex in a Christian worldview is held together with marriage, sexual differentiation and children ( see 4.2 ), then what does this mean for gay people? Isn’t it an inherently oppressive position that denies gay people love, the pleasures of sex, companionship and family life? How is it fair to expect gay people to live in life-long abstinence just because they have...

What is sex for? What is marriage? If they are meaningful – what does that meaning consist of? These are a few of the big picture questions that every worldview needs to answer before it has anything to say about how humans can flourish in sex and relationships. In this video, we explore how the Christian worldview answers these questions, and how recovering the real meaning of sex and marriage ca...

We now live in the shadow of the sexual revolution of the 1960s which has had an enormous influence on what is a ‘normal’ or ‘common sense’ way to think about sex and sexuality. This particular manifestation of our cultural worldview (explored in part 1 of Unravelling) is now leading to drastic changes in the way we behave and the choices we make. In this video we explore what happened in the sexu...

On Sunday 27th July we were delighted to have a baptism service. This is the message that Tim gave following the baptisms. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

On Sunday 20th July, as we started our 'Summer Sundays', Gail had her debut speaking to us and asked three important questions to challenge us - Do we know how much God loves us? - How does God's love affect our everyday lives? - What are you going to do with your one and only life? Watch the video that we watched Find out more about Unravelling For more information about who we are, w...

On Sunday 13th July Joy brought our Matthew series to a close by speaking about what has become known as The Great Commission in Matthew 28:16-20. In these few verses, Jesus affirms his authority, he proclaims to the disciples their purpose, and he promises his presence. Although this might be a familiar passage, let's not forget that some good news is too good not to share! For more informati...

On Sunday 6th July we continued our Matthew series, with an animal theme... Adrian spoke on the parable about the sheep and the goats. It may not be as straightforward as you imagine! If you want some further reading here is a blog post he recommends For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

On Sunday 29th June we returned to our Matthew series, and dug into the parable Jesus told about the labourers in the vineyard. David also gave us a lot think about regarding the first and the last. Listen to Martin Scott's message from last week For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

What if we give God an opportunity and open up possibilities for him and then we watch and see what he does? Jesus doesn't fit into what we want him to do, because he wants us to fit into what he wants to do. It's about God, not about us. On Sunday 22nd June we had the privilege of having Martin Scott with us, visiting from Spain. He encouraged us to enlarge our thinking and to regularly a...

Forgiveness seems to be downright critical to how Jesus wants us to live. On Sunday 15th June Tom read Matthew 18:21-35 and spoke about the unforgiving servant. Jesus talks a lot about how we should view each other, how we should love each other and how we should forgive each other. Listen to Tim's message - dealing with sin in the church Listen to Vanessa's message - Peter's confessio...

Matthew 18:15-17 is not hard to understand, it's just hard to do! On Sunday 8th June Tim Barton read these verses from Matthew and spoke about dealing with sin in the church. Only doing part of what Jesus says, the 'nice' bits and the 'easy' bits, doesn't lead to the fullness of life that he promises. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can ge...

On Sunday 1st June we took a break from our Matthew series and Eric interviewed Emma and Leigh about what they do in their day to day lives outside of church. We are interested in the 9-5 Monday-Friday because God is. Jobs and roles that get labelled as 'ministry' are not more important than every day life and work. WATCH this interview in form For more information about who we are, what w...

Matthew has so much we can learn about how to follow Jesus. On Sunday 25th May we looked at Peter's confession of Christ, both the blessing and the rebuke of Peter, and his call to discipleship. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

The value of the Kingdom of God is worth more than all our possessions combined. On Sunday 18th May we looked at the parables of the hidden treasure and pearl of great price in Matthew 13:44-45. When reading parables, we need to think about the big concept Jesus is trying to share. The Kingdom of God is not something we can earn, it's worth more than that. Moreover, the Kingdom of God isn't for sa...

Our primary call is to follow Christ, everything else is secondary. As we continue our series looking at Matthew's unique perspective on the life of Jesus, we came to our first message on parables, the parables of the weeds and the net on Sunday 11th May. Reading from Matthew 13:24-30, 13:36-43 and 13:47-50. We can't wait until we've sorted ourselves out to do God's will, we'll never do anything!...

The teaching of Jesus can transform our lives! On Sunday 4th May, Tim Barton started our new series looking at Matthew's unique perspective on the life of Jesus. Did you know, Matthew is known as the gospel of the church because it's the only one of the four gospels that mentions the church? Matthew 1:1 shows us that Jesus is the Messiah, the King and the fulfilment of God's promise, a...

Listen to Tim Barton's message from our dedication service on Sunday 27th April, aptly focused on the powerful words from Psalm 139:14 which speaks of how we are wonderfully made by God! For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Allow the message of Jesus to sink deep into your heart. Tim Barton spoke on Easter Sunday. First we had a bit of fun, considering various Easter traditions from around the world. Then we remembered the events of the very first Easter and closed by considering how we can be reconciled to God and saved through Jesus' life. WATCH here For more information about who we are, what we believe and ho...

Who is Jesus? Not just who is Jesus, but who is Jesus to you? It's a question of the heart, not an intellectual question. It's probably the most important question you'll ever ask yourself. You can do life on your own, or you can do life with Jesus, it's as simple as that! For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Who do you say that Jesus is? On Sunday 6th April, Vanessa began our approach to Easter by talking about approaching the cross. The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is not popular in our culture, but it is critical. We must never move on from the cross, it is central and should always be of first importance. There is power in the cross. Vanessa looked at Paul's approach, Jesus' appro...

When we pray we're on earth physically, but we're in heaven spiritually. On Sunday 30th March we were delighted to have guest speaker, Martin Young, with us to hear his message about how prayer changes us. Prayer changes things twofold - prayer changes stuff around us and prayer changes stuff in us. Hearts are changed on the inside and circumstances change on the outside because of prayer....