St Saviour's Church | Sunday Teaching

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

This Sunday, Becca explored the profound call to "Will you follow me?"—a question Jesus continues to ask us today. We discuss the importance of embracing risk, much like pioneer missionaries who ventured into the unknown to share the Gospel. By trusting God amidst uncertainty, we can experience transformation in our lives. Join us as we reflect on how answering this call empowers us to take bold s...

This week John opens our new series “Water from a Deep Well” exploring what the distinctives of  a deep Christian life are. Drawing on Gerald Sitsers work, we are journeying through the movements of Christian history, looking back to look forward, as we ask the question: what does a deep, sustainable and strong Christian spirituality look like today? In this opening preach, John explores the Belon...

This week Jo & John unpack what a Wholehearted Life in the Kingdom can look like - being ‘all in’ whilst also being fully committed to a journey of healing and wholeness. Jo & John also unpack how wholeheartedness relates to finances and ask us what it would look like for us to give wholeheartedly in this season.

This week John continues our series ‘Deepening the Well’ by exploring our value of LIghtheartedness. John shares with us the invitation to ‘Rejoice in the Lord always’ remembering that Jesus is returning soon, and as such we are called to be a lighthearted people in a heavy world.

This week Jo continues to explore the process of deepening our wells of devotion to Jesus - particularly focusing on the counter-intuitive posture of depending on God. She looks at the challenges we face in choosing this way of life and the profound invitation Jesus offers in Matthew 11:28-30.

This week John launches us into September by sharing what he & Jo feel God is saying to St Saviour’s going into this new academic year - to deepen the well of our devotion to Jesus. 

Rounding off our Summer in the Psalms, Becca walks us through Psalm 139.

This week Sam Watkins-Smith visits us to share on Psalm 1. He leads us through the Psalm and the tale of the 2 trees. The tree that is planted by streams of water , a Good life with God and the other; A tree disconnected from the water of life , A warning against a life without God. Sam leads us into the invitation to further seek and know 'The Good life' as depicted in Revelation 21. He invites u...

This week Jonny and Amy Hughes join us and brought a word of encouragement to us as a Church.

This week John wraps up our Sermon on the Mount series - exploring how Jesus not only describes the Kingdom of God but also demonstrates it. Revealing himself to be the only one with authority to enact the Kingdom.

Todays reading is Matthew 7:13-29

Matthew 7:1-6

Beth walks us through Jesus's call for us to ask him with childlike curiosity, seek him wholeheartedly & knock on the doors of the impossible.

Following on from last week, Jo continues our journey of the heart through Matthew 6. Looking at religious practises, this week focusing on prayer and fasting. She draws out some of the pitfalls we can find in prayer and fasting and looks at the remedy to these temptations.

John continues our series following the sermon on the mount.