Amblecote Community Church

On Sunday 28th May Andrew McFaul spoke on our next major milestone, Noah and the great flood, found in Genesis 6-9. We looked together at Noah and the covenant, while thinking about God's faithfulness. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

On Sunday 21st May 2023 we reached chapter 3 of Genesis and Tim Murray spoke about the entrance of sin and curses but also redemptive promises. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

On Sunday 14th May 2023 we returned to our series looking at the opening themes of God's story in the book of Genesis and Tim Barton delivered a message on Genesis 2. Being made in the image of God means… 1. We are intentionally created by God - you are a gift to the world! 2. We are created for relationship with God. 3. We are called to co-create with God. For more information about who we ar...

On Sunday 7th May 2023 we had a service aptly focused on The King of Kings. Tim's short message gave us some reflections considering the Coronation, what it means and what the Bible has to say about it. Find the Public Hope teaching material that Tim mentions here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Possibly our most spontaneous podcast ever! This is Genesis, Interpretation and Answering Some Questions with Tim Murray and Dave Hadley. Welcome, we're glad you're here. This is the podcast Tim mentioned in his Genesis 1 and series introduction message on Sunday 30th April. Make sure you subscribe to hear the rest of the messages in this series. For more information about who we are, what...

On Sunday 30th April 2023 Tim Murray started our brand new Genesis series, looking at the opening themes of God's story, by giving us an introduction to the series as a whole and then going into some of chapter one with us. Genesis is an incredibly engaging, and at times complex, book so during this series we'll be asking questions like how does our understanding of God’s story shape our l...

Spiritual Disciplines message 2 from our Sunday service 23rd April 2023. Throughout the year we’re having “one-off” Sunday preaches exploring some of the spiritual disciplines. We believe following Jesus is about encounter and formation, as both are important for us to live full Christian lives. This week Adrian shared on living life in an integrated and balanced way. Helping us understand God’s i...

Tim Barton spoke on Jesus' Resurrection at our Easter Sunday service 9th April 2023 . His message was specifically on the road to Emmaus, which is a story that happened later on in the same day that Jesus rose from the dead. We celebrated Jesus' resurrection, thinking about the importance of the resurrection and what we should do with it, and also asking why we don't think about/talk a...

Jesus The King a message from Tim Murray on Palm Sunday, 2nd April 2023 . Listen to our Palm Sunday message, starting off Holy week, as we near the end of the countdown to Easter. Tim talked through three aspects of King Jesus; the hope for a king, Jesus the king then, and Jesus the king now. He closed by challenging us to consider if we receive him as king. For more information about who we are,...

Finishing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 26th March 2023 , Jo Murray read and spoke on Galatians 6 - Living in step with the Spirit. She unpacked this with us and also looked at Paul's closing words to the church in Galatia in his day, and what these can still say to us today. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit ou...

Nearing the end of our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 19th March 2023 , Vanessa Willmott spoke on Galatians 5:16-26 - Led by the Spirit. It’s a passage about how we can live a transformed life following Jesus both individually and together. And so we looked at the struggle that takes place within us between the sinful nature and our renewed hearts and how we can grow in the fruit of...

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 12th March 2023 , Mike Crook spoke on Galatians 4:21-31. He highlighted how it is for freedom that that Christ has set us free.  Listen to Tim Murray's message about the law, that Mike mentions, here   For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Spiritual Disciples 1 message from our Sunday service 5th March 2023 .  Throughout the year we’re going to be doing “one-off” Sunday preaches exploring some of the spiritual disciplines. Following Jesus is about encounter and formation, as both are important for us to live full Christian lives. This week we’ll have an introduction to the topic covering why spiritual disciplines are important...

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 26th February 2023 , David Faulkner spoke on Galatians 4:1-20. This section covers how in Jesus we are freed from slavery to be children of God!  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 19th February 2023 , Tim Murray spoke on Galatians 3:19-29. After reminding us of the main issues written about in this letter; do gentiles have to become Jews in order to become Christians? and what is it that reconciles us to God and makes us part of his family? he explored the big question, why then the law?  For more information...

Continuing our series in Galatians at our service on Sunday 12th February 2023 , Tim Barton spoke on Galatians 3:1-18 – Works of the law or faith?  He stirred our appreciation for the amazing work of God in Christ, encouraged us to set our sights on putting our faith in him and not defaulting to relying on our own abilities (or lack of), and he addressed why Paul is so serious, and even angry...

On Sunday 5th February 2023 we had Jason Carvalho from Betel in Birmingham come to speak. Betel is a Christian charity for men, women and families affected by hardships that lead to social exclusion, especially homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse and long term unemployment. Jason informed us about the work they do in Birmingham, spoke on the Bible and shared some personal testimony. For more info...

Continuing our series in Galatians 2:11-21 at our service on Sunday 29th January 2023. Adrian talking us through 'the heart of the matter' and we looked at the powerfulness of the Gospel, how it’s Christ's faithfulness that takes him to the cross, in a monumental act of self-giving that reshapes us. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit o...

Galatians 1:4-2:12 from our Sunday service 22nd January 2023 .  This week we continued our series in Galatians looking at part of chapters one and two with Tim Murray and touching on Paul’s biography and calling and the apostolic gospel.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

This Sunday, 15th January 2023 , we started our new teaching series on the book of Galatians, getting clear about the Gospel. Tim Murray took us through an introduction to the book and presented the Gospel in miniature. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

We continued the New Year with a baptism service, on Sunday 8th January, which is always a wonderful occasion for us as a church family. We had the opportunity to hear the stories of three people and then to see them get baptised. Here are the reflections that Tim Barton shared afterwards.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit...

The Great Invitation from our Sunday service, 11th December 2022 . This Sunday we looked at the invitation to the shepherds, the wise men and Herod in the Christmas story. And then Tim talked about how God invites us all to come and see what he is doing, and how important our response is today. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our we...

Tim Murray spoke from Isaiah 11, at our Sunday service on 4th December 2022 . He looked at the second coming of Jesus and reasons why we can expectantly anticipate his second coming! For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Adrian Lowe spoke on Isaiah 66:1-2 at our Sunday service on 27th November 2022.  Building a house for God - Rightmove. God  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website  

Dave Hadley spoke on Isaiah 64 at our Sunday service, 20th November 2022 .  Rend the Heavens.  Exploring anxiety and hope. There's a lot of stuff to be worried about, as there was for Isaiah in his time too, but there is also God's answer of hope that we can see in the Bible...  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our web...