Amblecote Community Church

In this podcast Adrian and Tim Murray discuss how several public intellectuals are returning to a Christian worldview, and how this should give us courage in our Christian faith as our culture wrestles with its self-created meaning crisis. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 2:18 - 3:7, Slaves and Masters / Husbands and Wives from our Sunday service, 13th February 2022.  Tim asks how do we live when we experience unjust treatment that we have no means of changing? And he explores the belief that we are called to live for God not only when things are just and easy, but when they are unfair and difficult too.  For more information about who we are, wha...

Extravagant Love from our Sunday service, 6th February 2022.  Our theme, Extravagant Love, spoken on by a guest speaker, Jenny Baines, from an organisation called OPEN . OPEN is part of CARE and works to help churches support those who have faced or are facing baby loss through abortion, miscarriage or still birth.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can g...

1 Peter 2:4-17, Christian freedom from our Sunday service, 30th January 2022. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Be Holy from our Sunday service, 16th January 2022.  Join us as Tim Barton asks, What actually is holiness?, What does Holiness look like? and How are we to live holy lives? For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:3-9, The outcome of your faith from our Sunday service, 9th January 2022. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

1 Peter 1:1-2, Our identity as Christians from our Sunday service, 2nd January 2022.  Join us for the start of a new series, A Living Hope, looking at the Biblical book of 1 Peter. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

The Christian virtue of Hope from our Sunday service, 12th December 2021.  The New Testament regularly exhorts us to hope. This can be seen as an action, but is equally a virtue. As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13 – the three great Christian virtues are faith, hope and love. However we so often see hope as something outside of our control – we may find we are hopeful, or we may lose hope – in...

The third in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Podcast three explores how Jesus surprised the Jews, how the Messiah was unexpected. And Dave answers the question of how did Jesus over deliver on peoples' hopes in the Messiah.  You can find all of our ‘Whole Church Teaching’...

How do we support and help those who are grieving? In this podcast Bruce Murray shares his insights from many years supporting those who are grieving. Please don’t struggle alone. If you are walking through grief and feel there isn’t anyone you can reach out to please get in touch, email Tim Barton on timb@amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk For more information about who we are, what we believe and h...

In this podcast we seek to understand more about what grief is and how we grieve in a healthy way. Our conversation takes place with Bruce Murray, a former pastor who has worked in coaching, mental health mentoring and spiritual direction. Please don’t struggle alone. If you are walking through grief and feel there isn’t anyone you can reach out to please get in touch, email Tim Barton on timb@amb...

The second in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Part two will look at how Jesus was both king and priest, and how priests and sacrifices work. You can find all of our ‘Whole Church Teaching’ material  here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you ca...

Mary’s Yes to God (Luke 1:26-38) by Tim Barton, from our Sunday service 5th December 2021.  Mary could have said no; she was afraid, she was confused, she could have felt unimportant and unqualified. But she still said yes (Luke 1:38). The first of two stand alone Christmas messages.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our we...

The first in a series of 3 podcasts exploring the Messiah. Why does it matter that Jesus is Christ? Why were people expecting a Messiah and how did Jesus fulfil this? Part one will introduce the concept. You can find all of our 'Whole Church Teaching' material here   For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Communal Confession, the last message in our 'More Than Me' series, from our Sunday service 28th November 2021.  Join us for the last in our teaching series 'More Than Me' as Adrian unpacks how the Gospel, the good news that Jesus announces, is not just about our individual formation but our collective formation. We’ll be looking at corporate confession followed by taking communion together d...

More Than Me: The Law (part 2), from our Sunday service 21st November 2021.  Last month Dave Hadley spoke on the ten commandments and about how God gives his people a common vision for a way of life. This week Tim Murray is speaking on some of the law that is to do with cities of refuge, in other words, speaking about the law God gives for when his people fail to fulfil the common vision! The...

The Power Of Lament sermon from our Sunday service 14th November 2021 .  Vanessa spoke on the subject of lament, looking at Biblical lament and the importance and power of lament in our lives. Lament sounds like a heavy topic but Vanessa approached it positively, talking about the pathway that lament creates in our lives.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how yo...

Shared Trust – Sabbath, the seventh message in our 'More Than Me' series from our Sunday service 7th November 2021 .  We had some glitches with the sound and it drops out a few times for a couple of seconds each up until around 6 minutes. After that, all the pauses are natural.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Theology of Pleasure – The God of pleasure. This is the fourth and final podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series, a Theology of Pleasure. You can find all our Whole Church Teaching material here Following these podcasts Tim Murray will be running one or two discussion groups in the new year for those who want to dig deeper, ask questions or talk a bit more about this teaching. The time and for...

Theology of Pleasure – Resurrection and Heaven. This is the third podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series, a Theology of Pleasure. You can find all of our Whole Church Teaching material here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Theology of Pleasure - The Goodness of Creation. This is the second podcast in our Whole Church Teaching series, a Theology of Pleasure.  Correction: Tim Murray started the series with his first message at our Sunday service on 31st October. You can find all of our Whole Church Teaching material here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please v...

Theology of Pleasure - Hope and Pleasure. On Sunday 31st October 2021 Tim Murray launched our latest Whole Church Teaching topic, A Theology of Pleasure and brought us an opening message encouraging us to engage with the rest of the teaching podcasts that will follow.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website You can find al...

Phil led us in a thought from Psalm 23, before leading into communion, during our Sunday service 24th October 2021 For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Passing Our Faith Onto The Next Generation, the sixth message in our 'More Than Me' series from our Sunday Service 17th October 2021. Listen as Jo addresses what to pass on, why do we pass our faith on, and how we do it.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

The fifth message in our 'More Than Me' series from our Sunday service 10th October 2021.  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website