Amblecote Community Church

From our Sunday service 3rd October 2021.  Leviticus 19:9-18 – love your neighbour as yourself. Listen as Tim Barton explains what loving your neighbour as yourself is all about and addresses the question 'Why do we love our neighbours?' For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

The third message in our 'More Than Me' series from our Sunday service 26th September 2021 . Watch the livestream to see the map Tim references.  You can hear Adrian's Introduction to the series here . And you can hear Tim Barton's 'More Than Me' message here .  For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved check out our website  

The second message in our 'More Than Me' series from our Sunday service 12th September 2021. You can find all of the podcasts Tim Barton references on How to change when change is hard here For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website

Adrian introduces our new teaching series, More than Me, around the theme of relationships, community and corporate identity. From our Sunday service 5th September 2021. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website  

Our guest speaker Dave Morris shares the word of God and the impact it had in his journey as a Christian. ‘For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: https://www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19 (full song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ9FGg6aktw).’

This week, Catherine Griffiths shares with us about following Jesus in later life and the place of the older generation in the life of the church. For more information about who we are, what we believe and how you can get involved, please visit our website: https://www.amblecotechristiancentre.org.uk Music by The Sense, Youth for Christ touring band 2018/19

Sometimes we can convince ourselves that Jesus’ teaching is all about being nice and compliant in life. But niceness and compliance is rarely the way of love! In our next passage in the book of Luke Jesus outlines the cost of being a disciple; to give up all that we have, pick up our cross and follow Him. Challenging words!  What does Jesus mean when He says we are to ‘give up’ all that we ha...

Luke 14:1-24: Jesus having dinner with a bunch of leaders from our hybrid service Sunday 11th July 2021. At the start of the feast, when Jesus talks about Sabbath, He’s confronting a performance driven culture among the Pharisees in relation to knowing God, in this case by keeping the Sabbath. We too live in a Performance Driven Culture.  Then it goes on to their anxiety about status, this wa...

Psalm 23 from our hybrid service Sunday 4th July 2021. This Sunday we take another look at one of the Psalms, which a group within our church family have been studying on Wednesday evenings. This week we take a look at the most famous Psalm of all, Psalm 23.  We'll take a brief look at what the Psalm teaches us and then hear from Ben Cox, one of the Bible study group, about what he...

Luke 13:10 - 14:6 from our hybrid service Sunday 27th June 2021.  In this section of Luke we see the compassion of Jesus toward humanity when he heals two individuals on Sabbath days. Following both of these, Jesus has two different encounters with Pharisees, lawyers and synagogue leaders.  The other things we’ll look at together, in addition to the two healing events, are the comparison...

What It Means To See Properly from our hybrid service Sunday 20th June 2021.  In this Sunday’s section of Luke (Luke 12:49-13:9) we go on a whistle-stop tour through Jesus’ teachings, including four questions that he asked his listeners. We’ll be looking together into peace and division, interpreting the time, settling with accusers, repentance or perishing, and the parable of the barren fig...

Be dressed and ready for action Luke 12 v 35-48 contains a parable of some irresponsible servants. The master of the house goes away only to return to servants who are sleeping, drunk or beating their fellow servants! As you can imagine the master is not very pleased. In this parable Jesus is teaching of the coming judgement, when Christ shall return to judge the living and the dead. But who...

Christ and Culture Podcast 3 - What do we do? In this third and final podcast of our Whole Church Teaching series: Christ and Culture we explore what we can actually do in response to our increasingly secularised culture. Christians throughout the ages have lived faithfully following Jesus despite so often being at odds with the culture around them. Join Tim as we look at a faithful response to li...

Christ and Culture Podcast 2 – Signs of the times Join Tim Barton in the second podcast of our Whole Church Teaching series: Christ and Culture. In this podcast Tim looks at the culture of 21st century Britain. What kind of culture do we live in today? What are the main ‘themes’ and cultural norms of our day? And how do these themes compare to the teaching of Jesus? You can access all of our Whole...

Since mid-March a group of 20 or so people at ACC have been meeting weekly online to read and study a selection of the Psalms. One of the Psalms the group looked at together is Psalm 34, a psalm of praise, prayer and wisdom. This Sunday we will take a brief look at what the Psalm teaches us and then hear from Ann Conroy, a regular attender of the Bible study group, about what she has learned...

Christ and Culture Podcast 1 – Why are we talking about culture? The culture that we live in plays a major role in shaping how we see the world, so what happens when we live in a post-Christian culture? Throughout the last two thousand years Christians have more often than not found themselves at odds with the culture in which they live, and yet the Gospel of Jesus Christ continues to spread all a...

This week we are looking at a passage in Luke that many of us will have read before. Jesus warns against the dangers of wealth and touches on the subject of anxiety. Jesus challenges us to invest our money, time and thoughts into eternal treasures rather than earthly wealth that fades away. He reminds us of the reward of finding our peace and security in God.  For more information about who w...

Luke 12:1-12 Our future reality  This week we will be looking at how Jesus directs us to look beyond our present reality to the future reality. Jesus shows us why hypocrisy and fear of man are not worth it in the end, and how he is the ultimate judge that we will face. There are lots of challenges in the words of Jesus and we will look at how we can understand them and engage w...

Luke 11.27-53 Hearing and Keeping  This week we'll be continuing our series in Luke covering a part of the text in which Jesus talks about judgement and blessedness. Sometimes Jesus is represented as the ‘gentle Jesus meek and mild’, without also recognising the ‘Jesus who came to divide with thunder on his lips’ – this week should shatter any of those illusions! We will look together at how...

Learning to Pray.  Being an apprentice of Jesus means learning to pray as Jesus prayed. In Luke 11 v 1 one of Jesus’ disciples asks Him to teach them to pray, a very wise and insightful request. Jesus responds by teaching them what has now become known as ‘The Lord’s prayer’, and then goes on to teach into the life of prayer for the follower of Jesus. So how did Jesus pray? And how can we, as...

Luke 10 v 25-42 - Using God to Avoid God. This week we're taking a look at two of the most well known episodes in the gospels – the parable of the good Samaritan and Jesus’ stay with Mary and Martha. In both, Jesus gives some important lessons about what it means to follow Him, but He also confronts two different ways that we can use God to avoid God. For more information about who we are, wh...

As part of this whole church teaching series we are sharing four podcast interviews called Stories of Change. In these Stories of Change interviews, we explore what were the important factors in real experiences of transformative change. Listen to Tim Murray interview Charlie Clayton in this episode. You can find all of our whole church teaching material by clicking here . For more information abo...

As part of this whole church teaching series we are sharing four podcast interviews called Stories of Change. In these Stories of Change interviews, we explore what were the important factors in real experiences of transformative change. Listen to Tim Murray interview Marie Fields in this episode. You can find all of our whole church teaching material by clicking here . For more information about...

As part of this whole church teaching series we are sharing four podcast interviews called Stories of Change. In these Stories of Change interviews, we explore what were the important factors in real experiences of transformative change. Listen to Tim Murray interviewing Dave Morris in this episode. You can find all of our whole church teaching material by clicking here . For more information abou...

As part of this whole church teaching series we are sharing four podcast interviews called Stories of Change. In these Stories of Change interviews, we explore what were the important factors in real experiences of transformative change. Listen to Tim Murray interviewing Mark Cuthbert in this episode. You can find all of our whole church teaching material by clicking here . For more information ab...