Amblecote Community Church

In this podcast Tim B and Tim M discuss the question of whether or not God's design for relationships includes the possibility of dating or marrying non-Christians. 

Tim Murray and Adrian Lowe both share on the last week of our teaching series on being Made for Love, discovering God's design for relationships. 

Sunday 20th October, Tim Murray brings the penultimate message in our 'Made for Love' series.

Jon Brown, our visiting speaker from 13th October, discusses the difficult questions of sex and singleness, whilst also taking time to dig a bit deeper into some of the themes he spoke about in his sermon.

Sunday sermon 13/10/19 by visiting speaker, Jon Brown.

This podcast follows up Tim Murray's sermon on marriage, answering some questions that have been texted in and going deeper in discussing the purpose of marriage. 

Tim Murray brings part 2 of 'Marriage and Sex' in our Made for Love series.

This Sunday we celebrated the dedication of Grace Lowe and Reuben Cook. As part of the service the parents dedicated these wonderful children to the Lord. The Bible teaches us that each life is a precious gift from God. God did not have to create humanity but chose, in His love, to do so. As David says in the Psalms; "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I pra...

This podcast follows on from Adrian’s sermon on gender, probing a  bit deeper on what difference the biblical vision makes for our  individual lives. How does it affect us whether we’re made or have to make ourselves? How does this tie in with following  Jesus?

It was not good for man to be alone, so says Genesis, thus woman was  created, they were married and ‘knew’ each other (which means sex!). So  establishes God the pattern to underlie human society ever since – the  marriage of a man and a woman into an exclusive one-flesh union from  which children a born and society built. God, being an incredibly creative and loving God, dete...

The two Tims discuss reliance on God

Genesis 1.27 says this: “God created man in his own image; in the  image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” Our  gender is a gift of God in his good creation, which is part of what it  means to reflect the image of God. Yet our culture is seeking to erode  the difference between male and female, promoting gender fluidity and  choice. Rather than recei...

The Christian confession is that “God is Love” (1 John 4.8). Love is  the defining characteristic of the triune God – he is not a God that  exists alone, but is always three persons in a never ending  relationships of giving and receiving of perfect love within the  godhead. For this reason, love stands at the centre of what it means to  be humans, created in his image: th...

What  does the Bible say about living our faith at work? Stats show that many  of us spend a quarter of our time at work. (Perhaps  for some it may be much more than this!) How does our faith affect our  work? How do we live out our faith when we’re digging a road, doing a  spreadsheet or looking after 30 challenging kids! And what does the  Bible actually say about t...

 Living  in a digitally connected world has dramatically changed the way we  live. Never before have we been so instantly connected  with people, places, entertainment, news and information. But how does  this affect the way we live out our faith? This Sunday we’ll look at how  the online world affects our lives, and how we can live out our faith  online. 

Did you know we have a young leaders program at ACC? Check out this podcast where Tim interviews our youth worker Natalie and one of our young leaders Esther about camping in the rain, developing leadership skills, mission week and our young leader program. Join us as we talk with Natalie Start our youth worker and Esther Whittall one of our young leaders on camping in the rain, mission week and a...

 “Don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says.”(James 1 v 22)  For  the Word of God to be fruitful and meaningful in our lives it must find  its way out into our daily practices, routines, relationships and  activities. It cannot remain as something we simply listen to, we need  be doers of the Word and not hearers only.   However, all of us in diff...

Summer  is a great time to gather together to declare the greatness of our God  and encourage each other in our Christian walk. This Sunday we took some time to come around the Table of the Lord  taking communion  together. We took time to consider Jesus’  sacrifice on the cross, and to celebrate that through His life, death  and resurrection Sin and death were defeat...

 Can we reach this next generation as The Church in the Black Country?  Who is responsible for this?  What could the impact be…? The Love Black Country Next Gen Champion role is nearly a year old now!  It has been full of challenges and many, many blessings.  On Sunday 21st July I will be unpacking some of these questions with you, as well as some of my experiences this ye...

We all familiar with the first two commandments ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind’ and ‘love your neighbour as yourself.’   This Sunday our ‘Justice Service’ asks ‘who is our neighbour?’ Is it the lady next door, the family down the road or the stranger living in a different country? How do we love our neighbour as ourselves? One way is...

 Growing up in a Pentecostal church in the 70’s and 80’s ‘faith’ was a subject much talked about. I witnessed many great evangelists with a healing ministry, saw some remarkable miracles and always wished I had the same sort of faith that they had. Most of the time I felt like I was last in queue when the Lord handed out faith!   When faith was talked about, often it was in the context o...

 I wonder if you have ever seen the film ‘Locke’ featuring Tom Hardy? If not, then prepare for some spoilers! If you like any of Tom Hardy’s films then I would imagine you would be excited to see this – a ‘nail-biting thriller’ featuring one of the world’s most famous action movie stars. From the poster you might imagine the film to be an action-packed thriller with special effects, chase sce...

Continuing  with our ‘Reading the Bible’ theme check out this podcast discussion  between Tim Barton and Tim Murray on the historical evidence for the  bible. Can we really trust what the Bible says? Is there strong historical evidence that supports its claims? And  what do we do with all those bits of the Bible that don’t quite add up  historically? Hear Tim & Tim’s d...

For the last two weeks we’ve been laying the foundation for how we approach the Bible. A fortnight ago we looked at what we believe about the Bible; last week we talked about how to understand and interpret it. This is all very well, but many of us struggle to read the Bible at all! We may find all reading difficult, or we may find the Bible particularly hard. No matter how many new resolutions we...

As we all consider our response to God in this season we thought  we’d produce a final podcast hearing from Roxy! As we look to invest in  the next generation, Roxy is currently responsible for leading much of that work. We have also talked about releasing Roxy  to study theology in the coming years. In this podcast we hear a little  more from Roxy, the work she’s doing and her...